Boom...
In an instant, the entire arena erupted as if a massive bomb had gone off, boiling over with excitement.
Everyone seemed frozen under a binding spell, their eyes locked tightly onto the court, faces filled with astonishment as though they had witnessed something utterly absurd.
They rubbed their eyes hard, yet still couldn't believe what had happened before them, as if it were nothing more than a bizarre dream.
The spectators' faces flushed bright red. Their bodies trembled with excitement, and they were all worked up to the extreme.
"Good heavens! Wh-What was that?"
"That basketball just now... it went in, right?"
"I've never seen a shot like that before."
"Was that really a shot? Are you sure it wasn't acrobatics?"
"Oh my god! He shot from behind the backboard. How did he even do that?"
"Did you notice? He was facing away from the basket when he shot."
The spectators were like barrels of gunpowder set ablaze, plunging completely into madness.
They had never seen such a unique and incredibly dazzling shot—not in person, nor even in their dreams.
In that instant, the entire arena was swallowed by deafening cheers and cries of shock. Everyone went wild over this unbelievable scene.
The members of the other high school basketball teams stood there as if frozen by a spell, dumbfounded.
Their mouths hung wide open, their eyes bulged as if they might burst from their sockets, and disbelief was written all over their faces. They looked exactly as though they had seen a ghost.
The expressions of Ryonan's coach, Taoka Moichi, and Kainan's coach, Takato Riki, could no longer be described simply as "surprised."
Their mouths were stretched wide enough to fit an egg, their eyes bulged as if they were about to fall out, and they were