[drothamel]

The most basic flaw in Larry Brown's reasoning, and by extension, the reasoning of the right honorable LoudBottom, is that it takes into account only one statistical category and tries to pin a win or a loss on it. There are tons of other statistics, most of which are much more influential, that could be used. How about, just for arguments sake, the shooting percentage of the Pistons in those games? Shooting percentage has nothing to do with the officials, and I would venture a guess that it is probably lower in the games that they lost.

Heck, if your going to just pull out one statistic, you could look at what their record is when Larry Brown wears a red tie as opposed to a blue one. I mean, it is absurd to take any one statistical category, no matter what it is, and try to draw a direct relationship between it and wins and losses. Well, that isn't totally true, becuase the number of points scored in relation to your opponent does have a direct relationship to wins and losses.