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Chapter 423 1998 NCAA Tournament 5

The other day after they were more rested and relaxed, Coach Guthridge prepared the interview for the players, the hotel allowed them to use a special place in the hotel prepared for the press and the reporters went there.

The deal was with four sports media that accepted Coach Guthridge's conditions, which had many questions forbidden, reporters from ESPN, TNT, CBS and Sports Ill.u.s.trated were allowed.

Many questions were forbidden such as talking about whether players would go to the NBA draft or continue playing at the university, Coach Guthridge thought that this could be misused by the media to disrupt the relations.h.i.+p between players and fans.

So the reporters would stay in the hotel's press room and the players would enter individually and so the reporters could ask several questions to the players individually, all the players would go and the reporters would ask the questions if they wanted to.

Coach Guthridge would naturally also answer the reporters' questions, for security reasons he would answer the questions first and then be the players on the starting team with Jake being the fifth player to speak.

So if reporters asked something that was not allowed he would be expelled and the interview would continue, so after everything was organized the reporters first interviewed Coach Guthridge who was also very important in this interview.

After all, it was Bill Guthridge's first year as head coach and Team Tar Heels have already had one of the best seasons in team history and won the ACC tournament and was close to winning the NCAA tournament.

In addition, along with trainer Dean Smith, he led the team to break that San Francisco team record and Team Tar Heels now had 61 straight wins, so naturally, he would have a lot of questions for Coach Guthridge.

The first question was how he felt when he learned that he would have to replace the legendary coach Dean Smith with whom he worked for over 30 years, and how he felt having one of the best debut seasons of any college basketball coach.

"Coach Dean Smith has been the head coach of the Tar Heels team for 36 years, he was the best coach the Tar Heels team has had in my opinion and has led many teams to make great seasons and is respected by everyone."

"A lot of what I know as a coach I learned from him and this team that managed to break that record was formed by him and started winning games with him, I only coached this team after Serge Zwikker left."

"I am very happy with my work so far as the head coach of the Tar Heels team, much of the credit for this excellent season is the incredible players who are on the team now, I see 7 players who can be starting players on any team."

"Jake, Antawn, Vince, Ademola, Makhtar, Shammond, and Ed are incredible players, Jake and Antawn are competing for the best player of the season award, it proves that we have an incredible team."

"If the Tar Heels team wins the NCAA tournament this season I believe it will be their merit, that of coach Dean Smith and the greatest glory of my career."

Coach Guthridge was experienced in talking to the media, he said what he really thought and was careful not to say anything that could be misinterpreted, the reporters asked a few more questions and the last question was the most interesting of the interview, as the coach Guthridge thought it would be the professional future of the Tar Heels team players.

"This is difficult to say, a player's professional career depends a lot on luck and opportunities beyond skills, many excellent players and NBA stars have never won an MVP award and never won an NBA t.i.tle."

"I think a lot of players on the Tar Heels team today have the capacity to be professional players in the NBA or another basketball league, Shammond Williams who finishes college this season has a good chance of going to the NBA."

"With his ability if he can play on a team that is strong and with players from other positions very skilled he has a chance to win many awards and win the NBA t.i.tle one day perhaps."

"Antawn Jamison also has the ability to play in the NBA in the future, he is a very skilled player who has a lot of ability to score a lot and get rebounds, so if he plays on a strong team with good players he can be very successful."

"It is the same with Jake Smith and Vince Carter, they are excellent players, but if they did not have a good team with good players in the other positions it is impossible for them to win prizes and win the NBA t.i.tle."

"What I can say is that everyone has the ability to play on a strong team to win an NBA t.i.tle, everyone has the ability and will depend on luck to achieve that."

Coach Guthridge said a standard answer to that question and in addition to praising the players, he did not highlight any players as the best of them, he really felt that everyone had the ability to play on a strong team to win the NBA t.i.tle.

After that, the other players were interviewed and only Coach Guthridge was present at the other interviews to make sure that the reporters would not ask questions that could harm the players and the team.

One question everyone received besides Coach Guthridge was about what players thought of Jake Smith, everyone said as expected by reporters who thought Jake was the best team player and team leader on the court and one of the main responsible for the current great team season.

It was as if everyone said that Jake was the best player on the team just as everyone knew it without anyone saying, after all, Jake had broken several records in several different areas, he had the record for points, a.s.sists, and steals in a single season.

The next interview would be with Jake, all the reporters were waiting for this and had already prepared the questions they would ask Jake, after all, Jake gave few interviews which made his answers even more valuable.

Naturally, the reporters were smart and would not ask any questions that might compromise Jake to not risk being expelled from the press conference, the first question for Jake was what he felt about having the opportunity to win his second NCAA tournament in his second season.

"I am very happy with this, it is an honor and a dream for any basketball player to win an NCAA tournament, I was lucky to win in my freshman season and I was also lucky to be able to win two ACC tournaments."

"Winning a second NCAA tournament would definitely be a great honor and a great achievement that I will be proud of forever, I hope our team wins the next games to achieve this."

Jake answered that question carefully so as not to accidentally say that this was his last season at university, so if he won this second NCAA tournament it would be the last he would win.

The reporters couldn't guess that and soon prepared the next question, they asked if Jake felt that he was the most important player on the Tar Heels team in these two seasons and to break that record because of the data that in games that when he played for more 20 minutes the Tar Heels team always won.

"I believe so, just as the numbers said I scored more points and more a.s.sists so in my team I was the most important in these 61 victories, but as I said this is just seeing the numbers and this team."

"Without my teammates, I wouldn't be able to get those numbers, without the training of Coach Dean Smith last season and Coach Bill Guthridge this season the team wouldn't win and I couldn't do that well."

"So I believe the team was responsible for this and not just me, just as Coach Guthridge said without a good team with players in the right positions we couldn't win the games, let alone the NCAA tournament."

Jake and the players had talked several times and Jake was friends with everyone, just as everyone said he was the best player on the team he could also say that without causing any problems with the other players because the numbers say so.

But it was the first time that Jake said it clearly to the media because he gave few interviews, and Jake only said it because there were only 3 games left in the NCAA tournament, so it wouldn't cause any problems for the team.

After that, the reporters asked Jake some more questions about basketball and were careful not to ask any more compromising questions, and finally asked Jake if he thought he would miss another game because of some marathon he had to partic.i.p.ate in.

"No, I don't think this will happen anymore, the Tokyo marathon is a very special marathon for me and I always wanted to partic.i.p.ate in this marathon, when I became a marathon runner I always thought about partic.i.p.ating in 6 marathons in the world."

"And these were the Boston, New York, Chicago, London, Berlin, and Tokyo marathon, these are for me the most important and main marathons in the world, the other marathons I had the opportunity to partic.i.p.ate in."

"But to race in Tokyo I had to lose an important game for my team, I just did it because I believed in my team and because it was my dream to race once in Tokyo, so I think it will be difficult for that to happen again."

This could be a tricky question for Jake, but in fact, Jake always wanted to talk about it because he knew that it worried a lot of sponsors and fans that he might miss an important game to run a marathon.

So Jake was happy to answer that question, even though he had problems with the other big marathons in the future because he talked about the major marathons that were not yet called that, he had gained more support from those marathons.

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Chapter 324 1997 NCAA Division I Men“s Basketball Tournament 12

"Thanks, I'm glad to see you both here, John and Alan."

"Of course I would come, you are one of the best college basketball players and also one of the players who have the most potential to become an NBA star, plus you still have your marathon achievements, it was very lucky for me company to sign a contract with you."

"I agree, my company just wanted to know what it was like to have a sports rep of ours, after all, a razor company doesn't have much to do with athletes, but after having this contract with you our company is selling more than ever."

"Of course I know that we are selling so well because we are sponsoring you and it wouldn't work out so well with other athletes, but it was the best investment our company has made in recent years and I got a lot of promotions from my work for it."

Jake was also very happy to have John and Alan as representatives of his sponsors, even though he didn't need that money was very supportive and Jake received a lot of confidence getting so much money even though he is not an NBA player.

"Plus, with our investment in last year's commercials we won't have to make any new commercials over the next two years, so we just have to keep the commercials being broadcast on television."

"Do you think your team is likely to win the NCAA tournament this year?"

"I think our team is a favorite for this final if the players on my team play well and it doesn't happen like yesterday's game I have confidence that we will be the champions."

Jake was very confident because in his past life the team they defeated in the last game would be the winning team, just as Jake playing the Tar Heels team was a favorite to win this final.

This made John and Alan more rea.s.sured and confident about the victory of Team Tar Heels because everyone who cheered for Team Tar Heels became more worried after the last game, but they knew that if Jake was confident it was quite possible that the team Tar Heels won because Jake led the team to the victories.

"And are you ready for the marathons you will have on your vacation? Just give me a list of which marathons you will want to attend that I sign you up, I have already received several important marathon invitations inviting you to partic.i.p.ate, but as you told me to just refuse during the season I am just refusing."

"I do intend to partic.i.p.ate in several marathons, after all, I am also a marathon runner and I love running and I am not just a basketball player, if I do not run even this year I am in college I can not even think about continuing to compete when I am in the NBA."

John was very happy to hear that, he could imagine how tiring it was to play a whole season like college basketball which is so much more intense and more games than in other sports.

Alan didn't care much about that, but John knew that besides the incredible talent Jake was most special about was that he could compete at a high level in two major sports like basketball and athletics, so if Jake gave up running because he really didn't need to he would lose part of what made him special.

After that Jake talked to them for some time and returned to university, the evening he went to meet Tiffany and Clara who also wanted to congratulate Jake who reached the NCAA tournament final.

After they talked about the commercials Jake was going to record after a few months and about Clara's company, Jake found it interesting that Clara was really thinking of doing like Matthew and giving half of the profit share to the shareholders and investing in the company only half.

Even though Clara didn't like Robert very much she realized how he and the other shareholders were happy to receive a good profit share as dividends and not just have to wait to see the company's stock appreciate in order to increase a.s.sets.

Jake understood that well, but he was also not against Clara's previous method of investing all the company's profits again and not delivering dividends to shareholders, after all, that was what Amazon was doing for over 20 years and so she was has become one of the largest companies in the world.

Jake thought that a company only paid dividends when it no longer intended to develop much or if the entire structure of the company was developed and the company did not need all the profit to continue developing.

Typically top tech companies were an example of this or could continue to invest in other media and find other ways to increase the company's influence and sell more products as Amazon does.

After they talked for a while before Jake left to prepare for the game the other day, they had a nice conversation, but it was much less comfortable talking the three together than when it's just two people, many subjects can't be talked about.

Even though Jake was happy to have Tiffany and Clara watching their final game, he would also have his roommates and Eva along with Anna, almost all of his friends and closest people who could come to watch the game.

Matthew and Oliver couldn't come because they were busy with their jobs, who Jake hopes would come and didn't come was Eric, even though a few years ago Eric said he would no longer cover high school and university games as a reporter, as a friend Eric could appear in some Jake games.

He understood that Eric might be busy with his work and might not be able to come watch the game, but at least as a friend he could have called Jake to wish him good luck, Joseph didn't expect it because his friend didn't like it and basketball

The other day came the day of the Tar Heels team final at the NCAA tournament, it was Jake's first university final and well into his freshman year, even though he expected it when he decided to play for the Tar Heels team he was still looking forward to it.

Jake wanted to win this year because, in addition to adding a lot to his career and the fact that he didn't like to lose, he found it important to take the pressure off him to win an NCAA tournament, he would be much more relaxed next season and he was sure that with the whole team would be the same.

Coach Smith said a few more things to the team before the game and highlighted how important this game was to the Tar Heels team and to all the players, after which everyone was more excited but nervous about the game.

After a few hours, the two teams were almost ready for this final game, Jake could see where his mother was with Anna, but couldn't see Tiffany and Clara as well as their other sponsors.

Seeing that Eva came for this game Jake was much more thrilled and motivated to win this game, he hoped his team would be a favorite because they beat the team that should have won this game.

But the opposing team was also very strong and had an almost better season than the Tar Heels team, the opposing team in this game would be the Kentucky Wildcats team, in Jake's opinion this was the team with the best cast of players having 6 players who would play in the NBA in the future.

The Kentucky Wildcats team came with an initial lineup consisting of Ron Mercer, Anthony Epps, Scott Padgett, Nazr Mohammed, and Cameron Mills, players Wayne Turner and Jamaal Magloire would also play, but for a shorter time and didn't score much.

For this difficult game Coach Smith decided to use a more offensive initial formation putting Williams in place of Okulaja, in the past game as Williams did not play long and did not have many opportunities to shoot off Coach Smith did not know he could play very bad.

Jake was fine with that because he knew nothing of what could happen in this game, so he would have to rely on his teammates to help him lead the team to win Heights and become champions of the NCAA tournament after today's game.

Everyone was determined to do their best because this was the last and most important game of the season, after this game everyone would be on vacation so they could play until they were completely tired.

"And finally we are here, the last game of this season and the NCAA tournament final, two great teams have come to this game with incredible seasons, the Tar Heels team had 35 games and won 33 games losing only 2 of them."

"In addition, the Tar Heels team comes from an incredible 24 straight streak, they don't lose well over half of the season and even with an amazing team, they have a key highlight for this campaign which is the freshman Jake who has been doing one of the best debuts in college basketball history."

"Jake has been breaking a number of records and in this game is the player who gives the most security for the team Tar Heels to win today's game."

"On the other side we have the Kentucky Wildcats team who have also had a great season so far, they have had 39 games so far and have 35 wins and 4 losses so far, they lost more than the Tar Heels team, but just because they had more games."

"It's true I rarely saw two teams coming to the NCAA tournament final as a favorite and with great seasons like them, plus the Kentucky Wildcats team cast is also very good and if it wasn't for Jake could be the best cast in the game of today."

"I also think the Tar Heels team is a favorite because Jake is on the team, but if the Tar Heels team players play as badly as they did last game, it will be hard to know who will win today's game."