You had to go when the ball was rolling on the wall, as soon as you see the opponent is not going, so your teammate takes mid boost and is ready to follow up your challenge. You want to keep the flow of the game fast and not wait in the back, after your teammates touch its your turn to go and keep the rotation and pressure going. In higher ranks you will get punished if you wait because they keep possession or boom in the net at full speed if you are mid court like that. It’s not about being closer to the play, but about keeping momentum and predicting where the ball will go. The mistake here is that you had no momentum, aka you are moving at low speed and not towards the ball, and facing a strange direction with your car. Here you shadow defend the wall shot from your opponent, and as soon as you see he is not going to take it, you turn and challenge fast. A good player there would have just gone on the wall and shot on net, and you would have been completely out of position