Basketball is a game of runs.
One team will get hot for a span of time, outscoring their opponent in (usually) short bursts to either build a lead or cut into a deficit.
Good teams are able to do two things well:
- Minimize the other team’s scoring run
- Counter with a scoring run of their own
And those runs are often the difference in winning and losing a basketball game. Three years ago FanSided’s Seth Partnow analyzed the data from every NBA game in the 2014-15 season, and found some pretty startling statistics.