PSA: GOD DAMN BLAZERS BROADCASTING CAMERA ANGLES

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This needs it's own thread. People talk about it all the time in the game threads but this needs to be on the front page.

HCP, PLEASE for the love of god stop changing to the overhead/weird camera angles during live action.

Just tonight, I remember missing the Ed Davis steal on the inbounds because Blazers Broadcasting decided to switch to the overhead cam while guys were running back.

The most pivotal (and the last straw) fuck up was showing a close up of Aminu's stupid face on a offensive rebound tip out while Crowder hit a critical 3 to give the Celtics the lead going into the final minute of the game. Why in gods name did you need to switch to a cam of Aminu's face while the play was still going???

PLEASE do something about this.
 
The cameras are always too tight, too zoomed in, and too happy to go to TNT camera angles.
 
I don't mind overhead angles for a play or two, but I do dislike the baseline ones on a fastbreak. Even a Courtside-sideline cam would be better.
 
Yes yes yes. It's too distracting. Completely ruins the flow of the game for the viewer. I've literally not once not ever enjoyed any of the alternate angles. Maybe on free throws.
 
Get rid of the overhead camera and use the saved money to buy rice more beers and popcorn and let's get the party really crackin
 
They totally missed the Ed Davis steal I'm watching the replay
 
BengalDuck said:
Haralabos Voulgaris ‏@haralabob 2h2 hours ago
Haralabos Voulgaris

Worst game director of all time. Missed the 3 completely.


Even Haralabos was shitting on the production today.
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He shits on them all the time. Yeah the Ed Davis steal was missed and the crowder 3, basically just heard mike Barrett call it. It's frustrating. All I heard was mike say "blocked but right to jae crowder, he takes the three...", with a minute left, shouldn't be missing that shot. Don't know who's in charge but it's gotta be changed. Too many plays missed this season, it's not something that drives me that crazy but in certain situations yeah
 
Strenuus said:
I have no idea who this guy is and why he is important.
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I think he's been a guest on Bill Simmons podcast and is a high stakes professional gambler who watches lots of NBA games.
 
Cippy91 said:
He shits on them all the time. Yeah the Ed Davis steal was missed and the crowder 3, basically just heard mike Barrett call it. It's frustrating. All I heard was mike say "blocked but right to jae crowder, he takes the three...", with a minute left, shouldn't be missing that shot. Don't know who's in charge but it's gotta be changed. Too many plays missed this season, it's not something that drives me that crazy but in certain situations yeah
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Yeah its really bad. We don't need to see close ups of players face reactions. Who has ever been disappointed they missed that?

Blazers production is trying to get way too fancy and cram so much shit in the game we can't watch the actual game. Half the audience have DVR or league pass or such if they really want a replay. When they don't show us a play its so very frustrating it negates 30 excellent replays. When game action stops do whatever replays you want. But as soon as an inbounder has the ball show me the damn game.
 
@HCP knows the issue. He has brought it up to the director Jeff Curtin as per him. I have tweeted @ him, MB, Rice and Chris McGowan multiple times. I've been bring this up since a month into the season.

0 shits are given.

I at least have a choice of broadcasts with LP Broadband, and have switched to the opposing team so many times. But keep switching back to listen to Rice. Clearly a mistake. The overhead camera angles and the Aminu close up on the most important play of the game was just emblematic of what's been going on all season.

Fuck Blazer broadcasting. Worst in the business, and that's saying something with shit teams like OKC/MEM/NOP/MIL in the league.
 
I gotta agree, the camera angles do piss me off.
 
Cippy91 said:
He shits on them all the time. Yeah the Ed Davis steal was missed and the crowder 3, basically just heard mike Barrett call it. It's frustrating. All I heard was mike say "blocked but right to jae crowder, he takes the three...", with a minute left, shouldn't be missing that shot. Don't know who's in charge but it's gotta be changed. Too many plays missed this season, it's not something that drives me that crazy but in certain situations yeah
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It's "Jeff Curtin."
https://twitter.com/Jeff_Curtin


 


ESPN's highlight video uses all Blazers broadcasting.....until they switch to the Celtics broadcast to show Crowder's three. Never seen this happen before.

Get your shit together Blazers Broadcasting!
 
After missing two seasons worth of televised games thanks to the Comcast monopoly, I'm usually just thankful to be able to watch the games. That said, I was yelling at my TV when they missed showing the Crowder 3-pointer. They need to go back to the basics and cover the action. TV broadcasts should be like referees. At the end if the game, if you haven't noticed either one, they probably did their jobs well.

BNM
 
B-Roy said:


ESPN's highlight video uses all Blazers broadcasting.....until they switch to the Celtics broadcast to show Crowder's three. Never seen this happen before.

Get your shit together Blazers Broadcasting!
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Umm...what?

ESPN highlights of a Blazers game, with mostly Blazers highlights?

I guess if you live long enough.......
 
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So how many possessions are there roughly in a game? 200 between the 2 teams? And out of those 200 camera shots there were 3 that some of you didn't like and that makes Blazer broadcasting the worst in the business.

Makes perfect sense to me.
 
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SlyPokerDog said:
So how many possessions are their roughly in a game? 200 between the 2 teams? And out of those 200 camera shots there were 3 that some of you didn't like and that makes Blazer broadcasting the worst in the business.

Makes perfect sense to me.
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I actually give the Blazer Broadcasting team a bit of pass on the Aminu block; it looked like it was going straight out of bounds... of course, if they hadn't been running a baseline camera during that play, they would have seen Crowder right there to catch the ball, and not gone to the stoppage-of-play reaction camera prematurely.

I hate baseline camera plays; there are always a few per game, and they are all invariably sub-par, not because the camera work isn't good for where they are, but because that's not a good view in general for active play. All that camera movement screams 1998 EXTREEEEEME style, used to make up for the fact that 1998 basketball was practically an oil painting. The game moves a lot more now, and uses much more of the court than before; that means the camera work needs to be more conservative, more panned out, more transparent. The game is interesting now, so the camerawork doesn't need to make up for anything.
 
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