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They’re good. Ayton is finally buying in and they’re just loaded with strong wing defenders.
They aren’t 9 out of every 10 good but if you take care of home court you’ll go through stretches like that.
It’s probably too late to make noise this season but it could be similar to Phoenix at the end of the bubble season when they went from one of the worst teams to finding an identity and going 8-0 in the bubble. Then they added Chris Paul and were in the finals the next season.
They aren’t 9 out of every 10 good but if you take care of home court you’ll go through stretches like that.
It’s probably too late to make noise this season but it could be similar to Phoenix at the end of the bubble season when they went from one of the worst teams to finding an identity and going 8-0 in the bubble. Then they added Chris Paul and were in the finals the next season.
It was the correct decision the team was in a tailspin and the star player wasn't responding to his coach even if he was the coach he wanted.
I don't really care who made it. If Vivek made the decision I would think he would have done it right after the game rather than it requiring an emergency conference call between Monte, Vivek and Matina the next morning which lead to the whole "he ran a practice" complaint but its here nor there, it may have saved the season - or at least it did before the Fox drama happened.
I've seen no evidence Vivek is running the basketball decisions since Monte came on board.
I don't really care who made it. If Vivek made the decision I would think he would have done it right after the game rather than it requiring an emergency conference call between Monte, Vivek and Matina the next morning which lead to the whole "he ran a practice" complaint but its here nor there, it may have saved the season - or at least it did before the Fox drama happened.
I've seen no evidence Vivek is running the basketball decisions since Monte came on board.
I thought sucking at home and being better on the road was a Kings quirk, and for the last few years it mostly has been…
But this season it’s league wide. Close to every team is no better on their home floor than they are on the road. Some teams are even better.
Boston for example is 16-10 at home and 20-6 on the road. 16-10 at home used to mean you were a lower seed lol. Back in the early aughts that was like the cap for the amount of home losses a 4th or 5th seed could afford.
Other than that, home and road records are comparable across the board except for Lakers, Suns, Bucks and Magic(maybe add Portland now), who are strong home teams(though not dominant home teams) but losing or .500 road teams.
Point being, these teams enter another gear on their home floor. Even the Thunder and Cavs have just about the same win rate at home and the road.
I wonder what has ended home court advantage in the NBA.
Is it just the nature of everybody jacking up threes so crowd energy becomes less important in distracting visiting teams from running an offenses?
Are the crowds in general less engaged or more low energy with “smart arenas” offering more than just the game?
Just doesn’t seem like it’s a thing anymore
But this season it’s league wide. Close to every team is no better on their home floor than they are on the road. Some teams are even better.
Boston for example is 16-10 at home and 20-6 on the road. 16-10 at home used to mean you were a lower seed lol. Back in the early aughts that was like the cap for the amount of home losses a 4th or 5th seed could afford.
Other than that, home and road records are comparable across the board except for Lakers, Suns, Bucks and Magic(maybe add Portland now), who are strong home teams(though not dominant home teams) but losing or .500 road teams.
Point being, these teams enter another gear on their home floor. Even the Thunder and Cavs have just about the same win rate at home and the road.
I wonder what has ended home court advantage in the NBA.
Is it just the nature of everybody jacking up threes so crowd energy becomes less important in distracting visiting teams from running an offenses?
Are the crowds in general less engaged or more low energy with “smart arenas” offering more than just the game?
Just doesn’t seem like it’s a thing anymore
Yeah, I'd guess it's three-point shooting. They're big-time crowd quieters. And hitting shots from deep can help you come back in tough road games, and missing shots from deep can rob you of home court advantage. I think it just equalizes the home/road balance to some degree. Just another part of the game that the three-point revolution has flattened into homogeny.
In the first minutes of the game Spurs were dominating in the paint, when Holmes was subbed out Tristan Vuksevic (the Serbian/Greek/Italian strecth 5 they got) entered and scored 10 consecutive points and the Wizards from -18 early in the 1st took the lead early in the 2nd.
But he was good when coming back to the game, got some offensive boards too, I think Vuksevic didn't score more points in the 2nd half later on.
Also the Champagnie twins faced each other, dunno if that was the first time, and the Wizads announcers had some comments about the Fox trade
"Kings turned things around with Doug Christie as the head coach but seems to be going back down after the Fox trade". Didnt watch the 2nd half due to the Kings match starting at the same time.