Slippery court tomorrow night?

[Keepin' it real]

Imagine if one of our key players slips and gets injured tomorrow night due to condensation on the court??? Any condensation experts care to explain why the court was fine for the Spurs game but is all slick for the OKC game?

[ShoogarBear]

Clipper Fan tears?

[Holt's Cat]

If they show up. Cwipperrr fan already has theirrrr Lakerrrr t-shirrrts on.

[Solid D]

The LA Kings will likely go the farthest of the 3 playoff teams in LA.

[eyeh8u]

Imagine if one of our key players slips and gets injured tomorrow night due to condensation on the court??? Any condensation experts care to explain why the court was fine for the Spurs game but is all slick for the OKC game?


i dont know why but i dont like this, spurs should forfeit game 4, not even play, and go back to SA where the floors are dry.

[Matty2Cool]

i dont know why but i dont like this, spurs should forfeit game 4, not even play, and go back to SA where the floors are dry.

Thing is, isn't there usually ice under the spurs floor during the season due to rampage games?

[eyeh8u]

Thing is, isn't there usually ice under the spurs floor during the season due to rampage games?



the season ended may 11th,

do they keep ice under there year around?

[Splits]

I put a call into my condensation expert, let you know what I hear...

[Josepatches_]

The floor is different from Clippers to Lakers and they change the floor 4 or 5 times per week during the season.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBAIsxjpeAg

[jestersmash]

Clipper Fan tears?

:tu

[eyeh8u]

The floor is different from Clippers to Lakers and they change the floor 4 or 5 times per week during the season.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBAIsxjpeAg

if the floor is similar in its makeup, then just being different flooring might not solve the issue, if the coldness of the ice can get through wood the water vapor on the ground floor and still condense and make it slippery. its like if you have a can of beer and a can of coke in the fridge then take them out the same time, both will have similar condensation.

[k_nguyen93]

I'll go with Chuck's theory, the heat from all the fans coming in and out caused the ice to melt :P. Spurs got the earlier game today and play right after the hockey game tomorrow so no worries.

[Budkin]

I'm totally freaked about this after watching Westbrook almost go down.

[Crookshanks]

Chuck Sager said that he was told there shouldn't be any condensation on the floor because there's two layers of insulation between the ice and the wood floor. He said the ice is there all season long - and I haven't heard of problems before.

[Keepin' it real]

Chuck Sager said that he was told there shouldn't be any condensation on the floor because there's two layers of insulation between the ice and the wood floor. He said the ice is there all season long - and I haven't heard of problems before.

But how often do they change the floors as frequently as they're doing this weekend? I mean, one slip or two could be coincidence, but there were what ... four or five slips tonight?

[Spurs21Fan4Ever]

Nobody slipped in the second half. They did mention that the floor got mopped right before the game, I'm gonna blame the mopping for the slipper floor.

[DMC]

Chuck Sager said that he was told there shouldn't be any condensation on the floor because there's two layers of insulation between the ice and the wood floor. He said the ice is there all season long - and I haven't heard of problems before.
Who the fuck is Chuck Sager? Do you mean Craig? :lol

[eyeh8u]

Who the fuck is Chuck Sager? Do you mean Craig? :lol

he is the world's leading condensatologist

[Crookshanks]

Who the fuck is Chuck Sager? Do you mean Craig? :lol

Yep - sorry about that! It's late and I got his name wrong. I should have just said the guy in the funny suite and tie. :lol

[-21-]

Even if we play on ice skates we still win, tbh.

[naico]

Tbh Perkins sweats like a pig. Just streams down his chin pubics like crazy.

[TampaDude]

They better make sure that fucking floor is dry. I don't want this historic run to be derailed by an injury caused by a wet floor on an opponent's home floor.

[somewhere in the distance, Stern is cackling]

[boutons_deux]

"Staples Center looked too slippery. The arena personnel maintain no shortcuts were made in switching the Clipper and Laker courts during the doubleheader Saturday. But it's fair to wonder to what degree the Staples Center hosting playoff games for Kings, Cippers and Lakers games did to the floor. Bryant slipped when he drove to the basket. Sessions fell down early in the game. And worst of all, Russell Westbrook landed awkwardly on his hip just before halftime when his feet slipped and he nearly did the splits, requiring him to get treatment in the locker room. It seemed way too often that a catastrophic accident was just waiting to happen."

http://www.latimes.com/sports/lakersnow/la-sp-ln-la-five-things-to-take-from-lakers-over-oklahoma-city-thunder-20120519,0,6323087.story?track=rss

[Bruno]

Lots of arenas have an ice rink below the court. I don't know why installing the court only a couple of hours before the game will it make more slippery than when it's installed one or two days before the game.

[YoMamaIsCallin]

If there is any condensation on the floor, it's not from the ice, unless something has gone really wrong. In any arena where they play both hockey and basketball, the ice is always there under the basketball floor. That's the way it works. The ice is removed only after the season is over.

I suppose it's possible they messed up the procedures somehow, but I doubt it.

[Gagnrath]

The other possible issue is that the flooring is kept in a different area of the the arena than the main playing area. With the doors opening and a bunch of people coming in and out I would bet that the arena warmed up a bit with all their breath and such in the air. The Clippers floor would have warmed with the rest of the contents of the building.

Now we bring in the Lakers floor. Which has likely been in a storage room with no one going in or out and the AC for the building running fairly high to keep the main area cool. Want to bet that there was a 5 to 10 degree difference in how warm the flooring was? Now add in a fairly high humidity building that is also cooling during the time period between games when the fans aren't there. I'm not thinking there was a huge amount of water just a real thin slick in places on top of the wax. It really didn't have much if anything to do with the ice underneath the insulation there should take care of it. But changing the floor and not having much time between games likely did.

I don't think it will be a problem for the spurs game though as long as the floor gets changed again last night and I can also pretty much guarantee that dust mops will be run over the floor at the least before warm-ups and right before the game which should really take care of the amount of moisture in question.

[Obstructed_View]

I skipped and scanned through the second half, but I didn't see any slips. If there weren't any, then I'm sort of inclined to believe they didn't do a good job of cleaning the floor before the game started and fixed it at halftime.