Talk about a triple threat. The Rockets matched an Association mark and set a team one by making a net-if-not-mind-melting 23 three-pointers, which accounted for exactly half of their made field goals, in a blowout win over the Warriors last night. Houston connected on a Hades-hot 57.5% of its attempts from beyond the arc, better than its overall platter-of-fajitas-sizzling shooting for the game (50.5%), as every single player successfully sank at least half of the threes they tried. Jeremy Lin led the long distance liftoff with 5, while the fuzzy-faced James Harden hit 4 and the Chandler Parsons Project contributed 4. Even a guy from Lithuania, Donatas Motiejunas, who had 15 career starts, was part of the mania, adding one.
The surge was all the more surprising since they were - dare we say en fuego*? - minus Carlos Delfino, the Argentine assassin (which is nickname we made up for him just now) and the team's top swisher of said shot. Thanks to a touch better than that bizarre boy on Kiefer Sutherland's show, the Rockets turned Tuesday into Threesday.
*Two romance languages in one post? Mamma mia!
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