Human Victory Cigar

In the playoffs we all know that the bench gets shorter and that key players play more. What I’ll look at here is which players in the Pistons / Magic series were more or less productive than during the regular season. As we’ll see below the story of the first round is pretty much in line with what we thought might happen. The Pistons front line, especially Prince, stepped up their games and dominated the Magic. And as many observed before the series started, the Magic are very weak at the point, and Nelsen ended up with a particularly disappointing first round. What we might not have expected is how much better than expected Grant Hill played, and how much worse than expected Rip Hamilton played.

Both the Pistons and the Magic data tables below have the same information. The columns, for both the regular season and the first round of the playoffs, are… (Continued)

Pistonsforum member coynejeremy was kind enough to compile statistics on the various NBA referees and how they called Pistons games throughout the 2006/7 regular season. You’ll find two tables that follow. One is the refs by name, and the other by Pistons Win %. (Continued)

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