My thoughts...
-Loved the new player stage intro’s with the music and smoke machines, that is something you see at the big time places, nice new touch.
-Cut our 75% of the cheers, so much dead time and trying to teach the crowd cheers, it’s like a bad pep rally, just cut all that out and increase the D.J. music.
-Stop trying to integrate the girls with the guys so much, I get it but the draw is the men and you are watering down their events by trying to involve them together.
-Half court shot...last night they pulled 4 girls and 4 guys to see who could make first, first girl made hers so it was done. Change this to what NBA All-Star does, guy/girl/maybe coach or former player 3 man team. First shot is baseline 15 footer, 2nd is 3pt and then half court shot, you let 1 team go at a time and best time wins.
-3pt contest...last night they had Turner, Bowden, Fleschman, Woodson out there teamed up with 4 girls. Girls shot 3 racks and guys shot 2 racks, going on both sides of the court so nobody had a clue what each team had for a score until it was over and they counted. Instead...split them up, if you wanna allow the girls to do one go ahead, have 4 of them go all 5 racks 1 at a time so everybody knows the score and builds some drama. Let’s 2 high scorers go again for championship, do the same thing with guys, play music instead of silence.
Dunk contest- they had Pons, Johnson and Fulkerson go...not too much of a complain here, maybe would’ve like to have seen 1-2 more guys go and they maybe do 1 dunk each and top 2 advance type thing but nothing too bad about the way they did last nights.
-my biggest complaint is the dead time, the pep rally feel cheers, and the unorganized feel. They did the 3pt contest and gave 30 seconds at first, neither side made it halfway so they gave 45 seconds, the crowd had to yell 1min to get them to give them more time, just a bad look that is easy fix if you had watched any events like this. I also thought it was bad planning to have your biggest names (Williams, Schofield and Bone) as non-participants in any event, you have to find a way to change that even if it’s just putting them in the 3 man skill competition or something.
JMO, TL;DR