This needs to catch on

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[Scalma]

DE-FENCE

 

[Minstrel]

That's a great idea. The video and audio that stadiums play is usually pretty lame anyway. If I were in charge, I'd maybe play some stuff, like highlights, during breaks in the game and otherwise leave it silent other than the sounds the players and crowd make.

 

[e_blazer]

I don't know about this. I'm imagining a tense free throw situation and The HCP breaking wind like a Clydesdale.

 

[riverman]

The fans should be the entertainment soundtrack! otherwise it'd be a lot of squeeking shoes and dribbling with swearing and and whistles

 

[julius]

Well, in the old days there wasn't a constant barrage of videos, music and entertainment. And I'm fairly certain we fans knew when to cheer or boo, or get behind the team.

 

[Haakzilla]

...debut this for the entire playoff run at the Rose Garden (even if it's only for 2 games)!

 

[riverman]

For years my wife and I never missed a Friday night home game for the local High School where our son played...the crowd was always in it and loud ...what is weird is to watch a D league game where all you here is squeeking shoes and the refs whistle echoes....nobody goes to those games...

 

[Natebishop3]

I used to be so proud that our team didn't have a lame mascot, or a lame sponsor for the arena.........

 

[tlongII]

Apparently Draymond Green does not approve.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

Code for: our PA and sound system is temporarily disabled.

 

[Driew]

The Moda Center tends to keep the music to a minimum in the first half compared to about every other arena in the NBA haha

 

[LuckyShot]

Apparently Draymond Green does not approve.

Then I vote we do it the next time GS comes to town. Fuck Draymond Green.

 

[GriLtCheeZ]

What do you think this is a fútbol match?

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Fucking hipsters.

"Oh, I'm a basketball purist, I can do without all the special effects and sounds while I'm at the game, you know like how the game was meant to be played. I also like my coffee beans ground by hand and brewed using a slow pour over method over 20 minutes".

 

[GriLtCheeZ]

Fucking hipsters.

"Oh, I'm a basketball purist, I can do without all the special effects and sounds while I'm at the game, you know like how the game was meant to be played. I also like my coffee beans ground by hand and brewed using a slow pour over method over 20 minutes".

You'll have to pry my t-shirt cannon from my cold dead foam finger!!!

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

soon:

 

[Strenuus]

Fucking hipsters.

"Oh, I'm a basketball purist, I can do without all the special effects and sounds while I'm at the game, you know like how the game was meant to be played. I also like my coffee beans ground by hand and brewed using a slow pour over method over 20 minutes".

 

[illmatic99]

On a similar note I have another idea. Prolly not much support for this, but I say do away with the dancers.

1. They're not that great.
2. It's awkward when they're gyrating in tiny ass shorts and kids are ogling.
3. It's doubly awkward when middle aged creepers are ogling.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

On a similar note I have another idea. Prolly not much support for this, but I say do away with the dancers.

1. They're not that great.
2. It's awkward when they're gyrating in tiny ass shorts and kids are ogling.
3. It's doubly awkward when middle aged creepers are ogling.

I'm on board. My kids always look away when the dancers come onto the court.

 

[Jade Falcon]

I'm on board. My kids always look away when the dancers come onto the court.

Uh huh. Right.

So...you're the middle-age creeper who ogles, eh?

 

[crandc]

I agree. Going to NBA games seems designed to make people insane.

Constant loud noise and pounding music and flashing lights. I can't even go anymore.

Still trying to find a gif of a man dropping his pants to add to my sig.

 

[Eastoff]

On a similar note I have another idea. Prolly not much support for this, but I say do away with the dancers.

1. They're not that great.
2. It's awkward when they're gyrating in tiny ass shorts and kids are ogling.
3. It's doubly awkward when middle aged creepers are ogling.

And please, get rid of the junior dancers! That's just uncomfortable.

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

I still miss the guy/gal who used to play the big Hammond organ back in the day, and at every time out would play the riff leading up to everyone yelling "Charge!!" Let's get back to the low tech retro cheese like that.......

 

[THE HCP]

Best 4 minutes in the history of the NBA

 

[3RA1N1AC]

This kinda gives teams a blueprint for how to get under the warriors skin?

As a tactic, a team should start doing this full game, get used to it, get their fans used to it, and use it to their advantage.

 

[Blazer_Hippie]

On a similar note I have another idea. Prolly not much support for this, but I say do away with the dancers.

1. They're not that great.
2. It's awkward when they're gyrating in tiny ass shorts and kids are ogling.
3. It's doubly awkward when middle aged creepers are ogling.

It's triply awkward when I'm at the game with my wife and I need to ogle on the sly. I usually try to find something critical to say as cover like, "look at that one, she's totally off the beat".

 

[BlazerWookee]

Music while the ball is in play should be banned from the NBA.

I'd pay extra for tickets to a full game with none of the "fan experience" bullshit all game long.

 

[BBert]

I don't mind most of the sound effects and activities and fan experience stuff.

The Blazers dancers is pointless and honestly if they stopped doing it I doubt very many people would notice, and many people would be thankful.

What I find incredible is arenas where they play actual songs while the game is in progress. Like San Antonio. WTF?

 

[MARIS61]

I think it should be used sporadically and without notice throughout the game, like any other play or strategy to throw the opponent off their game.

I also think whomever has been in charge of the music/noise at Blazers games for the last couple of decades should be ashamed of themselves.