Lillard's and Aldridge's relationship. (He will come back Portland one day)

The intro music would always be some Hans zimmer piece I’ll tell you that right now.

 

We don't go to replays during LIVE action. Do you mean during a replay, they happened to inbound the ball?

 

There are times a graphic or a replay is up, and they inbound the ball or shoot an FT or something and I miss the play. At least to me, It's not that big of a deal (most of the time) but it happens here or there.

 

I need to be way more critical of you so I can get to watch a game with the media crew heh.

 

Gotcha. Ya, every now and then we pass up on seeing a random FT in order to get a graphic up. But if the guys are talking about Dame's career 3pt% for example the graphic guys like to back them up with a graphic instead of showing a Thadeus Young free throw.
As far as action starting in the middle of a replay sequence..... that shit happens. Watch TNT tonight or college hoops on ESPN tomorrow. We have no control over that. Unfortunate, but the refs don't have headsets on with our producer to see our broadcast traffic and when we are back from replay. That said, it happens what, 1 or 2 times a game at most......and we do probably 100 replays a night. Not too bad of a ratio if you ask me.
Curious if anybody at work makes 1 mistake every 100 times you are attempting to do your job? I think some might.

 

I'm BEGGING you guys to watch the other teams feed for a month if possible and then get back at me. There are some pretty rough broadcasts out there trust me.

 

I certainly make mistakes, but you asked a question I just answered it. Do you guys have most of those graphics ready before the game or are you throwing them up at runtime?

 

You're just trying to keep him away from the Mrs during a broadcast.

 

100% this. There are broadcasts by certain teams that I can't even watch.

 

Interesting. This got me thinking if this could be quantified.

Here's a look at % of shots assisted over the years for the Blazers (FGA/Asts).



The Blue line shows the % of shots assisted. You can see that the trend starts at around 29%, and is currently at about 25%. There is no denying it, there is more iso play in today's NBA game than there use to be.

I also added the Blazers WL% to see if there was a high correlation between % Assists and Wins. There is a correlation, but it doesn't significantly sway the % Asst trend line.

Now I can confidently say "In the good old days, when I was a your age....."

 

Both..... there is a show rundown that is laid out on what everybody wants to talk about, but every now and then they throw something together real quick if the announcers bring it up. Very fast on the fly.

 

I hope this isn't abusing your skills too much, is there a "how many passes" per possession graph?

 

That's abusing my skills.

I'm sure that data is available somewhere, but I tried to keep it at a high level.

 

Glad we got to the bottom of that.

 

Lol, I really appreciate your skills.

 

Most of the time, I do watch the other teams broadcast (as I don't like listening to Kevin).

There are some TERRIBLE broadcasts put out by other teams. There are also some excellent ones. I'd put Blazer's broadcasts slightly above average (as long as I have it on mute).

 

Totally respect that.

 

It's going to happen this offseason

 

"Aldridge will make $24 million next year, and co-star DeMar DeRozan has a $27 million player option. Near the NBA's trade deadline, the Spurs were rumored to be shopping Aldridge, but rival executives suggest the Spurs "overplayed their hand thinking they were supposed to get some giant package for him," one NBA executive said.

The Spurs could shop Aldridge again this offseason. Aldridge had repaired his relationship with Blazers superstar Damian Lillard, and one agent suggests the Spurs could ship him back to the Blazers."