Updated: May 28, 2002, 6:34 AM ET
Four more playoff questions you
were afraid to ask
There's no place like home. There's no place like home. That's where the Nets' Kittles shoots 52 percent from the field and 44 percent from long range compared to 40 percent from the field on the road and 35 percent from long range. It's also where Jason Kidd averages 11 assists per game compared to 8.7 on the road and where Keith Van Horn scores 16.2 points per game compared to 13.3. Center Todd MacCulloch scores 11.8 on 56 percent at home but tallies only 7.6 points on 47 percent on the road. Top defender Kenyon Martin collects 1.9 blocks in friendly confines and 1.3 outside of them while Richard Jefferson, Lucious Harris and Aaron Williams shoot 73 percent, 90 percent and 76 percent from the free-throw line at home and 69 percent, 78 percent and 63 percent on the road, respectively. Those are the eight players who the Nets use to double stuff boxscores with six, seven and sometimes eight players in double-digits. It should come at no surprise that the Nets' road record during the regular season was a very mediocre 19-22. And it gets worse. Despite winning the Eastern Conference by two games, there were still four EC playoff teams with better road records. Every Western Conference playoff team had at least 19 wins, five of them 21 or more. During the regular season, between Feb. 27 and March 13, the Nets lost seven road games in a row. Against teams that would move on to the postseason, they were 9-13 on the road. While in the playoffs, they are 2-3 with one more in Beantown after having already lost homecourt advantage. And if they survive the Celtics, they'll start in either Arco or Staples, er, frying pan or fire and, if they get to seven games, where they'll finish, too.
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