What the Mike D’Antoni-led Houston Rockets have done by launching nearly 50 3-pointers per game has flipped the mathematics into their favor with such volatility that they can make or break a game in just a handful of possessions.
Houston shooting the way they did in Games 1 and 4 isn’t surprising anyone. Unless you’re a basketball fan from the 1990s who has been in a coma for the last 25 years, then welcome to the new NBA, where dominant big men are nearly extinct and chicks dig the long ball.
Four games is a small sample size during the regular season, but a few patterns have appeared in this series that should give the San Antonio Spurs a few benchmarks to focus on if they want a Western Conference Finals date with the Golden State Warriors.