It was the sweet ball-handling that made that play. The presence of mind and skill to go full-throttle past his defender without losing his handle for even a split second. You almost knew he was going to make the shot right when he pulled that off. Confidence.
To each his own I guess. Frankly, I find smart women much more appealing than a ROW of 10s, aesthetically speaking of course.
My guess is that the play made number #1 in part because it was by a rookie 2nd round pick, someone not known by a lot of people that follow the NBA, who displayed a very high skill level that led to making a shot at the buzzer. Thanks, SwoLy. I would have missed it, otherwise.
And yet, dude isn't getting enough minutes. He has a beautiful shot. Wish we would run more plays for him to get off picks and take that open shot / drive to the hoop. Those work so well.
I went bananas with that behind the back dribble after the steal to blow by whoever that was. The 3 was icing on the cake. Brilliant play. I rewound it on the DVR to show my wife last night and her response was "Oh....wasn't he the guy who got his face stomped in by UofH?". .....sigh
My bad; I loved the play. I just didn't find it to be the more exciting play. As a rockets fan or someone who was in attendance it would have made me go crazy. Purely watching it as a basketball play I still like it for all of the details you mentioned, the dunk was just more exciting. Maybe if I didn't know chase's play was in a bad loss it would have impressed me more.
You love the visually appealing play (boobs) but we love the real deal and trust me, it ain't boobs. Gotta go further south for that.
That play epitomized of how we saw Larry bird when we were young. We'd always said that Larry on a fast break would pull up for a 3 rather than go in for an easy 2. Granted that's all Bud could do but I just had flashbacks to my childhood when I saw that play. I was thinking "Man that's what Larry would do!!!"
