Twenty years ago, Greg Daniels learned an important lesson about making mockumentaries by way of a basketball game. He was directing the fifth episode of “The Office” — Season 1’s now-famous “Basketball” and his first behind the camera. The hilariously chaotic pickup game in the Dunder Mifflin warehouse allowed the cast to play off the dynamics built in the first four episodes and test out the improvisational nature of the genre. Daniels worked closely with the camera operators — “talking with them as you would actors,” he says — about being ready for whatever happens on and off the “court.”
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