which nba player had the most 3pm before october 16 1979

Before October 16, 1979, 5 players were tied for the most threes, with 2 three-pointers. The first three are Sam Smith, Del Beshore and Don Buse.

	NAME	3PM	GP	MPG	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	FGM	FGA	FG%	3PA	3P%	FTM	FTA	FT%	TS%	OREB	DREB	TPG	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF
1	Sam Smith S. Smith	2	1	12.0	10.0	1.0	2.0	0.0	1.0	3.0	6.0	50.0	2.0	100.0	2.0	2.0	100.0	72.7	0.0	1.0	0.0	12	10	1	2	0	1	0	1
2	Del Beshore D. Beshore	2	2	21.0	8.5	2.5	3.5	2.0	0.0	3.0	7.5	40.0	1.5	66.7	1.5	1.5	100.0	52.1	1.0	1.5	1.0	42	17	5	7	4	0	2	2
3	Don Buse D. Buse	2	2	34.0	11.0	4.0	2.0	1.0	0.0	4.5	9.5	47.4	1.5	66.7	1.0	2.5	40.0	51.9	1.0	3.0	1.5	68	22	8	4	2	0	3	7
4	Willie Smith W. Smith	2	2	24.5	11.5	2.5	5.0	1.0	0.0	4.5	10.0	45.0	2.0	50.0	1.5	2.0	75.0	52.8	2.0	0.5	4.0	49	23	5	10	2	0	8	3
5	Paul Westphal P. Westphal	2	2	31.0	19.5	1.0	6.0	0.5	0.0	6.5	14.0	46.4	1.0	100.0	5.5	6.5	84.6	57.8	0.5	0.5	2.5	62	39	2	12	1	0	5	3
6	George McGinnis G. McGinnis	1	2	35.0	13.5	9.5	1.5	0.5	0.0	4.5	15.0	30.0	0.5	100.0	4.0	10.5	38.1	34.4	5.0	4.5	5.5	70	27	19	3	1	0	11	6
7	Rick Barry R. Barry	1	2	24.0	12.5	3.0	2.0	1.0	0.0	6.0	12.0	50.0			0.0	0.0		52.1			3.0	48	25	6	4	2	0	6	5
8	Mike Bratz M. Bratz	1	2	20.5	9.0	2.5	3.0	1.0	0.0	3.0	10.0	30.0	1.5	33.3	2.5	3.0	83.3	39.8	0.5	2.0	2.0	41	18	5	6	2	0	4	4
9	Ron Brewer R. Brewer	1	2	35.5	17.5	2.0	3.0	3.0	1.0	8.0	11.5	69.6	0.5	100.0	1.0	1.0	100.0	73.3	0.0	2.0	2.0	71	35	4	6	6	2	4	4
10	Johnny Davis J. Davis	1	2	37.5	21.5	2.0	5.5		0.0	7.5	17.0	44.1	1.0	50.0	6.0	6.0	100.0	54.7				75	43	4	11		0		4
11	Chris Ford C. Ford	1	2	20.0	11.0	2.0	1.5	1.0	0.0	4.5	10.0	45.0	0.5	100.0	1.5	2.0	75.0	50.6	2.0	0.0	0.5	40	22	4	3	2	0	1	5
12	Kevin Grevey K. Grevey	1	2	29.5	10.0	2.0	3.5			3.5	13.0	26.9			2.5	3.0	83.3	34.9				59	20	4	7				4
13	Freeman Williams F. Williams	1	2	23.5	11.5	2.0	1.5	0.0	0.0	5.0	14.5	34.5	2.0	25.0	1.0	1.0	100.0	38.5	1.5	0.5	1.5	47	23	4	3	0	0	3	3

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