Another jinx thread: Are the Rockets on pace to be the greatest 3-pt shooting team of all time?

Yes, even better than last years' (or this years') Warriors. It's true that both of those teams had at least one shooter better than anyone on the Rockets (although Gordon is arguably shooting better than anyone on the Warriors this year), but they don't have the breadth of shooters the Rockets have. Almost everyone on this team who doesn't play center can shoot within spitting distance of 40%, and often with high volume. It's made us nearly impossible to guard.

The clip the Rockets are shooting at given the amount of threes they're shooting is completely unprecedented, unless I'm forgetting somebody... Although you can certainly still make the case that the Warriors last year were better. It's possible that even if they forced up another 7-8 threes a game, they'd shoot at least as well as we are this year, but who knows.



NOTE: Thread title is a joke. I know the front page is gushing with Rockets praise right now, but the idea of jinxes are as stupid as the people who believe in them... not that I endorse talking mess too early, that's just bad karma .

 

Damnit, that typo in the thread title is going to bug the hell out of me... I hope a mod can fix that, cuz it doesn't look like I can.

 

I don't think it's that open-and-shut. I think there's a lot of different metrics you can take into account, possibly including the defense they're going against (and defenses are becoming more accustomed to the fact that they have to guard five feet outside the three point line these days). I mean the Warriors have even better shooters than they had last year. They replaced their weakest link with Kevin effing Durant, yet are shooting a worse percentage so far.

Besides which, often one reason a team [or player] takes more threes than another (and the Rockets are taking nearly 25% more 3s than last year's Warriors, which is not insignificant) is because they're less selective about their shots, which will lower their percentage, even if they are equally skilled at shooting... Not to imply that that's necessarily a bad thing, especially when the whole team can shoot damn near 40%.

D'oh. Good call. I wish it was in the "edit post" view. Ah well. I just wasted some moderator's time by reporting the thread to ask someone to edit the title, heh.

I think it would just be greedy to ask for this team to shoot 40% with the number of 3s they take, heh. 38% is still REALLY good. Any individual player that shoots that well would be known as a great 3-pt shooter, let alone an entire team taking 40 per game.