This is a good point.

And it doesn't hurt them in any one individual game, but it hurts them in the course of the season as it makes Allen and Pierce play more defense and that puts just a little more bruise on them come June.

When you win 3 "Game 7's" in a playoffs, you need everything to align right. With that imbalance disrupted, maybe one or two of those don't go there way this year?