In Game: vs. Fordham

[otherwildcat]

It seems like the college could put together some type of communications minor and tap some eager beaver students to do most of the grunt work for these broadcasts and game day activities. It would be great experience and maybe we could get better results. I still don't remember seeing a video replay on tv or in the arener this year.

Agree, have student communication majors do the broadcast also. Even if they are not very good, at least they would be present at the game and not in a room, hundreds of miles away.

[DC69Wildcat]

Excellent student presence tonight. They filled both end zones, and they were loud. A bunch of them in the south end zone were wearing #55 Sosnik jerseys, and they started chanting, "We want Sosnik," as soon as we went up by double digits. Matt subbed him in all by himself, bringing the house down, then he sent in the rest of the walk-ons as a group at the next opportunity. Nice touch that I think the students appreciated.

[Wildcat92]

It seems like the college could put together some type of communications minor and tap some eager beaver students to do most of the grunt work for these broadcasts and game day activities. It would be great experience and maybe we could get better results. I still don't remember seeing a video replay on tv or in the arener this year.

Agree, have student communication majors do the broadcast also. Even if they are not very good, at least they would be present at the game and not in a room, hundreds of miles away.

In 1991-1992 DCTV covered every home game on tape delay, with the dulcet tones of yours truly as play by play and Paul Rybiski as color commentator. We had a camera operator and a table courtside. It was a blast.

[stevelee]

I’m watching the replay of the second half. I can understand the frustration of those of you trying to stream live. I enjoyed hearing Sam’s intro, in spite of the awful sound. The sound was better later in the game, but the microphone choice for Sam made his voice really annoying to my Southern boy ears.

Brizzi and Adam come off even better in replay than in person for me. I can see their rôles in turning the tide, I guess since I know how it is turning.

At some point last night when I yelled, “Gelo!” I turned to Tim and said that I just like yelling “Gelo!” Fortunately I got to do it a lot. I need not repeat my adlib from earlier in the season, since Bagel already has. I still agree.

[stevelee]

The minute or so 7:00 or 6:00 is remarkable.

How long does ESPN+ keep archives? I’ll want to watch that stretch more times, and Tim D wants to see at least the half some time when he is over.

Sam has a long monologue about Brizzi. Earlier he had retold the Sosnik story as they showed his fan section, the road from some sort of media rôle to manager to a captain. As I type this, there were more great things from Gelo and Connor.

[CatsUpNorth]

Confidence is an amazing antidote, and it was a joy watching Brizzi create and play with confidence for an entire half. He’s had some terrific passes on a consistent basis, but they’ve been overshadowed by his struggles in other areas. There is no way to sugarcoat his shooting numbers this season (other than to say his defense has been consistently impactful) but watching him play when he’s confident and comfortable it is clear that he is dynamic and capable of raising the ceiling of the entire team when playing well. Obviously it’s great to see the shots fall in, but seeing him drive with authority, draw another defender, and make the right decision to find either a cutter or the open shooter on multiple possessions makes me feel even better, changing what can be a slog of an offense to watch into something dangerous again.

I feel strongly that the rest of this season we need to live with the mistakes he might make from time to time and focus on instilling confidence in him rather than having a short leash. If we want to achieve things in the postseason this year, we need that dynamic play and confidence against the better teams in our league. We also need to instill confidence and experience in him for future years, since we’ll need that going forward no matter what.

I think we all would like to see some more sustained and consistent success (and more shots to fall), but the flashes last night were thrilling to watch. I just hope we can bottle up that success rather than feeding his self doubt by pulling him immediately the next time he makes a mistake.

[loosha's lad]

It seems like the college could put together some type of communications minor and tap some eager beaver students to do most of the grunt work for these broadcasts and game day activities. It would be great experience and maybe we could get better results. I still don't remember seeing a video replay on tv or in the arener this year.

Agree, have student communication majors do the broadcast also. Even if they are not very good, at least they would be present at the game and not in a room, hundreds of miles away.

In 1991-1992 DCTV covered every home game on tape delay, with the dulcet tones of yours truly as play by play and Paul Rybiski as color commentator. We had a camera operator and a table courtside. It was a blast.

I'd pay good money to hear the call of Paul Drobnitch's dunk that year. Back then there was no need whatsoever for the Dunk-O-Meter because Drob's flush was pretty much the only one at home all season long.

[Waitress]

Brizzi and Adam come off even better in replay than in person for me. I can see their rôles in turning the tide, I guess since I know how it is turning.

Why do you have to be so diacritical?

[citycat]

It seems like the college could put together some type of communications minor and tap some eager beaver students to do most of the grunt work for these broadcasts and game day activities. It would be great experience and maybe we could get better results. I still don't remember seeing a video replay on tv or in the arener this year.

Agree, have student communication majors do the broadcast also. Even if they are not very good, at least they would be present at the game and not in a room, hundreds of miles away.

In 1991-1992 DCTV covered every home game on tape delay, with the dulcet tones of yours truly as play by play and Paul Rybiski as color commentator. We had a camera operator and a table courtside. It was a blast.

I'd pay good money to hear the call of Paul Drobnitch's dunk that year. Back then there was no need whatsoever for the Dunk-O-Meter because Drob's flush was pretty much the only one at home all season long.

Was the Miami game broadcast? That was a win over a Big East team. It was a bigger deal to the basketball staff than it was to fans. Miami was the school that dropped basketball in the 1970s because they were an independent and had to fly to almost every road game.

In '62-'63, Miami was one of 3 teams to defeat Duke. Loyola beat them in the Final Four. Lefty's team was the other one.

[stevelee]

Brizzi and Adam come off even better in replay than in person for me. I can see their rôles in turning the tide, I guess since I know how it is turning.

Why do you have to be so diacritical?

I'm going to France with the church choir in June, so just getting ready. And because I can. I gather that even the English Parliament no longer spells it that way.

[dorp]

It seems like the college could put together some type of communications minor and tap some eager beaver students to do most of the grunt work for these broadcasts and game day activities. It would be great experience and maybe we could get better results. I still don't remember seeing a video replay on tv or in the arener this year.

While I was on the phone with ESPN+ support, the screen again went black for a stretch. The guy on the other end said "Yeah that's on the transmission or Davidson side of things."

[stevelee]

When I got home, I noticed that my internet service was out. I unplugged the cable modem for c. 30 seconds, plugged it back in, and things reset and worked. I doubt that the transmission blackout was related, but I thought I'd mention the apparent coincidence. (My internet service is rarely out.)

When I watched the replay today, the picture looked good on my 65" TV, but the sound was really bad at the start. The blackouts I saw were almost for sure the same ones that had frustrated you who were streaming live. I don't recall any significant outages in the closing minutes of the second half. I'll likely again watch from under 8:00 to 5:00 or so. That was a fun stretch.

I don't think we can blame sun spots. I went out this afternoon and shot the sun through the filter that came yesterday for my telephoto lens. I was testing exposures for when I'll shoot the partial eclipse in April from here, weather permitting. (IOW, I'm not traveling to anywhere it will be total. I went to the 2017 total eclipse in Winnsboro. Today's sun has just a couple of spots.

[Acorn]

Confidence is an amazing antidote, and it was a joy watching Brizzi create and play with confidence for an entire half. He’s had some terrific passes on a consistent basis, but they’ve been overshadowed by his struggles in other areas. There is no way to sugarcoat his shooting numbers this season (other than to say his defense has been consistently impactful) but watching him play when he’s confident and comfortable it is clear that he is dynamic and capable of raising the ceiling of the entire team when playing well. Obviously it’s great to see the shots fall in, but seeing him drive with authority, draw another defender, and make the right decision to find either a cutter or the open shooter on multiple possessions makes me feel even better, changing what can be a slog of an offense to watch into something dangerous again.

I feel strongly that the rest of this season we need to live with the mistakes he might make from time to time and focus on instilling confidence in him rather than having a short leash. If we want to achieve things in the postseason this year, we need that dynamic play and confidence against the better teams in our league. We also need to instill confidence and experience in him for future years, since we’ll need that going forward no matter what.

I think we all would like to see some more sustained and consistent success (and more shots to fall), but the flashes last night were thrilling to watch. I just hope we can bottle up that success rather than feeding his self doubt by pulling him immediately the next time he makes a mistake.

I agree with this. Until last night, Brizzi’s two best games were the first two games of the season. In my view from the cheap seats,* a lot of that has had to a lack of confidence. Brizzi has definitely made mistakes, including very dumb ones that have been costly. But his getting immediately yanked for them and other failures led him to constantly look at the bench after every play. Meanwhile, more established players enjoy a much longer leash—their dumb, costly mistakes don’t get them yanked.

One of the most powerful things about the Bob–Steph relationship was that Bob McKillop had to go against some of his instincts to be the coach Stephen Curry needed. The story of the turnover-plagued half against Eastern Michigan is the best example—Bob had to override his reflex to bench Steph while nevertheless demanding Steph express his creativity within a system.

I suspect Matt has some of the same instincts Bob did. And while Brizzi is a fine player, he’s no Steph. Matt is surely aware of and sensitive to the balance between instilling confidence in his players and putting the most productive lineups on the court. But my $0.02 (can I get $0.04?) is that Brizzi needs more chances to work through his errors.

* Just kidding! They’re twice as much as last year, despite the College regularly giving away tickets. And yet I’ve still got lots of elbow room.

[i77cat]

Your 2 cents does indeed cost 4 now.

That run from down 39-34 to up 45-59 was special. It was against DFL (at least by Massey) Fordham, but it was still special.

[Waitress]

Brizzi and Adam come off even better in replay than in person for me. I can see their rôles in turning the tide, I guess since I know how it is turning.

Why do you have to be so diacritical?

I'm going to France with the church choir in June, so just getting ready. And because I can. I gather that even the English Parliament no longer spells it that way.

Françe?