Every night, NBA.com chooses the Play of the Game as well as the day's best Assist, Dunk, Block and Steal. It's usually based more on individual artistry than significance, the more thunderous dunk, the more precise the assist, the more electrifying the steal usually wins out. Looking through the list, it turns out that the Nets may have the most exciting group of players in the NBA. Twelve players have been featured in the NBA.com Top Plays five or more times this season. Three of them are Nets: Vince Carter with five appearances, Jason Kidd with eight and Sean Williams with 10. Williams in fact is third in the league, after Josh Smith and Kobe Bryant, each of whom have 12. Tied with Williams is Lebron James. Others with five or more appearances are: Marcus Camby with 6; and Tracy McGrady, Kevin Garnett, Amare Stoudemire, Caron Butler and Dwight Howard with five each. Williams is of course the leading rookie. Kevin Durant is second with four. Richard Jefferson, Boki Nachbar and Antoine Wright all have one each.
What does NBA.com videos have to do with anything? Every night they miss a play that was better than the one they show and their countdowns are always wrong. Boki Nachbar, Antoine Wright and honestly even Richard Jefferson aren't exciting at all to me.
Their recaps blow. They show 2-3 highlights from each quarter, and if you didn't look at the game score, you wouldn't even know who's leading. The whole recap is just fast-forwarded, and you really don't get a sense of what the game was like. As for the what you're saying I agree, but NBA.com would rather show the most exciting plays in order to attract a larger audience than give credit to where it's due.
Sounds like the Nets marketing driven model is working. Who cares about wins as long as the team is exciting. Exciting sells more Brooklyn luxury boxes than wins do
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (playaofthegame @ Jan 5 2008, 04:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>What does NBA.com videos have to do with anything? Every night they miss a play that was better than the one they show and their countdowns are always wrong. Boki Nachbar, Antoine Wright and honestly even Richard Jefferson aren't exciting at all to me.</div> The Nets are mediocre. Anything positive will be clung to
Sean Williams is pretty exciting. I won't deny that I enjoy seeing him on the court, whether the Nets are winning or losing. Of course, I'd rather see 'em winning than to see highlights.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (o.iatlhawksfan @ Jan 5 2008, 05:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>LOL something is wrong, Josh Smith isn't nearly the exciting player he used to be.</div> How? He has the best blocks in the league.
He still has nice blocks, but he NEVER dunks the damn ball anymore, even on breakaways the idiot chooses to do a lay-up! If he can block shots at a high level, you know he's plenty capable of dunking on everyone in his path, but no he doesn't want to be labeled a dunker!!! Look at these dunks from last season, tell me have you seen one dunking highlight from him this season? <div><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4y_Ps6dSWnM&"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4y_Ps6dSWnM&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350" /></embed></object></div>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (o.iatlhawksfan @ Jan 5 2008, 06:10 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>He still has nice blocks, but he NEVER dunks the damn ball anymore, even on breakaways the idiot chooses to do a lay-up! If he can block shots at a high level, you know he's plenty capable of dunking on everyone in his path, but no he doesn't want to be labeled a dunker!!! Look at these dunks from last season, tell me have you seen one dunking highlight from him this season? <div><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4y_Ps6dSWnM&"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4y_Ps6dSWnM&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350" /></embed></object></div></div> I love checkmate.
