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People like exciting plays generated by poor execution, lax play, defnsive breakdowns and missed assignments. To many that's the highest form of basketball.
Does this mean the Spurs have to replay Game 1?
People like exciting plays generated by poor execution, lax play, defnsive breakdowns and missed assignments. To many that's the highest form of basketball.
It means they have to replay game 5 with Amare and Boris.
This really has nothing to do with the style of ball the Spurs and the Jazz play. Basketball fans everywhere KNOW Tim Duncan and are wowed by Manu.
The problem is, San Antonio is a poor city and a small market, no matter how big a city it gets. And Utah is not much of a market for basketball, either, as evidenced by the Jazz requiring an entire state to get behind their team, rather than being the Salt Lake City Jazz or something like that.
It's a shame, really, because SA plays the best basketball. But it's the same reason the city was in danger of losing its team 10 years ago - it's just not a big enough market to draw in a national audience.
yes very dumbed down basketball, but thats part of the dumbing down of America.
Didn't all home games used to be on PPV in the mid-90s? How about TNT blacking out home games?
PPV and blacking out was always the team's call. I could be wrong but I don't remember its happeneing much after McCombs sold the team.
Didn't the NBA announce this regular season as their HIGHEST average league attendance in NBA history?
Anyone VS Utah is not going to draw a big rating unless it is the Lakers playing them or they make it to the finals and it is the Cavs. Spurs/Pistons will get a pretty good rating, the 2005 series was a good rating not record breaking but good.
When I become a billionaire I am going to distribute television sets to every poor mexican in "tha valley" and west texas, thereby making SA the largest television market in America.
Not an issue as long as the Spurs occupy the ATT, they have to ensure at least all home games are televised or something like that. And no games can be PPV.
Don't think the Spurs/Pistons 2005 got a very good rating compared to other finals. But it doesn't matter, there's not much the Spurs or the league can do about it. L.A and New York could care less about this matchup and the league right now because their teams suck.
Does anyone think that it might be ABC's own coverage that's driving the ratings down?
Don't understand it really but if a sucky heat or laker team were playing the ratings would definitly go up.
It did not get a good rating compared to the Lakers/Pistons final the year before because they are well the Lakers. They have legions of fans everywhere and haters that will tune in hoping they get their asses kicked. The rating was good though compared to other finals. The 2003 finals ratings were awful beyond belief thanks mainly to NJ. Trust me i live in NY and in the papers it is a running joke how nobody gives a about that team. They play in front of am empty arena all season. That is why they are moving to Brooklyn after next year.
RIGHT NOW!
They play in small-markets that are apparently so out-of-touch that in one city, 2Unlimited's "Are You Ready for This?" is played during the player intros, and in the other, Tina Turner's "Simply the Best" was blared through the speakers after the team won in the second round.
To an extent yes because NBC did a much better job promoting the NBA playoff games tieing it in to their major primetime shows as a means of advertising. The NBA on NBC was huge, granted Jordan and the Bulls had a lot to do with it but they overall did a better job handling the games than ABC and TNT. It is hard for people to find the games a lot of time because they are on at weird times on too many different channels.
Blow me, critics. The final score was 108-100, not 70-66. The Spurs are a freaking blast to watch if you know about basketball.
Perfectly said.
The fact is, the NBA is marketed more than any other team sport, on name recognition. Jazz have none at this point. Spurs have Timmay, but he is so professional, he doesn't generate storyline interest. Ginobli and Parker do internationally, but that is neither here nor there.
so it's settled. the league is conspiring to lower its ratings in order to advance the spurs.
blame this on espn/abc...when you constantly call a team boring/vanilla, people will believe it
True if Timmy wanted more ratings he would need to start throwing his teamates under the bus and beating his wife. That would get morons in today's society to tune in to the games more.
To me what's clear is that ratings > rings.
i saw some great basketball played on sunday afternoon. the problem apparently is that it didn't involve a team from a major east coast media market and the biggest star in the game, one of the top 10 players of all time, is known as a focused and undemonstrative team player.
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