i agree with coach rivers on this. i a 5 or 6 game series, the team that earned home-court "advantage" doesn't really have one if the format is 2-3-2.
in the case of a 5 game series, you've played more games on your opponent's floor, and in a 6 game series, you've played exactly the same amount. how is that an advantage?
Celtics' Doc Rivers is no fan of Finals format
The coach says the 2-3-2 setup hurts the team with home-court advantage.
By Jonathan Abrams
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
June 9, 2008
BOSTON -- Lakers Coach Phil Jackson is not particularly fond of the late starts of the NBA Finals on the East Coast.
Boston Celtics Coach Doc Rivers is not particularly a fan of the 2-3-2 format.
The NBA is going to start to think these coaches are a couple of complainers.
With the series now shifting to Los Angeles for the next two games, three, if necessary, Rivers said the format only used in the Finals takes away from the team with home-court advantage.
In other words . . . his Celtics.
"From afar, what I've never liked about two-three-two is you fight all year to have Game 7 at home and Game 5 at home," Rivers said. "Game 5 is taken away from you in this format. We've had three huge Game 5's in the first three rounds.
"All of them have been at home. So that part of it changed.
"But home court is important every game. It doesn't matter if it's Game 1 or Game 2. All your home-court games are vital and key, so it doesn't change the urgency in that way."
