Gary Sutton

It's really a 50-50 game between offense and defense.

And the most successful teams...

I mean, this goes without saying, but the most successful teams score more points than they give up.

And a team can be not very good on defense, but exceptional on offense, right?

So they're scoring more points per game than they're giving up.

They can win a lot of games, right?

So the recent Golden State Warriors teams might fall into that bucket, for instance.

And you can be very good defensively, but you're not good offensively, right?

And so therefore, you're...

Defense isn't really helping you out.

It's the lack of offense in that case.

So I think the best teams are balanced in some way between offense and defense.

Well, yeah, they've got a great opportunity.

I mean, you and I were saying the winner, this year's champion will probably come out of the West, and they've got a tremendous shot.

I think it is.

This is very controversial.

You know, when I wrote my first book, it's funny, I was not going to assess anything on the hot hand because I didn't know what I could contribute that was new, right?

So others have evaluated the hot hand, and some have said, like I'm saying, it's a cognitive illusion.

Others say otherwise.

Players will tell you otherwise, right?