Interrupt or reinforce? The impact of timeout on momentum in basketball game.¶
(2025). Interrupt or reinforce? The impact of timeout on momentum in basketball game. PLoS ONE / PMC.
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- Decision Cycle Subordination
- In sports, a team controlling pace forces the other into reactive posture, and a time-out resets tempo.
This sourceEmpirically analyzes the timeout as a momentum/tempo-reset intervention in basketball, showing it can interrupt an opponent's run and shift momentum — the sports instance of resetting tempo by stepping out of the engagement.
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Basketball study of 4,051 timeouts finds timeouts raise momentum for disadvantaged teams and are said to alter tempo; the pace-control-forces-reactive-posture half is not addressed.
“existing studies generally suggest that timeouts function by suppressing opponents’ scoring runs, facilitating tactical adjustments, and altering game tempo”
- In sports, a team controlling pace forces the other into reactive posture, and a time-out resets tempo.
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