Chapter 217 - Final Match

After being disrespected by the guy and making the jumper, I decided to quickly end this game. I passed it to Isabella and asked for the ball right back, I dribbled to the left and quickly put the brakes on the guy after going full speed causing him to stumble.

I took another shot from the 3-point line giving us two more points as we had to score one more point in order to win the game. The guy got a little serious as he kicked a rock that was on the floor away saying that he slipped on it.

I shook my head as I thought what kind of excuses is that?'' The referee and everybody else didn't mind him as I checked up the ball once again. I passed it to Isabella and winked at her as if saying she can go ahead and take the game winner. She smiled and looked at her defender. Her defender started to have a bad feeling about this as she got serious after hearing her father yell at her.

Isabella dribbled her up a little bit and she faked left while going right the girl stayed on her. I decided to set a pick for her since she was having a hard time getting by the girl. Isabella quickly dribbled around my pick and now the father was checking Isabella trying to steal the ball away from her.

The crowd started booing him as he was trying to bully a little girl, but he didn't care. He was trying to get this w, as he swiped left and right but surprisingly he wasn't able to steal the from Isabella due to how low she was dribbling. 

He knew that if you reached in too far it would be a foul play so he took his time to get an opportunity to steal the ball. Isabella pretended like she was about to shoot causing the guy to jump up with happiness but that was his first mistake.

Isabella quickly dribbled under his legs and laid it up for the win. I went to give her a huge hug and spun her around as the crowd cheered around us. Isabella was happily pumping her fist and she was yelling" yeah I did it Daddy" I happily smiled at her and said "yes, she did a good job tricking that old man".

The father and daughter flinched when they heard me call him an old man but couldn't return to anything as they had lost badly too. They were only able to score one point so they left the court in disarray.

After getting some rest, the final game was up. This father was pretty tall as he was standing at 6 foot 7.

He was much taller than me and rumor has it that he used to play college ball but he looked to be like he was in his forties while his daughter was older than Isabella herself at 10 years old.

Me and Isabella came up with a battle plan as I said we can't pull our punches here. This will be the last match so we have to go hard and not pull any punches, deep down I knew I had to still pull my punches.

The game started. We had the ball as we had shot for it and of course I didn't miss but the guy didn't seem like he was much of a shooter since he was tall, he was probably much more of a dunker than a shooter.

We checked up the ball as I dribbled him a little bit to get a feel of him but then passed it to Isabella. Isabella tried to drive it right away but her defender was much bigger, older, and stronger than her so she was able to keep her within her range as she defended Isabella well.

Isabella had to pass it back to me due to the defensive pressure. I didn't blame her, that 10 year old girl had a head on her shoulders and the defense she was playing was fantastic so I had to give Isabella an opportunity to get free space to shoot but before that I had to bring the morale up by scoring the first point.

When I received the ball I quickly took the shot but the guy was in my face as he blocked it back. Luckily I was able to get the rebound as he shook his finger at me saying "no no no".

I laughed and tried to take another shot but he was right there again but luckily for me it was just a pump fake to get him in the air as I zipped past him he chased me down at full speed as if ready to block it but I went in as I jumped up past the free throw line, floated in the air for a while and dunked it as I hung on the rim a little bit. 

He had jumped after me so when I hung on the rim I swung my body forward and back as I bumped into him causing him to fall on the ground luckily he wasn't injured as he looked up at me and frowned.

Sorry old man but we had to get the first points no matter what. 

He could only shake his head and get back up as I dropped back down and went back to the line to check it up.

We had just started and the guy was already sweating, I thought about it now I could just play the stamina game on him. Getting him tired will be no big deal for me since he is much older. I figured his stamina wouldn't be that good. I passed it to Isabella and asked for the ball right back.

Isabella was running around the court trying to get open but her defender wouldn't let her so I had no choice but to take over. I drove it around as I started dashing off in full speed the guy was right near me trying not to let me get a step ahead of him but I can see that he was running out of breath from running full speed with me as my unlimited stamina kicked in, the fatigue was gone but I was still going.

While running in full speed I decided to break him off as I quickly stopped and did a step back causing him to stumble a little bit but before he could even get a good grip I was already in the air taking the jump shot, swish.

I could only shake my head as I said you might as well give up now because there's no way you guys are beating me and my daughter, but it looked like a fire had ignited in the man's eyes as he took this as a challenge. He was never one to back down from a challenge since his young age so igniting him like this was something he wanted, as nobody else had given him a challenge when coming up in this tournament.

He looked at me and said "the game begins now young one".