By some people’s depraved definition of the term, Cam Reddish hit the “game-winner” in this game. That shot, which was the final field goal of the game (thus, in some minds, “game-winning”), occurred with thirty seconds to go, but try telling that to these peverted sickos. They’ll have you believe that Reddish hit a forty-point heave with no time left on the clock and five Heat players draped all over him obscuring his view of the basket completely. That’s a total strawman that I’m constructing right now, but the best thing about strawmen is that you can destroy their arguments without having to argue with real people.
Nevertheless, Reddish’s late-game steal and slam, while not a “game-winner” by any sane definition, was an extremely clutch display of one-on-one defense and open-court speed. I would call it, for brevity, a “clutch late-game field goal”. If you were to make an end-of-season compilation featuring, say, Reddish’s top ten plays of his rookie season, this would definitely be at the end of the video as the #1 play. It could honestly only be surpassed by a REAL game-winner (not a FAKE game-winner) or, like, the final three-pointer of a game where he scores fifty.
Since I am not in the business of making “top ten plays of the season”-type videos, somebody else will have to step up and make one for Reddish after the Hawks’ season ends in roughly two months. Meanwhile, I will be over here making a Cam Reddish full season bucketilation (featuring every field goal he made) and raking in the piles of Patreonbux that will surely result from such a video.