Basketball Home Court Advantage
I am getting ready to watch the Boston Celtics later today, and although I have lost interest in basketball over the years I have to support the team in green. But is there even a reason to watch? The game is at home and from what I have seen in the playoffs the home team has a huge advantage. I believe their has only been one game that has been won on the road this series by any team.
Is having the crowd on your side cheering for you that much of motivation? I would have to say it is somewhat but not enough to make every home team invisible. I believe the officiating is the problem, the home team gets way more calls in a game and actually effects the outcome in some of them.
I think the officiating in basketball is worse than any other sport by far. Well if the Celtics lose today I guess my theory will be proved wrong. We will see what happens.
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I caught your post almost a year later, but if you are still interested in the answer there is around 2-3 points from a neutral court to a home court, meaning a 5 point swing from away against a team to home against the same team. Hope this helps!
Jack
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I find the NBA officiating to be the most biased of all the major sports towards home court advantage.
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Something must change in the NBA to make the officiating more consistant. It is hurting the image of the image of league.
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The Officials of the NBA should really do something about it. It’s not good that their referees are sometimes being biased over some teams. But, let’s not all be generalized when it comes to Home court advantage and officiating.
I find the NBA officiating to be the most biased of all the major sports towards home court advantage.
The officiating of basketball games has both
good points and bad. It was shameful for that
referee to get caught betting on games. Heck, who knows what else is going on. It also seems that if
the ref messes up on a call, they later make a call for the other team to make up. Well the saying that nothing is perfect, especially basketball officiating.
I was so happy when Boston won last year but this year I was totally disappointed because there are lots of injured players. By the way, I agree with admin, I must admit that basketball is one of most biased sports. It’s really hard to gain credibility specially in this kind of sports, and are you gonna trust an official if you see him betting?