Kent Bazemore’s Game 3 alley-oop vs. Nets (Video)
By Will Osgood
Kent Bazemore of the Atlanta Hawks had a sweet alley-oop finish in Game of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals against the Brooklyn Nets.
The Atlanta Hawks have all season been a team taking a page out of the San Antonio Spurs‘ playbook. The reality is they actually stole the whole book, or borrowed it.
A night after Kawhi Leonard finished one of the more memorable alley-oops in recent playoff history, his Hawks’ doppleganger (not so much in terms of looks but his role on the team) Kent Bazemore reprised Leonard’s role against the Brooklyn Nets.
Though Leonard’s alley-oop finish was much more ferocious and awe-inspiring, Bazemore’s was similar in a few ways.
First, it was pretty basketball. Bazemore received the outlet pass around midcourt and never dribbled (a positive quality inherent in great basketball) but immediately found his teammate with a perfect pass upcourt, but kept going by running the floor.
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He was rewarded with the perfect alley-oop pass, which he finished, again, with perfection.
In the end, though, it was to no avail as the Hawks’ dropped the contest, their first loss of the first-round series against the eighth-seeded Nets, 91-83 at the Barclay’s Center.
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