We hear it all the time when it comes to the NBA: Champions play a half-court game. Thanks to the recent success of teams like the Spurs, and the Celtics' six game victory over the much quicker Lakers in the 2008 NBA Finals, the results show that teams that play slow, win.
Or do they?
That was the question that I asked myself when looking over statistics from the 2007-2008 NBA season. Because of this, I bring you the first edition of my NBA Statistical research: Do possessions per game have an effect on a team's performance?
I came into this study with the hypothesis that slower paced teams did attain more success in terms of wins than faster paced teams. Originally, the data seemed to support this finding.
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