Sentences with phrase «home court advantage»

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.
I feel sure that the majority of basketball experts are in agreement on the value of home court advantage.
In the one off game with no real home court advantage to speak of, the scales have to be tipped slightly in their favour, say 45 - 55.
Previously any division winner was guaranteed a top four seed and home court advantage in the first round.
We have also found that basketball bettors tend to place too much weight on the importance of home court advantage, which has created additional value on road teams.
But even with home court advantage over the No. 8 Washington Wizards, the Raptors on Saturday evening will look to make history of sorts.
Back at Oracle Arena, if the Nuggets can win and take home court advantage back to Denver, it could shift the series completely.
With a roster full of instate players, one team will have a distinct home court advantage at Detroit's Ford Field
The Spurs made a late push to barely squeeze out that win, taking back home court advantage.
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.
Stings to lose home court advantage temporarily but channeling my inner SH to take the longest view...
The Clippers» win puts them in good position to take home court advantage as they head into the playoffs.
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.
Their top four scorers are all 24 - years old or younger, and they may have the best home court advantage in basketball.
We'd gain home court advantage, defeat our road bugaboo and plant the vulnerability seed in the collective mindset of our opponent.
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...
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.
Furthermore we believed that oddsmakers would continue to overvalue home court advantage, thus improving our overall edge.
In late January, ESPN published an article detailing how home court advantage in the NBA is not as valuable as it once was.
San Antonio maintained home court advantage with their overtime close - out in Game 2.
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.
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.
«We had a team that wasn't as good, then we were fighting to get to 40 wins, fighting to get the eighth seed, fighting to get home court advantage, and each year we seem to get further and further.
I still think the Cavs will get the 3rd seed and we'll get Philadelphia in the 1st without home court advantage.
What's more, after playing to the league's smallest home crowds in 2001 - 02 (average attendance at the Charlotte Coliseum: 11,286), this year the Hornets figure to have a true home court advantage at the New Orleans Arena (seating capacity: 18,500).
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.
If we assume NBA home court advantage is worth about 2.5 - points, it's reasonable to expect the line for tonight's game would be at least 10 - points closer than their previous matchup.
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!
Was the Cavs» home court advantage too much to handle for the Golden State Warriors?
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.
ATRA describes it as a place where local plaintiffs have a «home court advantage provided by locally elected judges.»
We have also found that casual bettors tend to overvalue the importance of home court advantage, which has created additional value on visitors.
Cleveland is a city hungering for a championship and I do not think there will be a bigger home court advantage than one will see tonight.
Many people consider Wisconsin to have one of the nation's best home court advantages, but our research indicates that since 2005 they've gone just 71 - 70 ATS at home.
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.
The Spurs can still technically wrap up home court advantage throughout the playoffs, which is incredibly important since they haven't lost at the AT&T Center all season.
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.
«You're more comfortable with the home court advantage,» Lindner notes.
«There is a home court advantage in building a business in the same place as Amazon, for instance,» Sandler says.
As the home of four professional sports franchises — the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers, the NHL's Los Angeles Kings and the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks — STAPLES Center has proven to be a home court advantage for the local teams.
Here at Bon Appétit, we're definitely not afraid of a good challenge, and so we invited Flay to come face off in our Test Kitchen (that gave us a home court advantage because no, guys, he's not actually our new editor - in - chief).
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
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.
The Indiana Pacers look take sole possession of second place in the East while Atlanta looks to get closer to home court advantage.
But home court advantage was not on their side.
home court advantage when you have at most 3 games left at home and the blazers also have 3 game left at home (at most) I mean, I get that the Blazers LOST home court advantage, but did you actually get it?
I think having a home court advantage would be a huge benefit and we've been great on neutral courts the last two seasons under Dixon.
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