The other week training continued to be more intense because it was a few weeks before the team's first game, unfortunately for Coach Smith, Jake had applied for another two-day license to compete in the New York marathon.
This eventually broke the team's pace of training, but Coach Smith had to accept it because he knew Jake was competing for the win and even the university would want Jake to compete.
But this assured the coach that Jake would not be in the starting lineup in the early games as a punishment, after all, he could not set up a stable group if a starting player missed training a lot.
Jake also knew he wasn't right and promised that this was the last time he would do it at the end of the year, he just wanted to win all major marathons once to get the bounty and help even more in his training and also in the games themselves of the basketball team.
