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SALT LAKE CITY — Randy Foye has had a good season so far. He has the single season 3-point record for the Jazz and has helped the team set a record as a whole, but what he did against the Nets was something different altogether.
Randy Foye set a career high for 3-pointers in a game with eight, set a franchise record for 3's in a quarter and tied the franchise record for 3's in a half and the game, the game mark was set by Jeff Hornacek. They were timely to help the Jazz extend their lead and eventually their winning streak to four games as they beat the Nets 116-107.
"I've got to give my teammates a lot of credit they found me when I was open," Randy Foye.
The Jazz shared the ball very well in the game. Paul Millsap quietly had nine assists while the team amassed 27. The ball was moving fast and when it landed on an open Foye it was going in. The team shot 10-17 from beyond the arc, but when Foye goes 8-9 the rest of the team didn't shoot so well.
They didn't really need to.
Honestly, it felt like a video game. Playing a video game see him shoot those shots and make them. One of those shots he took from like six feet behind the 3-point line.
–Al Jefferson
"Honestly, it felt like a video game," said Al Jefferson, who finished with 20 points and 7 rebounds. "Playing a video game see him shoot those shots and make them. One of those shots he took from like six feet behind the 3-point line."
There was a lot of highlights in this game. Gordon Hayward swatting Deron Williams on a fast break got the crowd up and cheering. Marvin Williams hitting back-to-back shots against the shot clock kept the Jazz's lead growing, but as Foye started to heat up the game changed.
"Man, I can't even explain it you the feeling," Foye said. "It's a feeling where it's just like your body is numb. You are just out there in your own little world running. Once you touch the ball and get an open look it seems like throwing a rock in an ocean."
Foye finished with 26, two shy of his season-high set against the Clippers in January, once he hit his fourth 3-pointer in the third, which was about four feet behind the arc, the Nets coach P.J. Carlesimo decided to start guarding him a little closer.
"I heard P.J. yelling 'Don't leave him,'" Foye said. "They were up on me like three or four feet behind the line."
MarShon Brooks would actually start to check him once the Jazz would get the ball even into the back court. Once Foye would cross half court he was guarded no matter where he was going to be.
"When he started feeling it he probably could have shot from half court and it would have gone in," Hayward said. "It's always fun to see a guy do that."
Once Foye got hot it seemed like the floor was wide open for the Jazz to do whatever they wanted in the second half. They scored 64 points in the final two quarters. Williams went 7-9 for 14 points while hitting tough shots, and admittedly missing open ones. Five players scored in double figures with Jefferson and Mo Williams hitting 20.
Man, I can't even explain it you the feeling. It's a feeling where it's just like your body is numb. You are just out there in your own little world running. Once you touch the ball and get an open look it seems like throwing a rock in an ocean.
–Randy Foye
Foye hit four 3's in four minutes in the third quarter. The first got the Jazz to within three. The next, after some other buckets, put the Jazz up three, then the next two put the Jazz up nine and in control of the game. He then his last of the quarter a few minutes to put the Jazz up nine again.
He hit two more big 3's in the fourth including a 28-foot bomb. His teammates enjoyed the scene and kept spirits high during his hot stretch.
"Everybody was just coming up to me waving me down like I'm hot," Foye said.
In the locker room the press was crowding around him and he said that he wanted to sit and backed up a little before the interview. He didn't mean to offend anyone, he just said that he wanted some room.
Because he was hot.
