Does team momentum going into the PS matter?

[sp6r=underrated]

I used to be a believer in the conventional wisdom that the performance of team's in the second half of the season had strong predictive value. Now I have doubts.

Have there been any studies on the predictive value of team performance going into the PS?

[colts18]

http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=5544

[sp6r=underrated]

http://www.basketball-reference.com/blog/?p=5544

Thanks for the response. The reason I asked is that I used to consider momentum to be a big factor but as I thought about recent example over the years I found so many counter examples such as 2010.