Here’s a compilation of Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Curry‘s legendary 62-footer last night in the Warriors’ 108-95 defeat of the Memphis Grizzlies to win the series, 4-2, and advance to the Western Conference Finals.
First, the best shot we found, from Instgrammer @petersiddle403:
Love Coach Steve Kerr‘s reaction!
From on the court, how far it was:
Diamond Leung of the Bay Area News Group reported that the Warriors practice those type of shots nearly everyday. Kerr also said that Curry and Marreese Speights are the best at those long shots.
“The ball veritably floated into the basket, unhindered by rim, and sucked the air from the building so completely that the only thing left to do was to call the place a gigantic Tupperware and send everyone home,” wrote Ray Ratto of CSN Bay Area.
“It wasn’t just that the ball went in, it was the audacity of Curry believing it should and would,” wrote Tim Kawakami of the Bay Area News Group.
“Soaring through the air, sucking the will out of the crowd as it arched and lasered toward its target. Traveling forever in lore, 62 feet in reality,” wrote Ann Killion of the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Quotes
- When asked how often he practices that shot: “Every day. And that’s not a lie.” — Curry
- “He shot it and I thought, man, you know, that looks money, but I didn’t get too excited till it went in. I was like, man, he practices that shot every single day, so it’s funny he finally got one. He nailed it.” — Harrison Barnes
- “The block on Jeff Green, the way the game was being called, it was risky, but we were aggressive playing every possession…That’s two possessions within one second. That kind of changes their demeanor because now they’re down eight going into the fourth and they made that hard run at us. Now it’s just like, ‘What can we do now? We just tried everything and we only won the quarter by one (point).'” — Andre Iguodala
- “Those are the plays I enjoy most about the game, when you’re really taking each possession with like a preciousness about it and you’re locked in…It’s those small things that take you over the hump and get you over the edge.” — Iguodala
- “That was crazy. I was turned around to tell ‘Dre (Iguodala), ‘Good D,’ because I stopped the ball and he came over and we kind of double-teamed…I turned around and looked and I was like, ‘Damn!'” — Shaun Livingston
- “Me and Steph had just talked about that because guys sometimes don’t want to mess up their field goal percentage, but in the playoffs, who cares? Turned out, that was a momentum-changer. Five- to eight-point game in the playoffs. You’ve got to take every possession if there’s time on the clock. Throw it up there.” — Livingston
- “That whole third quarter they made a push. We couldn’t make stops, their crowd was into it. That looked like a clean play, so I grabbed it, chucked it up there and it looked good the whole way and the whole momentum changed.” — Curry
- Curry said that he had pulled off a shot like that once in college. Here’s that shot, with Davidson University against the University of Chattanooga at Tennessee:
This is the shot that Curry is referencing from college: https://t.co/DYeSoVQ55O
— Dieter Kurtenbach (@dkurtenbach) May 16, 2015
- “He loves the big moments…It wasn’t quite a close-out, but it was the play of the game. When he let it go, it’s in mid-air, I said, ‘I think this is going in.’ I just felt like it was going in. And it did somehow. Shot of the game, obviously, stemmed the tide.” — Kerr
- “I probably shouldn’t tell you this, but before we let you in (to practice) every day, guys are firing full-court shots, half-court shots, drop-kicking balls, there’s music going.” — Kerr
- “It was definitely a gut punch. Made them take a knee a little bit. But they tried to get back into it. They fight ‘til the end….It was kind of only fitting that those shots paid off for a change” — Andre Iguodala
- “It does not surprise me at all. He stands at the other baseline, slings the ball to the other rim every day. It was fitting for him to make that.” — Draymond Green
- “They made a run. They’re not a team with the characteristic for lying down. We knew they would fight back. That was a huge play.” — Andrew Bogut
- “Every time we are doing warm-ups we are always throwing three-quarter shots and halfcourt shots and messing around during our stretching and that’s something he practices every single day, believe it or not.” — David Lee
- “I was under the impression (Green) got fouled. When Steph made it, it was, ‘What happened?’ It was tough to grasp it all.” — Grizzlies point guard Mike Conley
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