A Big Three can do damage, but a five-fingered fist is what really hurts.

The Hawaii men’s basketball team offered a glimpse of its well-rounded best in a 76-70 win at Idaho last Saturday. It was a win in which the Rainbow Warriors got scoring from several sources — and not just the usual suspects.

No points were more important than the 15 from junior swingman Hauns Brereton. The junior college transfer got the start and came out firing, hitting three of six from 3-point land to complement Zane Johnson as an outside threat.

“That’s something I’ve been working on,” Brereton said. “I need to hunt my shot and knock it down, because that’s what I am — I’m a shooter. Coach (Gib Arnold) just said good job and keep it up. Keep bringing it. He wants to see me be more consistent.”

Brereton is 19-for-53 (.358) from long range this season, including 6-for-13 over UH’s past three games. Like usual, he stayed late after Wednesday’s practice to get some extra outside shots up.

With teams game-planning for Johnson (15.5 points per game), center Vander Joaquim (14.2 ppg and 9.9 rpg) and forward Joston Thomas (13.3 ppg), it’s become vital for somebody else to make teams pay for stacking their defenses.

Even point guard Miah Ostrowski has gotten in on the act recently. The designated playmaker took advantage of a backed-off defense to hit a timely 3 against the Vandals, his second in the past three games.

“We love that,” Brereton said. “Miah knocking down the 3 out there? Oooh. Felt good. It did.”

Brereton, though, will continue to be the scoring X factor; his average is up to 7.0 after dropping 15 in both games of last week’s split road trip to Utah State and Idaho

The Rainbows depart today for their next Western Athletic Conference game at San Jose State on Saturday.

“He’s starting to finally come into his own and he gives us that second deep outside threat,” Arnold said of Brereton. “With Joston and Vander playing as well as they’re playing, it’s important that those guys are ready on the perimeter, because I think those guys are going to draw a lot of double teams, a lot of attention. If you can have him hitting, and Zane hitting, and now Miah’s starting to hit his shots now too, that makes us a whole different team and a lot more lethal on the offensive side.”

UH leads the WAC in league games in both scoring (77.0) and assists (17.7). Ostrowski has circulated the ball effectively with 7.7 apg in those games.

“It’s good that we get production out of everyone,” Ostrowski said. “It spreads the floor more, people can’t cheat off of certain guys to help. When everyone’s going, that’s when we’re going as a team. That’s my job out there, to make sure everyone’s getting their touches and I got a lot of confidence in each person out there. There’s not one person out there that I got more confidence in than anyone else. That’s my job, and I enjoy doing it.”