Hoops

Music during NBL games

I got the impression that Boti's main complaint was the loudness of the music.

Koberulz- yeah, Welcome to the jungle during player intros, We Will Rock you for Tip off, Thunderstruck after half time, Joker and the Theif to start 4th, Get up off that thing for the win.

As a long time Cats member the music really doesn't bother me, its there but the basketball fans are there for the game and dont really hear the the music during play. When you have 10k-13k people at a game, not everyone will be a BBall tragic, the music can and does put a soundtrack to the game and keeps them interested.

Until the players say its distracting they should leave it. Bring ear plaugs if you dont like it.

Joker and the Thief, isn't it?

Music can work at basketball games but it has to be limited and you need to have a good DJ that can read s crowd and know how to adjust the music being played to compliment the game. You can't just throw any button monkey in who goes in with a set track listing.

Keep it to building up to start of game/quarters and to ride the crowd at critical moments. Don't want to here top 40 dribble blasting through a whole game ffs

Just have less of it and at times that suit it. Like others have said, some teams have certain songs played at certain times and it gets the crowd up and about. Keep that.

What they can cut down on is the need to have constant music from start to finish with a different track playing for each change in play during the game. Some silence is welcomed, and will allow the crowd to make their own noise if the game is good enough.

Ive been to a couple of NBA games where they only play organ music, and have to say - I think music in basketball is needed because when the crowd is dead, the atmosphere is terrible. Just don't have it for 40 minutes!

Slightly off topic but does anyone know of lachie reid will be back courtside announcing this season?

if there are heaps and heaps of complaints, year after year, I don't see why some of the worst offending clubs (like Perth) don't just try a "silent" game or two and see what the response is.

NBA teams play the well known melodies during play, and blast the proper songs during timeouts. I found that to be distracting as you go from normal crowd noise to 100 decibel dance music at the flick of a switch.

But one of the best moments at the wildcats is when they play welcome to the jungle i think at the start of the fourth quarter

I'm going to back myself and say that the team of myself and my mate "Wild 1" are the best basketball sound technicians/DJs in the country.

We understand that music is to be played to compliment the game.

We also understand that clubs are selling game night entertainment - not basketball (at least that's what the Wildcats say they do).

Music should not be played all game. My old band conductor used to say the best part of music is the silence. It's true with basketball.

A lot has to do with timing and not so much what you play, but when you play it.

The Blitz soundtrack was extremely dated. Granted they had the hard task of playing music for 4 days it wasn't going to be easy, but the just used the same soundtrack over and over.

If you want a "fresh" product you can't be playing random "hits" from decades ago when there's a whole bunch of current pop hits at your disposal.

There's always the issue of differing tastes of music amongst fans and you'll never avoid that. But the best way to tackle it is to not be biased to one genre or era of music and have a broad mix of un-intrusive music.

With the Wildcats it's not so much the guys doing the music, but more so management telling them what they want played.

We'd love to do the Wildcats games - but they have their own agenda.

It was non-stop last year at Brisbane as well but Boti said it was great and enhanced the atmosphere but now he hates it?

I am totally with Boti on this one. The game is the thing, not the music, which often smothers the game and prevents the crowd interacting with each other &/or the game.

Like a lot of things, a little bit well used can add a great deal. Too much can be - and in this case often is - toxic, making the 'game night experience' a negative one with the very real potential to drive/keep people away from games.

bogut 27 points 13 rebounds.

top effort in a 3point win.