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Home Court Advantage?
Posted by: Andrew on December 29th, 2010
The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of the Utah Jazz.The Jazz have always been known at winning most of our games at home. The past 4 seasons we’ve been pretty dominant at home: 31-10, 37-4, 33-8, 32-9. Pretty good at home i would say. But this year we’ve already lost 6, completely uncharacteristic of the Jazz, even more uncharacteristic is the fact we are 10-4 on the road.
Since we went 37-4 at home 3 years ago, we’ve fallen off at home every year but have gotten better all but 1 year on the road and having the first winning road record in 8 years, last year. It may be we are just still looking for that chemistry on the court while at home or the fact that we just love getting down by 10+ every game, but they need to turn it around at home and finish the next 24 games (at home) 20-4 to keep us in the 30 home wins category and still keep it up on the road.
If we keep up the current pace we’ll be 56-26 (home: 26-16 road: 30-12, approximating) Great road record, but last year the Celtics were the only playoff team to have a better road record than home record. It’d be great to have a 30+ road record but the home needs to be there too, getting 60+ wins would be fantastic, and it looks like to get the 1 seed we’ll have to get 60+ to beat the spurs.
Jazz have to find the home court problem and fix it now.
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Great post.
Little question for ya.
With AK out will G-Time start or will CJ?
CJ’s out too (sick) Hayward will start. 106 minutes for: Bell, Price, Watson, Hayward (average 63 per game..)
CJ’s flu won’t last too long. I’m feeling maybe two more starts for Gordon Hayward, against the Blazers and the Grizzlies. Depending on if he played like he did in L.A. last night, I think Sloan could use this interchangeably, depending on who we are up against.