Interesting Stat from Houston's Big 3-Point Night vs. Golden State

[AlanTech]

The February 5 game between Golden State and Houston will be long remembered for the fact that the Rockets hit 23 three-pointers (57.5% on 40 attempts). There's an additional interesting aspect, however, that may have gone relatively unnoticed. Among Rocket players who took at least one shot from behind the arc, everybody shot .500 or better on threes:

• James Harden, 4-of-5
• Jeremy Lin, 5-of-8
• Chandler Parsons, 4-of-8
• Marcus Morris, 3-of-6
• Toney Douglas, 2-of-4
• James Anderson, 2-of-4
• Patrick Patterson, 1-of-2
• Patrick Beverley, 1-of-2
• Donatas Motiejunas, 1-of-1

The only other instance I've found so far of all of a team's players hitting .500+ on threes (on a large number of team attempts) was when Toronto hit 21 from downtown (61.8%, on 34 attempts) vs. Philly on March 13, 2005:

• Donyell Marshall, 12-of-19
• Morris Peterson, 4-of-6
• Rafer Alston, 2-of-3
• Jalen Rose, 2-of-4
• Matt Bonner, 1-of-2

http://espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=250313028

 

If anyone knows of additional instances of all players on a team hitting at .500+ on threes in the same game, please provide the box score in the thread below.

 

The NBA's online record book lists Indiana as going 7-of-7 vs. Atlanta on January 20, 1995, for most three-point field goals without a miss in a game. Reggie Miller went 4-of-4, Haywoode Workman, 1-of-1, and Byron Scott, 2-of-2. What the 2013 Rockets and 2005 Raptors did on a lot more attempts is arguably more impressive than the Pacers' 7-of-7.

 

http://www.nba.com/history/records/regular_3ptfg.html

 

http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/199501200IND.html

 

For those of you who find this topic of interest, I maintain a blog (and have a book) on streaky performances in sports:

 

http://thehothand.blogspot.com/

 

[Real Deal]

Put this on God's name, I randomly went to Basketball Reference to look up free throw attempts without a miss (by a team in a single game)...and after that, I figured I'd find the most threes attempted at 100% for a team in a single game...just a few hours ago, without looking at this topic. Landed those Pacers, and saw the boxscore.

 

That's really creepy, lol.

[Sħãlïq™]

Real Deal, on 11 Feb 2013 - 04:23, said:

 

Put this on God's name, I randomly went to Basketball Reference to look up free throw attempts without a miss (by a team in a single game)...and after that, I figured I'd find the most threes attempted at 100% for a team in a single game...just a few hours ago, without looking at this topic. Landed those Pacers, and saw the boxscore.

That's really creepy, lol.

Be a good buddy and provide us with a link to that boxscore.  

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