My number didn't cherry pick or flirt with counterfactuals. And still, after all the cherry picking, 26th still isn't "easily bottom five".
You can't back up "easily bottom five". You argued 8th in scoring was "barely top ten" to dismiss it. Tried not to count field goals. It's a fallacious argument, from the beginning. You either can't make the point fairly or, for some bizarre reason, choose this unfair/embellished one.
If you have a good case to make....why not just make it without the hyperbole? Or obviously narrowed criteria?