Why do NBA teams suck on the road?

Case in point, the Sacramento Kings. They have a good team and a couple of superstars. Their bench rolls deep team. Yet they just cannot get it done on the road. They're 24-14 at home, but just 12-28 on the road. As a professional athlete, I would expect some sort of consistent production regardless of the venue that you're playing in. Are NBA players really THAT rattled by loud stadiums? When I goto games I agree it can get quite fking loud. But still, cmon. You're paid millions to drown it all out.

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Watch this episode of Sports Science....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkqowzcoo...

See what you think. However, the player in the vid is not a PRO. Millions doesn't change the fact that they are still human beings. It's definately mind over matter and you need nerves of steel. They have better vision, concentration, reaction times, and overall athleticism than the AVERAGE person.

Sacramento has the one of the LOUDEST venues in the NBA. Maybe the others aren't loud enough. LOL

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Distance travelled on an airplane has a lot to do with it (staying in a hotel rather than at your home and being smashed into an airplane seat for hours as a tall person rather than relaxing on your couch at home etc.)

The other factor is that refs don't like to be booed any more than any other person on earth - the home team ALWAYS gets 1 or 2 calls at home that they wouldn't get on the road because the refs don't like being hated any more than anyone else. No knock on the refs, but it's just human nature.
Not the Celtics..,
to simply answer your question, that's because the home team is more adept at their own court. that is where they usually practice, that's why the home team will always feel much better playing at home rather than at the road.
not all NBA teams suck on the road...just your SAC kings do! lol
Look at the travel schedule with the NBA teams vs any other league. Its brutal. Football plays once a week with one day of travel. Baseball plays series of games in the same time on a road trip to another city. Hockey is the same way, even when they do play different teams they are scheduled close together. Like NJ then NY the next couple days.

The NBA sucks if you go on a 4 game road trip in say 7 days, you have a travel time of 3 days. Thats less than 24 hours to get accustomed to any time differences, get some sleep if you can't sleep on a plane, go over film, address the media and practive every time you play a different game.
What superstars?
TThey are tired of traveling for a couple of hours! Some are Jet Lagged! They dont get enough time to practice on the other teams court so their not used to it..Fans insult you! in the case of the kings! they just dont have enough talent to get it done! theyre a young experienced team who hasnt reached out their potential!
Take this analogy: You are from Sacramento, you have a game in Washington. You walk from Sacramento to Washington. Do you think you will win that game after doing the miles walk?
there are calls that the hometeam gets and the road teams doesn't get. that's one factor that affects the outcome of the game. also, the crowd. i mean, if your tired and you hear people cursing you during the game, it adds up to your fatigue.
Yeah, living in California has not been kind to me. I am a Cavs fan, we moved from Ohio and the Kings have been doing awful on the road. And finishing out games has always been an issue apparently. I watched a few of their games and they lost all of them despite holding leads in the fourth quarter. I dunno why it's so hard, maybe because the other team has a lot more confidence and is willing to try more things on offense and defense. I have never understood this either.
No, they aren't rattled it's just that the home teams get that much energy from the crowd. The Suns looked good tonight and guess what? They were on the road at the Spurs
Home and away records are nearly even with the league when you count them all up.

And of course there are a bunch of other factors as to why a team loses.