Opening Night Intuit Dome Suns @ Clippers, 7PM PST

[hitnrun24]

Gotta go to Jordan Miller and see what he's got. Probably gonna take Lue a few more games to see it, but we need his offense.

Also don't believe Norm should be a starter. He can still have a big role, but he should be running the offense when Harden goes out.

It's not gonna happen but I would start Miller and put Norm back in the 6th man role and initially I'd be ok if Norm got more minutes still.

[nuraman00]

Oct 23, 2024 19:27:52 GMT -8 corkscrew said:

At the game. The venue is a surreal experience. They’ve thought of everything. Attention to details is off the hook. Very, very impressed.

What did they think of, that surprised you?  Or that you weren't expecting?  Or that surpassed your expectations?

What were some specifics that very, very impressed you?

What were some of the details that were off the hook?

I liked the presence of the color blue.  It reinforces with the Clippers branding.  Not only is the color blue on every in arena shop, but the LED lights on the escalators also had Clippers blue.

[corkscrew]

Oct 29, 2024 20:23:00 GMT -8 nuraman00 said:

Oct 23, 2024 19:27:52 GMT -8 corkscrew said:

At the game. The venue is a surreal experience. They’ve thought of everything. Attention to details is off the hook. Very, very impressed.

What did they think of, that surprised you?  Or that you weren't expecting?  Or that surpassed your expectations?

What were some specifics that very, very impressed you?

What were some of the details that were off the hook?

I liked the presence of the color blue.  It reinforces with the Clippers branding.  Not only is the color blue on every in arena shop, but the LED lights on the escalators also had Clippers blue.

There are tons, here are just some off the top of my head:

— Once you download and setup the Intuit Dome App, you no longer need a ticket to get into or get around anywhere in the venue, it’s all done with face recognition, and there are no lines. you just walk through.

— Every seating section has its own “club house” for food and drinks and restrooms. Again, no tix needed, all face recognition, and again no lines. You just grab what you want and walk away. There is comfortable seating and tables to sit and eat — very civilized.

— The food offered is diverse and high quality. One restaurant near the entrance to the venue is a rotating pop-up of various restaurants around Los Angeles — I believe it changes every 3 months.

— The stadium seats are wide and super comfortable, and every section is designed so that the exit to the club house (and the restrooms) is only a few feet away from every seat. So it takes less than a minute to go to the bathroom and less than a minute to get back to your seat, And again there are no lines at the restrooms, and they are very clean and convenient — plenty of drying towels and no drying air blowers that my Apple Watch and I hate passionately.

— We arrived early to explore and walk around — there are no “bad seats” in the arena. Even the nose-bleed seats have a great view of the BB Court, and the 44,000 sq ft scoreboard is double-sided and placed high in the arena. So even the nose-bleed seats have a great view of the scoreboard.

— The scoreboard itself is huge and therefore displays a huge amount of information, stats, animation, replays, entertainment, etc. (the film composer Hans Zimmer created the theme music.) It is so good that at times I found myself instinctively looking at the game on the screen rather than the court, and we had great seats.

— I could go on and on, there are tons of impressive design and concept feature, too many to enumerate. But by far my favorite is the fact that the hard part is getting to the venue, once you arrive, everything becomes smooth and easy — No lines, no rushing, no waiting for anything, drinks, food, restrooms, all smooth, accessible, and easy. You don’t feel like sheep in a huge crowd.

The thought kept popping into my head about how Lakers fans are going to feel when they come to a game at the Intuit Dome. Hahahaha.

PS. ... And the arena is LOUD!!! Good God it's loud!

[nuraman00]

Oct 30, 2024 10:02:40 GMT -8 corkscrew said:

Oct 29, 2024 20:23:00 GMT -8 nuraman00 said:

What did they think of, that surprised you?  Or that you weren't expecting?  Or that surpassed your expectations?

What were some specifics that very, very impressed you?

What were some of the details that were off the hook?

I liked the presence of the color blue.  It reinforces with the Clippers branding.  Not only is the color blue on every in arena shop, but the LED lights on the escalators also had Clippers blue.

There are tons, here are just some off the top of my head:

— Once you download and setup the Intuit Dome App, you no longer need a ticket to get into or get around anywhere in the venue, it’s all done with face recognition, and there are no lines. you just walk through.

— Every seating section has its own “club house” for food and drinks and restrooms. Again, no tix needed, all face recognition, and again no lines. You just grab what you want and walk away. There is comfortable seating and tables to sit and eat — very civilized.

— The food offered is diverse and high quality. One restaurant near the entrance to the venue is a rotating pop-up of various restaurants around Los Angeles — I believe it changes every 3 months.

— The stadium seats are wide and super comfortable, and every section is designed so that the exit to the club house (and the restrooms) is only a few feet away from every seat. So it takes less than a minute to go to the bathroom and less than a minute to get back to your seat, And again there are no lines at the restrooms, and they are very clean and convenient — plenty of drying towels and no drying air blowers that my Apple Watch and I hate passionately.

— We arrived early to explore and walk around — there are no “bad seats” in the arena. Even the nose-bleed seats have a great view of the BB Court, and the 44,000 sq ft scoreboard is double-sided and placed high in the arena. So even the nose-bleed seats have a great view of the scoreboard.

— The scoreboard itself is huge and therefore displays a huge amount of information, stats, animation, replays, entertainment, etc. (the film composer Hans Zimmer created the theme music.) It is so good that at times I found myself instinctively looking at the game on the screen rather than the court, and we had great seats.

— I could go on and on, there are tons of impressive design and concept feature, too many to enumerate. But by far my favorite is the fact that the hard part is getting to the venue, once you arrive, everything becomes smooth and easy — No lines, no rushing, no waiting for anything, drinks, food, restrooms, all smooth, accessible, and easy. You don’t feel like sheep in a huge crowd.

The thought kept popping into my head about how Lakers fans are going to feel when they come to a game at the Intuit Dome. Hahahaha.

PS. ... And the arena is LOUD!!! Good God it's loud!

Thanks for the response.  I liked reading your list.


Agree with most points.

I did not go to the bathroom, so no comment there.

Expanding on your comment about not feeling like sheep in a huge crowd, the same applies when leaving the venue.  Sometimes at events at other venues, it feels like there'a about a thousand people all walking in the same direction.

Not this time at the Intuit Dome.  Walking both out of the arena, and in the area surrounding the arena, it did not feel like a crowd.  Didn't even feel like anyone was in front or behind me.


A few comments I don't agree with:

* I went to a few different concession stands and club house food lounges.  Beer selection should have been a little better.  I've seen better at other venues in general.  The price was $1 - $2 cheaper though than some other venues.  I didn't get any beer since it wasn't that inspiring.

* Facial recognition:  Getting into the arena was fine.  It was even fine for one of the club lounges.

But at another club lounge, there was a section within the club lounge that had it's own face scanner.  That scanner was slow.  It was taking 12 - 15 seconds to scan each person's face, before they could go to that roped off section within the club lounge.

Not only that, but when the person in front of me had his face scanned, it said my name on the face scanner.  I was a few feet behind that person too.  I wasn't next to that person, or to that person's side.

It said my full name, so it couldn't have been a coincidence that we had the same first name.

I was then worried that whatever that person bought after getting his face scanned, would be charged to me.  

Also, 12 - 15 seconds is too slow.  At that point, it's just faster to pay via tapping your credit card or digital wallet.

Also, when it got to my turn to scan my face into that scanner by the roped off scanner, it wouldn't let me in, not even after the 15+ seconds.  Maybe because it thought I had just entered less than a minute ago.

So the attendant then told me to get my ticket out so I could scan that.  I didn't have that ready, because I wasn't expecting to have to show my bar code anymore.  So the attendant then let the next person scan his face, while I searched for the bar code again.


If the facial recognition, especially when buying something, had worked like it done outside, then fine.  But it didn't.

And everyone was getting annoyed at how slow this scanner was with each person.  I also really wanted to see what was in this roped off section, since I had already declined purchasing something in one club lounge.  So at that point, I was committed to at least getting through so I could examine the specific items more closely.  So I could have then compared 2 or 3 different places for their offerings.



* There should be 2 "WALLS".  Since shooting FTs occur at opposite ends between the two halves.

Since the visiting team gets to choose the direction, all they have to do is pick THE WALL to be their first half side, so they'll be away from it in the second half.

+++++++++++



official.nba.com/rule-no-4-definitions/



Section I—Basket/Backboard

a. A team’s basket consists of the basket ring and net through which its players try to
shoot the ball. The visiting team has the choice of baskets for the first half. The basket
selected by the visiting team when it first enters onto the court shall be its basket for the first
half.
b. The teams change baskets for the second half. All overtime periods are considered
extensions of the second half.

[nuraman00]

corkscrew, if you went with your son, did he have any observations about the arena that you want to share?

[nuraman00]

Oct 30, 2024 10:02:40 GMT -8 corkscrew said:

— The food offered is diverse and high quality. One restaurant near the entrance to the venue is a rotating pop-up of various restaurants around Los Angeles — I believe it changes every 3 months.

Pics of what you bought, and what the items were called?

[clipfan88]

The food is hit and miss. If you pick up something that has been sitting under the heat lamps too long it will be either too hard or cold. For example, regular hot dog had a rock hard bun and was a VERY plain hot dog. Waffle fries were cold and hardened. Churros were over cooked and hard. Terrible!. Double cheeseburger and chicken caeser salad were ok though. Items in the Grey Goose Lounge (if your seats are on that level) were ok and change nightly, while all grab and go stuff on main level is the same every night.

Also, if using Game Face ID, double check your account for the charges in the Flagship Store. Twice now I have been charged for items that I did not walk out with. The system is flawed at the flagship store. All in arena grab n go food charges have been correct so far though. But watch out at the store.

[hitnrun24]

I've heard traffic is tough on week nights. Anyone done the drive from the Orange County/Long Beach area?

[corkscrew]

Oct 31, 2024 10:27:36 GMT -8 hitnrun24 said:

I've heard traffic is tough on week nights. Anyone done the drive from the Orange County/Long Beach area?

The entire Forum/SoFi/Intuit Dome complex is a nightmare to get to and leave from, regardless of which direction you approach it. I’ve done North, South, East and West and they all suck. What I have found that works best for me is to Uber to a spot 4-6 blocks away from the venue and walk the rest of the way, then do the same when I leave, walk 4-6 blocks to a spot where I call an Uber. But that’s just me, I enjoy walking.

[corkscrew]

Oct 30, 2024 11:58:31 GMT -8 nuraman00 said:

Oct 30, 2024 10:02:40 GMT -8 corkscrew said:

There are tons, here are just some off the top of my head:

— Once you download and setup the Intuit Dome App, you no longer need a ticket to get into or get around anywhere in the venue, it’s all done with face recognition, and there are no lines. you just walk through.

— Every seating section has its own “club house” for food and drinks and restrooms. Again, no tix needed, all face recognition, and again no lines. You just grab what you want and walk away. There is comfortable seating and tables to sit and eat — very civilized.

— The food offered is diverse and high quality. One restaurant near the entrance to the venue is a rotating pop-up of various restaurants around Los Angeles — I believe it changes every 3 months.

— The stadium seats are wide and super comfortable, and every section is designed so that the exit to the club house (and the restrooms) is only a few feet away from every seat. So it takes less than a minute to go to the bathroom and less than a minute to get back to your seat, And again there are no lines at the restrooms, and they are very clean and convenient — plenty of drying towels and no drying air blowers that my Apple Watch and I hate passionately.

— We arrived early to explore and walk around — there are no “bad seats” in the arena. Even the nose-bleed seats have a great view of the BB Court, and the 44,000 sq ft scoreboard is double-sided and placed high in the arena. So even the nose-bleed seats have a great view of the scoreboard.

— The scoreboard itself is huge and therefore displays a huge amount of information, stats, animation, replays, entertainment, etc. (the film composer Hans Zimmer created the theme music.) It is so good that at times I found myself instinctively looking at the game on the screen rather than the court, and we had great seats.

— I could go on and on, there are tons of impressive design and concept feature, too many to enumerate. But by far my favorite is the fact that the hard part is getting to the venue, once you arrive, everything becomes smooth and easy — No lines, no rushing, no waiting for anything, drinks, food, restrooms, all smooth, accessible, and easy. You don’t feel like sheep in a huge crowd.

The thought kept popping into my head about how Lakers fans are going to feel when they come to a game at the Intuit Dome. Hahahaha.

PS. ... And the arena is LOUD!!! Good God it's loud!

Thanks for the response.  I liked reading your list.


Agree with most points.

I did not go to the bathroom, so no comment there.

Expanding on your comment about not feeling like sheep in a huge crowd, the same applies when leaving the venue.  Sometimes at events at other venues, it feels like there'a about a thousand people all walking in the same direction.

Not this time at the Intuit Dome.  Walking both out of the arena, and in the area surrounding the arena, it did not feel like a crowd.  Didn't even feel like anyone was in front or behind me.


A few comments I don't agree with:

* I went to a few different concession stands and club house food lounges.  Beer selection should have been a little better.  I've seen better at other venues in general.  The price was $1 - $2 cheaper though than some other venues.  I didn't get any beer since it wasn't that inspiring.

* Facial recognition:  Getting into the arena was fine.  It was even fine for one of the club lounges.

But at another club lounge, there was a section within the club lounge that had it's own face scanner.  That scanner was slow.  It was taking 12 - 15 seconds to scan each person's face, before they could go to that roped off section within the club lounge.

Not only that, but when the person in front of me had his face scanned, it said my name on the face scanner.  I was a few feet behind that person too.  I wasn't next to that person, or to that person's side.

It said my full name, so it couldn't have been a coincidence that we had the same first name.

I was then worried that whatever that person bought after getting his face scanned, would be charged to me.  

Also, 12 - 15 seconds is too slow.  At that point, it's just faster to pay via tapping your credit card or digital wallet.

Also, when it got to my turn to scan my face into that scanner by the roped off scanner, it wouldn't let me in, not even after the 15+ seconds.  Maybe because it thought I had just entered less than a minute ago.

So the attendant then told me to get my ticket out so I could scan that.  I didn't have that ready, because I wasn't expecting to have to show my bar code anymore.  So the attendant then let the next person scan his face, while I searched for the bar code again.


If the facial recognition, especially when buying something, had worked like it done outside, then fine.  But it didn't.

And everyone was getting annoyed at how slow this scanner was with each person.  I also really wanted to see what was in this roped off section, since I had already declined purchasing something in one club lounge.  So at that point, I was committed to at least getting through so I could examine the specific items more closely.  So I could have then compared 2 or 3 different places for their offerings.



* There should be 2 "WALLS".  Since shooting FTs occur at opposite ends between the two halves.

Since the visiting team gets to choose the direction, all they have to do is pick THE WALL to be their first half side, so they'll be away from it in the second half.

+++++++++++



official.nba.com/rule-no-4-definitions/



Section I—Basket/Backboard

a. A team’s basket consists of the basket ring and net through which its players try to
shoot the ball. The visiting team has the choice of baskets for the first half. The basket
selected by the visiting team when it first enters onto the court shall be its basket for the first
half.
b. The teams change baskets for the second half. All overtime periods are considered
extensions of the second half.

That’s what you get for having such a pretty face. You should be as ugly as I am, the system recognized me in a heartbeat every time.

[clipfan88]

Oct 31, 2024 10:27:36 GMT -8 hitnrun24 said:

I've heard traffic is tough on week nights. Anyone done the drive from the Orange County/Long Beach area?

I can't comment on that direction as I come from the valley, but from about Santa Monica Blvd on the 405 to W. Century Blvd it's a very slow crawl. That stretch has taken me about 1 hour the last 2 times I've gone during the week.

BUT, leaving the area has been a breeze - W. Century back to the 405. MUCH easier than leaving from a concert at the Forum where they always seem to steer you in the opposite direction of the 405 clearing out the area.

[nuraman00]

Oct 31, 2024 13:17:07 GMT -8 corkscrew said:

That’s what you get for having such a pretty face. You should be as ugly as I am, the system recognized me in a heartbeat every time.

LOL!

I may be somewhat pretty, but my voice sucks.