Video: Clutch threes, sweet dimes and dunks

Highlights from Wednesday night's NBA action ...My No. 1 play: Jameer Nelson's(notes) deliberate off-the-backboard alley-oop pass to Dwight Howard(notes). Why? Because that pass is the future. To quote my main man Shoals: "If you accept the alley-oop as more like the pick-and-roll than the windmill, all sorts of perceptual doors begin to loosen. Remember McGrady's off-the-backboard self-oop? Why not use the backboard as a second floor, thus adding another (fourth?) dimension to the game. It sounds fancy and frivolous, but again, we're talking set plays ..." Believe that.