The lob, the screen, the dunk, the win

Forget everything that happened in this basketball game because the final 0.9 seconds of this game was all that mattered! With the Suns down one, Jae Crowder threw a beautiful lob right at the rim, Devin Booker set an excellent back-screen on Ivica Zubac and DeAndre Ayton jumped way above the rim and slammed the ball in to win the game for the Suns! 

This play could not have been executed any better than it was and it almost felt like the scene from Semi-Pro with Will Ferrell when Jackie Moon throws an alley-oop for the first-time to Coffee Black and nobody knows how to react. Crowder lobbed the ball to Ayton and he finished and nobody knew how to react not just because nobody knew what happened, but because nobody knew if the basket counted! 

Since the ball was being inbounded and was considered “dead,” by NBA rule, the offensive player (DeAndre Ayton) can touch the ball in the cylinder during a throw-in. On this play, Ayton controlled the ball, completed the basket and therefore, there was no goaltending on the play. 

“The lob, the screen, the dunk” is going to live on in Suns lore for a while because this may be something Phoenix looks back on as a turning point in this series against the Clippers. Even though they are up 2-0 now and have all the momentum, winning Game 2 was a big deal for the Suns and could be one of their championship defining moments. 

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The fight this team has and the will to never give up is quite remarkable, which is why the Suns are on a collision course with the NBA Finals at this point. They are just two games away from heading to the NBA Finals for the first-time since 1993 and this play that won them Game 2 is a big reason why.