Kawhi’s unbearable, high-arcing shot had a paralyzing effect that turned everyone, for that miniature eternity, into a spectator
About that Kawhi Leonard buzzer-beater. When I hit middle age I entered a sort of third act of my life as a sports fan; maybe something like this has happened to you. As a kid I watched games like anyone else, innocently, as a hero-worshipper. When I rounded adulthood I changed and began to approach them with the amateur scientist’s desire to understand and deconstruct.
Hasn’t it immediately discredited all the slo-mo sequences that conclude basketball movies and commercial promos for the sport? To see Kawhi’s speculative, possibly ill-chosen game-deciding shot over Joel Embiid clang off one side of the rim, ping off the opposite side, teeter in the air for an hour as if making its decision, strike again, begin succumbing to physics like a guilty man accepting a verdict … this is a time-stopping feeling that the game of basketball is always promising us, and...
A time-stopping feeling that the game of basketball is always promising us, and almost never actually delivers
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