Chapter 491 - A Great Deal 5 (1/2)
The third quarter started with the Minnesota Timberwolves team in the attack trying to get the victory, Jackson advanced with the ball and passed to Mitchell on the right, Mitchell received the ball and passed to Joe Smith ahead.
Smith received the ball and Knight arrived to defend, Smith managed to spin and hooked to make 2 more points for the Minnesota Timberwolves team, the Los Angeles Lakers team's weak defense also helped the Minnesota Timberwolves team to score more points.
Jake advanced with the ball trying to win this game, Jake passed to Bryant on the right, Bryant received the ball and tried the move and soon two players from the Minnesota Timberwolves team went to defend against him.
Bryant tried to pass the ball to Horry ahead, Garnett came in defense and Horry still tried a feint and failed, Horry had to pass the ball to Fox from the left, Fox tried to advance and Sealy came to defend against him.
So Fox soon passed to Jake behind who was only with Jackson defending against him, so Jake was quick and tried the shot from outside even with Jackson pressing in defense, Jake hit-making 3 more points for the Los Angeles Lakers team.
When Sealy didn't try to help defend two Minnesota Timberwolves players Jake and Bryant had a chance to make the move and the points, realizing that the Minnesota Timberwolves coach asked Sealy not to defend against Fox anymore.
So Rick Fox was defenseless to try mid-range moves, but when he advanced Joe Smith came to defend against him and left Travis Knight defenseless, but Knight missed more attacks than Fox.
Of course, Travis Knight still managed to score a lot if he got more assists, but Fox hit more attacks than he did, and even Knight didn't expect to be able to play in that game until he was warned by Coach Harris.
So the third quarter ended with the Minnesota Timberwolves getting a small advantage on the scoreboard and playing even better than at the beginning of the game, Jake played for 12 minutes and made 5 points, 3 assists, 2 rebounds, and 1 steal.
In the last quarter, the Los Angeles Lakers team still tried to win the game, but with the good defense of the Minnesota Timberwolves team and the bad defense of the Los Angeles Lakers team they ended up losing that game.
The Minnesota Timberwolves won the game with 92 points against the Los Angeles Lakers' 84 points, Jake had 5 points, 2 assists, 2 rebounds, and 1 steal and ended that game this time without even a double-double.
”And so the game ends with the Minnesota Timberwolves team winning, this is their fourth win in 4 games and the Minnesota Timberwolves team really got good players to be playing so well this season.”
”Yes, Kevin Garnett had a good game today with more than 20 points and Sam Mitchell also managed to make more than 20 points, with the Minnesota Timberwolves team's good defense they managed to win.”
”The Los Angeles Lakers team had Kobe Bryant who managed another double-double with 24 points and 10 rebounds, and Jake Smith who failed to achieve another triple-double in that game with 26 points, 9 assists, and 9 rebounds.”
”Jake Smith played well in that game, but if Shaquille O'Neal the Los Angeles Lakers team failed to attack as well and the Minnesota Timberwolves team's strategy of putting two players to defend Jake Smith and Kobe Bryant when they had the ball did that they lose this game.”
”This is the Los Angeles Lakers team's first defeat this season in 5 games, so it's not that bad, we hope Shaquille O'Neal comes back in the next game for the Los Angeles Lakers team to win again.”
The players of the Los Angeles Lakers team were upset about the first loss of the season, but of course, they already expected that the team would lose a few times in the season, what was worse was that this loss had happened because Shaquille O'Neal did not play in that game.
Luckily after that game the whole team went back to Los Angeles because the next game would be just after 3 days and it would be a home game in Los Angeles, Coach Harris didn't say much about the defeat and just said that they could rest the next day.
The players were happy with that, even though Jake who had great stamina was getting tired after playing 48 minutes in every game, Jake would not be training the next day, but he would not have time to rest because Larry Page and Sergey Brin would come to Los Angeles to talk to him.
Jake can sleep well at his home in Los Angeles and the next day he woke up excited to make a big deal, he had already called Emily asking her to prepare the contracts and come to Los Angeles.
Jake was confident that he could close this deal because his offer was very good and he would invest a lot of money in a company that didn't even have a million dollars invested yet, in addition, Larry Page and Sergey Brin were just rejected to sell the company.
When Larry Page and Sergey Brin arrived in Los Angeles by plane Jake had already sent a driver in a rental car to pick them both up at the hotel where he had made a reservation for both of them, it was a kindness Jake had made for both of them before the conversation.
The driver was waiting for them to get ready to take them to the restaurant where Jake was waiting for them, Larry Page and Sergey Brin knew that Jake was busy and so they accepted his request for them to go to Los Angeles.