Chapter 154 An Exciting Final 1
The Foxes" team PG picked up the ball and went to the three-point line and pa.s.sed the ball to Mason, Mason turned to do the layup, but Carter was able to react and make the block in that move, Harrison took the rebound and pa.s.sed to Jake.
Jake just got the ball and calmed both teams and then went to the attack calmly, the Elite team was winning the game, but the game was not easy to be beaten and despite not liking to do so Jake began to spend more time in ball possession.
This was also the work of a PG controlling the pace of the game in favor of his team, after arriving at the attack the opponent"s PG was very afraid to try to steal Jake"s ball, so Jake made the shot from outside to make 3 more points to his team when the time of possession of ball was ending.
These tactics worked out right because the Foxes" players began to get more anxious in the third period, so the third period ended the Elite team winning with a 10-point lead now.
Jake had 35 points and had not missed a shot from the outside yet in that game, he also had 15 a.s.sists and 8 steals in total, David also had 22 points in the game and was doing very well.
Jake told his teammates that they needed to calm down and play normally that they would end up winning the game and would be in the national champions.h.i.+p final, Carter was better after getting a block.
But Mark was very sad, he came from a great sequence of games, but now did not get any rebound and made only 8 points because Jake"s pa.s.ses were accurate and caught Jackson distracted.
The Foxes team still tried to score more points, but since they had no players who could make shots from outside to make three-pointers, even if the Elite team missed a few b.a.l.l.s they would still have the advantage.
In addition, after Jake began defending against Elijah the game became more difficult, the SG of the Foxes team could not get past Jake in every move, so the Foxes team always lost some attacks.
Until the end of the game, Jake did not miss any shot from outside, it was something incredible and even Jake had to a.s.sume it was because his luck had helped Jake after doing more than 12 shots outside in this game, it was difficult not to miss any.
But if someone made a video of this game would think it was incredible, Jake made the shots outside very fast and from the 5 directions of the 3-point line, so the opponent PG could not do much about it.
The Elite team ended up winning the semi-final against the Elite team with a 15-point lead, Jake had 46 points and 19 a.s.sists plus 11 steals, it was another Triple Double, Eric thought it was incredible, a record 15 games in a row now.
In addition, Eric remembered that Jake had another incredible record, had made 21 games that Jake did not lose for now this record was more normal, but if the Elite team won this year the national champions.h.i.+p next year should also be beaten by Elite team.
After all Jake and his teammates are in their third year of high school yet, so everyone had another year to play with the same team and they will be more mature with another 1 year of training.
So Eric was thinking that if Jake could bring this record to college it would be awesome, of course, it would not be easy, but it was possible if the team was strong.
After the game ended everyone could not escape doing some interviews with all the reporters, after all being in the final of the national high school champions.h.i.+p was an incredible thing thinking that it was almost the last step before the pros.
After that Jake went home to tell his mother about the victory in this game when Eva heard that Jake had beaten her, she finally calmed down, she did not want to show it to her son in the morning, but she was very nervous about this game in the morning.
In the next game she would not be so nervous because she would be in the stands to cheer for Jake and see everything that was happening, but staying home knowing that such an important game for Jake was happening was bad for her.
There were still a few weeks left for the final game and Jake wanted to just rest before this important game, of course, his teammates would do some more training, but it would only be plays and tactics and not the training they would normally do.
Jake at school can talk to Joseph and his friend said he would go to see the final game with Oliver, even Matthew would see if he had time to watch the game, Anna also said he would definitely.
After a few days, Clara called Jake, she said she wanted to go to a restaurant to talk business, it seemed that Tiffany would not attend that meeting too, it had been a long time since Jake could not talk to Clara since she had to make a trip to Europe to solve the problems of the shops.
Clara did not know that Jake and Tiffany sometimes argued about her private life either, even if they talked about it so they could help her when something happened if she knew that she would attend the meetings instead of sending Tiffany.
Jake grabbed Eva"s borrowed car and went to the same restaurant they always met when Jake arrived the waiter wanted to take him to the table, but Jake decided to go alone by then.
Clara had not realized that Jake had arrived, he looked at her alone at the table and realized she was a bit depressed, a bit sad too, it seemed like she had not eaten and slept very well in these last few months.
The make-up helped cover this, and even though she may have lost weight, maybe even Tiffany did not realize it, but Jake, who had not seen Clara for a few months, might realize, moreover, after what happened to Eva in her past life, she learned to pay more attention to people.
Although it was not so serious Jake realized that Clara was a bit like her mother was, because Eva was Latin it was difficult for him to perceive easily, but Clara had whiter skin anyway with the makeup he could easily perceive.
But Jake imagined how difficult it must be to be married to someone many years ago and lose all his youth in this marriage, besides, she knew that her husband did not love her and still betrayed her, it can be said that Clara had a very sad life even business success.
When Clara noticed Jake she smiled and got up, just so Jake realized she was distracted for a while, so Jake smiled too and went to the table, the last thing she needed was to see her friends pity her right now.
"Hi, Jake, how long, after I went on that trip you did not call me anymore and just talked to Tiffany."
"I thought you were still busy and as I had already asked her to look at these matters for me, it would be rude to talk to you about this."
"I know, I was just joking, if you talk to her or me, we"ll both know the same, I heard you want to be a marathon runner now?"
"It was always a dream of mine, I always enjoyed running and my stamina was always very good, so I thought I could try."
"If you think I can believe it, after all, I"ve stopped mistrusting you since you were 13, I know you can do that."
Jake really liked Clara to trust him, she knew he would not say such things without having any confidence if Jake said he just wanted to be okay, but Clara had heard from Tiffany that Jake said he wanted to win a gold medal at the Olympics.
Clara did not think Jake would say that if she did not have at least the confidence to end a whole marathon, so with a few years of training she believed that it was possible Jake was already an athlete so he would be easier than ordinary people in those races.
In addition, the two companies already sponsored Jake anyway, if he partic.i.p.ated in a marathon they would only have to win; in addition, because Jake being underage he would be a stand out just by finis.h.i.+ng the marathon.
"But that"s not what I called you here, what you"ve done this season is incredible, even though I and Tiffany did not know much about it, but a triple Double in every game is something that only you did I think."
"In addition, you still have one more year at high school to play and then you go to college with all that plus the fact that you can be the MVP of all the champions.h.i.+ps you have played in the future we are very happy to patronize you."
"So I and Tiffany decided that from today you will receive sponsors.h.i.+p of 25 thousand dollars from each of our companies, so 50 thousand of our two companies."
Jake was very happy to hear this, it"s a big sponsors.h.i.+p for him now, he was thinking about maybe joining the NBA before because he wanted to have more income to be able to invest in stocks and be able to take advantage of before 2000.
But with this sponsors.h.i.+p he could do the university, in these last games he understood that he had much to improve on many things in the game, he wanted to enter the NBA to win and not wait a few years for the opportunity to start.
Besides, Jake was taking time to talk to Eva about not doing the university because he knew she would not like it, he would have another 15 years of career at least after college, so he did not have to hurry.