ESPN's highlight video uses all Blazers broadcasting.....until they switch to the Celtics broadcast to show Crowder's three. Never seen this happen before. Get your shit together Blazers Broadcasting!
After missing two seasons worth of televised games thanks to the Comcast monopoly, I'm usually just thankful to be able to watch the games. That said, I was yelling at my TV when they missed showing the Crowder 3-pointer. They need to go back to the basics and cover the action. TV broadcasts should be like referees. At the end if the game, if you haven't noticed either one, they probably did their jobs well. BNM
Umm...what? ESPN highlights of a Blazers game, with mostly Blazers highlights? I guess if you live long enough.......
So how many possessions are there roughly in a game? 200 between the 2 teams? And out of those 200 camera shots there were 3 that some of you didn't like and that makes Blazer broadcasting the worst in the business. Makes perfect sense to me.
Even if you weren't talking about me, this offends me as a sports fan with common sense.. You must not watch many NBA broadcasts. "Worst" in the business?
I actually give the Blazer Broadcasting team a bit of pass on the Aminu block; it looked like it was going straight out of bounds... of course, if they hadn't been running a baseline camera during that play, they would have seen Crowder right there to catch the ball, and not gone to the stoppage-of-play reaction camera prematurely. I hate baseline camera plays; there are always a few per game, and they are all invariably sub-par, not because the camera work isn't good for where they are, but because that's not a good view in general for active play. All that camera movement screams 1998 EXTREEEEEME style, used to make up for the fact that 1998 basketball was practically an oil painting. The game moves a lot more now, and uses much more of the court than before; that means the camera work needs to be more conservative, more panned out, more transparent. The game is interesting now, so the camerawork doesn't need to make up for anything.
What's amazing to me is last night late in the game there were a couple of fouls called, Mike and Mike were calling BS, no foul, and with in a few seconds HCP had reviewed and edited the replay and the control room was telling the Mikes it was a foul. Then the replay is shown on TV. Usually before the player steps to the line to shoot free throws.
I know, right? I mean, it's a valid complaint, I'm not a fan of live action from any angle besides the mid-court camera either, but wow, what a bunch of (wait for iiiiiiiiiiit) butt-hurt middle school girls...
Our replay game is generally very good; sometimes they cue up two plays ago and we have to watch that before getting to the replay M&M ae talking about but that's business.
My complaint is on HCPs videos he makes he always uses the same effect, turn everything to black and white except for the color red. The entire video everything is black, white and red. And he never lets me pick the songs.
Yeah every time I see that I think, "Someone is getting their money's worth out of that video plug-in!"
Fair enough on the one camera, but having watch enough league pass to see the product put out in other cities, I think we're spoiled with the best production in the league.
I've been lucky enough to be in the broadcast truck many times and those guys are true professionals.
