[Numbers Guy]

If the Lakers stayed healthy they would have beat the Pistons like a drum.

Detroit destroyed the Lakers in Game 1, with only Scott out of the lineup. The difference between Scott and Cooper wasn't 25 points.

We saw how the two teams matched up the year before. A Detroit team with Mahorn, Laimbeer, and Salley playing hurt the entire series (and with Isiah hurt the last 16 minutes of game 6 and all of game 7) took the Lakers to 7 games (and don't get me started about the phantom foul). Oh, but one year later, with the Pistons all healthy, the Lakers would have beat Detroit "like a drum". Sure.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Have you ever heard of a game known as the Memorial Day Massacre? By your logic, Boston won the title in 1985.

The year before, the Detroit players were hurt but could play. LA's starting backcourt couldn't even suit up. Yes, with a full team it would have been three straight for the Lakers.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Looking back at the stats, they prove even more convincingly that LA would have won. The Pistons won game one by a whopping 12 points. Scott was averaging 20 ppg in the postseason, and Cooper was about as 12 ppg player. That's two thirds of the margin right there. Losing Scott also takes away part of your substitution patterns as well, of course.

Magic went down in the third quarter of game two. The Lakers lost that by THREE POINTS! Now the Lakers have lost FORTY POINTS PER GAME from their offense, plus all of Magic's assists. The Pistons won the four games by an average of 9.25 points per game. Are you going to tell me forty + points of offense every night wouldn't have made the difference? Please!