Chapter 437 - End of Time at the University 9 (1/2)
”For all that I have achieved, I will always love the Tar Heels team and my university, but I think that after achieving so many things, it is time to leave.”
”I plan to finish my university course later while playing in the NBA, and this season almost all of my teammates left the team, Okulaja, Cota and many others are still going on, but I think this is the right time for me to leave.”
”I want to play on the best NBA teams against the best players in the world to learn a lot from them in the years to come and have more challenges as a player so that I can continue to improve.”
”The university players are great, but I want to play against the best players and be one of the best players in the future who knows, only the future will say if I can become an NBA star or I will regret not staying 4 years on the Tar Heels team.”
Jake was very honest in saying what he thought, he couldn't say the real reason for going to the NBA, but he said what he really thought to decide to go to the NBA, Jake knew he could wait for a season if he was unsure, but with the system and the experience he had in basketball he thought he was ready to play with the best players in the world.
The reporter who was interviewing Jake was excited too, he knew Jake was smart, but it seemed like Jake knew how to answer questions better than many professional NBA players.
And even with him asking some questions that could harm Jake, he was answering all the questions without leaving any unanswered as he had agreed before the interview.
”Jake, could you say what you expect from the NBA draft and your first NBA season?”
”Yes, I hope that I will be chosen in the draft by a team that really needs a player in my position who is from PG, I would not want a team that would choose me just for what I did at the university, but a team that really think about putting me in the games to help the team win.”
”From my first season in the NBA I know that I'll probably play a few minutes in the first season, I'll have to prove my skills to my future coach to have the chance to play and so maybe hopefully become an important player for the team in my first season.”
”That's why I preferred to be chosen by a team that really needed a PG, so it was more possible that I would have more playing time in my first NBA seasons.”
”Thanks for the great responses, Jake, I hope you succeed in the NBA and become one of the best players in history.”
”Thanks.”
After doing the interview Jake can be more relaxed, he liked the interview and thought that he had answered all the questions that someone could ask him in the coming months, now he could return to focus on his running training and his training with Yuen Woo-ping and his friends.
Jake just had to worry about finishing classes at the university and then going to Australia, he was fine with his friends and his teammates, Tar Heels team fans were disappointed in him, but as college fans basketball they were used to great players leaving the team.
Since Jake helped the Tar Heels team win 2 NCAA tournaments they couldn't be mad at him, as Jake had won the Naismith College Player of the Year, the number 7 shirt he wore at the university would be retired from North Carolina University.
So Jake could finally have peace until the end of his classes at the university and the trip to Australia, the race training with trainer Davis and Zack was easy because it was the same as always.
But his training with Yuen Woo-ping was much more intense, Yuen Woo-ping knew that soon Jake would have to go to Australia, getting there Jake would have to train the movements suspended on the cables and then he would have to study his lines at script and film.
So it was less than two weeks before he taught everything he could to Jake in that time, of course, if it was for Jake to learn everything Yuen Woo-ping even with his intelligence it would still take a few more months.
So Yuen Woo-ping taught Jake just what he might need to use in action films and martial arts films, Jake even learned to shoot to better train his movements with Firearms.