"SI.com's Zach Lowe spoke with Platinum Equity partner Robert Wentworth in Boston last week. Wentworth was attending a conference on the advanced stats movement in sports. (Platinum Equity founder Tom Gores purchased the Pistons in June.) Here is portion of the Q&A:

SI.com: This is what PE firms do to find opportunities and value, right?

Wentworth: Yes, to an extent. The advanced stats just ought to be a part of your tool kit. It's equally important to have really solid basketball people, and (Pistons president of basketball operations) Joe Dumars has obviously been in this league for 25-plus years now. He has tremendous basketball intellect. But we're just trying to make sure we use every tool in that tool box, even if it means you just do a better job at finding that eighth, ninth or 10th guy."