Abstract This article is going to talking about some common, but strange phenomenon in sport area. According to the article “Are ‘Hot hands’ In Sport A Real Thing? By Gretchen Reynolds. This article was published on May, 2013 on nytimes.com. Author has described what “Hot Hand” is and explains why it happened. I am going to explain “Hot hand” from the author’s view points, and try to make it deeper or different ways.
Are ‘Hot Hands’ in Sports a Real Thing?
How many peoples still remember what “linsanity” did in the past year? At that time he was always shown up at NY Times cover. Jeremy Lin leaded Knicks win many games, and he achieve a high level evaluate, he is the legend! When we looking back, this kind of story is not a unique event, especially in sports area, we can see someone play very good in a specific period. As Gretchen Reynolds (2013) describe in this article “Are ‘Hot Hands’ in Sports a Real Thing”, “Whether you call them winning streaks, “hot hands” or being “in the zone,” most sports fans believe that players and teams tend to go on tears.” This kind of …show more content…
It is a mentally support, not a virtual support so most of time likely than chance would suggest missing it” (Reynolds, 2013). I think the reason for this phenomenon might be psychological and physical. Just like we watching: players seemed to “take their second shots from farther out than their first ones, perhaps because they felt buoyed by that last success” (Reynolds, 2013). Even though that, but most of time we can saw player be defended more vigorously after successful shot instead of second