-Our players wouldn't have been able to keep leads they can now
-Stephen Jackson couldn't lock down people on D like he did to poor Dirk
-One of our players wouldn't have a movie coming out (oh, wait Harrington isn't a real ninja turtle?)
-Dunleavy and Murphy would still be unhappy in Golden State and -- this isn't a bash on their character, their only human -- it would effect their play.

Dunleavy
Warriors / Pacers
Min - 27.0 / 35.3
FG% - 44.9% / 44.7%
3PT% - 34.6% / 30.0%
FT% - 77.2% / 75.6%
Stl - 1.0 / 1.0
Blk - 0.3 / 0.3
TO - 1.8 / 1.8
Reb - 4.8 / 5.1
Ast - 3.0 / 2.6
Pts - 11.4 / 13.4

Dunleavy's got more minutes so more points and boards, but not much more assists and shooting has slightly dropped.

Murphy
Warriors / Pacers
Min - 25.6 / 28.2
FG% - 45.0% / 44.0%
3PT% - 37.3% / 34.8%
FT% - 71.2% / 71.1%
Blk - 0.8 / 0.6
Stl - 0.7 / 0.6
TO - 1.1 / 1.2
Reb - 6.0 / 7.1
Ast - 2.3 / 1.5
Pts - 8.9 / 10.1

Murphy has a few more minutes scoring almost a point more and grabbing a rebound more, but other categories have dropped.

Now if we'd only been able to get a backup pointguard in the draft instead of a super-sub-backup center playing in B-field.  If we'd been able to keep Baron's minutes in check like Nelson said he would before the season and not had him break down, we would most likely have a better record regardless of the trade.

That "Trade Simulation" is garbage.  I don't know what they used to generate their data, but their simulation appears to be flawed when put up against actually basketball games.  The conclusion that the Nuggets got the better of the 6ers seems to be contradicted by a Denver team that's still basically a .500 team post trade while the 6ers have gone 21-29 since the trade.  No, 21-29 isn't great, but it's better than the 5-12 that they were in games with Iverson. (They were 4-11 in games without Iverson before their trade.  There doesn't seem to be much to suggest that Iverson helps his team since losing him didn't hurt Philly and getting him hasn't helped Denver.)

Music to my ears.  Let's get this 8 spot.

so basically that relates to this because...

all that statistical crap and our win loss record, well you might as well throw that in the basura, because we know better

we know that we got rid of murphleavys contracts.  we know that the pacers are way worse now that they have suckleavy.  we know we are 10 times a better team. i mean do you realistically think that we would have smashed on dallas, detroit, etc. without the new guys.  dumping murphleavy is a win in itself plus we got better players and we're a much better team.  you can't just go by the numbers.  there's no "moneyball" system to basketball.  theres way more to the game then stats and numbers.  

Extra Murphleavy points for whoever that guesses who's who right!

Yayyyyy Dunleavy gleams with glee!

TS alone isn't sufficient to give you a full picture of how things are, but it gives you a reasonable assessment.  You just have to remember the extra variables that they explicitly say they're not accounting for...