Depth perception, hard and soft rims, lighting in the arena, hot and cold are just a few reasons that home cooking is so important. James Harden for example is a tremendous shooter and superstar in the NBA but there are some arenas that he has more problems putting the ball in than others for different reasons...
And that’s also why you here people say “defense travels” Offense has a lot of variables.
This is simply untrue. No travel and shooting where familiar are still advantages. It's why home teams are winning still like 57% of the time. Down from normal sure but still plenty of an advantage.
8 were normal rotation players. I live 90 minutes from Louisville and follow them closely. They were hampered by the layoff big time, but Nickelberry was only real player missing and that was due to injury. All teams have injuries as we saw last season.
