The game then as nobody expected was for overtime, now there were 5 more minutes for the outcome of the game to be decided, the biggest problem was that the teams were tired after playing for 40 minutes.
Even if neither player played the full 40 minutes they would still be tired the same way, of course even tired they could still keep playing, but both teams could probably make more mistakes.
Jake was an exception to this because he was fine to play another 5 minutes and Vince Carter as well as Shammond Williams also because they took turns in court time, Coach Smith naturally let Jake start playing in overtime.
No one knew if the coach had any idea what was going on in Jake's mind or maybe he didn't even care after all the most important thing now was to win this game against the Duke Blue Devils team.