Well, the officials also swayed one game the Sixers' way according to the NBA report (just as the report said they blew it in Game 2) or it would have been over in 5. But last night was pretty bad.
Still, I think if you lost because of the refs you weren't ever the better team. It all evens out in the end.
And the one-point thing is kind of like run differential in baseball. It tells you what was possible but not what was.
Also, for all the Sixers injuries, the Knicks were missing their second-best player. They had a lot more people step up than the Sixers would have, had Joel or Maxey been out.