In the game the last play was planned by Tomoya. In the anime he was about to give up and just fall to the floor when Nagisa cheers him and he shoots, which as good as it is is cliche. In the game he wasn’t about to give up and was never since he’s as good as the basketball team members and he PLANNED the last play. So it’s not cliche, but just the room focusing on him and he hearing his girlfriend “the little existence that supported him” cheer him on. He would have shot whether or not he heard that.
And if I remember right his shot was more or less a free shot too.

Now I’m not going to blow my head off about Okazaki not telling 1/2 the school who he’s going out with because that’s already a given from last week. That’s what’s really worth blowing my head off (another one of the best scenes), but you know…

So I’ll go to my lesser complaint, which doesn’t really matter. Actually it does. 1) Their skills are tied with the regulars, and the regulars couldn’t catch up until Sunohara got really tired. Tomoya and Kyou didn’t let so many balls in. Which leads to 2) Tomoya didn’t think that string of miserable, pathetic thoughts because that wasn’t the case anyway.

And thanks again to kyoani for craming everyone into one episode so Tomoyo and Kyou got almost nothing from their own routes.

And personally I liked to use Tomoyo for 3 on 3 better. In the game she’s not unhumanly strong like in the anime, she’s just strong. And from Tomoyo After I bet she’s stronger than Kyou too.