#Roaracle Gets The Center Of Attention For Game 3 Warriors vs Clippers

Roaracle Gets The Center Of Attention For Game 2 Warriors vs Clippers (Photo: via Reddit)

Here are some recent write-ups and quotes pertaining to #Roaracle, aka Oracle Arena, in the past 48 hours:

Golden State Warriors head coach Mark Jackson:

“It’s gonna be a great environment tmrw night but w/ that being said, they won’t get a stop, they won’t get a score, they won’t make a FT. We’ve got to do our part but certainly understand how great they’re gonna be.”

Monte Poole of CSN Bay Area:

“Here’s what I think the difference is: Four or five years ago, this arena was empty,” O’Neal said, referring to the Clippers recently acquired fan base. “Look at the history of Oracle. Those fans believe in their team. They’ve shown up for many, many years and have very little to show for it. That’s the difference.
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“We have a very intense crowd that really believes in the brand and the product. They are going to do everything they can do to make it very difficult for an opposing team coming in.”
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When a reporter pointed out that Clippers fans left in droves in the fourth, as the team was finishing off a 138-98 victory, O’Neal couldn’t help himself.
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“Our fans, they stay,” he said. “Now me, personally, I don’t care if the Clippers fans stay or leave. They paid their money to come and do whatever they need to do for the team. But I feel we’re going to show not only the Clippers but the world, on a national stage, exactly who has the best fan base in the business. I would be shocked if we didn’t set the tone on Thursday.”

Jimmy Durkin of the Bay Area News Group:

“It’s going to be loud for all 48 minutes,” guard Klay Thompson said. “This is the kind of atmosphere you expect in the playoffs.”
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Coach Mark Jackson was happy the arena’s schedule allowed for his team to practice there just to get reacquainted with the facility. The Warriors will have gone 10 days without playing at Oracle when Game 3 tips off at 7:30 p.m.
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“We haven’t been here in awhile so we just want to make sure we’re comfortable here and get some shots up in our own building,” Jackson said.

Daniel Brown of the Bay Area News Group:

“Like being under the Blue Angels at Fleet Week,” Tolbert said, gazing into the Oracle Arena stands. “The sound totally fills up your head.”
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Tolbert ought to know. For one thing, he spent three seasons as a Warriors forward during that rollicking early ’90s era known as Run TMC. For another, he now works as a KNBR broadcaster and sometimes finds himself struggling to be heard above the din.
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If the house is rockin’, don’t bother talkin’.
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Now, as the Warriors gear up for their first home playoff game of 2014, Game 3 against the Los Angeles Clippers on Thursday, players are hoping fans can again pump up the volume.
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The deafening soundtrack last spring helped fuel a first-round upset of the Denver Nuggets and prompted a new nickname for their home court — Roar-acle.
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“The energy level is probably going to be out of the arena,” said center Jermaine O’Neal, an 18-year veteran in his first season with Golden State. “I’ve heard a lot about the atmosphere and the loudness of it. I know how loud it is in the regular season, so I can imagine what it’s going to sound like in the playoffs.”
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The Warriors are at 6-0 at home over their past two first-round matchups, using a crowd of 19,000-plus to fuel upsets of the Mavericks (a No. 1 seed in ’07) and Nuggets (a No. 3 seed last season). Sports Illustrated’s Phil Taylor wrote at one point during the Nuggets series that “it sounded as if the game was being played on the tarmac at Oakland International.”
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ESPN last year took to showing a decibel-meter during Warriors broadcasts, and the crowd responded with readings that reached the 110 dBs range — about the same as a jackhammer.
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“Sometimes I take my headsets off (during a broadcast) because I want to soak it up a little bit,” Tolbert said. “It gives you goose bumps occasionally when they get going and they sustain it a little bit.”

Poole again on CSN Bay Area:

“We know it’s going to be electric,” forward Andre Iguodala said before practice Wednesday. “But we also understand they’re not going to be able to defend for us or execute for us.
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“So we’ve got to put on a good show for them and be ready try and get two wins.”
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“We’ve always said this is the best arena in the NBA, especially during the playoffs,” he said. “It’s hard to explain to somebody who hasn’t been in here during one of those games.
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“But we can’t come in and expect the fans to will us to victory. We’ve got to do it together. If we don’t take care of business, they won’t have anything to cheer about. But if we come out and play the way we’re supposed to, it’s going to be electric.”