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Prob biggest one - then I think it requires home team to find a local (or as local as possible) venue with minimum 400-500 seats. Judging on past history, there are very, very, few teams that bring a v large travelling fan base (& often times they would be higher seed!).

Sam Neter 💸🏀 I think home court advantage is about 4-6 points. Would give the top seed a better chance of winning, so one down side would be fewer upsets (which I think makes for great viewing) Not sure if that’s enough to counterbalance getting more fans in the venue to watch tho

Sam Neter 💸🏀 I’d suggest the execution more than the principle seems to be the problem. NBPC isn’t a great venue in terms of feeling special and it isn’t sold as an event. Obv seeding would only ever apply to POs, not cups. You’d massively penalise ‘away’ fans too or not benefit ‘home’

Sam Neter 💸🏀 In all major basketball countries, a part from the youth elite finals, everything it's a series

Sam Neter 💸🏀 It’s an issue for clubs like ours, we end up spending a fortune to get our teams and supporters to Manchester. We’re lucky to have amazing parents helping with travel costs, but it’s not a level playing field. they should rotate it—one year in the South, one year in the North.

I think that is why you let the home team choose a venue as close to them as possible that meets minimum standards.

Not a bad shout either.

Logistically this is so difficult without clubs owning their venue. Getting late bookings at a good time is very difficult to do and it is why even the pro-league shies away from multi-game series.

🤣 Hotel breakfast this morning was heaving with fluorescent lycra and running shoes

This is a fair point. That said, it would incentivise us to upskill clubs to be able to run their own stream/do photography etc. The goal should be every national league club has decent capabilities for their own game day management and club growth.

Me and Tahir Hajat thoroughly enjoying the Andre Arissol show yesterday

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Brighton Beach court ✅

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