The Official NBA Season Thread: Business is about to pick up 🗣️

[pmatic]

31 in the first half for SGA.

 

[rolaholic]

MVP cooking them something nasty tonight

 

[QU!K]

SGA 4 MVP

Nikola who?

 

[dmbrhs]

Starting the game on time, limiting commercial breaks and replay length, and actually promoting your product with positivity and enthusiasm.. that's what the NBA needs.

Okay, the "starting games on time thing" is dumb. Literally every sport does this except the NFL. I went to the Gonzaga game last night. The ticket said 8 pm. The game actually started around 8:15/20. So, even the start time on the ticket is bogus. Coverage from the arena starts at 8 pm, and they want your butts in seats so it looks full by actual tip-off.

 

[dmbrhs]

White privilege in action

 

[big j 33]

I'm speaking from a TV consumer perspective. The size of the crowd doesn't matter to me. When I'm trying to plan my schedule and involve a game between work, family, other interests, it matters to me that the game starts and ends roughly when I expect.

I know when I turn on a soccer match at 9am the match starts at 9:01.

Especially if an idea might be shortening the game but that's not an issue if the game starts on time and doesn't have insane breaks during play.

 

[lawdog1]

Okay, the "starting games on time thing" is dumb. Literally every sport does this except the NFL. I went to the Gonzaga game last night. The ticket said 8 pm. The game actually started around 8:15/20. So, even the start time on the ticket is bogus. Coverage from the arena starts at 8 pm, and they want your butts in seats so it looks full by actual tip-off.

Starting things at the time they’re supposed to start is “dumb”?

You can say you don’t think starting all games at least 15 minutes late isn’t a big deal, but saying that actually starting on time is “dumb” is ridiculous.

 

[dmbrhs]

Starting things at the time they’re supposed to start is “dumb”?

You can say you don’t think starting all games at least 15 minutes late isn’t a big deal, but saying that actually starting on time is “dumb” is ridiculous.

The networks don't lie. They don't say "tip-off at 5 pm". They say "coverage starts at 5 pm", which is when the live arena coverage starts from the announcing crew. You can just count on the tip-off being 15 minutes later on a national broadcast. It's been this way for decades.

 

[dmbrhs]

Speaking of going to Gonzaga game, college b-ball has a problem. The first eight minutes of game play in the first half took less than 15 minutes of real time. The last 12 minutes took about 35 minutes, almost 40. Just TV timeout after TV timeout. Neither team could establish a rhythm, things got so sloppy. It was just terrible basketball, after the great first eight minutes of up and down basketball. The TV timeouts were coming every other dead ball at one point. Only two time outs were called by the teams, and neither team hit the bonus until the last minute, so it wasn't a hack-fest or bad officiating or anything. It was a competitive game, and the TV timeouts ruined the entire flow.

 

[rolaholic]

Wth did Kerr tell them at halftime??

 

[geno90221]

Wth did Kerr tell them at halftime??

Told them Jimmy will be here in 5 days

 

[lawdog1]

The networks don't lie. They don't say "tip-off at 5 pm". They say "coverage starts at 5 pm", which is when the live arena coverage starts from the announcing crew. You can just count on the tip-off being 15 minutes later on a national broadcast. It's been this way for decades.

Yes, the way things have been for decades is usually right. I had forgotten.

 

[moe200069]

Wiggins drove the lane and got contact the same way sga did but gets no call? ******* gawd damn it

 

[freeze]

Does NT keep freezing for y'all? I have to keep closing it out and reopening

 

[rolaholic]

Told them Jimmy will be here in 5 days

 

[rolaholic]

 

[rolaholic]

Does NT keep freezing for y'all? I have to keep closing it out and reopening

Does that while typing up a post for me

 

[freeze]

Buddy isn't drastically better than bronny. They're basically the exact same

Hate that dude.

 

[king j]

Warrior throwing up a lot mid range bs that keep going in

 

[rolaholic]

Some of these shots the Warriors are hitting

Gotta chalk it up to the game at that point even with perfect defense

 

[QU!K]

If Buddy Hield made like 2 more 3s that would be great…

 

[651akathepaul]

Shout out to my man in the Sonics throwback!

Wolves getting their edge back.

 

[moe200069]

Holy **** warriors gonna have to retire #5 one day

 

[moe200069]

Baron on AK47

 

[rolaholic]

GPII