Skills to Spare

In basketball, sometimes a seemingly less talented team can go up in a game and look like they're about to win. And then they don't. You see this a lot in the NBA, especially. What allows some teams to turn it on in the end? The answer is they have skills to spare. Sometimes, a lesser talented team can temporarily succeed due to a clever strategy, or hustling and being more energetic. But in the end, the skills cannot be overcome because a more highly skilled team can score more easily with less effort.