This past summer, in anticipation of Mike D’Antoni taking the reins of the Houston Rockets, I read the Jack McCallum book Seven Seconds or Less. It chronicles the run-and-gun Phoenix Suns’ 2005-2006 trip to the Western Conference Finals from day numero uno.
The book’s name is understandably derived from the high octane D’Antoni-Steve Nash offense. The well-known premise of the “score all the points” Suns was to jack up a shot in the first seven seconds of the shot clock to increase the number of possessions in a game and the pace of play.