Now an 80+ percent rate of success – be it in a series or (even more impressively) over the course of a full season – represents a performance of most superior quality. Until “spitting the bit” in this summer’s Bubble, Mike Budenholzer’s Milwaukee Bucks were on pace to become the sixth team in the past eight years to attain such stellar status last season (53-12, .815 when play was suspended).
This recent rash of “80% Seasons” has been headed by the Golden State Warriors, who became just the third team (along with Boston and Chicago) in league history to notch three such seasonal performances – and the first to do it consecutively.