Be happy with sports

Chapter 166 The Last Year of High School 1

"I called you here to ask your opinion on something important."

"My opinion? For what?"

"In the games of this season of our team although we won, in the end, the team did not perform well, only you and Mark performed well in those games."

"I was thinking for a long time what the reason was, I thought it was because the players depended too much on you, but that’s not true because a lot of teams do it and they do well."

"I also wondered if it was because they were not good players, but you know as much as I do that this is not true, so I figured out that the problem is in our style of play."

"When that team got together at Middle School I saw a lot of talented players who were great players, but they did not have time to train together and work on tactics, and you were very talented, so I chose this style of game that depended more on PG to make the plays."

"It worked very well and despite the team having problems in the final and in some games because their teammates were very immature."

"At high school this year even though the team had a lot of time together you and Harrison did not play for two years and that’s why I chose the same kind of game from that time."

"But this time in addition to you, the whole team has difficulty making individual plays against stronger opponents and they fail to defend."

"So for next year, I thought of making plays that use the whole team in the attack and thus try to avoid that all the attacks depend on individual plays, so after working well the play we can have many more points and fewer errors in the games."

"In addition, there will be two players that I worked with them last year at Middle School who will be in that team next year, this year they were the highlights in the national championship that our school has won."

"So next year they can be good reserves for the team and so gain experience for years to come."

"I wanted to know what you think of it as captain and a top team player."

Jake thought this might be a good idea, he had thought of it when he was playing in the space of his imaginary training, but he felt he needed a lot of training and networking to make that kind of play work.

Even though he was losing control of the team’s plays he knew it would be best for the team, it seemed that it would be much harder for Jake to triple-double from now on, after all, he could do more than 10 assists easily because almost all the plays passed by.

But with this system of attack rotation and passing it was difficult to do more than 10 assists and each period has only 8 minutes.

As for new players if coach Mike said they would be good players should be true, as they would be the first year would not have as they hold, so it seemed a good idea to let them gain experience.

So if some of the titular team players have a poor performance it would be replaced.

Coach Mike was a bit tense as he waited for Jake’s response, he saw Jake frowning several times as he thought and thought Jake did not like the idea, usually, the coach does not need the player to get involved in those decisions.

But Jake was different, he was the MVP of the national championship and the president was very fond of him, especially after he made that incredible record, this change in the way of playing will greatly affect Jake’s performance in the team, after all, he will not be the focus on the attack.

Jake did not think the coach was asking for his permission, so Jake the coach was only reporting a decision that was already made, but as he saw the coach hoping he would say something he interrupted his thoughts to respond.

"I think the coach is right with these changes, it will be better for my teammates and they will be better off making the points if they do not have to make individual plays every time."

"But I thought all the players on the team have to work harder on mid-range shooting for this style of play to work, I think all my teammates including David miss out on those moves that should be easier."

Jake thought he really was the best, after all, opposing teams would be prepared to face the Elite team and have a lot of advantage if they maintained the same predictable style of play, but the other players had to train a lot more.

Coach Mike agreed that the other players needed to train more to make these plays work, it would not be so difficult because the former coach, despite being a bit crazy, was a good professional and already did this type of training in the time that he trained the team.

So it seemed like everyone had to get together again to start training ahead of time, but Mike was sure everyone would be happy if they knew that this training was meant to correct training failures.

After that Jake left, Coach Mike thought Jake did not need that extra training in 4 months like the rest of the team, one month was enough for Jake to go play with everyone and get on with the team.

In addition, Coach Mike knew that Jake had training that he did in particular that made him so good, he knew that Jake was doing hourly races every day on the athletic fields, Coach Mike thought it was to increase stamina in the basketball and was happy to have such a dedicated team player.

The other day Jake went on trying to run the 50km, it was much harder and different than trying to run the 10km in less time, so Jake put a time of 50 minutes for every 10km, even so, he could not do that on the first day.

Jake stopped because the system warned that if he continued he would suffer an injury, so Jake immediately stopped and lay on the race track, Jake had run 46 km, was enough for a marathon, but with that time it was impossible for him to have any highlight.

Even though Jake did not intend to give up, he knew he could get it if he kept trying, after resting for many minutes the system said he could walk back home now, Jake immediately felt a lot of pain in his legs after he started walking.

It was a sharp pain and Jake started to even cold sweat, if the system had not warned he actually saw that he could have a serious injury to his legs, maybe it could even be a stretch in the muscle.

Jake felt he was being too rushed to rely too much on the system, as the system said he could do the 50 km with his resistance statistic he only trained for less than 2 months and already wanted to try.

Now Jake saw that even if it were possible not to say that it would be easy to do this, Jake came home and took another ice bath, the other day he did not train because he wanted to rest his body totally like it had not done a few months ago.

So after two days off Jake returned to the training ground again, this time he felt that his legs felt much lighter and stronger, after warming he went to the 40 km again, he easily managed in 160 minutes.

So Jake thought he could try to slow down, so he could train heavier without taking the risk of an injury, so the other day he tried to do 10km in 35 minutes, he managed to feel more exhausted and his legs aching again.

But he was delighted to be able to run 40km in 140 minutes because that was much closer to the time of the marathon for the champions if he managed in a few months to make the 10km in 30 minutes he would have the time to try to win.

But Jake knew this was impossible because his body could not handle it, he needed another 1 year or increase his stamina in some points and even then it was not guaranteed, which is why Jake had the stamina bar to win.

After completing a week of training Jake knew that he could not improve in a few months, he did not feel any more pain in his legs but still felt exhausted.

After Jake went home he had dinner with Eva who also arrived late from the restaurant and went to the room to think, even though he knew it was not easy it seemed like he had underestimated the marathon, this was normal Jake took 6 years of intensive training to play basketball at the high school level.

This was only because he had the knowledge system of his past life, otherwise, he could be at Harrison’s level just maybe, Jake only thought he would more easily get the marathon because he had the stamina bar and also had high physical stats after the train for years in basketball.

But now it seemed like it could take years for him to get it, yet he could not complain because he realized the difficulty of training that other athletes have to do for several years to accomplish this.

"Fate, did not you say that I could run up to 50 km with my resistance statistic? Why do I feel like I can not do this?"

[Actually, I’m more impressed than you, not with the fact that you can not run the 50 km, but rather that you got so far with your training and effort alone, even I was rooting for you.]

Jake did not understand, did not he have to train? How could he win without training? He knew that his body could not handle it and so he decided to train before, but now it seems that he had done something wrong and the worst was that he did not even know what it was.