Gao Yang dribbled the ball and slowly walked towards our half. Although his speed was not fast at the moment, I knew that his current state was as quiet as a virgin and as swift as a rabbit.
Ai Yi's attention seemed to be more on the ball in Gao Yang's hand rather than Gao Yang himself. I could see from Gao Yang's eyes that although he felt very angry that we had caught up with him in the score, he did not seem to feel ashamed, because he seemed to think that we were able to catch up with him because they were not serious. They seemed to think that this one goal could crush all our hopes.
As Gao Yang brought the ball to our half, the rest of them had already taken their positions, waiting for Gao Yang's sudden start to initiate the attack.
The four of us were all staring at our own defense areas with nervous expressions, ready to await their attack.
In a flash, the look in Gao Yang's eyes suddenly changed, and his seemingly careless dribbling suddenly became faster. He did not pass the ball but rushed directly to the basket. However, Ai Yi, who was responsible for defending him, could not keep up with his speed due to physical exhaustion, and Zhang Nuan's brother under the basket was also blocked by Xingxing and another defensive teammate. It seemed that Gao Yang's shot was almost certain to win!
But at the moment Gao Yang started, there didn't seem to be any extra thoughts in my mind. The only thing I had was that I had to stop him and block this ball!
I have never felt that I ran so fast, but I didn’t think about it at the time. The only thing in my eyes was Gao Yang running towards our basket with the ball in front of me!
But just when he was about to rush to the free throw line, I suddenly felt something was wrong, because I felt that Gao Yang in front of me also noticed that I was behind him. Would he choose to go directly for a layup
But just as I hesitated, Zhang Nuan's brother had already jumped high from under the basket. Although he was trapped under the basket by the gorilla and the defensive player, at that moment he found the angle from somewhere and jumped up from under the basket. He stretched out his big hand and blocked Gao Yang's layup route. It was at this moment that I suddenly realized that something was wrong. Gao Yang had not jumped yet, and he was not going to make a layup!
But when I realized it, it was too late. Gao Yang in front of me suddenly stopped, and I rushed in front of him due to inertia. However, I forced myself to turn around the moment I rushed in front of him. I even felt that I was about to fall backwards, but I saw him grab the basketball with his right hand that he was dribbling with one hand, and then bent his knees while holding the ball with both hands to prepare to jump!
I don't know why all of this happened in a flash, but in my eyes it seemed like a slowly playing movie. Later I realized that when a person's mind is highly concentrated, he will feel that the movement of some things around him begins to slow down. However, at that time, I didn't even have any idea of what to do.
My body seemed to have a stress response. Following Gao Yang's knee bending, I pushed my feet upward with all my strength. Although I jumped backwards, I also used all my strength to stretch one arm behind me at the same time, like a bow and arrow with a fully drawn string. At this time, Gao Yang had already made a shooting motion and his body began to rise.
At that time my brain seemed to have no time to think, and my body made judgments subconsciously. My arm, which had been stretched to the limit behind my back, suddenly slapped out like an arrow shot from a bow string in the direction of Gao Yang's shooting. Then I felt the pain in the middle finger of my right hand as if it was broken. Then I heard a snap, as if my finger hit the basketball. At this time, my body finally lost its balance completely and fell backwards, but I also saw that Gao Yang, who was standing in front of me and had jumped up to prepare for the shot, had empty hands that were ready to shoot!
I actually knocked the basketball out of Gao Yang's hand! As I fell backwards, Gao Yang continued to rise due to the force of the jump, and the basketball that should have been in his hand fell to the ground. This was the first time I saw the surprised expression on Gao Yang's face, and then his eyes showed an expression as if he wanted to kill me, but I fell to the ground behind me with a smile on my face.
But the basketball that fell to the ground was picked up by a snow-white hand, and then I heard a cold voice shouting at the top of its lungs, "Fast break!"
Then I saw Ai Yi running towards Gao Yang and his team's half with the basketball she picked up from the ground. I was lying on the ground, so I just turned sideways and got up after hearing Ai Yi's call for a fast break. Then I also ran towards the other side. However, Ai Yi's physical strength had reached its limit. When she reached the opponent's half, Gao Yang and those idiots from the basketball team had already returned to their positions. Ai Yi was panting heavily and dribbling the ball with her body lowered. But Zhang Nuan's brother, who ran over from behind me, said to me, "Good job!"
I didn't have time to respond to his compliment. I could only nod vigorously and start running like crazy, because I knew that this attack would be our last chance. If we couldn't score in this attack, we would lose the game, so we had to score!
Each of us had a defender on the other side, and Zhang Nuan's brother was defended by two people under the basket. I was running like crazy, and I kept looking at Ai Yi who was dribbling over there. At this time, I suddenly saw Ai Yi nodded at me, and her eyes made my whole body excited. She was telling me that it was time! It was time for me to use my secret weapon!
To be honest, until the day before the game, I was still uneasy about the shooting position that I had trained as my secret weapon, because when Ai Yi told me that day that I wanted to find such a position, I thought about it for a long time, and finally chose a position that I had no confidence in from that day to now. However, after Ai Yi hinted at me with her eyes, I still ran towards that position without hesitation, because I knew that the victory or defeat would depend on this time!
However, Gao Yang, who had been defending me, did not follow me closely like before, because I had never shot in the direction I was running. Maybe he relaxed his vigilance because of this, thinking that I was running just to create space for my teammates, or that I was running meaninglessly to consume his strength. Of course, it is also possible that Gao Yang’s strength has been almost consumed by me, and he wants to save some energy for the most critical moment. After all, if our attack is not successful this time and they can grab the defensive rebound, they can deal us another fatal blow!
But at this moment I had already run to the shooting position that I used as a secret weapon, which is the three-second zone near the baseline, the so-called negative angle position facing the basket!
Gao Yang couldn't help but be stunned at that time, because he didn't understand why I ran to a position that was equivalent to a blind spot, but when he hesitated, Ai Yi had already passed the ball in my direction. At this time, it was too late for Gao Yang to come up and block me, and his teammates were blocked by Zhang Nuan's brother and could not defend in time. So I stood in the position of my secret weapon and received the pass from Ai Yi. I knew that as long as I made this shot, we would tie the score and enter overtime, but if I didn't make this shot, we would lose the game, and I couldn't lose!
Although I wasn't sure in my heart whether I could make this shot, I knew we had no way out. All my efforts these days were put into this one shot. I jumped high, with only the basket in my eyes, and the ball was shot!