Basketball is a simple game. Sometimes all a player needs to get going is to see the ball go through the net. Sometimes he needs to grab it with both hands and force it in. Al Horford did both.
Down a point in the final seconds, Horford bounded through the lane to collect a Dennis Schröder miss and put back the game-winner with a second left.
"I just got the ball, and my first instinct was to put it in the basket," Horford said.
Before Horford could score two of the most important points in the history of pro basketball in Atlanta, he had to first get his team and teammates back into a game from which they were quickly disappearing.