Home court advantage waning

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  1. KingSpeed

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    Over the last decade, home team won 60% of games but only 53% this year. I looked at the standings and was surprised to see NINE teams have as good or better record on the road than they do at home. Especially Chicago. They are 13-11 at home and 16-6 on the road. Zach Lowe says refs are calling game more fairly for road teams this year. Thoughts?
     
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    Interesting. I wonder how much of this is attributable to the new replay system. It would seem to reduce/overturn the number of late game questionable calls that have traditionally gone in favor of the home team. The saying used to be "ball don't lie" should now be "video don't lie".

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    My first thought of course was the end of Stern's NBA.

    But the instant replay idea also has merit.
     
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    I think that will change the close we get to the end of the season and in the playoffs.
     
  5. KingSpeed

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    Instant replay is a good point. Refs aren't influenced by crowd when determining who it was off of like they used to be.
     
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    Yeah refs now have to call it more honestly at the end of games, which does help some, but they can still be a deciding factor on some questionable foul calls or non-calls.
     
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    Good timing: there were six games in the NBA last night (Tuesday 27th) and the visitors won every single game.
     
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    Remember the early 90s playoff runs where we would win by 20 at home and get slaughtered in Utah, Phoenix, Seattle, LA, etc.? Back then, it seemed like whoever had home court advantage was bound to win in 7. The last couple years, it increasingly feels like either team can win a playoff game regardless of home court.
     
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    Its funny when I first saw this thread title I honestly thought it was referring to a potential slide in the standing and losing HCA
     
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    I love how people try to compare the David Stern era to the NEW Adam Silver era. How many years was David Stern commissioner again? When David Stern became the NBA commissioner he brought the NBA back up just like Silver is trying to do. It's way to early to say Silver has it fixed.
     
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    Not to mention Stern is still the man behind the curtain, advising Silver on the daily.
     
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    Is it being affected by eastern teams who are so bad they lose a ton of games at home?
     

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