HOUSTON - Newly hired Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey arrived with his Massachusetts Institute of Technology education about the time Tom Thibodeau and his boss Jeff Van Gundy were told to leave a decade ago.
In the years that passed, neither Thibodeau nor new Houston coach Mike D’Antoni could have imagined how simple mathematics and the revelation that three is more than two would change the Rockets or the NBA.
The Rockets’ 142-130 victory over the Timberwolves Saturday night, though, told the story as well as anything.
In a league now where a high-percentage layup is good and a three-pointer is much better, the Rockets attempted 58 three-pointers Saturday, three away from their franchise record of 61.