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Well said.
Well said.
John Wooden could not have designed or coached a better game to shut down LeBron & drain the Cavaliers momentum...The performances of Daniel Gibson, Drew Gooden, Sasha Pavlovic and Anderson Varejao kept the game respectable...
What, LeBron F'in James didn't bring in the viewers?
Guess that means the leagues marketting strategy blows.
Wait, we already knew that...
If ABC wanted better ratings they could have done things differently.
Manu has a masterful fourth quarter to take over a game against the Jazz and the ESPN question the next day is "Is Manu ruining the NBA?" Guys like Mike & Mike or Tony Kornheiser, who clearly have to go to bed before the game is even on come in in the morning and repeat what they read in the papers, usually from people that don't like the Spurs bad mouthing what they do. Why would anyone that isn't watching the games tune in for that?
The whole idea with sports is to try to get non sports fans to tune in. If someone that doesn't know basketball is told that a team plays ugly basketball they won't watch. If ESPN puts Kobe Bryant's emotional breakdown and Alex Rodriguez' stripper girlfriend as the headlines and buries the NBA news, why would they expect there to be any excitement generated?
ESPN has done a great job of severely damaging the NHL because they are on another network. It seems like they'd have been smart enough not to do the same thing to a sport that they themselves are showing.
On an upside we did have a better rating than the final game of the NHL Championship.
Psst: Nobody was watching the Cavs Pistons series. After his 48 point game everyone acted like they'd been watching it all along and that it was great basketball. They weren't and it wasn't.
Yeah I even heard one of the ESPN guys say that they have seen better high school and college games than some of those in that series. I wonder if Cavs fans were even watching or did they give up before it even started.
Well, we watched it and thoroughly enjoyed doing so.
I'm really supposed to GAF about this?
Amazing. Considering that ESPN is carrying the games, that's a really stupid observation for one of their people to make. ESPN has a track record that they themselves out at the drop of a hat and are slaves to the almighty dollar. Because of that, there's no excuse for their complete inability to generate any excitement for the NBA finals. Look how few NBA related shows they have on Classic. , they had a week of leadup before the finals and it still looked like they threw everything together at the last minute. It's like they just pray that the Lakers make the finals every year so that they don't have to do any work on their own.
However low the ratings were to begin with, you know America collectively slammed down the remote in frustration at the end of the third and went to bed.
The rest of the United States can bite me.
ABC/ESPN sucks! The only thing they are good for is Monday Night Football, baseball, and tennis. Oh and recapping.
When NBC was in charge of the Finals broadcast they didn't seem to have trouble getting ratings. Maybe it was cause they put the game on at a good time. Or maybe it was because they didn't do stupid things like the "sound effects choir," and other stupid campaigns to "garnish our interests." ABC/ESPN's director of Basketball broadcasts needs to be fired, someone young needs to be put in, and they need to think before they fill the airwaves with crap. Then they will get good ratings.
Banking all of ratings on one person is re ed. For Christ sakes if I didn't know better I would of thought LeBron was dead, they were playing tributes to him left and right and he hasn't done anything yet. Kobe has more credibility then LeBron cause he's got RINGS!
Right now I'm thinking the NBA should move to NBC, or Fox at least that way it wouldn't suck as hard as it does on ABC. FOX can back it up with FoxSports.
It has been that way since MJ left the Bulls really. If they would promote teams as a whole more and not just individuals (LeBron, Kobe, etc) maybe they would do better. They did that more in the '80's with the Celtics, Lakers, 76ers and such.
If the Disney networks could actually promote sports properly, Monday Night Football wouldn't have moved to ESPN.
Would it really be terrible if the NBA Finals went to TNT?
Seriously. I know it would suck for those who can't afford cable, but that's the only real issue to me.
Bottom line: If low ratings causes ABC to lose the NBA, is that really a bad thing?
hahahah DAMN THE MAN!!!
It's still just one game.
However, since many believe it's a foregone conclusion that the Spurs will win this series easily, it just won't capture casual viewers attention unless Cleveland can even this series after 4 games.
Stranger things have happened, but I'm not expecting choke like proportions like the one we saw in last years finals.
If the finals were on TNT.......the championship would be friggen MORE awesome. I can hear Barks and Kenny now.
What? The 80's were all about the Magic/Bird rivalry. Do you think the Laker/Celtics would have gotten as high ratings if not for those two?
NBA has just been lucky to have 2 decades of great stars drawing in the casual fan.
Too bad for the NBA that Duncan is not a self-promoting egotistical maniac.
Good for the Spurs he isn't.
The one silver lining for the NBA - Tony Parker is ready to explode. He's young, has Eva Longoria, and scores points. If I were the NBA, I'd be talking to Tony about some promotional vids.
The bad side: He's French. Americans for some reason hate the French, even though they helped found our country and gave us the Statue of Liberty.
Go figure.
What kind of argument is this?? All the games will be in the central timezone which is just a 1-hour difference from east coast! Does every game need to take place in the east coast just to appease some about start times? Apparently east coast people just can't stay up a bit.
You can tell he doesn't like the lack of media attention he gets, so he certainly has the potential to turn into that kind of persona.
And it's mutual, the French hate Americans just as much, if not more, than Americans hate the French
I blame Lebron. The guy had zero dunks in the game. Boring!
East Coast has basically 2/3rds the US population. You have to appease them for ratings. The West Coast has a large portion as well, which makes it hard to apease both sides.
But 9 is not a bad start time for the east coast, and you can't move the games forward more than 30 minutes or so without having a hard time with the west coast.
Hey man...great, great post. It's beyond bizzare that the NBA is covered the way it is. Especially when compared to other sports.
Extactly!!! Monday Night Football should be on a broadcast network.
Not at all they would know how to do the Finals right. Everyone I know prefers TNT's crew to ESPNs
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