After attempting his first free throw, Ryan Kelly shouted toward his own bench: “This is my time.”
He had all the right in the world to say so.
Kelly, who competed in his first game back since breaking his left cheekbone in late January, hit two of his three shots from the charity stripe with 0.5 seconds left to propel the Sunrockers Shibuya to an 84-82 win over the Alvark Tokyo in front of a home crowd at Aoyama Gakuin University on Sunday night.
“I said ‘This is my time.’ This is the time where I’m confident with the ball in my hands to make a play to win and I know my teammates are confident in me to make the right play,” Kelly said after the victory, which snapped Shibuya’s five-game losing streak.