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re: Have you stopped watching / following a sport? If so, why?
Posted on 1/5/17 at 8:10 am to CRDNLSCHMCPSN11
Posted on 1/5/17 at 8:10 am to CRDNLSCHMCPSN11
quote:Marv Albert and Mike Fratello still call games.
I gave up on the NBA years ago when ESPN started cramming it down our throats. Was really good product when NBC had rights. Marc Albert and Mike Fratello calling Bulls/Knicks, Bulls/Pistons, Pacers/Knicks was as good as it got. Bob Costas and Pat Riley in the NBC studio. Then Julius Erving and Peter Vescey replaced Riley. NBC was willing to show multiple games at the same time. So the whole country wasn't stuck with one game. That awesome NBC intro music was downright beautiful and very catchy. Teams like the Suns and Magic wore badass alternate uniforms with creative logos, and boring script was less prominent. NBA Inside Stuff on Saturday mornings at 10:00 with Ahmad Rashad and Summer Sanders was quality TV. Game has become soft as hell. Very few or no rivalries. Players ignore mid range game. Offenses are just half court oriented. Players sitting out games and bitch about not getting enough rest, despite that never being a problem in the '80s and '90s. And now selling hideous ads on uniforms. So frick the NBA. Don't miss it at all.
Inside the NBA is way better than Bob Costas and Pat Riley.
NBA Inside Stuff still has new episodes that come on.
Offenses are not half-court oriented at all. That was the 90's. The pace was extremely slow in the 90's. The game is fast today.
You're just cranky.
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Posted on 1/5/17 at 3:54 pm to PrimeTime Money
Albert still calls games for TNT. Haven't seen Fratello on TV in ages since TNT hired Miller and Webber as analysts. The NBC national broadcasts back then blows ABC's broadcasts of today out of the water. Mike Breen and Mark Jackson are really average. Yes, Bob Costas and Pat Riley were a helluva lot better to listen to at halftime than Sage Steele and Michael Wilbon. Inside the NBA is good, but for those that cut cable, they can't watch it. The best thing about NBA Inside Stuff was you didn't need to have cable to watch it. Now, I have no idea what channel to find it. Probably hidden on NBA TV. I don't find today's game fast at all. I still see the same boring half court offenses as I did years ago.
I'm not "cranky" at all. I just tell it how it is. The cold reality is, NBA used to be a much better product. Now it fricking blows.
I'm not "cranky" at all. I just tell it how it is. The cold reality is, NBA used to be a much better product. Now it fricking blows.
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