Sinobas wrote:GreenRiddler wrote:We really were on such a nice track. This injury if even minor blows our chances of making home court.
HCA in the nba playoffs is the most over-rated thing. I know stats will show you the home team wins more often, but the better teams get more home games because of the way the system is set up. Any series I've watched between two roughly equal teams, it doesn't matter. Heck, I've seen the Blazers play a lot better on the road than home in the playoffs so many times.
It's either in the cards for you or not. HCA won't swing it one way or another. That's why the nba regular season is so stupid, playing 82 games for something that doesn't matter.
I agree that HCA is overrated. How did Portland do with HCA last year? For a team like Portland, with their recent history of playoff failure, having HCA is also having to withstand huge pressure. Losing one of the first two game flips everything, and can psychologically put a team into a place they can't recover from.
as for the regular season being pointless....Dame would tell you that his 30M a year contract doesn't seem pointless to him