Next play Boa China"s point guard brought down the ball while thinking of a plan to annoy and hara.s.s Paige. Boa pa.s.sed to An and then came and set a pick for An, causing me to run right into Boa as we had to switch by force. Now page was guarding An while I was guiding Boa, Boa made some hand signs which meant that he was about to set up a play, as he quickly went to set up a pick for An. Using all his strength, Boa b.u.mped into Paige, causing her to fall while An had an open shot and took it, giving them three more points.
Boa acted like he wanted to go and help Paige up as he reached out his hands to grab her hand to pull her up, but Boa reached in and pa.s.sed her hand acting like he slipped as he fell on top of Paige, while holding both her goods as he squeezed hard acting as if n.o.body saw it.
I saw it and the pain Paige was going through, I got furious as I quickly pushed him off; as soon as I did that a flagrant foul was called on me, causing Boa to go-to the line to get two free shots in. I was so p.i.s.sed, but Paige told me to calm down and that this wasn"t his first time doing this.
I made it in my mind that I was going to get this guy back no matter what. I told Paige to switch with me as I started to guard Boa. He wanted to try that play again as he began to make those same signs, which were an idiot move because now I knew what that meant.
An quickly came by his side, trying to give Boa the pick, and An pushed me away when he set the pick. I used this opportunity to freeze time since I wasn"t near Boa. I quickly went and kicked Boa in the b.a.l.l.s and made my way back to An"s side before the time unfroze.
When time returned to normal, Boa fell on the floor, screaming out in pain. The refs didn"t see Paige hit him, so they were wondering what was wrong with him. Boa had lost the ball, so Paige could only shrug as she grabbed the ball and went in for the layup.
The refs didn"t know what to call because there was no one near Boa when this happened. Boa was on the ground screaming holding his family jewels, China"s Coach was also confused by this as he quickly called time out and subbed Boa back in trying to figure out what was wrong with him.
Boa told his Coach that it feels like somebody had hit him in his privates. Still, the Coach was confused because n.o.body was near him at the time. The Coach also looked at the referees, and the referees could only shrug as if saying there was nothing they could do about it because they didn"t see him get hit.
I laughed in my head as these guys were confused about what had happened, but An saw the smile that I had on my face and figured that this had something to do with me, so he approached me and asked me what happened. I shrugged and told him that I have no clue.
Still, I was quite enjoying the scene of this guy getting hurt after hara.s.sing my girlfriend. An could only shake his head as he started arranging the team for the next plays since their point guard was going to be out of commission for some time.
The score was now 60-42, with China leading by 17 points. I had to cut down the lead before the fourth quarter, or it would be hard to catch up due to An making all his shots. An pa.s.sed in the ball and received it right back; I was guarding him again since both of us were in the game now.
Paige would be able to cover the bench point guard without a problem, so I focused entirely on An. An dribbled a little trying to get free from my defense, but I was on him like hotcakes. The time was running out, so he decided to force a shot up, just when An was pulling up to shoot the ball, my hand hit the ball as it dropped right out of his hands.
An was still in the jumping motion to take the shot, but there was no ball as I had stolen it. I dribbled down the court, stopped at the three-point line, and took the shot cutting the lead down by a few more points. An frowned and thought that was a fantastic play even though he was on the losing end of it, but An was not worried because they still had a 14-point lead, and he didn"t think that they could blow it even with me on the floor.
An figured that I wouldn"t be able to get steals from him on every play, and if he makes his shots here and there, they will be able to cover for any kind of losses, but that"s not what I thought as I got back on defense.
An pa.s.sed it to their center Li who was guarded by Aldrich. Aldrich was having a hard time defending Li, so he tried his best to hold Li down, but Li took a small hook shot near the bucket, getting the go-to bucket as they added two more points to the lead.
I was a little annoyed by this because An had figured out a way to trade buckets with us, and I wasn"t going to have that. This game was too delicate for us to lose. It would be the ultimate face slapping if we were able to get a win over China in their home court finally.
They would be beyond p.i.s.sed if we won this game. The way I was looking even with my time freeze it will be quite a hard-fought game as these players were quite good, and the team I was working with had some talented ones, but most were average at most. They were more soldiers than athletes which made things harder for us.