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Rival watch: What U.S. media said about Anunoby’s buzzer-beater for Raptors – Sportsnet.ca
OG Anunoby’s Game 3 buzzer-beater had the basketball world buzzing.
The small forward drained a last-second three-pointer after catching an improbable Kyle Lowry inbound pass as the Toronto Raptors avoided going down 0-3 on Thursday in their Eastern Conference semifinal matchup with the Boston Celtics.
Not only was the dramatic finish celebrated all throughout Canada, it garnered plenty of attention south of the border. So, with that in mind, here’s a sample of the reaction from some U.S. media outlets.
Stephen A. Smith: Brad Stevens ‘dropped the ball’ – First Take
Jaylen Brown of the Celtics described Anunoby being open on the game-winning shot as “a (expletive) disgrace” and tried to take responsibility for the miscue. ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith said that while Brown does deserve his share of the blame, Boston’s coach should also be held accountable.
“What the hell was Brad Stevens doing?” Smith asked on Friday. “We all love and respect Brad Stevens. He’s an exceptional coach but he dropped the ball on this one. … I don’t know why on earth he had them playing zone. It makes no sense to me. You man up, you marry your man, you’re in his face for those last 0.5 seconds. You gotta be all up in their mug and the last thing in the world you need to do is give up a three-pointer.”
Boston Celtics gave Toronto Raptors the one thing they lacked this series: hope – MassLive
No team in NBA history has won a seven-game playoff series after being down 0-3 – in fact, only three have even managed to force a Game 7 – so Anunoby’s clutch three breathed new life into the defending champions as MassLive’s John Karalis described.
“The Boston Celtics didn’t just lose a playoff game when OG Anunoby’s shot flicked through the net, they energized the Raptors,” Karalis wrote. “They didn’t just miss a chance to go up 3-0, they allowed the Raptors to believe in themselves again.
“Toronto has been away from home longer than any other team. Because of travel restrictions imposed in the COVID-19 pandemic, they holed up in Florida weeks before anyone else. Their bubble fatigue was further along than others. The weight of their situation was weighing heavier than it was on other teams. After two losses, their will to fight was challenged like never before.”
Raptors’ OG Anunoby doesn’t only beat the buzzer against Boston – CBS Sports
James Herbert of CBS Sports pointed out that, according to Synergy Sports, Anunoby led the NBA in effective field goal percentage in similar, late-quarter situations among players with more than 80 attempts.
“Anunoby has been proficient specifically when it comes to making three-pointers with little time to spare,” Herbert wrote. “He shot a career-high 39 per cent from deep in the regular season, but that number jumped to 46.7 per cent with less than four seconds on the clock, per Synergy.”
Hubie Brown-inspired play lifts Raptors past Celtics in final second – ESPN
Andrew Lopez delved into the specific play Nick Nurse drew up and its inspiration.
“If not for an old Hubie Brown DVD, the Toronto Raptors could be looking at a 3-0 hole in their Eastern Conference semifinal series against the Boston Celtics,” Lopez wrote. “As he was walking toward the bus following Thursday night’s come-from-behind 104-103 victory over the Celtics, Raptors coach Nick Nurse glowingly talked about the origins of the final play that ended with OG Anunoby’s game-winning 3-pointer.
He told The Undefeated’s Marc Spears about a set of DVDs from 2008 that featured various basketball coaches talking about different plays. The one he remembered the most featured Hubie Brown. So when his team had 0.5 seconds left to steal a victory, he went to Brown’s play.”
Celtics express right mindset after Game 3 heartbreaker vs. Raptors – NESN
Sean T. McGuire of NESN listened to what the Celtics players and coaches were saying after the game and alerted a worried fan base that it’s not all doom and gloom in Boston.
“There clearly was frustration and disappointment between Boston Celtics players after their 104-103 Game 3 loss to the Toronto Raptors. With how the game ended — a buzzer-beater from Toronto’s OG Anunoby — that’s no surprise. But there was another common theme, as well,” McGuire wrote. “Jaylen Brown, Jayson Tatum and even head coach Brad Stevens all explained the importance of turning the page and the importance of moving on.
“After all, in the big picture, the Celtics lost one game in a seven-game series. They still have a 2-1 advantage in the Eastern Conference semifinals.”
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Kendrick Perkins praises Lowry, Anunoby – First Take
While Stephen A. Smith spoke about Boston’s missteps, his co-host Kendrick Perkins decided to focus on praising the two Raptors that touched the ball on the final possession.
“The pass that Kyle Lowry made was one of the best passes I ever seen that was inbounded. … In 0.5 seconds OG didn’t have to dip for the ball. He didn’t have to reach high. It was on time, on target and I knew that shot was going in.”
Game 4 takes place Saturday evening on Sportsnet.
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Sometimes, you just have to return to the classics.
That’s especially true as Halloween approaches. While you queue up your spooky movie marathon, here are 10 iconic horror movies from the past 70 years for inspiration, and what AP writers had to say about them when they were first released.
We resurrected excerpts from these reviews, edited for clarity, from the dead — did they stand the test of time?
“Rear Window” (1954)
“Rear Window” is a wonderful trick pulled off by Alfred Hitchcock. He breaks his hero’s leg, sets him up at an apartment window where he can observe, among other things, a murder across the court. The panorama of other people’s lives is laid out before you, as seen through the eyes of a Peeping Tom.
James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter and others make it good fun.
— Bob Thomas
“Halloween” (1978)
At 19, Jamie Lee Curtis is starring in a creepy little thriller film called “Halloween.”
Until now, Jamie’s main achievement has been as a regular on the “Operation Petticoat” TV series. Jamie is much prouder of “Halloween,” though it is obviously an exploitation picture aimed at the thrill market.
The idea for “Halloween” sprang from independent producer-distributor Irwin Yablans, who wanted a terror-tale involving a babysitter. John Carpenter and Debra Hill fashioned a script about a madman who kills his sister, escapes from an asylum and returns to his hometown intending to murder his sister’s friends.
— Bob Thomas
“The Silence of the Lambs” (1991)
“The Silence of the Lambs” moves from one nail-biting sequence to another. Jonathan Demme spares the audience nothing, including closeups of skinned corpses. The squeamish had best stay home and watch “The Cosby Show.”
Ted Tally adapted the Thomas Harris novel with great skill, and Demme twists the suspense almost to the breaking point. The climactic confrontation between Clarice Starling and Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine) is carried a tad too far, though it is undeniably exciting with well-edited sequences.
Such a tale as “The Silence of the Lambs” requires accomplished actors to pull it off. Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins are highly qualified. She provides steely intelligence, with enough vulnerability to sustain the suspense. He delivers a classic portrayal of pure, brilliant evil.
— Bob Thomas
“Scream” (1996)
In this smart, witty homage to the genre, students at a suburban California high school are being killed in the same gruesome fashion as the victims in the slasher films they know by heart.
If it sounds like the script of every other horror movie to come and go at the local movie theater, it’s not.
By turns terrifying and funny, “Scream” — written by newcomer David Williamson — is as taut as a thriller, intelligent without being self-congratulatory, and generous in its references to Wes Craven’s competitors in gore.
— Ned Kilkelly
“The Blair Witch Project” (1999)
Imaginative, intense and stunning are a few words that come to mind with “The Blair Witch Project.”
“Blair Witch” is the supposed footage found after three student filmmakers disappear in the woods of western Maryland while shooting a documentary about a legendary witch.
The filmmakers want us to believe the footage is real, the story is real, that three young people died and we are witnessing the final days of their lives. It isn’t. It’s all fiction.
But Eduardo Sanchez and Dan Myrick, who co-wrote and co-directed the film, take us to the edge of belief, squirming in our seats the whole way. It’s an ambitious and well-executed concept.
— Christy Lemire
“Saw” (2004)
The fright flick “Saw” is consistent, if nothing else.
This serial-killer tale is inanely plotted, badly written, poorly acted, coarsely directed, hideously photographed and clumsily edited, all these ingredients leading to a yawner of a surprise ending. To top it off, the music’s bad, too.
You could forgive all (well, not all, or even, fractionally, much) of the movie’s flaws if there were any chills or scares to this sordid little horror affair.
But “Saw” director James Wan and screenwriter Leigh Whannell, who developed the story together, have come up with nothing more than an exercise in unpleasantry and ugliness.
— David Germain
Germain gave “Saw” one star out of four.
“Paranormal Activity” (2009)
The no-budget ghost story “Paranormal Activity” arrives 10 years after “The Blair Witch Project,” and the two horror movies share more than a clever construct and shaky, handheld camerawork.
The entire film takes place at the couple’s cookie-cutter dwelling, its layout and furnishings indistinguishable from just about any other readymade home constructed in the past 20 years. Its ordinariness makes the eerie, nocturnal activities all the more terrifying, as does the anonymity of the actors adequately playing the leads.
The thinness of the premise is laid bare toward the end, but not enough to erase the horror of those silent, nighttime images seen through Micah’s bedroom camera. “Paranormal Activity” owns a raw, primal potency, proving again that, to the mind, suggestion has as much power as a sledgehammer to the skull.
— Glenn Whipp
Whipp gave “Paranormal Activity” three stars out of four.
“The Conjuring” (2013)
As sympathetic, methodical ghostbusters Lorraine and Ed Warren, Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson make the old-fashioned haunted-house horror film “The Conjuring” something more than your average fright fest.
“The Conjuring,” which boasts incredulously of being their most fearsome, previously unknown case, is built very in the ’70s-style mold of “Amityville” and, if one is kind, “The Exorcist.” The film opens with a majestic, foreboding title card that announces its aspirations to such a lineage.
But as effectively crafted as “The Conjuring” is, it’s lacking the raw, haunting power of the models it falls shy of. “The Exorcist” is a high standard, though; “The Conjuring” is an unusually sturdy piece of haunted-house genre filmmaking.
— Jake Coyle
Coyle gave “The Conjuring” two and half stars out of four.
“Get Out” (2017)
Fifty years after Sidney Poitier upended the latent racial prejudices of his white date’s liberal family in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” writer-director Jordan Peele has crafted a similar confrontation with altogether more combustible results in “Get Out.”
In Peele’s directorial debut, the former “Key and Peele” star has — as he often did on that satirical sketch series — turned inside out even supposedly progressive assumptions about race. But Peele has largely left comedy behind in a more chilling portrait of the racism that lurks beneath smiling white faces and defensive, paper-thin protestations like, “But I voted for Obama!” and “Isn’t Tiger Woods amazing?”
It’s long been a lamentable joke that in horror films — never the most inclusive of genres — the Black dude is always the first to go. In this way, “Get Out” is radical and refreshing in its perspective.
— Jake Coyle
Coyle gave “Get Out” three stars out of four.
“Hereditary” (2018)
In Ari Aster’s intensely nightmarish feature-film debut “Hereditary,” when Annie (Toni Collette), an artist and mother of two teenagers, sneaks out to a grief-support group following the death of her mother, she lies to her husband Steve (Gabriel Byrne) that she’s “going to the movies.”
A night out with “Hereditary” is many things, but you won’t confuse it for an evening of healing and therapy. It’s more like the opposite.
Aster’s film, relentlessly unsettling and pitilessly gripping, has carried with it an ominous air of danger and dread: a movie so horrifying and good that you have to see it, even if you shouldn’t want to, even if you might never sleep peacefully again.
The hype is mostly justified.
— Jake Coyle
Coyle gave “Hereditary” three stars out of four.
Read the full review here. ___
Researcher Rhonda Shafner contributed from New York.
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