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From: JohnnyB
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Date: 1/22/2010 7:16:36 PM
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I am Greek so i will go with Asigratinos to win it all. (by the way asigratitos means the one that you cant hold)

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Date: 1/23/2010 4:28:59 AM
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Let's hope he lives up to his name

I want what all men want...I just want it more.
From: brian
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Date: 1/23/2010 2:35:17 PM
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It's hard to predict anything but a home sweep, all these teams are too evenly matched to assume that HCA won't be the deciding factor in all of them.

"Well, no ones gonna top that." - http://tinyurl.com/noigttt
From: jbmcrock

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Date: 1/23/2010 5:16:37 PM
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It's hard to predict anything but a home sweep, all these teams are too evenly matched to assume that HCA won't be the deciding factor in all of them.

agreed. any away win would be a considerable upset.

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Date: 1/24/2010 3:42:34 AM
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If this is the case, which I grudgingly agree with, perhaps the HCA modifier needs some modification.

Once I scored a basket that still makes me laugh.
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Date: 1/24/2010 3:47:49 AM
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Certainly has been discussed I believe to play the BBB-matches on neutral courts, why aren't they (from the first rounds)?

!zazhigai!
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Date: 1/24/2010 5:54:07 AM
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As I started thinking about this, I started thinking about the NBA playoffs. I did a little googling and found some eye-opening stats.

It seemed like home-court advantage was pretty important last year. The Celtics and Lakers, the two top seeds, combined to go 23-2 at home during the 2008 Playoffs. Boston's only loss at the Garden came in Game 2 of the conference finals against Detroit, and the Lakers only loss at Staples Center came in Game 4 of The Finals.
from: (http://www.nba.com/2009/news/features/john_schuhmann/04/1...)

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Last season the Celtics needed a seventh game at home to squeak by in each of the first two rounds. Maybe even more telling, 14 of the 15 series were won by teams with the home-court advantage.
from:(http://www.covers.com/articles/articles.aspx?theArt=16945...)

So, maybe it's not so out-of-whack.

Once I scored a basket that still makes me laugh.
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Date: 1/24/2010 6:00:30 AM
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What you are missing here, is that the HCA, is taken by the best teams during the regular season, playing against each other. Something that cant be said here isnt

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Date: 1/24/2010 6:30:47 AM
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Oh, is that how it works?

My point was not about how to decide home court advantage. It was that home court advantage is and should be an advantage. Whether or not it should be used in B3 is a different question. Since there is no arena revenue for B3 games, I think it could be cool to have the B3 played in random gyms. Does seem like it would even the field.

Once I scored a basket that still makes me laugh.
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Date: 1/24/2010 6:35:43 AM
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Yeap i agree with you. What i wanted to point before is that HCA has smaller effect in the NBA comparing to BB. You said that 14 of 15 play off series were won by the team with the HCA. No argument here, but usually those teams are the best anyway.

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