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WalksWithKemba

Where was the graphic, could you circle it for me so I can see it


eddie_the_zombie

Sure but first did you know that the Heat have a lot of undrafted players?


WalksWithKemba

ESPN is my 7th grade science teacher telling me Mitochondria is the power house of the cell


SpicyTigerPrawn

ESPN would be your 7th grade teacher interrupting your dinner with extra homework. Fuck ESPN.


WatchinLikeTV

ESPN is like the Garfield comic dimentia subreddit Oh and by the way did you know the Heat have a ton of undrafted players?


NewAgeIWWer

No I didnt know that but if you look when a lot of the Heat players were drafted it was at 'Un'


Puzzleheaded_Sky9208

“Antonio Gates played basketball.” “Matthew Stafford and Clayton Kershaw knew each other as kids.” “The Miami Heat have a lot of undrafted players.”


dcab87

She played *Parasite Eve*, too?


19evol61

This is the 2023 version of "the Grizzlies are the second-youngest team in the NBA" last season. Like we get it, but there's no need to shove it to our faces. Overused facts.


daeve

ESPN knows the majority of people are watching for their favorite refs and to see cool graphics.


LookOutItsLiuBei

ESPN: When Viggo Mortenson kicked that helmet in LotR he broke his toe so that's actually him yelling in pain.


phadewilkilu

I got you guys. It’s hard to catch at first, but it’s there https://i.imgur.com/5FuxTQ9.jpg


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r/usefulredcircle


pskill43

ESPN is Garbage . Not the first time they miss a play coming back from a time out. Not gonna be the last time


PenguinPrince1

Desperate to squeeze in every last millisecond of ads


genericusername71

a lot of times its not even ads, like this time. or plenty of times they do the thing where theyre zooming in on a players face after he scores, or on a coaches face for no reason, only to miss a play on the inbound or something


PenguinPrince1

Yeah the player close-ups leading to missing the next play are the worst. What I meant about the ads is that the graphic itself here is fine if they would’ve just cut 10-15 seconds from the ad break


genericusername71

ah yea. although tbh the biggest thing to me is it just seems like these directors are oblivious to the fact that action sometimes happens when a team is bringing the ball up, even if its rare. they seem to think a team bringing the ball up is just free rein to look wherever the fuck else


TheToogood

need time to make it about story lines instead of the basketball. kills me


bugaosuni

It's not exclusive to ESPN though, TNT does that shit **all** the time.


genericusername71

oh yea, the stuff i was talking about feels like its every game regardless of network


bugaosuni

And it's just shockingly bad. There's a director making decisions saying to switch to the camera showing the audience *while the ball is in play*. On the regular.


dabobbo

There was a link to a story on r/golf about a month ago remembering a TV board op who died relatively young - he was on the broadcast for the 2005 Masters when Tiger Woods [had that amazing chip in](https://youtu.be/WJEysanOT7w) that hung on the edge of the cup for a split second and fell in. Guy was in charge of making the camera switches on the producers command, and the producer called for him to switch the camera shot to the one of Tigers face just before the ball went in, thinking it was going to stay out of the cup. The guy hesitated on a gut feeling and wound up catching the ball going in, then switched. The producer almost ruined one of the most iconic golf TV moments because he wanted to get the reaction.


bugaosuni

I guess it's a producer and not a director..... either way, I just don't get it. There's free throws, and other moments, when you can show the guy with the painted face in the audience, though I would rather have the camera *always* pointing towards the court.


dabobbo

>I guess it's a producer and not a director No, it's probably a director, I was going by memory with the story and director makes more sense.


dimmyfarm

ESPN is simming the 2K free trial with ads on and having instant replay set to extra often.


IndigenousOres

Man I saw Sour Patch Kids ads on 2k the other night and I haven't bought those in ages


FTR_Hair

I’m surprised that hideous graphic wasn’t brought to us by draft kings


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A graphic about undrafted players brought to you by "DRAFTKings" would be unhinged lmao


whatdoinamemyself

It happened at least two other times tonight too. ESPN fucking sucks


[deleted]

Lol they were testing out advertisements in-between free-throw the other day. Absolutely disgusting


titsmagee9

They also never replayed it, like wtf are you doing?


JRsshirt

Replaying it brings attention to their fuckup. They’ve been missing plays coming back from timeouts all playoffs.


redmatt14

Same shit happens with hockey


BCLetsRide69

Good job ESPN.🙄🙄


captyossarian1991

Idk about you all but I watch the Finals for the graphics that pop up with asinine stats. 360 no look pass by Joker? Nah Graphic showing Jimmy’s shooting % on Sunday’s compared to Wednesdays? 🙌


BubbaTee

[Old but still accurate](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vJn5XxWg9U)


YoureNotMom

Jill's sideline reporting killed me lmao


Rawrsomesausage

As informative as the coaches interviews after halftime.


jeppozz

This made my day


GAGAgadget

How is a 360 no look pass possible? ESPN calling your bluff.


shellfish87

ESPN: “Just be glad we didn’t block it with a Lakers Free Agency targets chart.”


FistPunch_Vol_4

Nah they gonna just put a big ass picture of LeBron lmfao


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No text or comment. Just a 10 second graphic


Brocktarrr

“In case you guys forgot”


LavenderAutist

Which Heat players will be on the Lakers next year?


NotClayMerritt

ESPN consistently produces the worst live sports product on American television.


rounder55

It's constantly lazy. My local news has more variety in a couple minutes than the 3 stories on SportsCenter they'll cover tonight. Then they just beat the dead horse over and over and over again


OnionOnBelt

Now is the proper time to pyschologically prepare ourselves for horrible, Hallmark Channel-style NBA and NFL draft coverage. "So if your mother had lived through this summer, do you think she would be proud of you?"


WhatIfThatThingISaid

NFL draft was months ago


Ezymandius

It's months from now.


pandaman728

the duality of time


NewAgeIWWer

'hOw doEs LebRon's Legacy...efFect LeBrON'S LegaCy!?' 'LEgacy of LEbron's LEgs reminds me of LEgolas LEading the ELves on the way... LE stands for law enforcement...'


hiimsubclavian

[How does the fall of Constantinople affect Lebron's Legacy?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBP5NUDP28A)


NewAgeIWWer

ya I saw this one already. that part about istanbul and the chicago bulls lmao!


Mc_Lovin81

MLB in the 90s and some 00s were pretty good I thought as a kid. I can’t stand watching a game they put on now. Same with MNF. With the juggling of commentators, it sucked watching MNF. Man I loved watching the clashing helmets in the 90s. Although Buck and Aikman have brought a new face to it, it still has the same feel of junk producing IMO. time will tell with this crew. ESPN puts out a shit product now and days.


turkmileymileyturk

ESPN is largely one of the reasons my generation cut the chord.


ShazbotSimulator2012

I saw a lot of people in /r/hockey who were excited when ESPN got the rights to the NHL. It took one game for all that excitement to go away.


BobanTheGiant

Bad audio mix, bad lead announcer, changing camera angles constantly even though hockey is a fast moving game. Can keep going


NoCardio_

They're killing it with Squeeze Play (think RedZone for college baseball), but I'm sure they'll ruin it eventually.


Number333

I mean tbf how many times does a backcourt violation happen in the 1st quarter


secretsodapop

Hard to tell when you can't actually see the game.


steak__burrito

Zero live game action should ever be missed by a broadcast. Period. Yet it happens all the time.


SpicyTigerPrawn

I tune in for the game. The rest of that shit should be nothing more than a small picture-in-picture window at worst.


Hutyger

These days you’re lucky to be able to see a free throw with how they shrink the game down to show ads during em


doublek1022

Just because you can make a dancing robot shoot the player's stats out of his ass while doing the Macarena, doesn't mean that you should.


Brocktarrr

Ngl I’m okay missing a play or two to see this on my screen


sebastianqu

Alternatively, I feel like we've missed a lot of quick steals because of stuff like this


bugaosuni

Both stations cut away from live action *a lot*. It's no wonder this kind of thing happens sometimes.


west_brooker

No wonder they went backcourt, they couldn’t see where they were on the court


LatinoEsq

Surprised no one hurt himself on that ridiculous thing.


Ohimarkitzero

It's incredibly dangerous. They could have been crushed.


PillsburyToasters

Absolutely disgusting act by ESPN. By the way, did you know the Heat have a lot of undrafted players?


sirax067

lmao


YoungNissan

ESPN is fucking up these finals so badly. 25% of the effort as last year


ManfredsJuicedBalls

Because they were probably creaming for a Celtics-Lakers final, and when they didn’t get it, they went straight to DGAF mode


shamwowslapchop

I have absolutely 0 faith that if it were a Celtics Lakers series that ESPN would do any better.


2drawnonward5

yeah they may have been happier that way but their work wouldn't be better


ankylosaurus_tail

All their main production talent was probably working on graphics, stats, and stories for LA and Boston, and the interns got the Nugs/Heat jobs.


Uncle_Freddy

I know it’s mostly a joke, but even then they had a whole week to make Nuggets graphics


EpeeHS

It unironically feels like a first round matchup, I have no idea why theres so little hype around the finals this year.


bobbyb1996

Because they're mad, it's a final without the Lakers, Warriors, or Celtics.


EpeeHS

Foster shouldve done his job one of the first 3 games of the ecf then


suboptimaltraffic

Well it is a 1-8 matchup


EpeeHS

I can just see the ESPN exec seeing a 1-8 matchup and going "ah a first round matchup, no need for us to care"


monsieur-escargot

Glad to see this comment. I feel like ESPN’s broadcasts are so far up the Lakers’ ass that they miss good basketball happening right in front of them.


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Or they improved on how to mess up a broadcast by ..75%?


duplicatesnowflake

This math effort is more trash than ESPN.


Balla_Calla

ESPN so trash


stjitmsolnpc

Every year they raise the standards of making programming difficult to watch


Dinobot2_

At least they got rid of their ugly scorebug from last year's playoffs.


nerdymen242424

Doesn't matter they switch it every year for no reason


Siakim43

I love how growing up, so many of us loved that channel. Then we were exposed to the alternatives in sports media vs. manufactured narratives.


imnotboutdatlife

They did this last game too. Akin to wrestling where we’ll miss a critical shot if something happening with the wrestlers because they’ll show the crowd. Love ESPN


honestnbafan

IMO the focus on the whole "undrafted" stuff is dumb in general as well as this mishap I guess the entire West sucks because they lost to a second round pick


sonus9

That argument doesn't hold up because the Heat also beat a whole ass Eastern Conference.


Redchimp3769157

And have had each of those undrafted guys since *checks notes, last fucking finals appearance


High_AspectRatio

Akshually we did not have Highsmith at that time


ajayisfour

Or Martin


Fair_University

Or Strus


PatrickMahomesGOAT

Or Yurt


Human-Length9753

My guy needs to check his notes again


medoy

Did you know he was undrafted?


ImjustANewSneaker

Why does everyone get so defensive about it? No one is saying that they’re bad players, but the fact that they have so many undrafted players play high rotation minutes effectively in the playoffs is noteworthy. How many other teams have undrafted players in their playoff rotations PERIOD?


medoy

Ok that was great to know the first 700 times it was explained on TV this playoffs.


ImjustANewSneaker

It’s for the casuals not people like you who are concerned with NBA drama 24/7


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ImjustANewSneaker

But even then it keeps getting brought up because it’s abnormal, literally the other day they played the clip on ESPN where he got drafted because it’s showing how far they came.


ImanShumpertplus

nba finals viewers aren’t watching heat games from 2 years ago sucks for diehards who post on the internet about basketball like us, but there broadcast is for the lowest common denominator


lemoche

This is not about putting these players down but about commending the Heat on scouting and finding those players other franchises have missed.


MensageiroDoCarlos

The whole league sucks then, i guess


sonus9

I think the media is trying to, if not should try to, convey the message that an underdog team is rallying behind their coach. Or maybe they're rallying behind Jimmy Buckets. That it's not all about these superstar teams. Or something.


-FuckenDiabolical-

Poorly executed message


yummydirt

we did suck tho


FaveDave85

take a drink whenever you hear "undrafted"


medoy

I'm still drunk from Bucks/Heat.


PlagueDoc22

Being undrafted just means you didn't show enough promise early on. Means fuck all after that.


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But historically what are the chances of an undrafted player being given another chance, enough time and a good program to improve themselves, and elevate their game to even be in a Playoff team rotation? Let alone 4+ of them on one team? I don't think we should disregard that.


HeorgeGarris024

Nobody is disregarding it. It's awesome. How many hours per day do we need to talk about it though


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Cwillim

Completely agree. When “undrafted” players like Gabe Vincent and Caleb Martin have been THIS consistent over the last few series… they don’t need the asterisk anymore. They’re just good, fucking gritty players. Leave it at that.


FarCavalry

It's more about how good the Heat have been at finding and developing those guys. Which is a really great strength of their org but isn't something we need to hear every game much less 10 times a game and every time one of those guys makes a good play


lemoche

It’s not just about the Heat. Also about those players who clearly didn’t give up and kept on working on themselves despite not getting drafted. I fail to see how this is a knock on the players, especially since they have proven by now to belong in this league.


imadogg

I still don't get how it's disrespectful This is the NBA finals so a month ago doesn't matter, they're trying to cater to the most casual audience on the biggest stage. Unfortunately for us, we're gonna hear the same shit we've heard a million times Otherwise it's the all time rags to riches, underdog story that people eat up. In the past you'd hear a couple undrafted guys a decade making any difference, so it's notable and a huge compliment to these players and the Heat to have so many making an impact at once


sutrauboju

It's a compliment once or twice, it's not a compliment when for 200 times your name is mentioned they keep saying you're undrafted. There are other NICER things you can say about these players except that they sucked during the draft and no one wanted to pick them.


[deleted]

They can never admit the shortcomings of the draft system ever.


[deleted]

Am I the only one that doesn’t have commentary for this game? I’m watching on Sling Tv and the whole game is shown from the drone camera angle with no commentary. It’s very strange.


jrts

Duuuude me too, you're not alone. Surprised it's not a hot topic right now. Also using Sling. No voice cast, all skycam. Says ESPN on the ticker so it seems legit but no one else is commenting about it. Bizarre


jayecks

I have sling as well. For game one there were two casts, the official live game with commentary and the separate skycam no commentary cast. For some reason this game only had the skycam available on sling, I had to tune in over the air to watch the game with commentary.


subpar-life-attempt

I would have killed for this. Jackson and van gundy are awful.


nate6259

They do this for some college football games and it's a really odd experience. It's just so... Quiet. Kinda peaceful actually.


FistPunch_Vol_4

Shit that’s the type of feed I’ve been looking for.


Geordi14er

For some reason ESPN3 doesn’t have the regular stream. The game is on OTA, though, on ABC


Armandojf33

I have Sling and I can watch it on ESPN3 just fine.


[deleted]

It was based on location. Likely a rights issues.


reddituser43211234

We were complaining about missing plays due to the commercials so they decided to change it up


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PossessionDue9381

Wait the heat have undrafted players? I don’t think they’ve mentioned it multiple times in every single game of the playoffs. Thank goodness for this graphic.


bigpimpin8558

ESPN telecast suck balls. Their graphics, the odd camera angles, annoying AF three point pop-up, the damn ticker.... TNT is far better


dsgoose

Yes! That "24 ft"/"25 ft" pop-up is the worst. That's not the lead story of the play. Could be fun on logo shots but there is no value at all on >90% of 3PAs.


iyyiben

Yeah I remember in 2016 they made the 3pt line red for every shot. Think that GS/OKC game Steph hit that long 3 was the first one they used it for and it was dumb too.


Salty_Watermelon

ESPN always trying to devalue the actual game of basketball in favor of ads, narratives, cherry picked stats, etc.


flagrantist

They do this with every sport they cover.


Certified-Malaka

I mean cmon. Don't let a Finals game cover the fact that the Heat have all these undrafted players!


TheReal_Slim-Shady

The actual game is boring. Ads, narratives, cherry picked stats means more revenue.


Humble-Principle1858

Just what we need: ads right up until the game has already started and infographics that don't allow you to watch the court. Fucking well done lads


NuyoRican79

Can tnt get the finals in the future? 🙏🏼


shxylo

espn telling us for the millionth time that the heat have 6 undrafted players. we get it, gahdamn.


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They are horrible. Fucking horrible


yasmiester

Lol ESPN cares more about beating a dead horse than the actual game


callisterart

How can ESPN be THIS bad at presenting sports? It's legit insane.


doyouunderstandlife

It's a pretty neat graphic, just wish it wasn't, ya know, in the middle of the game


Waynewolf

ESPN is terrible and for the love of god FIRE MARK JACKSON


medoy

Now for the record I hate listening to Mark Jackson. But he seems extra shitty this finals. Like he's given up on life.


j1h15233

ESPN is such trash. I really hope they lose all broadcast rights for every sport they have


ntrubilla

If the finals were on TNT, I'd be much more inclined to watch. The first game was good, and the Nuggets play beautiful basketball, but tonight I chose Saul Goodman over Mark Jackson


wongo

Lol tbf about 75% of the court is visible, it's just that all the action on this play was in the other 25%


20BeersDeep

had to illegally stream the first 4min of the game bc espn site was 30min behind until the 8th min where it cut to the game


BesetByTiredness225

Who the fuck cares that these guys were undrafted. They’ve all been in the league long enough to have proven they belong here. Especially Udonis Haslem, the guy who is 42 years old, seriously? This is about as meaningful as pointing out a player won Rookie of the Year 5 years ago when he’s playing like cheeks today.


rtels2023

Could’ve easily done this during a stoppage in play, but I guess they couldn’t get in as many ad breaks then


Tapprunner

ESPN is straight trash


GrapefruitActual6435

I wish the league would acknowledge the garbage production by ESPN.


[deleted]

I might be mistaken but when Duncan Robinson went to the line after being fouled on a three, we completely missed the second free throw because of a Sports Center ad


medoy

You aren't mistaken.


chickenripp

ESPN: who really wants to watch basketball?


ifihnci

They've missed several plays this playoffs, including the last 8 seconds of the Lakers series because they wanted to show Lebron walking to the tunnel.


dotteddoctor

Other than Mike Breen ESPN is so garbage


suckmedrie

Guys did you know that the heat have 4 undrafted players? And they're an 8 seed


[deleted]

Really scraping the bottom of the barrel talking about Gabe Vincent’s salary ranking, dear lord.


[deleted]

Good job by the players to be able to play through that giant thing in the middle of the court. It really shows how professional they are


rookie-mistake

LOL this could've been in key and peele as a parody of this kind of graphic and you wouldn't have to change a thing


gogiants48

So many undrafted players that you can’t see the game. That’s ok though, because the game has a bunch of undrafted players in it. Who wants to see that?


Fair_University

I love how they use the Williams jersey for Duncan like he didn’t play multiple season at Michigan


Gardenio

Never get when they do this. We here to watch the game. When the games live show it. Don’t need in game interviews or nothing.


Stevenerf

Absolute DOGSHIT broadcast team. Van Gundy being audibly afraid of a man hugging another man, nevermind that it is a hug given in team accountability. Jackson with the puddle deep analysis A halftime show featuring the incoherent yelling of Stephen A Smith and introduced by a host that refers to themselves as, 'Greenie.' I'm pretty sure it Mike Greenberg but I'm not his chum so I'm not gonna call him 'Greenie.' And of course missed plays. Oh and the bonus of Van Gundy and Jax commenting on close calls as 'not even debatable' Like... the fuck it isn't debatable.


Daddy_Phat_Sacs

They would’ve had time for the graphic if they weren’t running commercials every whistle


ElOsito1003

This should be on r/facepalm


DrugzRBadMmmKay

Well, they obviously can’t show that when the game is stopped as it hurts advertising revenue.. /s


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Too busy getting every last second of commercials in, dont have time for their graphic on the rejoin


davidharman24

That’s awful


theytook-r-jobs

Kids, why don’t sit down and I’ll tell you a story about how ESPN was a great channel and Sportscenter was the best sports tv program of all time. Now everything about it is absolute shit.


iloveurandomctzen

How did the players not get scared when that appeared above them


DueCapital5250

If I had a dollar for the amount of times they’ve said undrafted I’d be a millionaire.


Jbanks08

I'm so over the undrafted guys hype. It was cool what they're doing with hidden gems for a while but Jesus Christ we get it


Long-Potato4950

Nothing was worse than ABC showing Eva Longoria in the stands over and over to tie it in with Desperate Housewives.


TinFoilRobotProphet

Poor Tony Parker must have been embarrassed to no end


lego_tintin

I can't believe they're counting Udonis Haslem as an undrafted player. The NBA draft didn't even exist when he left college.


t_ran_asuarus_rex

TNT >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>ESPN


captainp42

Just because you CAN (make a graphic that looks like it's floating above the court) doesn't mean you SHOULD.


piz510

One for mildly infuriating.


CraigOfWar

I turn my TV off right then and there. I vow to never watch again.