tyler herro's high arcing floater

and other absurd raindrops

there are few shots in basketball more disrespectful than the high-arcing floater over the outstretched arm of a shot blocker that drops softly in the basket. in game 4 of the 2020 nba finals, tyler herro gave us this gem:

that thing was even with the top of the shot clock! and it got me thinking - what other obnoxiously high-arcing floaters have i seen in my years watching the nba?

a few off the top of my head...

d'angelo russell doesn't just complete aesthetic passes. he also drains aesthetic shots, like this raindrop over brook lopez:

brook is a multiple-time victim to the high floater. cory joseph pushed this one over him while off-balance and falling down:

dejounte murray threw one up from the baseline over karl-anthony towns:

perhaps my favorite is this underhanded scoop from isaiah thomas over jonas valančiūnas. what an insanely difficult shot:

finally, this one didn't count (foul called before the shot) but i had to include it. kyle lowry's sky floater against the milwaukee bucks:

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