Chapter 474 - Basketball and Business 8 (1/2)
So the yellow team would play Bryce Drew, Tracy McGrady now playing as SG, Paul Pierce, Tim Thomas, and Michael Doleac, the blue team would play Jason Williams, Michael D.i.c.kerson, Matt Harpring, Pat Garrity, and Raef LaFrentz playing as Center.
In this second quarter, the teams were more balanced and the yellow team had a small advantage in attack and the blue team was stronger in defense, unlike the first quarter also in the second quarter the players were playing more seriously wanting to play the best they could.
In an attack by the yellow team, Bryce Drew was advancing with the ball, and reaching the three-point line he passed to Tracy McGrady on the left, McGrady managed to get rid of Michael D.i.c.kerson's defense and tried a mid-range shot to make 2 more points for the yellow team.
The blue team also attacked and after a good attacking move Jason Williams passed the ball to Michael D.i.c.kerson who tried the shot from outside and scored 3 more points to the blue team, that game was much more played in the second quarter.
The yellow team attacked again and after a good attack play Doleac passed the ball farther back to Paul Pierce, Pierce stepped back and tried the shot from outside and scored 3 more points for the yellow team.
With this game played the blue team got the advantage with LaFrentz's plays and the whole team attacked well, Michael McGrady tried to make many attacks alone and the defense of the blue team pressed the defense against him and thus he lost many attacks.
Pierce still made some good plays and made 6 points in that second quarter, Jake had promised that he would leave the team as it was for everyone to have the opportunity to play, but in the third and fourth quarter, they could regain the advantage and win the game.
”The two teams changed almost all the players and we could see all the players of the two teams playing in those first two quarters, the blue team goes to the break with the advantage, but when the initial yellow team comes back the result of the game will be uncertain.”
”It's true, Tracy McGrady who was left to play for the yellow team in the second quarter wanted to receive the ball and score points in several plays and so the defense of the blue team defended well against him and managed good plays with Raef LaFrentz.”
”Now that we are on break we are going to follow Kate Annesley's show that will sing two songs, one of them is the song that was in Billboard's first place for two weeks this year and the other song was in the Billboard's top 100 this year too.”
The team recommended by Kate was very good and in a few minutes prepared a stage and everything for Kate's show at the game break, some people who came to this game just wanted to watch Kate's show.
Jake also didn't go to the locker room to rest and stayed in a hidden place to watch Kate's show, Eva and Anna who came to watch Jake's game would also have the opportunity to see Jake's girlfriend sing.
The first song that Kate sang talked about love and it was a romantic and lively song as well and it had been very successful that year to be able to enter the first place on Billboard, even those who didn't know her who came to see the game liked this song and Jake was happy about it.
Kate's second song was a song that talked about how women were independent, but it didn't offend men either, with a lively rhythm that song pleased women a lot more and men also liked it.
Kate and her team of dancers had great choreography for the two songs and Kate danced well while singing what pleased the fans too, when the two songs ended at the Miami Arena they applauded her, and Jake went back to the locker room to wait for the go back to the court.
With this show, Kate was very happy and Eva and Anna also liked Kate's songs very much, TNT was also happy because there were millions of people watching this game broadcast by them and most people were watching Kate's show during the game break too.
It was their audience record for this game, so the directors of the network who were already thinking about starting to broadcast basketball and football games realized how good it could be for their network.
Jake was happy with Kate's success and had decided that he would return after the break to win that game, the two teams returned with the same players from the first quarter to the third quarter, Jake let Tracy McGrady remain on his team, but in the last quarter, he would make a change in the team.
Early in the third quarter Jake moved forward with a faster pace, Jake passed the ball to McGrady on the right, and Mercer pressed the defense against him, so McGrady had to pass the ball to Carter from the left, Carter passed the ball to Jake in the back.
Bibby was defending against him and Jake saw that Carter was free from the left after passing the ball to him, so Jake passed the ball back to Carter who tried the shot from outside and scored 3 more points for the yellow team.