No. I saw an article a while ago (I forget where) about this. The reason
is that Oracle Arena was built with a concrete roof or something like
that which is extremely unusual (and hasn't been done in decades), as
well as being concave. Chase Arena I think has tried to reproduce the
concave-ness, but they can't reproduce the same roof material that
Oracle had. So even materially SF will never be as hard core as Oakland.
:-) -AL

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Warriors: Can Chase Center become “Roaracle” in time to help beat Grizzlies?
Saturday night will be the fourth playoff game the Warriors have hosted
at Chase Center, and the first against the roughhousing Memphis Grizzlies
>OAKLAND, CA – May 16: Fans cheer for the Golden State Warriors as they
take on the Portland Trail Blazers in the third quarter of Game 2 of the
NBA Western Conference Finals at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on
Wednesday, May 16, 2019. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group)
>OAKLAND, CA – May 16: Fans cheer for the Golden State Warriors as they
take on the Portland Trail Blazers in the third quarter of Game 2 of the
NBA Western Conference Finals at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on
Wednesday, May 16, 2019. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group)
By MADELINE KENNEY | mkenney@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: May 7, 2022 at 12:25 p.m. | UPDATED: May 7, 2022 at 12:25 p.m.
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2022/05/07/warriors-can-chase-center-become-roaracle-in-time-to-help-beat-grizzlies/

SAN FRANCISCO – The Warriors are playing postseason games in San
Francisco for the first time in 58 years, but it’s no surprise the new
memories rekindle those from their old home across the bay.

After all, if it weren’t for the frenzied Oracle Arena crowds in Oakland
that helped fuel the Warriors to five straight NBA Finals appearances,
the team might not be playing at its state-of-the-art downtown digs at
Chase Center.

“I think of them both very fondly, and I have great memories of the
other and I hope to create good memories here,” team owner Joe Lacob
said recently. “But I really appreciate all the great new things this
has and I think this is going to be one of the great arenas.”

When the Warriors moved three seasons ago to their new venue across the
bay, many lamented the decision, questioning how the fancy new $1.6
billion super-stadium would compare to the exuberant environment of its
old home. For years, the Oakland arena was considered one of the biggest
home-court advantages in the NBA because of the rollicking atmosphere
and energetic fan base.

After two seasons in which the Warriors failed to qualify for the
playoffs, Chase Center finally is getting its shot as a postseason stage.

Warriors superstar Steph Curry commemorated the occasion by wearing
special shoes for Game 1 of the team’s first-round series against the
Denver Nuggets. Black sneakers, bearing the Oakland name, were a nod to
Oracle.

“We hadn’t been in a playoff series since Oracle so it was kind of a
passing of the torch,” Curry said.

The Warriors won the series in five games, chants of MVP ringing
throughout Chase as Curry stepped to the foul line in the final moments,
yellow-and-blue streamers falling from the rafters at the final horn.

“There were some great moments,” Curry said, assessing the atmosphere
for the first series. “It’s still a young building and environment and
trying to find its identity, but it was loud at times… It’s only going
to continue to get better as the stakes get higher and higher.”

To compare Chase and Oracle at this early stage is like “comparing
apples and oranges,” said Warriors forward Juan Toscano-Anderson, an
Oakland native.

“It’s two totally different venues, two totally different demographics,”
he said. “All good things come to an end, and so I mean Oracle came and
gone, it was what it was and so now onto bigger and better things.”

Bigger and better, at least in terms of atmosphere, is about to happen.
The Warriors host the Memphis Grizzlies on Saturday night in Game 3 of
what has been a raucous series.

Warriors coach Steve Kerr is anticipating Chase Center to be “the
loudest it’s ever been” these next two games. Game 4 is Monday night.

At Oracle, the crowd could generate an extraordinary level of noise,
helped in part by a concave ceiling that reverberated the arena’s sound.
It would get so loud that spectators couldn’t hear their own thoughts
and some would bring ear protection to games even during the regular
season. Thus, it came to be known as “Roaracle.”

Longtime Warriors broadcaster Jim Barnett loved the way that calling the
game from courtside allowed him to “feel the vibrations” when Oracle
roared, and the connection he was able to make with fans from there.

“You got to know people,” Barnett said. “You could look around and get
eye contact, even during the game while it’s going on. And that kind of
feeds you. You feel a part of it and they feel a part of it. There’s a
connection there and it’s kind of magical.”

Still, Barnett said, “If I were a player I’d rather play at Chase
Center. If I were a fan, I’d rather go to Chase Center. It’s a marvelous
place.”

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The team’s departure from Oakland still rankles some East Bay folks,
politicians and fans alike

“Honestly, I have mixed emotions,” said Larry Schonbrun, a retired
attorney from Berkeley who had season tickets at Oracle for 20 years.
“In a way, I want to be a part of that excitement that they’ve still
got. But, in a way, I’m angry at the team that they’ve denied me that
opportunity to go to the games by moving.”

Schonbrun had prime seats in Oakland. three rows behind the Warriors’
bench. Now in his 70s, Schonbrun said getting to San Francisco for games
on a regular basis would have been too much. So were the ticket prices.

Schonbrun said his three seats, roughly $750 apiece at Oracle, would
have been about $1,200 a piece at Chase. Each carried an additional
licensing fee of $75,000, he said.

Oracle Arena will be a special chapter in Warriors Bay Area history. It
is what fans knew and loved for 47 years. It’s where fans supported and
cheered on a team that struggled for most of that period – a true
community and a rarity across sports.

It’s where the team won four championships, including three in the last
decade, and where Curry emerged as one of the best shooters in NBA history.

Lacob said he still has a lot of love for what’s now known as the
Oakland Arena. It’s more of a music venue now. This weekend, while Chase
is hosting the Warriors, the old Oracle will be hosting Paul McCartney.

“Look,” said Lacob, addressing the old and the new, “five (NBA) Finals
experiences, that’s a lot of memories — for me too, and I loved every
minute of it, But I think this is a new place that needs its own
memories created, hopefully this year will be one of those.”

Saturday night looms large, If the Denver series was the soft opening,
this weekend is the grand opening of Chase Center.

“This could be frankly an epic series,” Lacob said of Warriors-Memphis.
“This one and the next one, We [could] play the two teams with the best
records in the NBA: Memphis and, if we get by, Phoenix. So this is going
to be quite the run.”

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Jon Becker and Alex Simon contributed to this report.

Madeline Kenney | Warriors reporter