There are enough of these wacky strategies out there that some hard-boiled cynics (for example, me) have made a habit of pointing out some of the more ludicrous examples, like relating national economic growth to average penis size, and stock market returns to an over-fit model using Butter Production in Bangladesh.
The excitement boiled over into the first quarter amid chants of "Brook-lyn" as the Nets jumped out to an 11-point lead on the back of 12 points from center Brook Lopez.