I don’t see why TNT can’t. Of course they also take about 2 minutes for even 20 second timeouts….

I couldn’t figure out why TBS or NBA TV could not show the game. It just boggles the mind that they don’t have fallback plans for this.

I’m sorry you didn’t…

That was infuriating when we got to start watching with 9 minutes left in the 3rd freaking quearter.

TNT is terrible. ESPN would never left that crap happen.

TNT sucks. Kenny, EJ (more like BJ, cause he blows) and Charles are terrible.

Why do people even like TNT. Come on NBA. Leave this crap behind.

I am in DC and had to resort to a totally unreliable gamecast. The stations should have an alternate place to show the game especially Turner which has a ton of channels. Put it on Turner Classic Movies for all I care it’s not like anyone watches it anyway. This is really what TBS should do next season especially in critical games like this. Following the threads was actually the most useful thing during the first half.

I knew this was a possibility. I had two choices: watch another game via sketchy internet feed or watch on TNT. I chose to watch on TNT at a sports bar. While I was treated to a great Bulls-Celtics game, I missed out on the first half of the last game of the year, which was just awful. A real empty feeling that I missed the Houston run that effectively eliminated us. Just awful.

Just two little numbers. Stick ’em wherever you want. How hard is that?

Us Rockets fans had the same thing going on. However we had our local station broadcasting the game and the bar I was in had both games going on.

Are you saying that local Portland stations weren’t broadcasting the game? At all?

I find that hard to believe.

So what if TNT wasn’t broadcasting the game? Just tune to your local station and watch it.

Seriously, was there no local Portland station broadcasting the game like there was in Houston? (KTXH, Channel 20, with Clyde Drexler commenting)???

Like all the other Blazers and Rockets fans who live outside the teams’ two home areas,

I ranted already on this on another post. NBA TV is a joke, and at the very least, how about a free, sanctioned, legitimate, HD (or near HD) feed for these situations? They can have it in place, and pimp it during the game they actually ARE broadcasting.

What is the risk? Do they believe people will choose a free feed if they can watch it on TV? Nobody will watch it on the laptop as soon as it is broadcast on the tv box.. I think the lost ad revenue from providing a stream is negligible.

Wait a minute…the stream has all the commercials, too. The whole thing makes me crazy in this age of multiple video feeds. I missed 2 1/2 games to either NBA TV broadcasts (had to watch an ugly feed) or tonights pre-empting.

I should not have to work this hard to consume the NBA product.

The NBA sometimes is so amateurish

League Pass went from broadcasting local commercials to taking away sideline reporting because of bad censoring. They’re so cheap they don’t even flying in broadcasters for playoff games on NBA TV. It is absurd.

how those of us who could not get Comcast or League Pass games all season long felt. Although those games were of a lessor magnitude, there were many, many more of them.
That is what should first be fixed.

Was the fact that TNT couldn’t have forgone a few commercials to give some live looks during all the timeouts. There were so many timeouts during the triple overtime game that we could have seen probably a quarter of the first half. They would tease us with a 10 second look and go back.

And it wasn’t like they didn’t know this could happen, heck the Bulls/Celtics games have all come down to the wire (except for one) and four have gone to overtime! ESPN had the games on Friday night and they switched the start of the other game to ESPN2 and showed more live looks than TNT.

Terrible.

I’m a Blazer fan stuck in Boise and I was as pissed as anyone else was while still enjoying that Celts vs Bulls epic. TNT didn’t even bother to have a ticker score at the bottom of the screen for the majority of the time. Then when the Bulls game was over and the Blazers 3rd quarter had started they stuck around Chicago for a D. Rose interview and some pointless yammering by their commentators. I fired off a couple of emails to the NBA via the Contact Us link on their web page. The link even had a drag down menu item for comments about network coverage.
Hopefully all of you other transplanted Blazer and Rockets fans voice your displeasure as well and the league/turner are forced to at least listen.

part of the evening. I mean, I hate that the Blazers lost, but I got so aggravated I finally just went to bed. There was no point in sacrificing my sleep (Central time, early riser) when I couldn’t even watch the game I wanted to see.

It seems to me that last week TNT ran into a similar situation and the late game was broadcast on ESPN2 until TNT could take over. Why that couldn’t happen last night is beyond me. I suppose the majority would probably rather see “Strongest Man” competitions…

Just a downer way to end the season.

Why they didn’t do that immediately latest after the first overtime is beyond me. Did you run out of bits and channels? It’s not like there was something else amazing going on on NBA TV either. Via cable, it seems like they had to show pressing press conferences from the Magic – Sixers game. Wohoo.

For their general failure in planning game starting times accurately, TNT gets my “ULTIMATE FAIL” lapel pin of the year. It has been a problem all season that games get delayed or first quarters not aired. Plan accordingly.

I completely agree. I know theres going to be bundles of legal issues with this, but the NBA needs to establish some sort of a Playoff League pass.

that there isn’t some sort of contingency plan for situations like what happened last night. That was an elimination playoff game, it isnt like it was a mid january regular season game. I don’t know why tbs had to show monster-in-law instead of the first 3 quarters of the blazers/rockets game.

and everytime I flipped back to TNT to see how the CHI/BOS game was going they were at a commercial. KGW didn’t put up a single score or announce the final in CHI so my dad and I were constantly flipping back and forth. Then we got into this crazy twilight zone period where each station had commercials going at the same time. Why would any TV exec want to change that?