Boston leads Mistake Land by 19 with under 11' left in the game.
The first two games in this series were in Beans and the "Celts" won by 15 and 13.
The next to in Lake Mistake. The "Cavs" won by 30 and 9.
The home team in professorial tackle football gets three points by Las Vegas. Doesn't matter if you're FIU playing in front of 6,000 or Michigan playing in front of 106,000, you're given a field goal over the line in the same game played at a neutral venue. Okay, that's college kids, and that isn't much. I don't think it's the same in the NBA but there is some bonus you're going to be given, even in the NBA, just for playing at home.
This series is unusual in the drastic swings between home and away but the home team does have an advantage even in the NBA, even after playing two or three games every year in the same building on the same floor year after year. It bothers and puzzles me that these creme de la creme professionals are bothered detectably by playing in someone else's gym. It exasperates me that this Cleveland team, a veteran championship team and THE GREATEST PLAYER ON EARTH is effected to this degree...By what? The hostile crowd? LeBron James gets that about 50 times a year. This is, I think, his 15th year. Serious?--The lead is now 16 with 2:53 to play--That makes no sense to me. It can't be that. It has to be psychological but then why would not this Einstein of the Hardwood be able to figure out, in consultation with psychological professionals, how to overcome it? I just don't get it and the usual explanations leave me cold. Final: Boston 96 Cleveland 83. Friday night in Cleveland.
The first two games in this series were in Beans and the "Celts" won by 15 and 13.
The next to in Lake Mistake. The "Cavs" won by 30 and 9.
The home team in professorial tackle football gets three points by Las Vegas. Doesn't matter if you're FIU playing in front of 6,000 or Michigan playing in front of 106,000, you're given a field goal over the line in the same game played at a neutral venue. Okay, that's college kids, and that isn't much. I don't think it's the same in the NBA but there is some bonus you're going to be given, even in the NBA, just for playing at home.
This series is unusual in the drastic swings between home and away but the home team does have an advantage even in the NBA, even after playing two or three games every year in the same building on the same floor year after year. It bothers and puzzles me that these creme de la creme professionals are bothered detectably by playing in someone else's gym. It exasperates me that this Cleveland team, a veteran championship team and THE GREATEST PLAYER ON EARTH is effected to this degree...By what? The hostile crowd? LeBron James gets that about 50 times a year. This is, I think, his 15th year. Serious?--The lead is now 16 with 2:53 to play--That makes no sense to me. It can't be that. It has to be psychological but then why would not this Einstein of the Hardwood be able to figure out, in consultation with psychological professionals, how to overcome it? I just don't get it and the usual explanations leave me cold. Final: Boston 96 Cleveland 83. Friday night in Cleveland.
