Chapter 226 - Kobe's Training Camp 8

Isabella POV..

The score was now 6 to 5. My team was down by one point after I had scored a 3-pointer. The Asian team now paid more attention to me and was wondering if I'll be able to do it again. I had three or four more of those shots within me to take left so I had to make it count at least towards the end.​​

The Asian crew brought down the ball. Their point guard did a strange crossover and was able to lose Pat in the crossover as I came over to help her, leaving the person I was guarding open she then drove it in trying to get a layup in but Chantel was right there to stop her.

Chantel didn't want to go too far out of the post causing the girl to take a step back and take a shot but she missed it unfortunately their center was able to grab the rebound and put it back up to get two more points on the board.

Down by three points once again we had to make moves. Pat was getting frustrated but I told her to calm down and just try to set up plays. She calmed down after hearing that and realized that she had been rushing things.

After Pat calmed down she started to dribble the ball down, she passed it to me. I didn't want to waste too much energy dribbling so I passed it over to Chantel who was posting up her defender.

Daniella quickly ran behind her as Chantel passed it over to her, having the open lane for a layup.

I wanted us to take turns scoring so I quickly devised that plan right after calling time out, everybody agreed to it so we continued to play.

Down by one point the Asians brought down the ball after the time out their center was now asking for the ball who also wanted to try posting up Chantel our center, but nothing went her way and she wasn't strong enough to get by her so she used her speed to spin off Chantel and try to lay it up but Chantel was right there as she slap the ball away. 

The game started to move a bit faster which I didn't mind as long as I had the stamina to keep up with it. The Asians came down with the ball once again as they started setting up pick after pick, their point guard called up certain plays as we kept crashing into picks until one of them had sneaked off and was under the paint all alone for the easy bucket.

That was such a good play I thought in my head these Asians are pretty smart and we needed to be smarter in order to win this game. We were going back and forth as the score had turned around once again and they were up by one point. 

I had to hit a 3-pointer, I had at least two or three more in me before I wouldn't be able to hit anymore. I needed to use this opportunity to break them off so they wouldn't get too confident and start to run us off the court.

It was hard working with this team as they all wanted to do the same things and weren't smart enough to devise plays like the Asians, but I had no choice and I did not want to lose. 

I hated losing so I had Chantel set a pick for me. After Pat had passed me the ball I saw that Daisy was wide open as the defense collapsed once they saw I was about to take a shot but I faked the shot and passed it over to Daisy for the easy layup.

The score was now 11-12. We were up by one point so I wanted to make a three in order to branch off a bit. We played defense but somehow they were still able to find a way to score as they set up a pick and roll as Pat switched defenders with Chantel. It was a complete mismatch as they were able to score the point to give them a one-point lead. 

I gave Pat the signal as I was ready to take the three-point shot, all the ladies saw this too and decided to help me get open. Pat brought down the ball while Daisy set a pick for me. I ran around the pick and got open at the three-point line. Pat passed me the ball, I set my foot and I pushed the ball as hard as I could towards the basket as it went up everybody stopped and held their breath as they saw the ball spinning in mid-air going towards the basket.

The Asian team were nervous, they had seen me make the first shot and now watching me take another shot hoping that the first one was just luck but as soon as it hit the bottom of the net all their hopes and dreams of me missing the ball had went into shambles as we took the lead once again but this time we're up by two points 13-15.

The Asians called timeout right away, they had started to devise a plan against me. I knew it was going to be harder to score from now on so I had to use my remaining energy to shoot the last three and then hope that we can get some points with the remaining energy we have left to get to 21 points.