SAN FRANCISCO — Whereas everybody within the constructing screamed and gawked at Stephen Curry’s miracle, high-arcing 3-point dagger to beat the Boston Celtics on Tuesday, Klay Thompson yawned.
Effectively, probably not. However Thompson stated that, whereas Curry’s bomb on the finish of additional time to seal the Golden State Warriors’ 132-16 win was “an unbelievable shot,” he was really extra impressed with a shot Curry made a couple of minutes earlier.
Because the Warriors climbed again from a 17-point deficit, trailing by simply three factors with a minute and a half left within the fourth quarter, Curry discovered himself remoted towards veteran Celtics massive man Al Horford. Recognizing the mismatch, Curry aggressively motioned for Chris Paul to vacate the realm on the high of the important thing, taking All-Protection guard Derrick White with him.
What ensued was a wonderful step-back 3-pointer over Horford’s outstretched arm that tied the sport, and left Thompson in awe.
“I assumed that step-back going proper was much more spectacular, although,” Thompson stated after the sport. “For anybody who shoots a basketball on the market, they know the way onerous of a shot that basically is. That was very spectacular from Steph.”
Thompson is likely to be one of the best shooter not named Steph Curry to ever roam the Earth, so when he speaks on the topic, it is best that we hear. Getting the footwork and leg propulsion down on a transfer like that takes unbelievable effort, and the physique must be fully in sync to tug it off. To do all that with a possible win towards the Japanese Convention’s greatest staff within the steadiness — you possibly can see why Thompson was so impressed.
For comparability’s sake, this is Curry’s additional time dagger (in case you in some way missed it).
Whereas Curry received the accolades due to his late heroics on Tuesday, Thompson put collectively one other sturdy recreation with 24 factors on 6-for-15 3-point taking pictures. After a poor begin to the season throughout which Warriors head coach Steve Kerr stated his sharpshooter was “taking plenty of dangerous photographs,” Thompson has settled in, going 23-for-43 from 3-point vary during the last 4 video games.
Depart it to a shooter to take the one shot that everybody marvels at and inform us that one other one is definitely extra spectacular.
