He calculated in his mind that he felt better about a clean 37-footer than he did going 1 on 1 against George to the hoop in crunchtime. He knows that the refs swallow their whistles and allow a lot of contact in those situations and he simply wanted a clean shot. He was red hot all night and anyone who plays a lot of ball knows what that feels like. It fees like everything you shoot is going to go in, like the hoop is an extra few inches in diameter. All he wanted was a clean shot and he got it.

While his lifetime % from that spot is going to be lower, on a night where he was red hot, he was probably close to 50% from that spot. At least that's how he saw it.

“It’s a bad shot, but I was 8-of-12 from 30-plus feet in the series and I work on it regularly. ... It wasn’t a bad shot tonight,” he told Yahoo Sports.