Chapter 372 Business and Basketball 6
"What a great game we had in this first quarter, Georgia Bulldogs has been surprisingly having a strong offensive game taking advantage of the defects of the Tar Heels defense, and with a good defense that has been disrupting one of the best attacks of the season."
"That"s right, the Tar Heels team that comes into this game with a 12-win streak has achieved this with an excellent defense even playing without a Center in most games, with good defensive players like Jamison and Jake defending very well while doing some steals."
"So it"s weird to see a game like this that the players are striving for but still make some mistakes, we have to say it just seems like a bad day for the Tar Heels team."
"Yes, Georgia Bulldogs tried to take advantage of this weakness of Team Tar Heels in this game, but Jake has been playing very well again and excelling himself in defense in this game, Jamison also getting defensive rebounds so that Team Tar Heels can maintain the advantage."
"True, I see what happened to Michael Jordan happening to Jake, Michael Jordan was great at three-point shots and a.s.sists, but his defensive ability and the many points he made with dunks made fans forget a few times that he was such a versatile player."
"Jake is a great player doing three-point shots and an incredible average of points and a.s.sists, but he"s also very good at defending with an amazing average of steals that is often overlooked by fans."
"I agree, sometimes seeing Jake"s games I think he just doesn"t have time to do everything he can on the court and has to choose between scoring or defending."
After this very difficult first quarter and the players realizing their defenses in defense, they realized that Jake was right to say that this would be a difficult game, so in the second quarter they had to play much better to secure the defense.
In the second quarter, the Georgia Bulldogs team came more willing to try to win the game, but Jake"s performance in this game still intimidated them, yet if they wanted to get more points they couldn"t give up trying to get past Jake in that game.
Coach Guthridge realizing the defenses of the defending team asked everyone to try to take every chance of the attack to score more points than their opponents and thus win the game, so the second quarter would be a much more open game.
After the first few minutes of the game, the Georgia Bulldogs team realized that the Tar Heels team was giving up defending with more pressure to make better attacks and that was what they wanted to try to win this game.
Risking team coach Georgia Bulldogs decided to put two players to be close to Jake and prevent him from attacking quietly, as a good PG Jake was not selfish and took advantage of these opportunities to make further a.s.sists for his teammates.
Jamison and Carter were fine again in the attack and Williams, despite making a big mistake in the attack, was doing a good game, the opportunities Jake found sometimes ended in three-point play almost giving up the two-point play.
Team Georgia Bulldogs also took advantage of this second quarter that had more freedom to attack and tried to beat Team Tar Heels by scoring more points, but Jake was still doing very well in defense and disrupted many attacking moves from Team Georgia Bulldogs.
The game ended with Team Tar Heels winning this game with a more comfortable advantage and without this game going into overtime, Team Tar Heels scored 97 points against Team Georgia Bulldogs 84 points.
Jake instead made a great defensive game in the second quarter too, he played for 20 minutes and made 12 points, 7 a.s.sists, 5 rebounds, 5 steals, and 3 blocks, so Jake got the first quadruple-double of this season.
Also, Jake got a five-by-five for the first time in a game at the university, for sure Jake"s great performance in that game meant that the team didn"t have to go into extra time even though the players were so bad at defense.
After the end of the game the fans of the opposing team applauded the Tar Heels team and especially Jake after this excellent game, Jake"s great performance would be in the history of both universities.
"What a great game we saw today, the two teams very well offensively and the Tar Heels team playing poorly in defense with the exception that it was Jake"s excellent five-by-five and quadruple-double in the same game."
"True, this is Jake"s third quadruple-double at the university, but the highlight was this five-by-five that shows how important Jake is in attack and defense, especially in this game where the defense of the Tar Heels team it was good."
"Both teams had a very even game and the Georgia Bulldogs team had a great game pus.h.i.+ng the best team of recent seasons which is the Tar Heels team, but the Tar Heels team had a great offensive performance and Jake unbalanced that game and brought the victory for the Tar Heels team."
"A game like this is a great justification for awarding the best college player at the end of this season if the Tar Heels team continues to play well this way."
After this difficult game, the Tar Heels players were able to go back to college knowing that they had not missed the first game after the Christmas break, everyone knew that Jake was instrumental in winning, but what they really had to think about was what had done wrong in this game.
Now the Tar Heels team was on a 13-win streak and the players wanted to keep going like this to finish first in the conference at the end of the season and have confidence for the ACC tournament and the NCAA tournament.
The next day the players trained hard not to make a mistake like in the last game, even with this mindset no one was really worried about the next game and it was a rest after such a difficult and great game to finish this year well.
The next day the Tar Heels team went to the third away match they would have followed, it was the last game of the year that was very good for the whole team and especially for Jake who achieved a lot of things.
After a few hours, both teams were ready to start this game, the opponent of this last game was the team Bethune-Cookman, the team Bethune-Cookman had a bad last season, but the current season would be one of the worst in the history of this team.
As far as Jake remembered the Bethune-Cookman team won only one game in this 27th season that would be played, it was impossible for Jake to be tense for this game that had everything to be an easy win for the Tar Heels team.
Even though after the last difficult game that Team He He had players were looking forward to playing well in that game which would only further ensure Team He"s victory, Jake felt it was a pity he could not have a great defensive game as the last.
In the first few minutes of the game following what Guthridge coach asked the team, everyone attacked with a great will to get a good advantage, knowing that Jake did not contain himself and accelerated the pace of the game making attacks with a few seconds of possession and using well the strengths of his teammates.
The Bethune-Cookman team did not expect such a strong start from the Tar Heels team and even if they were prepared for it would still not be enough to stop the best attack of all universities today.
Jake also made the three-point moves and also some layups in this first quarter, and Jake took every opportunity to steal the opposing players while in defense.
With this pressure, Tar Heels got great advantage in the first quarter practically guaranteeing victory, with Jake playing well in defense and Bethune-Cookman had difficulty attacking as well.
In that first quarter, Jake played for 20 minutes and scored 24 points, 5 a.s.sists, 3 rebounds, and 4 steals, and Jake had a great game. Jamison and Carter were also fine and that brought more problems for the Bethune-Cookman team.
That big advantage in the first quarter left the Tar Heels team more relaxed to play the second quarter calmly and to continue attacking as coach Guthridge had commanded, the Bethune-Cookman team also had to take more risk in the attack which would make it easier for team Tar Heels attack.
In that game, the defense of the team Tar Heels came back to stand out and Jake continued to perform well even if it did not stand out as much as in the last game, the team Bethune-Cookman had difficulty defending against Jake, Carter, and Jamison in the attack.