The Rockets commentators could not stop bringing up the fact that P.J. “Peej” Tucker was, prior to this game, in a three-point shooting slump so deep it made the Mariana Trench look like a bike track through packed dirt, so I enlisted the help of the invaluable basketball-reference website to help me fact-check these claims. Just call me “DTB The Official NBA Fact-Checker (Who Will Fact-Check Anything as Long as He Didn’t Write it Himself)”.
Indeed, Peej was faring poorly from three in the last few weeks. In his last eight games combined, he was 9-of-36 from the threezone for a nice even 25% figure (still way better than Giannis LOL[lots of laughs]). This hot shooting night should get him right back on track.
While I was fact-checking things, I thought I would fact-check the dubious claim that Peej’s previous career-high for three-pointers made in a game was five. Five? Just five? A guy who’s been reliant on three-pointers to provide the bulk of his scoring for the past decade should have made more than five three-pointers in a single game. But the stats of basketball-reference do not lie: on March 30th, 2018, Peej hit five threes on his way to eighteen points and a one-point Rockets win over the Suns (LMAO). So seven three-pointers not only sets a new career-high, it demolishes it.
I’m on such a roll with my fact-checking that I had to fact-check one more thing: that Tucker’s first name is actually a real name and not just an initialism. Again, I am vindicated: Tucker’s real name is Anthony Leon Tucker. I totally see how he derived P.J. from that.