Unless you’re celebrating the Toronto Raptors first-ever NBA championship, you’ll probably admit that nothing lasts forever. Basketball is no exception to that rule. No team can dominant for a prolonged period of time unless you sell your soul to the devil like the Golden State Warriors.
Even on a more micro level, stats rarely last forever. If someone starts the season shooting 80-percent from three, don’t expect that to last until the end of the season – and if it does, then bask in the greatness of whoever that player is.
The same goes for bad stats too, if your best player is shooting 15-percent from the free-throw line across the first five games, you can put it down to small sample size and just admit that things will even themselves out.