Cheering at a game is great fun — but it's important to know WHEN to cheer to avoid hurting your own team.
In a typical game, most episodes of very loud cheering begin immediately following a score. When the good guys make that key basket — Crowd Goes Wild. Problem is: the thing that immediately follows any made basket is, naturally, defense.
The net effect is that much of the very loud cheering in a typical game happens when the home team is on defense.
And that's bad news for the home team.