Nice Shot, There, Wes Johnson … But It Ain’t Horry Scale Worthy

February 28, 2013  ·  8:03AM

By Jeff Case

The Horry Scale rules clearly dictate the following:

The Horry scale examines a game-winning buzzer-beater (GWBB) in the categories of difficulty, game situation (was the team tied or behind at the time?), importance (playoff game or garden-variety Kings-Pistons game?) and celebration (is it over the top or too chill? Just the right panache or needs more sauce?). Then we give it an overall grade on a scale of 1-5 Robert Horrys, the patron saint of last-second daggers.

That means Wes Johnson‘s game-tying, at-the-horn, send-it-to-OT, miraculous 3-pointer (especially given his career 33.8 percentage from 3-point range) in San Antonio last night is nothing more than a great shot:

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3 Comments

  1. Anonymous says:
    February 28, 2013 at 9:16 pm

    nice shot

    Reply
  2. Puh-lease says:
    March 2, 2013 at 7:31 pm

    if that was lebron it would rate 4 Horrys

    Reply
  3. Slippers says:
    March 19, 2013 at 12:28 pm

    Why even degrade the guy by saying its nice but not Horry scale nice? Give the kid his due respect.

    Reply

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