Jazz @ Clippers

[htownfan]

Apr 16, 2024 18:14:24 GMT -8 nuraman00 said:

Apr 13, 2024 6:53:27 GMT -8 htownfan said:

Other teams not named the Houston Rockets. It was their last home game. They had lost 13 straight and were playing their G-League with us playing for a chance to finish above .500.  No heart  on our part.....We played starters, you guys didn't.  We may still get to .500 since I don't see you guys players for most of the game if not at all Sunday evening.

Sorry to hear about your cancer, prayers are with you.

Apr 13, 2024 7:13:58 GMT -8 mistwell said:

Not him I don't think, that's who he spent his day with. Probably related to his work.

htownfan , it's his friend.

See this from a few months ago:

Jan 27, 2024 18:38:38 GMT -8 jglanton said:

I watched the Warriors-Kings game on Thursday in a friend's apt in SF. He's a big Warriors fan and it was his place and he has cancer so I didn't celebrate when the Kings came from behind in the 4th to take the win. But I was making out with a girl in the closet after the game and she was like "It's not like Steph to lose the ball at the end", and I'm like "no baby, I love that you know basketball, lets go to your place". A good game.

Thanks guys!!

[jglanton]

Sorry, just looked back at this thread.
My SF friend with brain cancer and is away on his final trek. My local friend with cancer is a range safety officer at Pendleton and he stops his car to puke several times each way to work. But he won't stop working because he's committed to his job and people.

[nuraman00]

Apr 17, 2024 14:57:50 GMT -8 jglanton said:

Sorry, just looked back at this thread.
My SF friend with brain cancer and is away on his final trek. My local friend with cancer is a range safety officer at Pendleton and he stops his car to puke several times each way to work. But he won't stop working because he's committed to his job and people.

Thanks for sharing.

It's good to have friends.

[nuraman00]

Apr 13, 2024 11:56:31 GMT -8 nuraman00 said:

Apr 13, 2024 9:08:01 GMT -8 mistwell said:

And Nuggets have one of the most important home court advantages in professional sports due to altitude. It was an incredibly stupid thing to not take that game seriously. 

It seems to matter more in the regular season.

Probably not as much when there's 2, 3, sometimes 4 days off between games, and opposing teams have more time to get acclimated.

They lost a game 7 against Portland at home in 2019.  They lost a series where they had home court against Golden State in 2013.

When they played the Spurs in 2005 and 2007, they won game 1 on the road, and lost the series in 5, losing both home games.  Both years.

They lost a series against Utah in 2010 where they had homecourt, in the first round.

And I've said a few times that teams with one All-Star rarely repeat or go deep in the playoffs.  If they had 2 or 3 All-Stars, then they would be more formidable. 

If we cheat a little and say Gobert is Minnesota's 2nd All-Star (he probably got enough coaches' votes to be close to making it), they seem better equipped for a deeper run, to me.

Lastly, there's 82 games in a season.  Denver should not have played below what they think they could, earlier.

I don't know how much I trust this data.  I'm surprised Golden State has played more home games than Chicago.  But if it's true, and we eliminate the defunct teams:

www.statmuse.com/nba/ask?q=home+team+record+all-time+nba+playoff

Sort by win %.

Los Angeles Lakers

Golden State Warriors

Boston Celtics

Chicago Bulls

Oklahoma City Thunder (have they really played 169 home games since 2008-2009?  I don't think it includes Seattle)

Cleveland

Detroit

New York Knicks

Philadelphia

Portland

Houston

Phoenix

Atlanta

Milwaukee

Washington Wizards

Sacramento Kings

Los Angeles Clippers

More are not viewable for free.

So they are not a top 17 current NBA franchise home playoffs team.

Ok, I'm going to manually count the number of Clippers home playoffs games, and see if it matches 72.

I count 62 Braves/Clippers home playoffs games.  So that StatMuse data is off.

I will now manually count Denver's home playoffs record, but use that Stat Muse data as an approximation as to where to place them.

I am counting the NBA only, not ABA.

Ok, Champs Or Chumps seems to be an easier to use site:

champsorchumps.us/team/nba/denver-nuggets

Ok, I manually counted 66 - 46.  That is .589.

If the rest of that StatMuse data is approximately correct, it would put then between Milwaukee and Washington for the 15th best home playoffs record.

Apr 16, 2024 0:50:02 GMT -8 nuraman00 said:

Apr 13, 2024 9:08:01 GMT -8 mistwell said:

And Nuggets have one of the most important home court advantages in professional sports due to altitude. It was an incredibly stupid thing to not take that game seriously. 

Apr 14, 2024 9:13:21 GMT -8 nuraman00 said:

mistwell , thoughts on the Nuggets home playoffs record I calculated? Does not appear to be a top 14 home record all time in the playoffs.

I manually calculated the Nuggets one, while using statmuse as an approximation for the rest of the standings, since I think the data is a little off.

I'll manually calculate the Clippers now:

36 - 33, .5217.

I did include the Braves.

Statmuse had them had 37 - 35.

Bump mistwell ?

Not quoted, but I calculated Denver's home playoffs record all time.  It's the 15th best.

Bump mistwell.

I calculated Denver's all-time home playoffs record.  It's the 15th best by win %.