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lol I can't wait to hear all the "why do you care" and "butthurt, insecure" posts many posters here subscript to.
So I'm watching Sportscenter, and they have a Tirico slobbering while having a sit down interview with Melo and Amare... Spurs and Dallas games highlights are right after and this never ends. Then when they actually get to the highlights it's like 3 plays from each game and done. About 1/4 of the time of the ing interview.
What has this Knicks team done? Especially those two mofos? If Chauncey don't bail them out they would have another loss today... smh
lol I can't wait to hear all the "why do you care" and "butthurt, insecure" posts many posters here subscript to.
They had to keep the highlights short to make room for Jeremy Schaap's ten minute segment on jousting.
For those of you that didn't see it, yeah you read that right. Guys on horses with lances claiming to be athletes.
Personally I think it's pretty ing pathetic.
A team with a 49-10 record, 49-10 ing record, being dismissed like they routinely are. Just when you you think you see everything, you realize you don't.
ESPN is pathetic. Just like every basketball analyst not named Bruce Bowen who is employed by ESPN.
Do you know anything about business? The Knicks are probably the biggest market out there & actually have superstars on their team now. Sorry to break it to you but not many ppl tune into sportscenter to watch highlights of the Spurs. The Clippers probably get more airtime then SA & Dallas haha.
They got Chauncey in the trade. He's a member of the team, an actual team, not some collection of talent. You keep waiting for Chris Paul? Days won't get better than they are with Mr. Big Shot. Watch them slobber up and down him right now. He's got a feature on this episode of Sportscenter. They are re-writing that game to call it a proof Carmelo and Amar'e can co-exist. They are covering the 90s rivalry. It's a new team and they just had a huge win.
Get over it.
I partially agree with Darrin in one aspect. Billups is now getting a lot of attention, and rightfully so.
Billups is a great player, one who plays with fundamentals and has a big set of balls to help him take over games late. Great great player.
ABC/ESPN carries the NBA. Talking down good teams and building up false expectations for teams with big tv markets of casual fans is a recipe for disaster.
Agreed. When the Spurs beat these big market teams, Stern will be kicking his own ass.
The story on the Spurs has been written. The Knicks story hasn't been told yet. They are doing that right now.
So the Spurs are on pace to get close to 70 wins and we have to listen to the 2007 version of their story with "they're old" added to the end? Give me a break.
Residing in NY while being semi-compe ive against arguably the most hyped team in history...blame the ADHD-afflicted "casual" fans that make up the masses (which make up the rating, which fuels the ad rate that the networks can charge, etc.) if you want to blame anyone...the networks (and its minions) are only following the hand that feeds them...
Are you honestly complaining over the Knicks getting some love?
It's been what, a decade?
NBA is in a sense like WWE nowadays..
will make it all the sweeter when the Spurs or Mavs take the le
They should be talking about the Spurs more.
Yes. The book has been outlined--Tim Duncan drafted because of injuries to Sean Elliott and David Robinson. He tears up the league, wins a le in his first two years and adds to the defensive legacy of the San Antonio Spurs. Somewhere in 1999-2003 they got the reputation for not being fun to watch. They are respected, but not liked. Gregg Popovich is a genius. Tony Parker emerges as a 19-year-old and Manu Ginobili is exciting but he's "unique." They are professional, are a small market, and will ALWAYS be among the elite. Therefore, winning 70 games would mean very little until they do it and it will be rolled into montages of the greatest accomplishments of the Spurs. They won't chase down Tim Duncan to get his thoughts on it the way they chase down Kobe Bryant.
How did I find out about this? The 2007-08 Detroit Pistons made some startling changes. The absence of Ben Wallace had left the Pistons will no answer for even Zydrunas Ilgauskas. Everyone but Rasheed Wallace was physically out-matched, but we needed Wallace to help out everywhere else. PJ Brown and Anderson Varejao in consecutive series stepped into that left elbow and hit open jumpshots. I was still writing for fansite and predicted the Pistons were done and wouldn't contend again. Chris Webber had retired after the loss to the Cavaliers and Antonio McDyess--a player who came to Detroit and refused to start at any point in his tenure--was thrust into the starting lineup. Rasheed Wallace turns in his best season as a Detroit Piston. The chemistry that forms between Wallace and McDyess on the defensive end is reminicent of Wallace and Big Ben. It helped them improve their win total by 6 to tie the 3rd-best record in franchise history--59-23.
Everything I just wrote was not on ESPN. According to ESPN, the Pistons had the best starting five and they acted like Ben Wallace was still on the team. They were too busy writing a history of this franchise to see that in the middle of that winning, a anic shift on the Pistons frontline took place.
They are macro--writing a history that will be easy to digest 20 years from now. They are not sports reporting for information you will need for today's matchup.
I love how now everyone thinks NY Knicks are great just cause they defeated Miami.
Tbh I think it is a big deal for them. Everybody was saying with Billups at PG and Amar'e they present big matchup problems for the Heat, which I think they do. I know Amar'e doesn't normally play D but when it comes down to it I think he can make some stops against Bosh, I don't see Bosh doing the same to him. I consider LeBron and Melo a wash. LeBron's obviously the better defender, but he's not gonna stop Melo from getting his points and vice versa. Obviously Wade is a matchup problem for New York, but I think they have the better defenders to throw at him (who guarded him most of the time last night? Fields or Billups?) And say what you want about the whole team being traded, but the Knicks have more quality depth outside of their big three (I include Billups as part of the big three, it's not like Bosh is any better.) Landry Fields, Toney Douglas, and Ronny Turiaf are all three quality role players. Miami has Mike Miller.
I guess the Heat have Haslem when healthy. But Chalms, Arroyo, Joel Anthony, Damp, House, Juwan, Ilgauskas, JJ, and Magloire all suck.
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You sell what people want to buy, otherwise business doesn't go well.
Actually I think it creates a self perpetuating source of subjects for them. If thsoe overblown teams win then they can spend all the time they want inflating them and talking about where they rank amongst the greats (see Most Super Amazing Assist EVAH!!!!!!!!!!) or even better, they lose. Now you get to cover all the angles! Disecting ever syllable of what the superstars say. Does Lebron really mean that the whole team needs to play better, or is that just a secretive way of calling out Chris Bosh? What are guys "sources" saying is really happening in the lock room? WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN??!!?
Anyways, I gave up on ESPN for much of anything intelligent NBA-wise a while ago. It's the same problem you run into with media corporations covering every topic these days. It's all about what sells.
That's the entire problem. If you hype something well, people will usually buy it.
Do you think it's a coincidence that the NFL does an outstanding job of promoting EVERY team in the league, and has stellar ratings and record attendance year after year? Do you think if the Chiefs went to the Super Bowl that no one would watch because they're a small market team? Green Bay is THE smallest market in the league, and yet the NFL has fostered such a good relationship with them over the years that it's a far from a bust when they hoist a Lombardi, and in fact is a boon. Perhaps not a huge as if the Bears, Cowboys, or Patriots won a le, but a positive outcome none-the-less. And there have been plenty of "boring" NFL teams with little to no offense that still got great ratings (the 2000 Baltimore Ravens immediately spring to mind), because the NFL markets their league as a package product, instead of trying to separate the superstars out and push individual accolades on it's fans.
If the NBA had a clue how to market anything else but it's top 5 or 6 franchises, a majority of teams wouldn't be in the red right now. But Stern, bless him, is going to continue to push the individual, the superstar on people, rather than learning from the NFL and saying, "Hey, this is a team, and they're great. Watch them." You could certainly have made at least a palpable argument in the past for whether or not the Spurs were boring, but that really hasn't been true since Manu's emergence. This year's Spurs team has to be one of the most entertaining teams in the league, yet you still hear talk on SC/ESPN about how boring they are. It's baffling. The NBA allows it's own product to be denigrated, then they wonder why Finals rating suffer when said team goes all the way.
the only relevant dude in that team is #4
Why won't ESPN love us
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