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NHL Off-Season 2016 |OT| My prospects are better than yours
- Thread starter zroid
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it just speaks to Rogers not really identifying the problem
wow
Thank fucking lord.
Strombo and hockey night in Canada is the worst thing in hockey.
Kuro Madoushi
Unconfirmed Member
wow
I don't like the move at all. First, I hate Stromboolluoujloloiush. He provides no analysis whatsoever, seems like he's on Ritalin all the time, constantly interrupts people when they answer, and jeez some of the stuff he says and does just seems cringey as fuck. He's better as an interviewer in a more intimate setting like his previous shows where he can engage with the person he's interviewing and he can do some research beforehand and add to it. He needs to realize he's there as the fucking HOST not the INTERVIEWER and needs to just set things up and let the other people do the talking, even if those idiots happen to be Healy, Kyperos, and MacLean. He just seems like he sticks out in the group of old white guys and has beens talking about a game they barely understand now.
However, Ron is getting pretty fuckin old and I see him retiring pretty much around the same time Cherry retires too. George may have been a choice for the long haul so that a new generation of viewers can grow up with him, but if the execs at the top really want an example of how things should be done, they should look to TSN: thoughtful neutral analysis, lighthearted and inoffensive entertainment, insightful breakdown of plays, and a slicker presentation and style.
People are right that George isn't the reason the ratings tanked, but I honestly think this is a step in the right direction. If it were up to me, I'd make everything a lot flashier, more uptempo, and more focus on the strategies and breakdown of plays along with adding the newer advanced stats in there as well as the usual drama and stories that are usually done. CBC's slant was always on Canadian players, communities, where they came from, and a traditional family viewing environment. Sportsnet just has a bunch of old people yelling at each other.
You pretty much just summed up Sportsnet's Hockey Central at Noon and most of the other things that Sportsnet does as well.
Who the fuck wants to listen to Nick Kypreos and Doug MacLean yell at each other for an hour over pointless stuff? Nobody does.
You can really tell gaf-summer has started, there's too many threads like these coming up: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1236303
Yes please
wow
Thank the hockey gods.
You've had enough prominent young players to piss away in trades!
the second one was really bad...
dr.rocktopus
Banned
gangsta with an a 🔫
haven't seen any yet. But really hoping Piper redeems herself as I hate watching her continually be a shit head
i've only seen the first few episodes but... nope. it's pretty much just that. there's just NOTHING interesting going on.
All canadian teams sucking didn't help... but yeah... when the Leafs outright say they're going to be bad... it's not going to attract ratings lol
CreeperBlocks
Banned
Not yet we haven't!
FUBAR McDangles
Member
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
3 on 3 is the future~
dr.rocktopus
Banned
BigJonsson
Member
Strombo should be moved to Coach's Corner, him and Cherry would be so awkward
Bobs Big Boy
Member
Check out that Australian one, similar but the writing is good - Wentworth? Only, there's no going back.
Trying to convince myself I can sit through a full bball game on tv.
Happy Father's Day.
dr.rocktopus
Banned
It's actually a close game so far though. I feel ok stopping Overwatch for this.
CreeperBlocks
Banned
This is a intense NBA Final game 7
Fata1moose
Banned
Basketball: Only watch the last two minutes and you've missed nothing.
Fata1moose
Banned
Yeah, but not to the same extent as basketball. It seems like teams are relatively close throughout.
dr.rocktopus
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*except this series
You can only say that if all you care about is the outcome, not the individual scoring plays.
e.g. basketball has SO many scoring plays that the outcome is much more important/exciting to anticipate than each individual scoring play, and missing a scoring play e.g. in the 2nd quarter doesn't matter.
In hockey/soccer, each scoring play is much more rare so if you only watch the last 2 minutes of a 1-0 game that stays 1-0, you missed everything that happened. whereas if you watch a basketball game that is 110-110 with 2mins left and ends 121-119 (and there WILL be scoring in the last 2 minutes, that much is guaranteed), you got the most important part of it.
Fata1moose
Banned
Smelly gets it.
Fata1moose
Banned
If you touch another player then it's a foul.
It's almost too easy to foul the opposition. Basically, almost every contact is called a foul. It really slows the game down.
Yea, I don't know if this is normal, but the reffing seems ridiculously tight. The never ending fouls interrupt the great flow going on.
CreeperBlocks
Banned
OH it's normal. I think NBA Referees are the worst in sports.
There were some bullshit calls from the Toronto and Cleveland series. Biyombo Blocked Lebron and he got a foul no reason
HE CLEARLY BLOCKED HIM, it was ridiculous
Well it is technically a non-contact sport.
Calamari41
41 > 38
Everyone is allowed to have one conspiracy theory, and mine is that basketball is fixed to the extent that if it were revealed that the players were receiving direct orders in the locker room, I wouldn't be surprised.
are we talking "go out there and play hard" orders or "at exactly 13:20, punch LeBron in the face" orders?