you did the work for me. because i knew this stat i just didnt know the specific numbers. crazy stuff
what trend?? that is the last 10 years. yes sometimes there are upsets in the first round but they then proceed to lose in the next round. goodbye chance at getting to the wcf if the rockets drop to 4th seed or lower.
Trend saying that over the course of last 30 years or so, the home court winning % had been steadily dropping and in this season, its been taken even a sharper drop (and same has happened in last year's playoff). Just putting a total of last 10 years to show how many champs winning more in their home court does not reflect correctly about the trend. The trend does not apply home court is useless, its just saying the importance of home court has been decreasing during the last 20-30 years.
Well, I'd take a healthy Rockets team on a Hot Streak versus home court advantage although obviously we'd want to have it...teams in the west are soo evenly matched the true advantage might be which team is most healthy and playing at the top of their game versus which court they're playing on
Portland won 2 of 3 in Houston and Portland won 2 of 3 in Portland So,,,what does that mean? It means we lose in 5 without HCA. The last Game 7 we had at home was a series where we led 3-2 after five games with Game 6 away and Game 7 home. What else do you want from HCA going into Game 6? Two elimination games is much better than just one. We just blew that opportunity.
The trend is that HCA is less of an advantage. Less does not mean small or insignificant. Several of the numbers used by that article earlier in the thread have changed. The home court winning% has risen to 57.5. That is still extremely large.
HCA is only advantageous with the presumption that you win all your home games. If you dont have it, given the same scenario, all you really need to win is one out of 4 games on the road. To simplify, you can easily lose your HCA that you worked hard for all year long if you lose ONE home game. I feel it is a bit overrated.
What is you don't have home court advantage? Then if you lose a home game, you have to win 2 on the road. Not only that, it's impossible to win a series without a road win if you don't have HCA. Your margin for error is always smaller without HCA.
You usually aren't going to win every game at home, you will have to win on the road at some point. However you do want HCA as much as possible, game 7 at home there is an advantage IMO.
Game 5 is just as important, if not moreso, than Game 7, simply because you might not make it to game 7 if you lose game 5. HCA means Game 5 is at home. You're not just simplifying; you are oversimplifying. You are saying if you don't win all your home games then HCA doesn't mean anything. Using your logic, that's only true *IF* the opponents wins all theirs as well. It is more dynamic than you say. You don't need to win every home game in the beginning to see the value of HCA. If you split the first 4 games in any way, then it now becomes a 2 of 3 games series and you have Game 1 and 3 at home. That's big. The Game 5 of a tied, 2-2 series is a historically very big game.
We will have to disagree on this. Last years playoffs, we lost our HCA on our first game and that is a fact. Anything else after that is a coulda, woulda, shoulda. They won in our court and vice versa. I don't think anybody needs to be reminded that we were 6th seed when we won a ring. You don't need HCA if you are a championship caliber team. The better team always wins a series regardless if you have HCA or not.
Hca overatted for us? It would just be an embarassing empty seats on national television again. We are a better road than home team. I am actually liking us play on the road where its always sold out. We are that good and can silence the crowd like beard did against timberpups over rose and jailblazers over lillard. No dame time baby. Oh my god I had this tingling satisfaction feeling, shouting out of my lungs.
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