They play again this Thursday. Curious to see if a lot more watch after how good the first one was.
Just to add a little context. I think Lions-Vikings did 27 million Sunday night.
It doesn't solve an existing problem. We have top level golf on 4 days a week now. I doubt Thursday and Friday ratings are very big. Nobody was saying we need a fifth day of golf.
Seems like it would have a better shot at success if they put this on between the end and start of the season.
Also, a lot of the holes were pretty cool. But I think they are underestimating the appeal of existing courses. It's a lot of fun watching Scottie play a hole that Tiger and Jack played 20 and 50 years ago.
I'm not saying go play 18 at Bethpage. But maybe have a week where you take individual holes from existing courses and create your own virtual course from them. I suppose they would have to pay licensing fees then.
I saw the ratings were just over 900K. Curious to see what that looks like a couple of weeks from now.
Next part of his game he needs to work on is his efficiency. He had a 56.9% TS% over those 20 games, which is ugly. Most of the elite players are north of 60%.
He needs to draw more fouls. That will help his shooting% around the rim go up (misses turn into fouls so now they don't count as misses) and he needs to shoot better at the line. 79% over those 20 games. He is at 84% for his career, so not real sure why he is shooting so poorly from the line this year.
All you can do as a coach is put your players in the best situation to win. Sounds like they are doing that.
But yeah. Good teams will destroy that. At least JB is trying.
New mock from Vecenie. His top 10:
Cooper Flagg to NOP
Dylan Harper to WAS
Ace Bailey to TOR
Kasparas Jakucionis to CHA
V.J. Edgecombe to UTA
Asa Newell to POR
Egor Demin to BKN
Liam McNeeley to SAC
Kon Knueppel to OKC (via PHI)
Tre Johnson to DET
The thing that bothers me is the dynamic pricing.
No clue if the Pistons use it or not but a lot of teams do. And if they do, this game would have been priced with those guys playing. Now that they are not playing, that pricing is wrong. True dynamic pricing wouldn't charge you until they tip and based on that lineup.