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Through his first five games as a member of the Miami Heat, Klay Thompson was going through it. The longtime sharpshooter just couldn’t find the range in his new home, missing more than two-thirds of his triple tries while struggling to keep up on defense for a Heat club that opened the season scuffling despite the offseason arrival of superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo.
On one hand, it seemed at least possible that Thompson — nearing his 37th birthday, coming off a pair of up-and-down campaigns in Dallas, years removed from his peak as a Splash Brother — just might no longer be the kind of flamethrowing gamebreaker we remember from his days with the dynastic Golden State Warriors. On the other, though … the guy who’s made the fourth most 3-pointers in NBA history was going to get hot and swing a game at some point, right?
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That point came at Intuit Dome, in Inglewood, Calif., with the visiting Heat trailing the Los Angeles Clippers by two points with 3.3 seconds remaining in overtime of a wild Wednesday night affair:
With the Heat inbounding from the frontcourt, Thompson begins the play by cutting from the free-throw line down toward the baseline, setting a pindown screen to allow Miami point guard Davion Mitchell to flash to the top of the key. That’s just window dressing, though: When the Clippers switch that screen, Thompson turns and curls off a screen by Bam Adebayo.
The Heat big man picks off both L.A. defenders in the area, Kobe Sanders and Brook Lopez, giving Klay a clean release to the short corner. From Anthony Chiang of the Miami Herald:
“Bam set one heck of a screen,” Spoelstra said.
“Screeners don’t usually get a lot of credit, but that’s probably my best screen,” Adebayo added with a smile.
From Ben Golliver at ESPN:
“I felt like I had so much space,” Thompson said. “I’m not going to say that’s an easy shot for me, but I’ve taken so many thousands of corner 3s, especially in that left corner. It’s probably the easiest shot on the perimeter for a righty like myself. I got my feet down and planted, and it felt really good coming off my fingertips.”
It looked even better splashing through…
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Author : Dan Devine
Publish date : 2026-11-05 14:33:00
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