So the days went by and soon the second game of the national championship would be arriving, today a rest was given to the Elite team, but Jake, as he always did at home, went down to the basement and had already finished his race and now he was in the handsets of bodybuilding.

Jake thought he had to do this as much as he could because he had heard from the system that soon the statistics would need many months sometimes to be able to increase by one point, so he decided to do these exercises as a habit, so he would train without expecting anything and if the statistics go up it would be a good surprise.

Of course, it also takes a good mindset and patience to do this, if it were someone else who had the system apart from Jake he would probably ask to look at his stats every day.

But Jake, who had just returned from a trip where the only training that had been done was imaging training every day, it had been months since he had checked his statistics.

Jake thought that now was a good time to know how much better he ultimately would not improve until the national championship ended so it was good to cheer up with his stats that had certainly increased.

"Fate show me my statistics window."

[Here it is]

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[Name: Jake Smith]

[Age: 13 years]

[Job: Basketball Player]

[Title: High School Player]

[Position: PG, SG]

[Height: 1.68 m]

[Weight: 65 Kg]

[Force 20]

[Agility 20]

[Resistance 21]

[Intelligence 52]

[Luck 99]

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Skills Basketball

[Ball Handling A]

[Body Control B]

[Man to Man C]

[Dribble A]

[Layup B]

[Set Shot SS]

[Block C]

[Pass S]

[Rebound B]

[2 Points SS]

[3 Points SS]

[Free Throw SS]

[Steal A]

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It was really amazing how much his stats increased in almost a year of training, maybe because of the trip he made his intelligence also increased, as it was not a statistic that could be trained as was the case of luck any point that increased left Jake happy.

His physical stats all came in at 20, and Jake could see that the growth rate of his stamina that was once the fastest-growing statistic declined after he reached 20, his agility was very good too, but he knew there might be some people in high school who have more agility than he.

The statistic that he was happiest to have increased was his strength, now it lacked little to reach the strength he had in his past life, just so he would feel that he was improving.

As for his abilities, he increased very little despite having a lot of training in his imagination training, but Jake also had already realized that his abilities improved much more in official games than in 100 trainings.

Jake was mostly unsatisfied with his defense that was low in his opinion if anyone had a dribbling ability like his that would eventually be the fault of his team's defense and Jake could not accept it.

He also knew what the problem was, he had not had difficult opponents who could train his defense well, Jake even found it absurd as people said that his forte was the defense.

Only he himself knew that he had to train 10 times in defense more than in the attack to increase skill rank, and it would have to be so, his minimum goal would have to be A at the NBA level until he turned 20.

He knew that climbing up S in high school would only be a big challenge, not to mention he still had college rank before going through the NBA, it was nice that the NBA level was not as low as it was high school compared to Middle School where an S rank skill could become D.

So Jake believed he would be able to achieve this in 7 years which is almost 3 times the time he trained, of course, if his defensive ability was in A normally his other abilities would be at S or SS level, but that would be impossible reachable in just 7 years, maybe in 12 years was possible.

But that was if he only focused on the sack what he would not know if it could be possible, at least he needed to focus on his mother and his personal life half the time, after all, his desire for the second chance was mainly to have a happy life and do not forget everything else and just focus on basketball.

[Now that their stats have reached 20 it will take a lot longer to raise a statistic, as I had said only the biggest stars of the NBA have the main statistics equivalent to 30 points which are 3 times more than the normal adults.]

[Of course, despite having 3 times the capacity of a normal man this is only in statistics, only strength stands out better in numbers, this does not mean that a person who has 30 in agility is three times faster than a normal person.]

[But in more competitive sports even 0.1 second makes a big difference, in basketball could mean making the points or not doing, or getting a dribble or not, small differences in a game can change the final result.]

[But to tell you the truth I thought you could only get 20 points of statistics after 15 years, it's good that you do not fight people your age or else you could end up hurting a lot of someones unintentionally.]

Of course Jake already knew about a part of what the system said, especially about fighting, according to the system said it was almost impossible that things happened to Jake thanks to his luck, especially with the personality of Jake who never fought in 40 years of your past life.

And since the NBA was a goal for a distant future he did not want to forget, but he did not have to worry about that either, it was not long ago that Jake saw that he could not even beat a high school player the more of the NBA.

So the days went by and came the day of the second game, when they were preparing for later Jake realized that his teammates were much more relaxed for today's game.

That nervousness should be only a result of the debut game that was tenser after all nobody wanted to be eliminated in the first game, only coach Mike was still tense, after all, he had more responsibility in this game and that was his job.

As for the opponents it was expected that after the second round onwards it would be impossible to find a team that was weak, all the lucky ones had been eliminated in the first round, proof of which was that in that game a lot more people came to watch and had more reporters.

The opposing team was called Cats, a team that until a few years ago was not very well known in basketball and began to invest more in the sport in recent years as well as the Elite team.

The highlights of this team were PG Rick, SF Santiago and SG Lincon, were a team that was very good in attack and had some problems in defense, so all their games used to have many points scored.

These three players also used to risk the shots from outside, so with the three players making points of 3, the hit rate was low plus the score at the end of the game ended up high.

So before the game started coach Mike reminded David and Harrison to score their opponents well, with Jake the coach was calm, but with Harrison was that he was more worried, it would be a great weakness for that game.

And so the game began and the possession of the ball went to the Elite team again, soon Jake received the ball and started the first attack in that game, he advanced calmly to the 3-point line and gave a pass to Harrison.

Harrison who received the ball managed to pass through his opponent with a dribble and then made the first points with a layup, Jake's goal with that pass was to increase Harrison's confidence after scoring the first points.

After Rick started the first attack for the Cats team, just like Jake, Rick had the same idea and passed the ball to Santiago who received the pass and pretended to try the dribble, Harrison who was focused on the defense fell on the feint and moved to try to defend, so Santiago who had a free space made a shot from outside to score the 3 points.

Jake calmed down Harrison who was frustrated by being cheated and started another attack on the Elite team, he advanced up the 3-point line and gave Mark a pass to make 2 more points with a layup.

The defense of the Cats waiting for Jake to try a shot from outside or move to David to try a shot of 3 was surprised by his decision to attempt a normal attack.

Jake knew what the other team was thinking, but he more than anyone knows that it is too risky to watch his attacks only on the shots outside, for that game in which the opponents had a good defense and David also wanted very much to try the shots of out Jake gave a chance.

But this game was different the defense of the opponent was weak and David knew to follow more the strategies of the team, so why not to take advantage to get more attacks and points with Mark and Carter and to vary with the shots of 3 points in the attack? So the Elite team's attack on this game would be unpredictable.