Be gone...Great, another crybaby thread.
People have cried because LeBron is a great player and now they cry because Spurs will play game 5 on the road and game 6 at home instead of the opposite.
Maybe Spurs should play against a crappy team with all games at home ?
Is that your default argument? Go away? Begone?Be gone...
Not much of a challenge...
This question comes like clockwork every two years.
Actually, it was only in 1975 and 1978.1975 Golden State-Washington and 1978 and 1979 Seattle-Washington finals were on a 1-2-2-1-1 basis
Now that sucks. The home team could drop the first game, then have to face the next two on the road (which is what did happen to Washington in 1975). Or even if it won the first game, it could be down 1-2 after three games.
And posters think if they're incensed enough about it that the NBA will change this decades old policy for their convenience or preference.
Look man, why are you pushing it? I've never intended this to be an arguement/debate. It was a simple post. Yet, I get asuch as yourself just itching to start a debate. Get over it. Grow up.
It's just a battle for momentum, and in this format the team with a better record gets a head start. Theoretically, the "Better" team (Spurs) would win the first two games because they are played at home. This momentum can then be parlayed into a possible win on the road in game three. To counteract this advantage, the worse team is given an extra game at home. The final two games are a wash because if they are played, they will be played on emotion moreso than skill. Both teams have a relatively fair shot in game 6 and especially 7.
I still think the format provides an advantage to the better team, but it is a small one and largely negated by the simple difference in talent level between the conferences. If both teams were identical, the 2-3-2 format would benefit the team with the better record, slightly. But teams are not equal. The champion will be the better team, regardless of the format. 2-2-1-1-1 is the same as 2-3-2 if team A is decidedly better than team B.
The Spurs' banners say "NBA Champions".
There...fixed it for ya...
It's a message board. When you express your opinion, people are going to push back. If you don't want that, start a blog.Look man, why are you pushing it? I've never intended this to be an arguement/debate. It was a simple post. Yet, I get a
Whatever you say, man.
they're world champs bcuz the best players in the world play here in the states.
and on this format topic. only gripe i have about it will be if the spurs dont win the series @ home. like in 99. but other than that i dont give a flip
I know the 01 Lakers did it also.
2-3-2 was originally about the teams and the media not wanting to travel so much from East/West coast during the Finals.
I think it's a horrible format and it sucks that after five games, the team with homecourt has played more on the road than at home.
Thanks TampaDude, sometimes I'm a lazy SOBThere...fixed it for ya...
so what? in soccer, when a european team wins the Champions League (the main european tournament), nobody's gonna claim we're the world champions (whereas the best players play in Europe)
that's just arrogance dude
arrogance is good... builds strong character. the best players in the world play in the nba... look how many different countries are represented on the spurs alone.... the best the world has.
The NBA is the place to be for any good basketball player, and I love it man...
But let me tell this: the world champs are spanish...
And if they had to play the NBA champions to become the world champs, then they probably wouldn't be the world champs.
OK, man.
for sure kori... It's 1000 times harder to be the NBA Champs... no doubt about that.. but the World Champs are still from Spain...
You can call them the World Champs if you want - but unless they played the NBA Champions, then you can't dub them the best team in the World.
And, I know someone told you in this thread, but the Spurs don't call their previous championship teams "World Champions", they call them "NBA Champions".
Different story here...
the spurs are NBA champions, world champions, texas champions, european champions, american champions....
I looked into this with an old ESPN Almanac.
There have been 22 NBA Finals since the NBA switched to 2-3-2 for the '85 Finals. The team with home court won 16 of those series. The 6 non HCA teams to win are:
'85 Lakers over Celtics
'93 Bulls over Suns
'95 Rockets over Magic
'98 Bulls over Jazz
'04 Pistons over Lakers
'06 Heat over Mavs
The only one of those 6 teams to not at least split one of the first two on the road was the Heat last year. The '93 Bulls and '95 Rockets took both of the first 2 games on the road.
Since the '85 switch the HCA team wins 73% of the time. I wonder how that compares to the 2-2-1-1-1 format.
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote