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That's semantics.
If you're shooting a shot in the last 24 seconds to take the lead, you're shooting for the game. The other team may come back and make a shot on top of yours, but that doesn't reduce the clutchness that was required to make your shot.
Just because everyone forgets about it doesn't mean it wasn't significant.
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I agree with the line of reasoning. Dirk made a clutch as hell shot against the Spurs in Game 5. But he wasn't rewarded because they called the phantom foul.
Dirk is a lot more clutch than people realize. The problem is everyone associates him with one moment. When you think of Jordan's clutchness, what springs to mind? It has to be the shot over Ehlo, or the shot over Russell or the j at NC. Bar none. But no one remembers the misses.
Dirk suffers from the opposite effect. Everyone points out the free throw yet no one remembers the clutch shot over Shaq in the Finals, the clutch shot over Quentin Richardson against Ph, the shot over Marion, the shot over Bowen, the shot over the entire Grizzlies, the shot over Bonner, the shot over Kaman, and this year the shot over Reggie Evans...
But why deem it gamewinners when it isn't? That defeats the purpose of the nname. If you aren't going to hold to a strict definition then the name should not so strict.