UseTaHoop
Years ago
Are Monday night games worth playing (apart from spreading the games out over the weekend/ shortening the season)?
Are they evenly distributed amongst the teams?
If these games aren't useful for the local market, should the NBL play them to suit the US market?
Hawks play 1 Friday home game and 1 Saturday home game
Monday night games are awesome. If they are played every second week in a regional area to guarantee a crowd it'd be a perfect way to promote the game.
I like the Monday and Thursday night games. I'd prefer for all sides to play each other four times as well so more of Thursday and Monday is fine by me. Don’t load the Thursday, Monday games on same teams share it equally.
"a regional area to guarantee a crowd"
Thats the problem. It doesn't appear they are.
Saturday games sell out in those towns? I must have missed something.
The maths is pretty simple...lose 1K in Illawarra or Cairns vs lose 5K in the city by playing on Monday...
AussiePride
Years ago
Thursday night and Monday night games are not about how many people turn up to the venue. They are for the TV/Fox/Kayo/Facebook viewers and hoops fans that follow the NBL as a whole and keeps momentum up similar to the Big Bash.
Nothing worse than a 5 day break between games because you almost forget the season is on.
Wake up for god's sake!!!
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