Vs Pelicans in the season finale . . .

[Skull-1]

If the Spurs took care of business and were prepping for the next round, we wouldnt be having this discussion. Instead they're going on the road in a game 7. That's directly tied to the situation right now. Unless you called a 7 game series 2 weeks ago, youre the one who's point isnt really clear, tbh. We all read the playoff brackets when they were published. No one knew exactly how the Spurs would fair.

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=246869

I bet he wishes he had gone all in the last game of the season for the second seed...

I know we usually lose Game One of a Series (well, at least until 2012), but this looks bad. HCA MATTERS no matter what Pop says. We are in trouble.

[z0sa]

So did you call a 7 game series, yes or no. Plenty of people said what you said, including Sean Elliott. It is not a hard conclusion to make. The difference in pointing it out now is that we are aftually HERE. It is actually biting us in the ass now.

And the language similarity is purely coincidental.

[Skull-1]

So did you call a 7 game series, yes or no.

The language similarity is purely coincidental.

I never saw it even getting to 7 tbqh. I figured Clippers in six, possibly seven, though unlikely the latter.

[boutons_deux]

somebody find the road team's W-L record for playoff game 7s.

[Johnny RIngo]

somebody find the road team's W-L record for playoff game 7s.

http://hangtime.blogs.nba.com/2015/0...ly-a-big-deal/

How much does home-court advantage matter?

Since the league went to seven-game series in the first round in 2003, only 37 of 180 series (21 percent) have gone to seven games. And in only three of those series did the home team win all seven games. So in 177 of the 180, the winning team won at least one game on the road.

The home team won 28 of the 37 Game 7s. And going back to 1948, the home team has won 80 percent of the 119 Game 7s in NBA history. That seems like a daunting figure for any team that starts and ends a series on the road.

But the home team is often the much better team. The home-court advantage doesn’t show up as much when you’re looking at two teams that are evenly matched.

There have been 62 series (all rounds) since 2003 that were played between teams that were within *four games of each other in the regular season. And the team with home-court advantage has won only 29 (47 percent) of those 62 series.

*Or within three games in the 2011-12, lockout-shortened season.



Furthermore, 13 of those 62 series have gone to seven games, and eight of the 13 Game 7s (including each of the last three – see below) were won by the road team.

Last three Game 7s between teams that were within four wins of each other in the regular season:
— Brooklyn (road) over Toronto in 2014
— Chicago (road) over Brooklyn in 2013
— Clippers (road) over Memphis in 2012

If you go all the way back, the home team has won 30 of the 44 (68 percent) of Game 7s played between teams that were within *four wins of each other in the regular season. That’s a high percentage, but not as drastic as the 80 percent for all Game 7s. There are plenty of recent examples of good teams overcoming those odds and, as noted already, most series don’t get to Game 7.

*Adjusted for shorter seasons in the 50s and 60s.

This year, we could see three first round series played between teams that finish within four wins of each other: the 3-6 and 4-5 series in the West, along with the 4-5 series in the East (with Chicago, Toronto and Washington in the mix).

There’s no reason why those teams wouldn’t want home-court advantage. But in recent series played between equally good teams, it hasn’t proven to be a difference-maker.

[Chomag]

Spurs had allot of lazy games this season and yes it's come to bite them in the ass like some of us here thought it would.