Yahoo: Researchers Find That Good Teams Like to Touch Each Other (SportingNews.com)

[Revrag]

NBA players make a habit of showing each other love, whether it be in pre-game introductions, with a high-five...

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[hrdboild]

Chicken before the egg? Sounds to me like someone is mistaking a symptom of winning teams (camaraderie, familiarity, chemistry) with a cause. Losing, conversely, tends to breed frustration which tends to send people into their own heads looking for the solution. Our team chemistry was great this year when we were winning games, not so much lately.

 

[cstorm]

Come on...group hug everyone.

 

[Capt. Factorial]

Tyreke? Omri? Donte? You kids better behave or we're going to have to leave you on the bench with Uncle Noc!

 

[kennadog]

Chicken before the egg? Sounds to me like someone is mistaking a symptom of winning teams (camaraderie, familiarity, chemistry) with a cause. Losing, conversely, tends to breed frustration which tends to send people into their own heads looking for the solution. Our team chemistry was great this year when we were winning games, not so much lately.

Actually that was mentioned in the article.

As to chemistry now, it's interesting to read Landry's remark on the SI article posted here in the links. The one that says "blindsided."

 

[NME]

Early nominee for sports headline of the year!

 

[DocHolliday]

Hmm...wonder if "touching each other" ends on the court, or in the showers.

 

[hrdboild]

Actually that was mentioned in the article.

As to chemistry now, it's interesting to read Landry's remark on the SI article posted here in the links. The one that says "blindsided."

Hopefully that's the case. It does seem like the guys all get along well with each other, but the on-court chemistry hasn't been as good. Maybe that's just because of all the lineup switching?

There's a writeup about this on the New York Times page too:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/health/23mind.html

Which goes a little more in-depth (not much more) on what some possible physiological explanations might be. It's possible there's something there. It would be very difficult to somehow isolate what effect that plays on winning sports teams though. I guess it stands to reason that happier players are more likely to play up to their full potential.

 

[Sptsjunkie]

This is going to end in a law suit.

I guess the next time a business person gets in trouble for sexual harassment, they'll just bring this article into court and plead that they were trying to produce a winning, team environment.

 

[Reem]

“Within 600 milliseconds of shooting a free throw, Garnett has reached out and touched four guys,” that sentence just crack me up
though I agree with this article.

 

[Spike]

I think The Onion could produce a better article.