In nba finals would you rather spurs be up 3-2 on road or down 2-3 at home??

[JoshTheChild]

ok which position would you rather have? would you rather have your favorite team be ahead 3-2 and have to win on the road? or would you prefer to have your team down 2-3 and just count on winning twice at home? Me personally I would choose to protect home honestly, but what would you rather have your team do?


from past experience my rockets had to come back from 3-2 against NY and they did it at home ,but I also seen teams like utah and dallas fail to protect home down 2-3

[ClingingMars]

always better to be up than down, no matter what.

- Mars

[JoshTheChild]

true, but what if you had to close it out in a real tough arena?

[ClingingMars]

no different. you still get that game 7 at home. down 2-3 you have the game 7 ON THE ROAD.

- Mars

[JoshTheChild]

not in an NBA finals format


it goes 2-3-2

[ClingingMars]

not in an NBA finals format


it goes 2-3-2

even still, winning 1 game on the road >>> winning 2 games at home. way easier.

- Mars

[bobbyjoe]

This is why the NBA Finals is the one round of the playoffs where HCA arguably really matters.

As the home team, it's pretty dang hard to win three in a row at home, no matter how good you are. It's only happened twice ever I believe (LA vs. DET 2004, MIA vs. DAL 2006) and one of those 2 required basically a chokejob by Dallas in Game 3 and a hosejob in Game 5 (see DWade).

So essentially you practically have to win 2 games on the road to win the series in a 2-3-2 format if you are the team without HCA.

Of course the Bulls didnt have a problem with it, closing out the Jazz and Suns on the road being up 3-2.

It's actually a pretty legitimate question. I'd still rather be up 3-2 on the road but it's pretty debatable IMO as crazy it sounds to actually prefer being down.

[Real Tomato Ketchup]

2-3-2 is horse hockey, I would much rather be up 3-2 going to their place.

You shouldn't ever be in position to be down a game in a series when you have home court.

[bobbyjoe]

2-3-2 is horse hockey, I would much rather be up 3-2 going to their place.

You shouldn't ever be in position to be down a game in a series when you have home court.

I agree with this.

But my main beef is: Why is the NBA Finals the one series where you have a 2-3-2 format and all the others are 2-2-1-1-1? Is there any actual logic behind this conundrum?

[Real Tomato Ketchup]

I agree with this.

But my main beef is: Why is the NBA Finals the one series where you have a 2-3-2 format and all the others are 2-2-1-1-1? Is there any actual logic behind this conundrum?

There was logic, when the teams still traveled commerical, but that's over.

2-3-2 was put into place, correct me if I am wrong, back in the early 80's when the LA/Bos thing was takin off. They didn't want them flyin cross country ever other day. This was back when they didn't take 4 day breaks, but I dagress.........

It was a legit concern back then, not now.

[Darcus]

Always better to be up than to be facing elimination.

[Avitus1]

Better to be up then down.