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The Economy of Words During a Basketball Game

There are more words during a basketball game. More description words, more adjectives, more action words. There're just more plays. And maybe i'm just a old school i don't want to do a radio call on t v but i want to do enough to alert the viewer that i'm aware of what's going on. So that doesn't mean you describe every movement and every pass, but it does mean you've got to pick out the most important part of the play in front of you. I think there's that very fine line. Some will tell you why, you could have a few plays go by, and the audience isn't going to miss it,. But i do

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