If you’ve read me with any regularity, you’ll know that I don’t tend to lend any significance to the contents of a blowout win. This is because of all contests, the blowout win is the perhaps the most difficult to analyze, and in the sport of basketball this is particularly true.
I mean, what can you really learn when the opposition shoots 36% on the night? There are so many things that bad shooting can be attributed to, and only one of them involves your team playing spectacular defense. Injuries, absences, poor shot choices, unfamiliarity, and the laws of variance are (and were) all in play as contributing factors in a victory like that.