NBA phrases you are sick of hearing?

[baubo]

"He's young with so much potential" - very few NBA players have true potential to be great. It's a LIE

By the same vein, "good young player", or something of similar nature, seems to be used all the time by commentators who clearly haven't done their homework. Crappy stats? "Good young player, just need some more time." Mediocre stat? "Good young player, contributing to the team." Good stats? "Good young player, has played very well so far."

It's foolproof regardless of what the guy does.

A: "He's good young player."
B: "But he looks lost out there."
A: "NBA is a hard league. It takes time to adjust."

[Torres]

"X Factor" and "Clutch Gene"

[sixerswillrule]

"Scoring with the reverse layup, using the rim as protection". No, the defender can still block a reverse layup, the rim didn't really do anything.

[clip set]

Also constantly attributing winning to "just wanting it more"

[Sofia]

"IF YOU DONT LIKE THAT, YOU DONT LIKE NBA BASKETBALL!"

Shut. Up.

[Sofia]

I was also going to say anything Reggie Miller has to say, but it was covered in first comment; well done GB.

[BballMania47]

"Are you kidding me" by Reggie and any rant by Hubie Brown, especially the "You see, you can't let him do that"

[RIP Kobe]

when reggie miller didn't shut up about lebron not joining the dunk contest.

i wanted to punch my tv every time.

[aussiewill]

Mark Jackson- "Momm, there goes that man" & "That's a bad man"

or Mike Breen with "Bangggg!"

Mark Followill and Derek Harper are pretty good, they don't have corny catch phrases and try not to homer too much.

[bondom34]

This isn't the announcers, it's something that the mics pick up from the players, and some might say my hatred for this is irrational. I hate it when I hear players yell "and-1" when they are fouled while shooting (or think they have been fouled) and the ball is still in the air and oftentimes going nowhere near the general vicinity of the basket, much less in it.

This is one of mine too, and you're lucky you don't have to watch Dion Waiters.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33v7Jeb4lvU[/youtube]

[stuporman]

Hands down man down... in basketball it makes no sense.

[PaulieWal]

Some variation of the word aggressive.

"We need to be aggressive tonight" or when the announcers say the winning team is that much more "aggressive" than the other team.

"Gotta be aggressive".

[ChuckChilly]

Any use of the word "bunny".

[NickAnderson]

When Reggie says "are you kidding me?!? Are you kidding me?!!?!" hate it some much.

[DNP - Old]

Some variation of the word aggressive.

"We need to be aggressive tonight" or when the announcers say the winning team is that much more "aggressive" than the other team.

"Gotta be aggressive".

Lol, this. How many times can you recall LeBron saying the exact words “We just gotta be more aggressive"?

[Prez]

Am I the only one who doesn't hate Reggie Miller?

[the throg]

hubie talking about a playing having "long arms"--"he's got those long arms,so he cant defend a couple of positions"

going to heat games and whenever there is two minutes left in a quarter they shout "DOS" over the loudspeaker..

[ReNix]

Mark Jackson, please for the love of God, stop saying "You know the rules. Hand down, man down." Just please.

[Goudelock]

Am I the only one who doesn't hate Reggie Miller?

Personally, I don't think that he's that annoying. He's not great, but I'll take him over Jon Barry/Mark Jackson any day of the week.

[brooklynbrawler]

When the Cavs announcer says "Get that weak stuff outta here!", after literally every single block