Atlanta head coach Mike Woodson touts himself as someone that doesn't necessarily trust advanced statistics.

"I look at defensive field goal (percentage), I look at offensive field goal (percentage)," he said. "Are they a terrible free-throw shooting team? Do they turn it over? Are they a good rebounding team?"

He looks with some skepticism at statistics like plus/minus, which rates a player based on the number of points scored for and against his team while he is on the floor.

"Sometimes, the guy that's getting the bad marks is the guy that's making plays to help them win," he said. "It can go against you sometimes. I don't feed into that."

Denver coach George Karl joked that he doesn't understand the information that the Nuggets' director of quantitative analysis gives him.

"I'm going, ?Somebody interpret this for me,' " Karl said. "I don't know what it says."