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[QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 184068, member: 966"]
Further proof that you can make statistics say anything you like.
 
I'm not going to argue whether or not JB is or isn't a "great bench coach." There are no valid statistics to prove it either way.
 
I do dispute these numbers as proof, though. To say JB has a + record in games won by 6 points or less doesn't account for games we should have won by more than 6 points. It gives him credit, essentially, if we were pulling away from a team and then stalled and 'hung on' for a win. 
 
The OT record, if factual, doesn't account for how many of those games 'should' have gone to overtime. If we played Fordham and had to win in OT, that's not a positive statement. 
 
And whoever insisted that JB's roster talent shouldn't be considered when evaluating these 'statistics' isn't a person entirely interested in objectivity. Fact is, in the majority of games we play, we have a talent advantage. In the majority of games we play, we have a home court advantage. Discounting either of those matters is silly. 
 
I wish there were some sort of baseball-like metric for covering spreads, combined with 'park-related factors,' combined with WAR as it pertains to personnel, etc., etc., etc. And, in my fantasy land, i'd also love to hear from all the JB bootlickers how they feel his career would have progressed had he been at a school such as, say Boston College. Or, what if he had gone to Ohio State... I'm sorta of the mind that he's like a hitter who was just 'made' to hit in a certain park. The stars aligned, and now we have... what we have.
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