"I don't understand!"
"How could we possibly lose this?" Even Brother Ji, who was usually easygoing, couldn't help speaking up.
With such a good start, all JT had to do was come out from Second Floor and trade kills. They couldn't say the Full Buy Round was a guaranteed win, but their chances had been at least seventy or eighty percent.
And then the rookie on the other side had seized the chance to run wild!
Faced with Brother Ji's questioning, JT didn't know what to say for a moment. Although he was the team captain and in-game leader, he knew where he stood in the team hierarchy.
JT hesitated, then said, "I was carrying the bomb, and I was worried that if I died on Second Floor, you guys wouldn't be able to pick it up."
Brother Ji: ...
In the end, he was still afraid of making a mistake. They'd already lost who knew how many rounds today because of this overly cautious playstyle.
Caution was a good thing for professional players, but it depended on the situation. When they needed to take initiative, they had to take initiative. But JT's mindset was clearly, "I'd rather do nothing than make a mistake."
Brother Ji really wanted to give him a serious talking-to, but for the sake of team morale, he held his tongue.
He felt utterly exhausted. He just wanted the match to end so he could go back and rest, whether in his hotel room or at home across the ocean.
If the gap had been huge, that would've been one thing. But always falling just short was what made you feel most defeated.
The match continued, but in the rounds that followed, the NIP players could clearly feel that Astralis had lost its edge.