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Lol. Bobby jackson tribute night.
Please indulge me while I rant a bit.
It was supposed to be "fans night" on NBATV and the Spurs game was supposed to be the network tilt. However the network elected to make several decisions to hamper the game-watching experience.
It seems the NBATV network geniuses decided to interrupt the Spurs telecast at various intervals to provide "bonus coverage" of other games around the NBA. They broke in to show the end of the Knicks/Celtics (who cares). Then the network clowns decided to do a total cutaway to broadcast the final minutes of a close ball game between OKC and Utah. To compound the issue, instead of switching back to the Spurs game during commerical breaks, they elected to stay with the Utah game until the very end.
If that wasn't enough, the network decided to provide so much extended pregame studio coverage, that they were late covering the start of the Spurs game. In fact, by the time they joined, the game about 2 mins in. Furthermore, coming out of each commerical break, they feel compelled to constantly switch back to the studio to get expert commentary from Ernie Johnson, Chris Webber & Kevin McHale. Which really amounted to nothing more than these clowns joking about what they saw and relating game events to the "good old days" when they played.
Finally, I lost still more Spurs game coverage when the Kings announcers (we were forced to sit through their call for this game), decided to invite Bobby Jackson courtside for a live, in-game interview. Boy, that was a nice touch.
The NBATV telecasts are a freaking joke. As a League Pass subscriber, I expect to get the game of my choice in its entirety. I didn't sign up for this crap. i didn't know if anyone else had the same issue.
This concludes my rant.
Lol. Bobby jackson tribute night.
I'm ticked too. If they feel they have to cover another game, use a split-screen. To break away entirely from the game I'm paying to see is just wrong. I want to see every minute of the Spurs, it's the reason I pay for LP and NBA TV.
well said! senorspur
Agreed, if I wanna watch a different game I'll switch to that channel, that's what league pass is for, right???
lol bobby jackson
This also just in: Water is wet and the sky is blue.
I get pissed off with how 4-letter does the same thing at times to our team. Like when winning 05, they cut to PJax saying he's coming back to coach the LAL...WTF?
Games on NBATV do tend to suck ass because you don't actually get to watch the entire game. They will have EJ, McHale, and Webber talking about the game and then EJ will say something like "let's get you back to the action already joined in progress" or something. They need to do what Versus and NHL Network do and just show the damn game. When Versus and NHL Network show a game using a regional sports channel's feed, they usually only cut away from the game during commercials and the intermissions. And another thing that is annoying is how NBATV tries so hard to put their logo over all of the regional sports channel's logos and graphics when a game is on.
I'm more or less okay with them cutting away for thrilling finishes, but what's crazy is how much time they devote to these bums chatting amiably about this 'n that while the game is clearly going on. I don't want NBATV to hear McHale and Webber's thoughts. I want to see the game.
I hate the extended split screen with the NBATV gang giving us unnecessary insight. Couldn't even tell what the was goin on in the game. NExt time, vote no for Fan night. LP please. Props to the broadcasters in SAC. Good stuff.
Next time they have a 'fan night', we need to organize and vote out the Spurs from their telecast. I was incredibly pissed off too.
If by 'insight' you mean chatting up how did Nate Robinson did in his return to the garden, then they can shove it up their asses.
Yeah, but great to see Mchale around. I like what he says...but we don't have to see him talking bout whatever.
Yeah it's especially annoying when you have LP BB and not NBA tv and can't watch the game. Thanks NBA!
NBA league pass is such a useless product, seriously. I'm saying straight up - a service that blacks out games if they are shown nationally or locally is worthless to me.
Actually, I'm really talking about NBA LP broadband.
An infinitely more useful service would be one (that you pay for, legally) that allows you to watch any game over broadband, regardless of national/local televising.
I would pay $300+ per year for such a service.
NBA LP broadband has been such a useless piece of to me it's disgusting. Never buying it again.
the commentators from SAC where terribleone of them was cleary a redneck hahha what an accent! it was like different language
How did San Antonio vs Sacramento get the vote?!?
I'm glad that game on NBA TV was blacked out in SA. So I saw it in SSW.
God I hate Webber. He hasn't even been retired long but he talks like he actually did something in his career. We just finished watching you suck ass like 2 years ago....
Completely agree with the OP on all points.
A split screen would have been nice during the in studio chatting. I can understand them cutting away to the end of the Jazz-Thunder game when Spurs-Kings were in quarters 1-3 but no excuse not to do a split screen when they were close in the 4th.
That said, I don't hate Webber, Mchale and EJ...they aren't bad.
Lmao! Agreed 100%.... He Talks Like He Was The Greatest Power forward To Live.... All The Guy Was Shoot Jumpers.... 6'10 Jump Shooter.... Wasnt any better then Matt Bonner His Last 2 years...
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