I expect better from the Sixers broadcast. Nerlens Noel had multiple sick dunks in this game but replays for many of them were absent, as far as I could tell. How am I supposed to determine how sick a dunk really is unless I have multiple up-close, slow-mo replays of the dunk from every possible angle? A dunk that looks pedestrian from the broadcast angle can blow your mind if seen from the baseline, and every dunk gets ten times cooler if you slow it down while the player is in the air and then speed it up again as they rocket the ball through the hoop.
Sometimes I think I should be the one in the truck editing these broadcasts. I would ensure that there were replays of all the greatest plays and if a play was lame and didn’t deserve a replay, I would just splice in YouTube videos of Russian car crashes (complete with background techno music) until the teams started playing again. Just to assuage any concerns that hiring directors might have, I absolutely would not abuse my position of power in the truck to secretly feed all the video streams into a bank of hard drives hidden in a briefcase and then use those streams later to make highlight videos out of. I would never dream of doing something like that. I don’t even have the technical expertise needed to pull something like that off.
So, if any team needs a guy to edit the live broadcasts as they happen, you know where to find me.