Hollinger: Why I'm spurning the Spurs

[jag]

You can make a stat about anything and everything, that doesn't mean those stats have any significance whatsoever. There's a reason this man is 0-2 is Spurs' series so far.

[703 Spurz]

You can't argue math.....

So b/c the Lakers beat two teams by more points then the Spurs beat their opponents means the Lakers will win the series?

I mean, really? It's that simple?

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

The 1994-95 Rockets were +2.1 in point differential. That was worse than each of the 4 teams they beat on the way to the crown that year (UTH +8.0; PNX +3.8; SA +6.0; ORL +7.1).

The 2001-02 Lakers were a very different story in a Hollinger World. That team was +7.2 in regular season point differential, which appears to have been 2nd best in the league. Using that metric, they were basically as good as or better than each of their postseason opponents (PRT +2.9; SA +6.2; SAC +7.6; NJ +4.2).

Nice find, FWD.

ExtraStout, thanks for finding the 2000-01 Lakers +2.8 point differential.

So, what I see is that the 1995 Rockets B2B championship team had a low point differential and the 2001 Laker B2B championship team had a low point differential, and it didn't stop either of those two teams on the way to the le.

Perhaps Hollinger needs to consider some sort of "defending champions" handicap rating when calculating his point differential because that's two recent examples of teams that went back-to-back without turning up the heat during the regular season.

His "stats" mean nothing. He is dead to me.