That’s what you want in a basketball arena. Steep seating sections provide an intimate setting where fans feel on top of the action. This also heightens cheering volume. Players and fans love both those aspects.
Sitting at mid court in the top back section at Schollmaier you feel too far from the court for a 6700 seat arena. The pitch is not ideal.
Houston too rid their circular shallow slope seating and stacked it on the court through a renovation. Their arena was bigger so they had space to do that and still have a reasonable number of seats.
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