“Our pleasure is your pain.” Green’s reaction in the foreground, Curry and Lee’s in the background — stephen curry buzzer beater vs boston celtics (Photo: Still frame from CSN Bay Area broadcast)
ORACLE ARENA, OAKLAND, CA — As stated in the game round-up, LetsGoWarriors.com had a nice view and reaction of the Golden State Warriors‘ Stephen Curry‘s game-winning buzzer-beater against the Boston Celtics last Friday night, his second of the season (and his career), but here are some more angles.
CSN’s replay:
Behind-the-backboard angle from Instagram user @bqtotheizzo:
From the upper deck, via Instagram user @sanya_v30:
Andre Iguodala with the veteran’s look of approval (Iguodala has the second-most buzzer-beaters in the NBA since 2005-06):
Ric Bucher interviewing Curry right after the game, as caught by one of the Warriors’ two PA announcers, Franco Finn:
As we previously reported, Bay Area Sports Guy had an excellent description of the final play:
“I think everybody was pretty surprised, including Steph, that they switched the screen-and-roll. At that point, that’s a no-brainer. Steph can iso the five-man, and if he happened to miss, which I didn’t expect him to, I had Avery Bradley on the block for a tip-in.”
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“I was able to get Avery (Bradley) to kind of shade me one way, and D-Lee set the screen on the other side. He set a great screen, so they had no choice really but to switch at that point,” said Curry, who scored 19 points (7-of-18) along with seven rebounds and four assists.
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“Then I was able to get enough space to knock down the shot. D-Lee set a great screen and I found a nice little bit of daylight to knock it down.”
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Curry also had some interesting insight into what goes on in his mind during plays like these.
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“We tried to go with like five seconds left for the screen-and-roll, so we can figure out how they’re going to guard … Once you’ve got the iso and the one-on-one, you kind of go into your dribble series and see how you’re going to get your open look. At that point I was comfortable and in rhythm. As long as I make it, obviously with two seconds left we can have better options on the defensive end to press up, take away a three and force a tough shot,” he said.
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