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Originally Posted by HiddenX
Just my 2 cents:
Winning close games is a good thing and should be rated higher than winning margins.
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Hollinger believes that close games are effectively a coin flip. He cites evidence that the best teams and worst teams throughout history have about the same winning percentage in games decided by less than a few points.
In general, I think he's absolutely right. However, one cannot exclusively rely on math when watching basketball. Dirk led teams the last several years have an abnormally high winning percentage in games decided by less than a few points. Hollinger has noted this in previous years as a knock against the Mavs. At some point, you have to believe there is something more than math going on here. What is that something? Well, its the fact that Dirk's got big ones.