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Originally Posted by Bayliss
And two evenly matched teams, home court is extremely important. Just see Utah as the example to that. They suck on the road even though they are just as good as any of the other teams liker Portland, Phx, Houston. Portland is another example of that too. Great at home and poor on the road.
HCA is going to be huge once again this year in the west. It will mean nothing in the East until Cleveland, Boston, Orlando play each other.
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Why do you say HCA is going to be huge "again" in the west? When was it huge before? The Spurs beat the Suns no matter who has HCA. Utah has beat Houston two years in a row with Houston having HCA. The Warriors beat the Mavs without HCA. In fact, most of the series where the team with HCA won, the team with HCA was clearly better anyway. In most of those series, you could take away the higher seed's HCA and they'd still win (ex: Hornets-Mavs last year).
Like I said, HCA is overrated. Yes, teams obviously play better at home than on the road, but HCA doesn't give you an entire series at home. Regardless of when a series ends (4, 5, 6, or 7 games), the team with HCA had, at most, one extra game at home. That's really not that big of a deal. The better team will win most of the time anyway.