Game Thread GAME# 2: ROCKETS @ BLAZERS - DECEMBER 26, 2020 - SATURDAY, 7:00, NBATV & NBCSNW

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I'm not in the minority. There were a ton of posts on twitter about it as well. What makes you think you're in the majority?

 

A) Nobody is upset, I'm answering your questions. You'd know if I was upset.
B)I thought your work was relevant. I was curious if you worked in the industry.
C)I wouldn't say our product isn't liked at all. We have won multiple Emmys for our show, you can't get more liked than that bro.
D)Our "employers" are the sponsors and if they weren't happy with what they were seeing, they would no longer give us money. Apparently they think we do a good job.
You have watched basketball long enough to understand all this right?

 

Fight the Power my man all you want, it ain't going away anytime soon.

 

I just searched in twitter “nba camera angles” and there was only like 10-20 posts from yesterday


A loud minority is still the minority

 

If you are talking about the tweets the guy from Indy posted in his thread last night, c'mon man. I'm quite sure there are tons of people out there don't like it, but jut sit back and enjoy the game. You're lucky this season they are even on the air.

 

We're talking about a change in your product. Your past achievements are not relevant to this discussion.

The NBA has implemented all kinds of stupid things that went away. The tshirt jerseys. The change to the ball. If enough people hate this angle, they will get rid of it.

 

You mean that some in here have a bad reaction to change? That's shocking. That specific camera kind of feels like we're getting the refs' view... unless the ref steps in front for a second but if you've ever had the chance to sit court side you have refs getting in the way every once in a while anyway (so I guess it's like a moving court side view, which is pretty cool). That's probably why after one season with court side seats my friends dad took the same money and got seats a few rows up at half court (it was a better viewing/fan experience).

 

I'm not quite sure where this discussion can possibly go.
The LEAGUE AS A WHOLE have changed the way they do things and you are upset by it and say you will continue to voice you opinion until it changes back to how you like it.
Good luck to you on your quest bro.

 

You guys would have HATED our summer league coverage then. We had Ref cams in their unis....... used a drone and we even did a game with nothing but cell phone cameras! Glad you weren't able to see that!

 

yeah I remember turning off those games because it was so unwatchable. Mission accomplished huh?

 

Shit, the league absolutely loved what we did down there. Won a sports Emmy actually. You watched the Bucks vs Hawks last summer? Was there anything you go t from that game that we did that you liked? Maybe you camped out in your mom's basement wasn't our target audience. Curious what YOU do for a living? Is it as highly scrutinized and what I do? Do people critique your every move? It's easy to fire shots huh kid? I love what I do and except all complaints and critiques. Doing something as transparent as we do is tough work. Just trying to give people on here an idea of what is going on behind the scenes ......then you come along.

 

I’ve been watching the clippers game for about an hour now and I haven’t seen them cut to a courtside angle, and if they have it wasn’t noticeable enough ie multiple possessions at a time. They must not have gotten the league memo to ram it down the viewers throat.

 

Another perfect example of whats up. Dallas is basically taking the Clips broadcast feed and just putting their announcers and graphics over the top.
The Mavs are up 50 and what we call an "end of quarter" rollout.....(the 15 seconds of highlights going to break telling the story of the last quarter) it should obviously be all Mavs, since they ARE up 50 right? But since they are taking the LA feed, it was 15 seconds of PG13 and Nic Batum dunking.
Wonder if the Dallas fan are at home starting threads about it. HA!

 

Dude, I get it. You're proud of your craft. I'm sure you do a great job. You have won awards.

At the end of the day I tune in to watch the blazers. I want to know if they win. I want to see the action. I don't really care what the analysts have to say. I don't need to feel like I'm there. I just want to see what happens.

If you want to show a million angles on replays, go nuts. That's fantastic. Show us every angle of a controversial play. But during the game I just want to see what happens. I don't need to see a weird courtside angle. I get it, this is coming from the league. Well, this is a Blazer forum. I'm going to comment on Blazer related shit.

 

I think everyone might have a new thing or more they find problematic but I would doubt it's the same thing for all of the people that have those problems.

The info you see on Twitter can be very misleading, as I'm sure you know, because it's not quantified in any way so a trend seems like it's data but it's just a collection of separate anecdotal incidents because the trending subject just has to mention the hashtag or word... it could be taking the opposite position or not even be on topic. So unless you have time (which none of us do) to read all of the NBA tweets, sort out the broadcast related tweets, then break those up into all of the different complements and complaints, twitter won't give you any kind of clear view. Wait even if you did that you wouldn't have a clear view because twitter is not an accurate sample of all opinions and is obviously always skewed negative.

The other thing I wanted to say is @THE HCP and all of the people that work with him are artists like you were as a writer so as you know the professional artist has to listen to an editor, producer or the equivalent, who has to listen to a supervising presence like a publisher or department head, that then has to listen to ownership... that can sometimes alter the work you want to make. Then we all have to take into consideration that what @THE HCP and his co-workers do is production art, like journalism (it probably is journalism) or advertisement. They have a client and the client will dictate what the consumer wants... the client (NBA owners in this case) might and probably do have some inaccuracy with their view of the consumer's view but I don't think that can matter to production artists. They seem to have to do their best work while also accommodating some more ambiguous guidelines and then some inflexible marching orders. So we get the best that they can do, which is pretty great even if we have small problems, with what they have.

@Natebishop3 and @THE HCP please let me know what I have wrong. I think both of you add a lot to this forum and appreciate both of your points of view. I've liked the overall viewing experience so far early this season and think it has been fucking amazing given all of the changes being made on the fly.

 

Your doing good job HCP keep up the good work.

 

Talk about outside influences affecting your work......in the past we would get an email or text from Mr. Allen or his reps telling us he didn't like something on the broadcast and wanted to see it differently. For example, on a road trip, I was showing too many Kobe replays...... had to switch it up on the fly even though he was scoring 60 something on us. Cut back on the opposing team's replays. Broadcasting is an interesting craft.

 

Man give HCP a break...
He’s telling you guys why what’s happening is happening....
How many times does he have to say “the league as a whole” is doing this lol

 

Ya, as many know on here, I don't take critiques personally, never have on here. Our show, like any show isn't perfect. I worked for HBO Boxing for 10 years.....literally the best in the biz at covering the Sweet Science.....yet we would get bashed on our productions all the time. Everybody has a right to their opinion a long as it's educated and informed.

 

Thank you.....but god damn it, it's @THE HCP !!!!! HA!