Jason Kidd's Nets were hit hard in the first quarter.
At the end of the first quarter, the Nets allowed the Hawks to score 35 points, trailing by 10 points!
In the past few seasons, if something like this happened, there was only one possibility: a Roger explosion.
As a superstar, Roger once created a feat of scoring 27 points in a single quarter in the 1997 Eastern Conference Finals and hit eight three-pointers in a half.
If you didn't watch the first quarter and only knew the score and point difference, you would surely think Roger delivered another explosive scoring performance.
But actually, Roger only scored 6 points in the first quarter.
However, he dished out 6 assists!
This is quite a frightening statistic. A player scoring 20 points in a single quarter does not necessarily mean his team's offense is smooth. It might even indicate that the team is so helpless it has no choice but to rely on one man's solo play.
