Klay’s courtside reaction to Caitlin’s 1st of B2B 3s in the clutch after going 0/7 all game to beat the Sparks last night is pure game recognizes game hype. 🔥 She pulled up ice cold not once, but twice, from 30+ w/the most ‘shooters shoot, dawg’ energy & Klay saw a kindred spirit. 🫱🏼🫲🏻😂
by taygads
@Golden State Warriors
3 Comments
🥺
We get it bro, you like wnba.. you should consider posting to there sub too i think they’d be more interested, not hating though
Follow up to add that she gives off having the exact same gene that Andre described Steph and Klay having in the excerpt below from his memoir. That the example he uses for Klay when describing it was also 0/7 is hysterically perfect.
>[Klay] is like Steph in the sense that he has the gene, the ability to become so caught up in a game that he’s entirely unable to remember what happened twenty seconds ago. In a shooter this can be a tremendously helpful quality. Klay can go 0 for 7 from distance in the first two quarters of a game and literally have no idea that he’s 0 for 7. His brain just doesn’t track it. Steph is the same way. For these guys, there are no missed shots-all these guys see is the next one. That is a very unusual skill. Most players, myself included, simply aren’t like that. If I miss three three-point shots in a row, I’m probably not shooting from distance for the rest of the game-that’s just the way I am. I’m not trying to end a game 0 percent from three. But Klay is different. He simply does not care. He’ll just keep shooting until it turns around. And it always turns around. That’s how they can go from shooting 0 percent to ending the game hitting ten or twelve straight. It’s just something, some incredibly focused, almost mercenary quality inside them.
>
> A lot of times people will say that a player is
> “unconscious” when he or she is going off in a game. And from what I’ve seen with Klay, that’s an accurate description. He gets a laser focus, and it seems like everything else disappears. Being the kind of player I am, that sometimes surprises me. My whole thing is to see the game, know the situation. As soon as I touch the ball, I’m immediately trained to look around me, know where everyone is, who’s cutting where, how much time is on the clock, how many fouls each player has, how many we have collectively. That’s probably why I would know that I was 0 for 3. But Klay, when he gets that laser focus, sees nothing but the hole. Sometimes he’ll just launch a shot from ten feet beyond the arc early in a possession when we’re down by like 2 points, and I’m yelling as soon as he gets the ball, “Klay! You’re at half court, man!” It’s like it truly never occurred to him. He just sees a shot he can make.