NEW ARENA BRINGS NEW PROBLEM FOR NETS

The Prudential Center, the new
home of the New Jersey Nets.

The New Jersey Nets and the Orlando Magic are two teams playing with new home courts this season. The Magic seems to have no problem with their new surroundings as evidenced by their unbeaten run during the pre-season games. But for the Nets, playing in Prudential Center will bring in new problems. Gary Etting, a  developmental optometrist who deals in sport-related issues, says going into a new place create difficulty for the players to orient themselves, according to NJ.com.

“Visual ability, especially as far as eyes working together and localization and depth perception, are learned, developed abilities. They have their home court, they’re comfortable, they know where the scorers table is, they know where the bench is, they have a real sense of where that basket is. They go into a new place and for a lot of these people it’s a distraction, and it makes it a lot more difficult to orient themselves and localize where things are.”