The Lakers and Pistons are awaiting their Conference Finals opponents, so it's little surprise that they are one and two in our rankings based strictly off of Floor Impact Counter per game differential.

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1. Detroit Pistons (12.9)

The Pistons have six players averaging seven or more points per game and Richard Hamilton has increased his output to 21.5.

2. Los Angeles Lakers (11.8)

The Lakers lead all playoff teams in points per shot with 1.40 and more importantly they have a +7.1 per game point differential.  The only real area of weakness has been on the glass as they've been outrebounded by 7.3 per game, but Utah and Denver are always very good in that category.

3. Boston Celtics (11.1)

Paul Pierce is shooting just 39.2% on 5-13 shooting in their six road games.

4. Cleveland Cavaliers (8.8)

The Cavaliers are shooting just 41.7%, but are holding opponents to a 42.2%.

5. New Orleans Hornets (7.9)

The Hornets are shooting 43% from beyond the arc compared to 39% in the regular season.

6. Phoenix Suns (3.9)

This +3.9 differential flies in the face of conventional wisdom when you see that the Suns were briskly eliminated by San Antonio in five games.

Game 1: SAS 117 (69.4), PHX 115 (79.3)
Game 2: SAS 102 (72.6), PHX 96 (63.4)
Game 3: PHX 99 (66.1), SAS 115 (83.6)
Game 4: PHX 105 (81.9), SAS 86 (40.5)
Game 5: SAS 92 (57.0), SAS 87 (53.6)

Game three is clearly the cause for the discrepancy, but Phoenix outplayed the Suns in the double-overtime game and games two and five were very narrow defeats marred by the hack-a-Shaq as the Suns shot just 63.8% from the line in the series.  

7. Utah Jazz (2.4)

With Carlos Boozer unable to score like he did in the regular season, the Jazz didn't have a reliable second scorer beyond Deron Williams.

8. Orlando Magic (-0.9)

The Magic received very little production outside of Howard, Lewis, Turkoglu and Nelson and of course they could have used Rodney Stuckey on their own team if not for the Darko trade.

9. San Antonio Spurs (-3.3)

Tony Parker continues to become more of a scoring guard, averaging a team-high 24.3 points per game on 51.2% shooting in the playoffs.

10. Houston Rockets (-6.7)

Tracy McGrady was responsible for a staggering 53.3% of the Rockets' buckets in their series against the Jazz.

11. Toronto Raptors (-8.2)

The Raptors had an outstanding 2.55 assist/turnover ratio, but shot just 43%.

12. Washington Wizards (-13.1)

The Wizards have five players average double-figures, but Caron Butler was their highest scorer at 18.7 per game.

13. Dallas Mavericks (-14.0)

Josh Howard shot just 29.2% from the floor for Dallas.

14. Philadelphia 76ers (-15.3)

Has Andre Iguodala played himself towards a bigger payday this season?

15. Atlanta Hawks (-24.4)

You wouldn't think a team with this sort of per game FIC differential would have forced a series to seven games.

16. Denver Nuggets (-26.7)

Denver outrebounded the Lakers but were outscored by 13.3 points per game.