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hoopie

Years ago

Suitability of basketball and AFL for TV

Introduce defensive 3 second calls to clear out the key?

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Camel 31

Years ago

The weekend emphasized something we already knew - AFL freeflowing and NBL stop and start .
I'm very lucky to have a remote control this good to flick it around when there's timeouts and freethrows or I just get bored .

Is Ten/one pulling our collective legs ?
SBS do their sport pretty good .

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PlaymakerMo

Years ago

The NCAA and NBA do a great job finding breaks in the action to show replays and advertisements.

They have replays ready to go almost incredibly quickly after a dead-ball situation - Ten's are usually one replay behind and sometimes don't bother to wait for a dead-ball which pisses me off.

The highlights put together from the current game for a team or individual player(s) are fantastic in the US - the NBL highlights to end a quarter are usually (but not always) missed layups, fouls, players/coaches complaining and cheerleaders being ogled by the cameraman.

The NBA in particular manage to fit advertisements into the breaks between a foul and free throws, stoppages in play and even highlight packages e.g. The Sprite Play of the Game - the closest I've seen to this is actually at the 36er games when they announce "player X is sponsored by ____".

We've seen an emergence of betting advertisements within the AFL's coverage (not just in the ad breaks) which is very smart business for both sides.

The AFL's coverage is world class and entertaining in itself for my liking, even disregarding the actual game: when the Cometti and co. are covering a blockbuster the quality is comparable to the NFL's.

The quality of NBL coverage couldn't be comparable to the best in the world at this stage, but could easily be much better by innovating. Ten/ONE's coverage is appalling for the most part IMO.

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