This buzzer beater is spectacular, but at a glance it’s not much different from the hundreds of unlikely game winners you’ve seen on replay a thousand times. Everything that happens AFTER the shot goes in makes this perhaps one of the more bizarre scenes you’ll see on a basketball court.
Basketball player hits nearly identical game-winning buzzer beaters 6 years apart
Cedric Jackson has figured out game-winning shots from half court down to a science.
- What the heck is going on with the game clock? One second is way too little time to dribble three times before heaving a half-court shot, as Cedric Jackson does. Recaps suggest that 2.6 seconds remained in actuality -- the in-arena clock wasn’t synced to the broadcast clock, making for a disorienting experience for TV viewers.
- Both teams kind of just hang out together on the court to watch the jumbotron as refs try to figure out whether the ball left Jackson’s hand before the buzzer. This leads to an anticlimactic “uhh, I guess you guys won” ending when camera angles can’t conclusively prove whether Jackson got the shot off on time.
- This leads to booing from the home Perth crowd, which was probably upset in equal parts by the loss and the odd ending.
All of this obscures the fact that this is the SECOND time Jackson has hit nearly the exact same shot. When he played for Cleveland State, he launched a shot from slightly farther away to upset No. 11 Syracuse in 2008. He hit from the same side of the court, and found the same sweet spot of the backboard. The celebration after the Syracuse game was way better, however:
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