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Seven Seconds or Less

My Season on the Bench with the Runnin' and Gunnin' Phoenix Suns

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Seven Seconds or Less

By: Jack McCallum
Narrated by: B. Jay Kaplan
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Sports Illustrated's chief NBA writer, Jack McCallum, only planned to spend the preseason with the Phoenix Suns as an "assistant coach" - and then write a story about his experiences. Instead, he stayed on with the Suns throughout their exciting and controversial 2005-2006 season. Gaining access to everything from locker-room chats with superstar point guard Steve Nash, to coaches' meetings with maverick coach Mike D'Antoni, McCallum learned what makes this wildly popular, innovative, and international assemblage of talented players and brilliant coaches tick - making Seven Seconds or Less an all-access look at one of the greatest shows in sports.

©2006 Jack McCallum (P)2013 Audible, Inc. Basketball
Great Story • Insightful Reporting • Incredible Writing
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I have been a Suns fan for many years....good and bad. This was one of the best!! I really enjoyed the commentary on the players and coaches, learning the ins and outs of the relationship between the two. You really need to be a fan of the team to appreciate Mr. McCallums' telling of this story.

Go Suns!

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Way too many player name mispronunciations. No editing for someone who knows anything about basketball

Bad narration

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Anyone considering themselves a Suns fan needs to read/listen to this book. Very informative and fun.

Suns fan must have

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Truly the worst narrator I’ve ever heard. Speaks in a flat voice throughout the book, clearly not paying any attention to when inflection should be used. So disappointed because I’ve been waiting to read this book for years.

Borderline unlistenable narrator

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the narrator sounds like an early version of AI. lots of oddly pronounced words and awkward sentences starts/stops

lots of inside stories, doesn't pull any punches

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The writing is incredible, the book is incredible. The narration is pretty bad.

Names in the story, 2nd nature to NBA fans, are butchered. Emphasis in sentences, especially those intended to be humorous, are absolutely lost on the narrator. Also, there are quotes in the beginning of each chapter representing a key quote within the chapter itself which are cited in the book (ie "blah blah blah." - Person) in which the narrator does not say who says it, so it sounds completely out of context, and doubly weird when repeated later in the chapter.

Robot Narration with Clueless Word Emphasis

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The narration is just awful. The book is great but so much humor is lost. It's just tough to listen to.

Please re-record this.

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What did you love best about Seven Seconds or Less?

A sterling account of the Phoenix Suns season. Any basketball fan would love this audiobook, and I was sad when it came to an end.

Engrossing

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a great insight and reporting by the author as always, but narrator's performance could've been better

don't like the suns very much, but

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The story is good, but the reader makes it unlistenable. It sounds like they read each word in a vacuum and the copy & pasted it together. Awful.

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