Sentences with phrase «a home court advantage»

«You're more comfortable with the home court advantage,» Lindner notes.

After the game, it didn't take sports fans long to speculate that the malfunction was actually intentional to give the Spurs an even bigger home court advantage.

With a roster full of instate players, one team will have a distinct home court advantage at Detroit's Ford Field

Need GS to beat Jazz tommorow and we beat Pelicans then we will be in fourth place and have home court advantage, it won't matter who wins between Jazz and Blazers, a lot of if's though

We have also found that casual bettors tend to overvalue the importance of home court advantage, which has created additional value on visitors.

Furthermore we believed that oddsmakers would continue to overvalue home court advantage, thus improving our overall edge.

Seeding could diminish Davis» case, but that argument becomes weaker when you realize the Pelicans are just 1.5 games back of the Spurs for the three seed and are knocking on the door for home court advantage.

Back at Oracle Arena, if the Nuggets can win and take home court advantage back to Denver, it could shift the series completely.

San Antonio maintained home court advantage with their overtime close - out in Game 2.

The Indiana Pacers look take sole possession of second place in the East while Atlanta looks to get closer to home court advantage.

The Blazers» recent ascent and the hard knocks they've taken along the way have proved to them they don't need home court advantage.

The Clippers are in the driver's seat with home court advantage, but Memphis is poised to rip that from them as they're playing an efficient game and making every possession count with good ball movement and shot selection.

With a 48 - 17 record at week's end, 2 1/2 games better than Seattle's, Utah is poised to gain home court advantage throughout the Western Conference playoffs for the first time in history.

A couple of weeks ago the Jazz were looming out of the playoff picture, they've home court advantage on the first round right now... I'd say just enjoy the moment and free yourself from worries.

I feel sure that the majority of basketball experts are in agreement on the value of home court advantage.

We also think that their strong record was a bit too much based on a spectacular home court advantage — they swept their Big Ten home slate.

I was equally disturbed by the fact that the universities of Villanova and Connecticut were required to play Duke at North Carolina State, which practically amounts to a home court advantage.

I don't care about the home court advantage.

It's the first time the Raptors have been in the playoffs since 2008, and it's been even longer since they had home court advantage.

Knowing that home court advantage has been chronically overvalued by NBA bettors, we opted to narrow our search by focusing solely on road teams.

The Spurs made a late push to barely squeeze out that win, taking back home court advantage.

Murray will not, however, have the home court advantage as he did in 2012 in his home country of Great Britain - which is something to take note of.

I still think the Cavs will get the 3rd seed and we'll get Philadelphia in the 1st without home court advantage.

The fourth - seeded Raptors are 4.5 games ahead of the No. 5 Atlanta Hawks, so losing Ibaka through the regular season won't hurt their odds at home court advantage in the first round of the playoffs.

Although Portland had home court advantage, the evolution and popularity of the 3 - point shot has meant fewer drives to the basket and therefore less opportunity for referees to be influenced by the home crowd.

Sixers win a hard fought six or seven game series over the Wiz, due in large part to home court advantage.

They should be a toughened bunch after last year, when they didn't have Jamal Mashburn most of the time, they didn't know if the team was moving and they had no home court advantage in Charlotte.

Stings to lose home court advantage temporarily but channeling my inner SH to take the longest view...

But they were fully aware, too, that back in 1994, when half of their current players were freshmen, they had overcome New Castle's huge home court advantage and beaten the Trojans in the regional final.

Earning home court advantage throughout the postseason would be huge for Houston.

The first is that the public viewed these teams as fairly equal and were more than happy to bet on whomever was getting points and disregarding any sort of home court advantage.

Considering home court advantage is worth about 2.5 - 3 points, accounting for Cousins value to the spread, the Pelicans should be around a 5 - 6 point dog on Thursday.

The beautiful thing now is there should be no pressure on the Pelicans cause they stole back the home court advantage.

The GB ladies certainly had the «home court advantage, the crowd was really behind them.

Most of these games are played at a neutral site, but the higher seeds actually receive home court advantage in the early rounds of small conference tournaments.

Boasting a higher ranking and home court advantage, Duke opened as a 9 - point favorite at CRIS and, at the time of publication, was receiving 56 % of spread bets.

There has been a general consensus that home court advantage is worth around three points to the spread, although the number varies based on venue.

The truth is that home court advantage should only be valued at around two points, and this miscalculation has created value on visitors.

There was no sense pushing the guys for home court advantage.

For purposes of home court advantage, ties will be broken pursuant to the procedures used for breaking two - team ties for playoff position.

Home court advantage isn't what it once was in the NBA.

If you account for both teams being well rested, the team with home court advantage covers more than 60 % of the time against - the - spread!

To the doubters here... read «Give Birth at Home with The Home Court Advantage» by Dr. Mayer Eisenstein.

Was the Cavs» home court advantage too much to handle for the Golden State Warriors?

But this film, which once again is set in Havana and follows the celebration of the return of a man who'd been in exile for 16 years, sounds like it could see him back on top form, and he does have home court advantage when it comes to Cannes...

Even the BAFTAs, where this film had an obvious home court advantage, only extended four technical nods (the same as the Oscars, except Make Up & Hair instead of Score).

Rosenberg, Karen, A Roving Art Fair Finds A Home Court Advantage: NADA NYC Art Fair at Basketball City, The New York Times, May 11, 2013, p. C7.

The decision marks a setback for the Dallas - based oil giant, which until recently had enjoyed a home court advantage before the bench of U.S. District Court Judge Ed Kinkeade.

The oil company loses its home court advantage before a sympathetic judge who has voiced skepticism over the climate fraud investigations by state attorneys general.

ATRA describes it as a place where local plaintiffs have a «home court advantage provided by locally elected judges.»