168 China Vs Marines

After that game coach wanted to celebrate as he treated us to dinner once again, he saw how hard we played even though he knew I was holding back since I wasn't shooting much in the game and dunking most of the time. Still, regardless everybody was quite tired after that game; Aldrich, on the other hand, was pretty relaxed as he didn't play that hard in the game. Whenever Manuel would come in the post, Aldrich would move out of his way, and I honestly couldn't blame him for that. 

During the celebration, the coach told us that we all should go and watch the semi-final game, which was between the Marines and China, and that it should be a heated game. Quite the crowd was going to be showing up, even though we weren't the ones playing we were a little bit excited to see that match up and since we had already advanced to the finals, one of those teams would be moving on to face us in the finals.

After relaxing for a bit with the team, we all went our separate ways. Paige had joined me for the night once again as we came up with all kinds of crazy fun ideas to make our relationship in the bed even better. The next day we were all scrambling to get ready for the game, China versus Marines. Everybody was excited to see it as the advertisements were crazy, and ticket sales were off the roof. They had even sold out, which surprised me since China didn't have a big fan base in Japan, but a lot of people came to see them since they are always the number one seed in the league.

Watching the teams come on the court excited me a little bit as I wanted to also be on that grand stage with a massive crowd watching me and couldn't wait till I joined the NBA. My teammates and I went to find a seat as we had exclusive VIP seats for all the participating players in the league. I noticed that the center from Russia was watching along with his team next to us. Von the ability user center extraordinaire looked at me and immediately looked away as if he was scared of me.

I chuckled a little bit at this because this guy was colossal, as big as Yao Ming. However, he was still as timid as a mouse when around me, it seems like the beatings I gave him in our last encounter had affected him dearly. I looked away from him and noticed that Wayne from the Australian team was also there too, as he saw me and waved at me with a big smile. I nodded at him and looked at the court as the game a presenter began to announce the starters.

After the introductions, the game had finally started as the referee tossed up the ball. Even though China's center was taller, Japan's military center could jump higher as he tipped the ball over to his power forward, who passed it to their point guard. Their point guard immediately dashed in passing most of the players, went, and laid it up to give them the first two points. Boa, China's point guard, was a little annoyed but quickly got the ball from the inbound and went to set up a play. 

Honestly, in my mind, I thought that China was going to blow out the Marines, but it wasn't looking that way in this game, and by half-time, the Marines were up by five points, which shocked everybody. An was extremely pissed, going back and to the locker room down in the half, and I could tell that he was very frustrated. Still, in my head, I thought he should change up his style a little due to his ability since he couldn't do layups or shoot mid-range shots. It seemed like the Marines had caught on to that and used that to their advantage as they started strapping him down.

During the halftime show, they had all kinds of entertainment for us to enjoy. They had even gotten the crowd involved as one of the mascots had dragged me onto the court. He wanted me to shoot from the half-court line blindfolded. Everybody got excited about this shot, I knew I could make it, but everybody else thought I would miss it. I was blindfolded, and then I took a deep breath as I pretended as if I was measuring the court. I took off my blindfold and looked at the basket one more time before stretching out my arms and waving at the crowd, trying to get them hyped.

After a few more moves of entertainment, I finally decided to take the shot; it made a loud splash sound, all net. Everybody there was surprised as the whole place went silent before it erupted in loud cheers. I took off my blindfold, and I jumped up and down as if surprised that I made that shot. An who had just walked onto the court with his teammates saw this and couldn't help but shake his head because he knew that I had an ability, and that was the only reason why I was able to make that shot after hearing about what I did. 

The game continued as An came back looking more confident. It seemed like An had come up with a better plan and was ready to execute it. I was excited to see what he was going to do about this deficit and how he was going to bring back his team as I watched in anticipation.