Discussing the importance of rest to a basketball team is an interesting practice because while most people, especially in modern basketball operations, agree that it’s of major importance it can be difficult to quantify what effect it has.
I wrote about the role rest played in Florida basketball last season here. If you haven’t read it you can go and give it glance now but most of the relevant information from that piece will be re-circulated in this article.
Essentially, there are numbers that point to the fact that rest played a fairly major factor in Florida’s style of play last season.