NBB teams score 21% to 44% of points from threes

Cruzeiro has scored 380 points in its first five NBB games and only 81 of them have come from three-pointers. Mogi has scored 404 in five and 177 have come from threes. That is 21.3% against 43.8%, a gap of more than 22 points of share, and the two clubs have nearly the same record: Mogi is 4-1, Cruzeiro 3-2.

The question this raises is what a club's scoring mix says about how it plays and how it does. The short answer after 42 games is that it says a lot about style and almost nothing yet about results.

The figures come from the league's published 2026-27 statistics and standings through games of November 4, 2026. Every player's points per game are split into three-pointers, two-pointers and free throws. Multiplying by games played and adding up the players on a club reproduces that club's listed points exactly. The total matches for all 18 clubs, so the split below is a complete accounting of the points scored, not an estimate. The sample is small: each club has played between three and six games.

The league's mix

NBB clubs have scored 6,517 points in these games. The split:

Source	Points	Share
Three-pointers	2,301	35.3%
Two-pointers	3,156	48.4%
Free throws	1,060	16.3%

The median club gets about 36% of its points from threes and 16% from the line.

Three-point share, the widest spread

The range is from 21.3% to 43.8%. The table shows the three clubs with the highest share, the three with the lowest, and UNIFACISA for comparison.

Club	Record	Three-point share	Two-point share	Free-throw share	Points scored
Mogi	4-1	43.8%	43.1%	13.1%	404
Paulistano	3-2	43.7%	39.0%	17.3%	364
Pato	1-3	43.6%	45.3%	11.2%	296
UNIFACISA	4-1	28.9%	54.9%	16.1%	415
Botafogo	2-3	25.5%	60.5%	14.0%	400
Bauru	2-3	24.8%	59.2%	16.0%	375
Cruzeiro	3-2	21.3%	60.5%	18.2%	380

Mogi, Paulistano and Pato score almost identically by source, within two tenths of a point on threes. Their records are 4-1, 3-2 and 1-3. At the other end, Botafogo, Bauru and Cruzeiro get about 60% of their points from two-pointers and have records of 2-3, 2-3 and 3-2.

Four clubs are 4-1: Mogi, UNIFACISA, Flamengo and Pinheiros. Their three-point shares run from 28.9% (UNIFACISA) to 43.8% (Mogi), with Flamengo at 36.3% and Pinheiros at 39.5%. The only unbeaten club, Minas Storm at 5-0, is at 34.9%.

The free-throw line

The free-throw share is narrower, from 11.2% to 25.9%, and one club is far from the rest.

Basquete Cearense has scored 68 of its 263 points from the line. That is 25.9%, and the next club is São José at 20.9%. Cearense is 0-4 and has been outscored by 113 points over the four games, the worst difference in the league. Its 65.8 points a game are the fewest in the league. Pato sits at the other end, with 33 of 296 points, 11.2%.

What the numbers show, and what we read into them

The numbers show a wide spread in how clubs score and no pattern yet in who wins. Four clubs with the same 4-1 record cover a 15-point range in three-point share, and three clubs with nearly the same style have records of 4-1, 3-2 and 1-3.

What we read into that is a caution, not a finding. The sample is three to six games per club, which is too small for a style to have settled or for any link to results to show. Club mixes will move as the 111 remaining first-turn games are played. The check worth running later is whether a high-three, low-two profile is stable from game to game, or whether it is mostly what one hot week looks like. Our look at the first-turn schedule shows how many games that will take: every club plays 17 before the turn ends on December 29.

A related question is how much of a club's scoring rests on one player. We counted that too.