From what I read, another aspect of producing the games is the ability to throw sponsors at viewers constantly through the broadcast, instead of having to make do with sponsor logos on the courts and uniforms.

So longer term, it could prove to be a better move financially.

Where did you see Sydney's court?

Also on their Facebook page

So basically the same as Brisbane's then.

Yeah, that's awful.

NBL said they've engaged those who did the NBA TV graphics to do NBL TV's. I've made the comment before that I really don't like NBA TV's graphics, and judging on the one used in preview videos so far, i'm really not a fan of the graphic. I'll be interested as to the graphics used for scoreboard and throughout the game.

With that said, I like the fact they have made video previews for each team, good on them.

Will this come at the expense of promoting the coverage on Foxtel?

Is it is as simple as the NBL saying 'we will pay for production, commentators and give you the games to show so we have some TV coverage'?

NBL said they've engaged those who did the NBA TV graphics to do NBL TV's. I've made the comment before that I really don't like NBA TV's graphics

Doesn't change the fact that aesthetically the graphics are terrible

Agreed anonymous, the new graphics are a serious downgrade. They could have kept last years ones for another few seasons...

Fox sports is the past anyway. Streaming is the future, 'may as well start now

There isn't a team member option, I think you'll find you signed up for the single-team pass, which is free for everyone.

It is. There's just no way to access that yet.

Geez

http://i.imgur.com/r2C7eBg.jpg

...your point?

That's some serious advertising on Newscorp for NBL TV.

I remember WWE having a 3 hour commercial free episode one time and the commentators had KFC and Mountain Dew on their table and other product placement spread throughout the episode, whilst I'm not sure exactly how NBL could do that same kind of thing I do think that seeing something like that would be far more desirable that adverts or company logos on the floors for teams.

Im not against the logos per se but I think the local club logo on court should be there somewhere

Yeah, leave the centre circle for team branding and mandate keyways being the same colour and you'll be okay.

First few minutes.. a few things to fine tune I guess..

Liking the starting 5 graphics..

2 mins from tip and broadcasting testing.. hmmm

Sheesh, it certainly chews the data! It looks nice, lots of colour and bright. No doubt will be a few tweaks needed but not too bad so far.

Graphics obviously made for the phone, the scoreboard and add ons looks huge on TV

Well looked, they've disappeared now

The game clock and shot clock were inaccurate all night, as was the scoreboard on occasion. Scoreboard is way too big.

And a lot of those 3D logos look ugly.

The game clock and shot clock were inaccurate all night, as was the scoreboard on occasion. Scoreboard is way too big.

And a lot of those 3D logos look ugly.

Streaming gets blurry at times and a few times buffered. Need more bandwidth NBL.

I thought the intro and starting 5 graphics were quite good.
Not a big fan of the score bar. It looks a bit too chunky and kept breaking down. I much preferred fox sports score bar with the running stat line incorporated.
The change in camera angles was a bit weird also or is that just me.

Only game 1 however and hopefully NBL is open to feedback and suggestions.

To start with: The graphics are a downgrade on last years. They're too animated, metallic and clunky. It's too over the top even for T20 graphics.

Intro was decent, I liked the effort put into it and the building of the narrative re: Bullets return to the league.

We have to stop having Goulding as the go-to-guy in every single promotion...The NBL needs to alternate it a little so people know about a few other star players.

The actual intro graphic is very Channel Ten NBL/T20 coverage. It's decent and i'd be fine with it being kept.

The graphic showing the name of who's interviewed or the commentators isn't that great and the font looks small and not quite right.

The starting 5 graphic is okay, but a novelty that got annoying by the end. They could have just done the starting 5 graphic like ESPN does, simpler and nicer.

The quarter time/half time etc. score graphic looks weird with the font again and doesn't say in the middle "End of First Quarter" or whatever.

The scorebug itself is pretty bad and will annoy me all season. It's too big, it's too clunky, it's over the top with the metallic but the most annoying aspect is the LED timer look. Don't do it. Don't ever do it.

The rest of the graphics are fine and acceptable, although the 3D logo thing is a bit of an amateur version of ESPN. It works okay for the Bullets logo, not so much for the Wildcats.

The use of camera angles was first class, no complaints there - i'd say an improvement over last year.

I know there's not much that can be done in 2 hours - a studio show as LK was wanting is probably not a viable idea, but the runsheet felt almost exactly the same as last year. Part of me expected something a bit different to help build the narrative.

After all the the who hah about the new production..

The score graphic is way way too big.

The camera on a floating arm thing is nice but just like the baseline camera of the past keep it for replays only.

Stream quality seemed great on my phone but wouldnt let me airplay to apple tv only let me mirror so on the tv it was janky.

Tbh the crowd was pretty bad, it was nice to hear excitement from someone

"I trust you're enjoying the match on [wants to say Fox Sports].....the network you're watching"

A whole lot of complaining about a product that looks far more professional than before.

The graphics aren't perfect, but how you can say they don't look better than last year's last minute throw-together Fox Sports graphics is beyond me.

I really like the starting 5 graphics. I really like what they've done with the revamped techy logos. There's work to be done, obviously, but it is the first game and they'll continue to fine tune these things.

The NBL is starting to look like a genuine sports league rather than a backyard amateur operation. It might not be perfect yet, but it is a massive step forward. Embrace it.

IMO it looks less professional than last season - that does give rise to fair criticism

Wow. Just wow.

The scoreboard is way too big, a couple of the 3D logos look awful, the LED effect on the clock makes it look like a cheap pre-season style 'point a camera at the clock in the stadium' effort, which you realise it isn't once you notice it's three seconds behind the actual clock in the stadium.

The scores were frequently wrong by seven or eight points.

The graphic appears only capable of changing its display once per second, so even though the shot and game clocks very rarely exactly line up in reality, they both change at exactly the same time every single time on TV. This also means tenths of a second - something 7 managed back when they had NBL coverage in 1990 - can't be displayed in the final minute.

The closing graphic proudly stated that it was "A NBL TV PRODUCTION", which pretty much sums it up on a couple of levels.

Name me a season where the graphics scoreboard hasn't faltered in the first few games. It happened last season, the season before that, add infinitum.

How do the 3D logos look awful? I thought what they did with them was quite effective.

The worst thing for me was the awful court and the white cladded fans, made the arena look empty.

Could hardly tell who's home it was, hope they resolve that by going #MaroonMad

Seemed like another pre-season game.

I would have thought the premiership table, leading scorers etc on the NBL home page would "automatically" update as soon as results start coming in?

Name me a season where the graphics scoreboard hasn't faltered in the first few games.

How do the 3D logos look awful?

Game clock is out by up to ten seconds, we're back to that ugly LED pattern, and the Carfino and Rosen combo has never been good ever.

Things that are worse than last year:
- Steve Carfino is back to do things like provide bored-sounding commentary over fantastic dunks and say 'my care factor is zero'.
- The score graphic is just way too damn big.
- The LED-style clocks are ugly.
- The clocks are both out of sync by up to ten seconds. How the shot clock can get out of sync by ten seconds I don't understand, but it happened.
- To try and hide this, they remove the clock completely in the final possession of each quarter. You know, the time the clock is most important.
- Just prior to that, the clock is incapable of displaying tenths of a second in the final minute, which looks horribly cheap.
- Also cheap-looking is the fact that the scoreboard can't increment by more than one point at a time.

Things that are better than last year:
- It's shinier

Agreed Kobe, I noticed those things as well.

I like the addition of Brenton Speed to the commentary - he's great.

They always have stats appearing under the scoreboard graphic but it doesn't seem to fit and all you see is FT% and then the rest is cut off.

Brenton Speed did the Kings/Bullets game.

They always have stats appearing under the scoreboard graphic but it doesn't seem to fit and all you see is FT% and then the rest is cut off.

Why isn't Derek Rucker commentating? He was by far the best from last season. Dwayne Russell calling for Randle to come back on after he had fouled out was embarrassing for the league

So he was fouled out? I thought so, but I've barely slept in three days and haven't been feeling well, so I wasn't totally paying attention. Figured it must have just been his fourth when Russell started talking about him coming back.

The only possibilities were Joey Wright or Dwayne Russell being a complete moron though, with only a minute left.

Speaking of Russell, where's Matt? Are we only going to get him for Cairns games now, with Townsville out of the league? Huge fan of his.

What's the status of the Derek Rucker embezzling allegation? Is that still out there? If it is, that could be the reason he's not on TV.

Or Carfino became available, and they had to cut someone, so they cut Rucker. In which case...well.

Cutting Rucker for Carfino would make no sense at all.