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Thoughts and prayers go out to Houston Rockets fans, who saw their team’s sizable Game 7 lead disintegrate into a flurry of historic shooting ineptitude. The Rockets set a record for missing 27 straight 3-pointers from the second to the fourth quarter in their loss to the Golden State Warriors in Game 7 of the Western Conference finals. That’s the most consecutive misses from deep in a playoff game in NBA history. There hasn’t been a cold streak that extensive since my winter of 2006 when word got around that I shit my pants.
For a team who won a league-best 65 games this season by implementing a ‘live by the three, die by the three’ mentality, it was difficult to watch them self-destruct during the biggest game of their collective lives.
Pretty hard to fathom this shot chart was generated by a team who set a record for most three pointers made in a season.
Houston's 3Q shot chart is so sad pic.twitter.com/sZpX2YAx9I
— Michael Pina (@MichaelVPina) May 29, 2018
The likelihood of the Rockets, a 36.2% three-point shooting team, missing 26 threes in a row is .00084% or a 1 in 118757 chance.
— Eric Sidewater (@EricSidewater) May 29, 2018
The Rockets ended the game shooting a dismal 7-44 from three point range.
Check out all 27 misses in the infuriating clip below. WHY DO I FEEL LIKE ONE OF THESE WILL EVENTUALLY GO IN!?
Here are a few rich Twitter memes referencing the Rockets’ historically bad night from deep.
"Live by the 3, die by the 3."
Rockets: pic.twitter.com/7ESggtNxjY
— Eric Fawcett (@EricFawcett_) May 29, 2018
Any Rockets player…FOR 3! pic.twitter.com/cy8xhCYajU
— The Shadow League (@ShadowLeague) May 29, 2018
David Aldridge interviewing the Rockets' 3-point shooters#RingerNBA pic.twitter.com/0emD8v7Skq
— The Ringer (@ringer) May 29, 2018
Rockets in the first half vs. Rockets in the second half. #GSWvHOU pic.twitter.com/3brOhZguDR
— SportsPaper (@SportsPaperInfo) May 29, 2018
https://twitter.com/_BrooklynBear/status/1001302593459703808