Ferry Avenue wrote:First, "how the game is actually played" is driven largely by emotion. When one team goes on a 16-0 run over another for example, the team experiencing the run didn't suddenly "get better" physically than the other team, to that degree. Those runs are almost always driven largely by then-current emotional factors in both teams.
Under this kind of argument everything is driven by emotion so nothing else matter.
Yes, a 16-0 run can be because a team feels good of someone catches fire, coaches still can adjust, call timeouts or double guys and stop runs. That's why the game bounces and emotions can bounce off of feedback too.
This is not the great argument you seem to think it is.
Ferry Avenue wrote:Second, emotional factors matter more than physical factors when physical factors are roughly equal between teams, as they are in the second round of the playoffs and beyond. At that point every playoff series and every game within every series has its own emotional narrative if you will, and that largely drives the outcome. Physical factors in the game are certainly important, but when physical factors are roughly equal they can't possibly determine the outcome between two teams.
How did you get to the "physical factors are equal" conclusion?
What if the team matches similarly on talent grounds but has different characteristics, for example in the Warrior/Lakers series the Lakers are long and athletic and the Warriors are fast and in constant motion. This mean both teams have to understand how to approach the game to exploit their advantages.
It's your argument that those things are equal just because of talent?
What a simplification. Saying things are equal is super easy if you don't even have to explain what it means
When you say stuff like this you only reinforce my impression about how you reach those conclusions because you don't want to analyze the game.
Ferry Avenue wrote:What you'll see tonight is a team whose physical play is driven to a high degree by its emotional motive not to lose two consecutive games on its own floor to start a playoff series. They'll play better than they usually do because they're driven by that motive -- and that's an emotional factor, not a physical one.
Saying this is like saying nothing my friend. Yeah, no one wants to be 0-2 in a playoffs series (big discovery...), but you cannot garantize they would play better because of that.
If they actually cannot play better then what? The Celtics like to shot 3s, what if they Shoot 20% today? they weren't emotionally strong enough?
