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always better to be up than down, no matter what.
- Mars
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
always better to be up than down, no matter what.
- Mars
true, but what if you had to close it out in a real tough arena?
no different. you still get that game 7 at home. down 2-3 you have the game 7 ON THE ROAD.
- Mars
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
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.
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?
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.
Always better to be up than to be facing elimination.
Better to be up then down.
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