I don’t agree, either.
1. The upper deck was roped off and only the lower bowl and club level seats were allotted but it looked bad on TV. I wish they would’ve done something like giving season ticket holders who have attended at least 75% of games the closest seats tonight.
2. Joe C picked this specific game against a team that is a few months removed from playing in the national championship game. In mid-February. He couldn’t have anticipated just how huge the game would’ve been circumstantially, but the other factors (opponent and date) were controllable.
3. He cited 8pm games specifically as being hard to get to for fans.... but I have heard WAY more complaints from fans about 6pm games being hard to get to on weekdays. Wouldn’t a 6pm game in a more central location (assuming more people work IN OKC) make more sense for the experiment?
4. We shoot worse when we aren’t at home (especially Brady, whose outside shooting we need the most) and that held true tonight in the Peake. We shot 21%. Thankfully, our defense was stellar and that didn’t hurt us.
I know we are all are upset about attendance and we could all write novels about it. I do appreciate Joe C trying to help, but this game wasn’t it.
Silver lining is that it did really feel like a neutral conference tournament game, so hopefully that means we will play better in March.
