yes. exactly. :) you are making (in my opinion and i might be wrong) the exact same misstake as the guy who asked this question... Because I think that is the reason why he asked he lost and no other reason...
Ratings are just to give you an idea how good/bad your team is, but it is not set in stone. If you read the other discussions on the forums about team ratings (rangeing from individual player ratings like 10.5 or 6.5 etc and the team ratings), noone knows what the formulas are and what it exactly means these ratings.
This is what the rules states Each player that has played more than five minutes in a given match receives a rating, on a 1-10 scale. This rating is based on a combination of your player's stats and his overall contribution to the team effort. Note that this has nothing to do with the player's overall skill; if your worst player overall is the best on the court, he'll have the highest rating! Again, it doesnt say anything about how much better the player is compared to others.
The team ratings can go from atrocious to legendary and have several sub levels.
On outside scoring he was quite a bit better.
On inside scoring he was worse.
On outside defense the teams were equal.
On inside defense his team was better.
On rebounding his team was worse.
On offensive flow his team was better.
so if you want to give them points it would have been 2.5-3.5. In the guys favourite. But if his players make so many more fouls because they are more aggresive players or he used the wrong tactic, (which was a difference off 17 points between the two teams) and from the % you shoot like 5% worse. You loose the game when it is a close one, which in this case it was...
The stats ARE set in stone. And the stats clearly favoured the other team. Alot more clearer than the team ratings did...