Home Court Advantage

[Megatron]

This team cannot beat the Lakers without HCA again, im sorry. Lets not underestimate how good they are.

I feel that even if the Bulls overtake us for the #1 spot that we will still be able to beat them beacuse we are the better team, but it will still be a tough 6-7 game series.

Without HCA we will not get by the Lakers this year, and it will unfortunately end with another Game 7 loss.

The stats are just so skewed in the team with HCA favor when it comes to the finals, and we need every advantage we can get.

[droopdog7]

Man, I was just going to post the exact same thing.  I would love to have HCA against the bulls and think it is worth going for.  But we absolutely NEED to have it against the lakers. 

So really, go Heat tonight.

[CNYCeltsfan]

This team cannot beat the Lakers without HCA again, im sorry. Lets not underestimate how good they are.

I feel that even if the Bulls overtake us for the #1 spot that we will still be able to beat them beacuse we are the better team, but it will still be a tough 6-7 game series.

Without HCA we will not get by the Lakers this year, and it will unfortunately end with another Game 7 loss.

The stats are just so skewed in the team with HCA favor when it comes to the finals, and we need every advantage we can get.

I agree with this entirely but another reason we need NCA against anyoen from the west is the 2-3-2format of the finals which as we saw last year allows the refs to give two straight games worth of calls to the home team.  Really the most likely chance a lower seeded team to win in that format is 4-1, by taking the one fo the first two games and sweeping at home.  Winning 3 games in a row is tough, winning them against a powerhouse like the lakers is even tougher.

[BballTim]

This team cannot beat the Lakers without HCA again, im sorry. Lets not underestimate how good they are.

  Disagree.

[Marcus13]

The Bulls play soo much better at home than on the road that it'd  be nice to have.  Their lack of a 2-guard should make them beatable tho regardless.

No way are we beating Miami or LA without HCA tho

[BballTim]

The Bulls play soo much better at home than on the road that it'd  be nice to have.  Their lack of a 2-guard should make them beatable tho regardless.

No way are we beating Miami or LA without HCA tho

  What exactly has Miami done lately that would lead you to believe this?

[Marcus13]

The Bulls play soo much better at home than on the road that it'd  be nice to have.  Their lack of a 2-guard should make them beatable tho regardless.

No way are we beating Miami or LA without HCA tho

  What exactly has Miami done lately that would lead you to believe this?

Using a 6-game sample over the course of an 82-game season isn't very telling.  Let's please remember that this team also won 21 of 22 games during a stretch this same season

[BballTim]

The Bulls play soo much better at home than on the road that it'd  be nice to have.  Their lack of a 2-guard should make them beatable tho regardless.

No way are we beating Miami or LA without HCA tho

  What exactly has Miami done lately that would lead you to believe this?

Using a 6-game sample over the course of an 82-game season isn't very telling.  Let's please remember that this team also won 21 of 22 games during a stretch this same season

  How many top teams did they beat during that 22 game stretch? How many top teams did they beat outside of that 22 game stretch?

[Megatron]

This team cannot beat the Lakers without HCA again, im sorry. Lets not underestimate how good they are.

  Disagree.

How so?

The team with HCA wins the finals something like 74% of the time.

Thats huge. To brush that off as nothing would be ignorant.

We need HCA. Period. Point Blank. We have 20 games left, Lakers are 3 games behind us in the loss column. These last 20 games determine the title hopes.

[CelticSooner]

The Bulls play soo much better at home than on the road that it'd  be nice to have.  Their lack of a 2-guard should make them beatable tho regardless.

No way are we beating Miami or LA without HCA tho

  What exactly has Miami done lately that would lead you to believe this?

Using a 6-game sample over the course of an 82-game season isn't very telling.  Let's please remember that this team also won 21 of 22 games during a stretch this same season

That 6 game sample pretty much removed them from the home court discussion. They don't have much of home court anyways. Unless you count people showing up fashionly late.

C's don't need home court to win a championship. The margin for error would be a little greater with it than without it though. Health seems to be this team's biggest weakness.

[BballTim]

This team cannot beat the Lakers without HCA again, im sorry. Lets not underestimate how good they are.

  Disagree.

How so?

The team with HCA wins the finals something like 74% of the time.

Thats huge. To brush that off as nothing would be ignorant.

We need HCA. Period. Point Blank. We have 20 games left, Lakers are 3 games behind us in the loss column. These last 20 games determine the title hopes.

  So, are you saying that we can't beat any team in the playoffs (or the Finals) without HCA?

[Marcus13]

but

[ACF]

The Bulls play soo much better at home than on the road that it'd  be nice to have.  Their lack of a 2-guard should make them beatable tho regardless.

No way are we beating Miami or LA without HCA tho

We've beaten Miami three times (twice in Florida, if I recall correctly) this season and we split the series vs. LA, winning in Los Angeles. That should speak for itself, really.

[Marcus13]

The Bulls play soo much better at home than on the road that it'd  be nice to have.  Their lack of a 2-guard should make them beatable tho regardless.

No way are we beating Miami or LA without HCA tho

We've beaten Miami three times (twice in Florida, if I recall correctly) this season and we split the series vs. LA, winning in Los Angeles. That should speak for itself, really.

But it really doesn't.  Half of our roster has changed since those wins

[BballTim]

The Bulls play soo much better at home than on the road that it'd  be nice to have.  Their lack of a 2-guard should make them beatable tho regardless.

No way are we beating Miami or LA without HCA tho

We've beaten Miami three times (twice in Florida, if I recall correctly) this season and we split the series vs. LA, winning in Los Angeles. That should speak for itself, really.

But it really doesn't.  Half of our roster has changed since those wins

  Aside from Perk, it was pretty much the half that didn't play. Is changing Quis/Semih/Luke/Nate for Green/Sasha/Arroyo/Murphy going to kill our chances of winning?