One of the great things about basketball twitter is that, if you’re curious about something, someone else has probably already asked and maybe even answered the same question. To wit: I was wondering what the stats say about teams coming off of a long layoff due to the ol’ ‘rona. Well, so was Evan Miyakawa, who I’ll forgive for being a Butler fan because he has a cool website. Here’s what he came up with:
A team coming off of a Covid pause has an additional 2.3 point disadvantage on average so far this season, in a normal tempo game.