lets start with the rebounding numbers from the first post, which as someone posted, are skewed by the last 6 minutes. before that we were plus 5
then we can move on to the gloss over of the utah ft discrepancy which someone posted was still 28-7 without the intentional fouls.
also, you threw out 5 key defensive stats that all heavily favor the celtics. i don't see how thats valid.
OK. Let us look at the rebounding number:
Q1: C 1-8 L 3-10 = Lakers +3
Q2 C 2-9 L 4-9 = Lakers +2
Q3 C 4-13, L 2-7 = Lakers -8
Q4 C 3-7 L 2-10 = Lakers +2
after 1Q, Lakers +3
2Q Lakers +5
3Q Celtics +3
4Q Celtics +1.
As you can see, even after the exposive Q2, the Lakers’ was still up on Celtics in total rebounds and total offensive rebounds.The Celtics was not dominted the rebounding war the whole game. Celtics actually had only 1 good rebounding quarter, it is Q3.