The Golden State Warriors are the NBA Champions.
But it wasn’t just Steph.
Horrible ball-handling and messy turnovers hurt the Celtics, too.
Scientists call it “desynchronosis.”
You know it as jet lag.
The research is published in theopen-access journal Frontiers in Physiology on June 16.
The researchers went into some stats, too.
All in all, not great news if you’re flying from, say, San Francisco to Boston.
So why notawayteams traveling eastward?
Why don’t they feel these effects?
There is reason for some skepticism, however.
There might be a trend toward eastbound teams losing, but it could also just be chance.
That percentage would also be the equivalent of 2.47 fewer home wins, according to the paper.
There’s also a pretty significant caveat with the data: The study did not include playoff games.
It requires a ton more effort, and players really put in.
The reason for this, according to Leota, is that there are some potential confounding factors.
