Landry Shamet, the rookie sharpshooter who buried an eventual game-winning three against the Golden State Warriors to give the L.A. Clippers the biggest comeback in playoff history, has had just more than a day to let his emotions simmer after hitting the biggest shot of his basketball life.
“It’s been good,” Shamet said of the Game 2 aftermath, per ClutchPoints' Tomer Azarly. “At the end of the day we’re 1-1. By no means are we satisfied or feel like we’ve accomplished anything.
“I’m trying to move past all that because we know we probably just pissed off a sleeping bear. They're gonna be ready to go tomorrow, so we can't afford and big-win hangover while we're still riding the wave from that game. Just try to move past it, it's been fun, you enjoy it, you appreciate it, but today we're back in here ready to work and ready for tomorrow.”
Shamet's contributions are not to be undermined, as his role as a spot-up, knock-down shooter was instrumental to the Clippers' historic 31-point comeback on Monday night. The Wichita State product took all of his nine shot attempts from deep, canning four of them — none bigger than a right-wing dagger that stabbed the chances of a Warriors win after Stephen Curry's cold-blooded three inside a minute to play.
☔️ SHAMET ☔️
Check out every angle of Landry Shamet's clutch three, as this dagger from behind the arc put the Clippers in control late in the fourth 👏 pic.twitter.com/YlhOBKuHWC
— NBA UK (@NBAUK) April 16, 2019
Shamet, a late first-round pick last June who was acquired from the Philadelphia 76ers in the Tobias Harris trade, proved his mettle by leading all players with a plus-15 outing in Game 2, asserting himself as a deep threat poised to give the Warriors some headaches throughout the course of this first-round series.
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