We're talking about a change in your product. Your past achievements are not relevant to this discussion.
The NBA has implemented all kinds of stupid things that went away. The tshirt jerseys. The change to the ball. If enough people hate this angle, they will get rid of it.
I think everyone might have a new thing or more they find problematic but I would doubt it's the same thing for all of the people that have those problems.
The info you see on Twitter can be very misleading, as I'm sure you know, because it's not quantified in any way so a trend seems like it's data but it's just a collection of separate anecdotal incidents because the trending subject just has to mention the hashtag or word... it could be taking the opposite position or not even be on topic. So unless you have time (which none of us do) to read all of the NBA tweets, sort out the broadcast related tweets, then break those up into all of the different complements and complaints, twitter won't give you any kind of clear view. Wait even if you did that you wouldn't have a clear view because twitter is not an accurate sample of all opinions and is obviously always skewed negative.
The other thing I wanted to say is
@THE HCP and all of the people that work with him are artists like you were as a writer so as you know the professional artist has to listen to an editor, producer or the equivalent, who has to listen to a supervising presence like a publisher or department head, that then has to listen to ownership... that can sometimes alter the work you want to make. Then we all have to take into consideration that what
@THE HCP and his co-workers do is production art, like journalism (it probably is journalism) or advertisement. They have a client and the client will dictate what the consumer wants... the client (NBA owners in this case) might and probably do have some inaccuracy with their view of the consumer's view but I don't think that can matter to production artists. They seem to have to do their best work while also accommodating some more ambiguous guidelines and then some inflexible marching orders. So we get the best that they can do, which is pretty great even if we have small problems, with what they have.
@Natebishop3 and
@THE HCP please let me know what I have wrong. I think both of you add a lot to this forum and appreciate both of your points of view. I've liked the overall viewing experience so far early this season and think it has been fucking amazing given all of the changes being made on the fly.
