Re: Time outs, I still don't know why nobody brings up the fact that time outs are also about slowing the other team down when they're cooking, especially on the road when the crowd is also jazzed up and giving the opposing team energy. By calling a time out, the other team is forced to go from a high of playing great basketball to sitting down for a few minutes while a dance crew runs onto the court. It's not only about your own team recomposing themselves or being able to call a set play.
Maybe Joe doesn't believe it affects the other team, but as far as I know he's never been asked about that aspect of the time out. It's only ever been about "teaching our guys to play through a run." I don't get it. Does Steve Kerr not call time outs because he's got a team of veterans that have already won championships? As far as I know, he calls time outs like a normal coach does.
If there are some statistics Joe is basing this on that question the efficacy of time outs, it would be nice if they shared that with us. One thing I do know, however, is he's not saving the time outs because he's precious with them. Just look at some of his extremely questionable coach's challenges.
We did this last season in this very thread - I can go back and find the posts later if you'd like, but I don't think any of us really want to go through those discussions again. Suffice it to say, the existing evidence that time-outs interrupt the flow of a team is hotly contested. Some of us (like me) would say it's closer to 'folk wisdom' or 'common sense' than others, but I think with sports it's also very difficult because, even though it's difficult to quantify, we're all aware that players heating up, for example, is absolutely a real, tangible thing.
edit: here are the pages in question, with links to the studies that we have.
https://forum.celticsstrong.com/index.php?topic=107889.615
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