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Looking forward to seeing if any of the prep and points made on CBS SN carry over to the CBS Saturday afternoon broadcast of the Memphis game.
It's a home game.
Here are some of the points the announcers made:
1. The atmosphere at Gampel against Louisville was through the roof and UConn fans are great fans.
2. Shabazz Napier knows the game better than any other player in America, his court awareness is unparalleled, a surefire 1st rounder who could have left and been drafted but stuck around to refine his game with NBA caliber coaching.
3. Kevin Ollie is an NBA caliber coach; the OKC Thunder said he had a long term spot with them, if he wanted it.
4. He played for so many years in the NBA, which is unheard of for a guard who averaged 7 points his senior year in college.
5. Ollie has been exposed to many different styles of offenses over his career, he's seen it all.
6. He has the ear of the NBA whenever he wants it. If a player is seeking advice about the NBA or needs an evaluation, Ollie has the contacts. He can make a call a place a player instantlyin, say, Kevin Durant's summer camp.
7. UConn has a great history of NBA players, it's a NBA factory. Many stories about UConn's great teams in the BE, even mentioning that the 96 team was perhaps the best national team not to win a championship in ages. Mentioned they lost to eventual champ UCLA that had 11 future pros on the team.
8. UConn's practices are unbelievable, the attention to detail, fundamentals, the rigor and intensity of the coaches, especially Ollie, is unparalleled.
I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot of things, and I know they left out the new facilities, etc., but when you couple the broadcast with CBS's production excellence (the HDTV was sharper than anything I've seen on Fox or ESPN), the entire broadcast was one big advertisement for UConn. I'm assuming that few people watched it, and that's why I hope all the talking points carryover to the national CBS network broadcast.
Best produced game so far this year, IMO.
It's a home game.
Here are some of the points the announcers made:
1. The atmosphere at Gampel against Louisville was through the roof and UConn fans are great fans.
2. Shabazz Napier knows the game better than any other player in America, his court awareness is unparalleled, a surefire 1st rounder who could have left and been drafted but stuck around to refine his game with NBA caliber coaching.
3. Kevin Ollie is an NBA caliber coach; the OKC Thunder said he had a long term spot with them, if he wanted it.
4. He played for so many years in the NBA, which is unheard of for a guard who averaged 7 points his senior year in college.
5. Ollie has been exposed to many different styles of offenses over his career, he's seen it all.
6. He has the ear of the NBA whenever he wants it. If a player is seeking advice about the NBA or needs an evaluation, Ollie has the contacts. He can make a call a place a player instantlyin, say, Kevin Durant's summer camp.
7. UConn has a great history of NBA players, it's a NBA factory. Many stories about UConn's great teams in the BE, even mentioning that the 96 team was perhaps the best national team not to win a championship in ages. Mentioned they lost to eventual champ UCLA that had 11 future pros on the team.
8. UConn's practices are unbelievable, the attention to detail, fundamentals, the rigor and intensity of the coaches, especially Ollie, is unparalleled.
I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot of things, and I know they left out the new facilities, etc., but when you couple the broadcast with CBS's production excellence (the HDTV was sharper than anything I've seen on Fox or ESPN), the entire broadcast was one big advertisement for UConn. I'm assuming that few people watched it, and that's why I hope all the talking points carryover to the national CBS network broadcast.
Best produced game so far this year, IMO.
