Chapter 174 New Game Style 3
Chapter 174 New Game Style 3
Lucas was annoyed at being careless in defense which allowed the play of the opposing team, but Jake who received the ball said it was well and started another move for the Elite team.
Unlike the attack Ezra did not give space to Jake when he was in the defense, nevertheless, Jake that had a good dominion of the ball did not care and went to the attack while keeping a distance of Ezra, Jake passed the ball to Nathan before arriving in the line of three points.
Nathan made the turn on his opponent and passed the ball to Carter who opened at the bottom of the court to receive the ball again, Carter passed the ball to Mark when the opposing PF came to defend, Mark who had more space in the inside area if pulled away from his defender and made a mid-range shot to make 2 more points for the Elite team.
Ezra started another attack for the Flagami team, Jake continued giving space for Ezra to advance, before reaching the three-point line Ezra passed the ball to Colton again, Lucas came to the defense but Colton passed the ball to the Flagami team PF.
The PF got the ball and turned on Carter, Carter pressed the marking and managed to disrupt the attack, so the mid-range shot of the PF did not enter and Mark went up to take the rebound, Mark passed the ball to Jake that calmed the Elite team and went to the attack.
Jake passed the ball to Lucas who with freedom advanced until after the line of three points, Colton came to the defense and Lucas passed the ball to Nathan who was free in the left corner of the court, Nathan tried the shot out at the bottom of the court and The ball did not come in this time either.
This time Jake went up to take the rebound and passed the ball to Carter who was free to do the layup and 2 more points for the Elite team, Jake realized that the two teams were at a very fast pace in the first period which caused more mistakes in the attack.
But now he could not control much of the pace of the game and so he just had to wait to see and do his best, coach Mike realized the same as Jake, but he could not change the style of play because of this, moreover, he trusted Jake and his players for victory.
On the other side was what the coach of the opposing team was wanting to see for that game, as the Elite team was much stronger the best he could do was wait for the opponents to err more so they could have a chance.
Ezra went for a new attack on the Flagami team, Jake was giving him space, but Ezra knew Jake was very good at defense and so he did not want to risk so he passed the ball to the SG of his team, freed from Nathan with a feint and made a mid-range shot to make 2 more points for the Flagami team.
Jake started another attack for the Elite team, after passing through the middle of the court he passed the ball to Carter who was but behind in that move, Carter advanced with the ball and passed to Lucas who was on the left side of the court within the line of three points.
Lucas saw Colton coming to the defense and passed the ball to Jake, Jake passed the ball to Carter who was free after all that rotation and Carter made the mid-range shot to make the 2 points for the Elite team.
The game continued like this and the Elite team finished the first period winning by 2 points of difference, the two teams erred many attacks and made fewer points, but Jake and Carter disrupted the opposing players and so the Elite team got the advantage.
Jake had 6 points and 3 assists as well as 1 steal in that first period and was the best player in the Elite team, Nathan and Lucas were also well and confident, but missed some important attacks, the team had fewer mistakes with Jake in charge of all but it was only against weaker teams.
The second period began and Ezra started another attack, he advanced to the attack and passed the ball to the SG of his team, but Jake who was further away from Ezra leu comes to the play and intercepted the pass making a steal, so Jake did not run to the attacking block because they still had two Flagami team players on the way.
With calm Jake advanced and then passed the ball to Nathan, Nathan with freedom advanced until after the line of three points and passed to Mark, Mark passed the ball to Lucas who was open from the right and Lucas made the mid-range shot doing another 2 points for the Elite team.
Ezra advanced to the attack again, he passed the ball to Colton who opened wide to the left to escape Jake, so Lucas came behind and Colton pass by Lucas skillfully and made the shot out to make 3 more points for the Flagami team.
The Flagami team was excited to be having a fiercer game against the Elite team who always won the games easily, yet they did not dare to underestimate their opponents, especially Jake, Carter, and Mark.
Mark despite not appearing much in the game was totally nullifying the Center opponent in the defense and even made a block in that game, besides taking 4 rebounds in the first period of play.
Jake grabbed the ball and advanced calmly to the attack, Ezra was doing a close defense of Jake, even if it did not give many results still jumbled Jake to make the moves, Jake passed the ball to Mark that left the inside area to receive the ball.
Mark passed the ball to Nathan who was open from the right, Nathan tried to leave the opponent's defense PG, but the opponent continued on up, so Nathan passed the ball to Jake, Jake advanced to the place where Mark was within the three-point line, Mark set the screen and disrupted Ezra, so Jake can make the mid-range shot to make two more points for the Elite team.
This was one of the plays that Jake had trained a lot with Mark the pick-and-roll, it was difficult before because Mark was more in the internal area, but with this new style of play, it was a move that could happen more often.
The Elite team was still ahead at the end of the second period with 6 points, Jake had 12 points and 6 assists in the game so far and got 3 steals, midway through the game the trained Mike put David and Harrison in place of Nathan and Lucas.
Even though the two played less nervous today they still made a lot of mistakes in the attack but were very good in defense and so the Elite team had the advantage but coach Mike was happy to have this game as an example to teach some things for these new players.
The third period was calmer for the Elite team, with Harrison and David entering the team got better in the attacks, in the defense they still managed to hold well and Jake moved more in the defense to seek to intercept more passes and get steals.
Ezra who saw this did not like to be ignored and tried a shot from outside after getting the ball back from the SG of the team to make 3 points for the Flagami team, it was only the seventh point of Ezra who was always worried about Jake in defense , Jake also realized that the opponent was wanting to participate more in the game.
Jake picked up the ball and went to arrange another attack, he passed the ball before reaching the middle of the court for David, David advanced calmly and passed the ball to Carter who was more open at the bottom of the court on the left side this time, when the PF was coming to defense Carter passed to Jake.
Jake passed the line of three points and accelerated while Mark set the screen and Jake drive to the basket to make the dunk and 2 more points for the Elite team.
Ezra grabbed the ball and advanced to the attack, arriving before the three-point line he passed the ball to Colton, Colton had Harrison on defense and passed to the PF of the Flagami team, the PF passed back to Ezra who was free behind the line of three points.
Ezra tried the shot from outside and Jake appeared to try the block, Ezra saw Jake coming up together and changed the trajectory of the shot at the last moment to avoid the block, but Jake still touched the ball lightly and the ball did not enter who took the rebound was Carter and passed the ball to Jake.
Ezra was impressed by Jake's speed of reaction to this move, yet he still had to attack if not his team had no chance to win with the Elite team not missing another attack.
Jake advanced to the attack and passed the ball to David, David passed the ball to Harrison who took Colton from the play and went to the left side, Flagami team SG came to cover the move and Harrison returned the ball to Jake, Jake passed to David who was free at the bottom of the court on the right.
David took the shot from outside and made three more points for the Elite team, so the Elite team continued like this and won by 18 points in the end, Jake made 30 points at the end of the game and made 12 assists plus 11 steals and managed another Triple Double.
Jake would try to increase that record to the maximum he could, but with that style of play it would be harder with the stronger opponents, Jake felt that the teams this year were better, he did not know if it was only in the Miami area or the national championship It would be like this.
Even so, the Elite team was stronger this year and also had reservations in case someone played a game badly, so he was confident in his team.