Chapter 540 - Sequence of Difficult Games 10 (1/2)

The players had to rest and the medical team was concerned that someone would get hurt by the end of the season after the season was over they expected players to try harder for the playoffs.

After all, in the playoffs the intention was that the team played each game as if it were the last one because it could even be if they lost, the players knew that the Los Angeles Lakers fans expected them to win the NBA title and so the pressure was greater.

Of course, this could be bad for players because if they won all games and advanced to the final they could play up to 26 games if they didn't win all games, and at least they would play 15 games if they won all games.

If they played as many games as they would have to play more than half of the game season to win the playoffs and win the NBA title, that also worried the team doctors and coach Kurt Rambis, after all, it was common for some player to get hurt in playoff games because of the intensity of the games.

Jake was not worried about getting hurt during the playoffs and even if another player got hurt he could work even harder to get the Los Angeles Lakers team to the final.

Jake didn't mind eating the stamina bars to be able to play intensively in every game, his only concern was that his teammates were playing badly at the games.

If that happened even if he tried, it was likely that the Los Angeles Lakers team would lose the game in the same way, the other players also thought about it and that is why they tried this training to play even better and for the Lakers team to have easier victories in the upcoming games.

Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, Rick Fox, and Dennis Rodman were working hard on training just like Jake so the Los Angeles Lakers team could continue winning, Jake no longer saw Dennis Rodman missing from training as he remembered his past life.

Jake thought it was because this time Dennis Rodman could see that the Los Angeles Lakers team really had the ability to win the NBA title, as a professional basketball player Dennis also wanted to win an NBA title even though he had already won 5 NBA title in his career.

From what Jake remembered in his past life, the situation of the Los Angeles Lakers team was not so good and even though many thought that the Los Angeles Lakers team was one of the favorites to win the NBA title, it was not at all certain.

At that time Jake remembered that the Los Angeles Lakers team had 21 wins and 11 losses in 32 games this season, this time with Jake playing the Los Angeles Lakers team had 30 wins and only 2 losses in the season, that was a very big difference between the past and the present.

With Jake on the team, everyone said that the Los Angeles Lakers team was the favorite to win the NBA title, Dennis also realized that and decided to work as he did on the Chicago Bulls team to try to win another NBA title.

In addition, another important thing changed in the Los Angeles Lakers team that was that the players did not argue and fight anymore, Jake thought that in the next seasons that would not change either.

After all, some of the reasons for the fights were because Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal wanted to be the main player on the team, Shaq was the main player on the team at that time and Kobe didn't like that very much.

But this time it didn't happen and it wouldn't happen because the player who stood out the most on the team was Jake, Jake was a PG who helped the team with assists and steals, also helped in defense and that's why Kobe and Shaq were not jealous of him and they recognized that he deserved to be the best player on the team.

Rarely did some players on a team fight or decide to change teams because PG was the best player on the team, this only happened when PG was too arrogant or his teammates were arrogant.

This is because for a PG to play well he has to help the team to win by making assists and helping in defense if even with PG doing that he was still the player who scored the most it was because PG was excellent.

So Jake was confident that Dennis could stay on the team at least until the end of the playoffs, next year with the signing of coach Phil Jackson it would be even more possible for Dennis to remain on the team and not cause any more problems.

After the training was over the players were tired and were getting ready to go to their house when Jake called them to talk, Jake was a good team leader on the court like Shaq and Kobe were and he was praised for it.

But outside the court Jake didn't talk much with the other players, he talked a lot with Rick who was his best friend on the team, and also talked with Kobe and Shaq when they were training.