Worst performance by broadcast team of the season?
Posted: Fri Feb 8, 2008 9:07 pm
For me it was last night: Warriors/Bulls
Marv Albert, Reggie Miller, Mike Fratello
literally over half the game they talked about non warriors/bulls topics. Shaq, the lakers, "czar" vs. miller, reggie's playing days, on and on... absolutely horrible. When there was talk, it was just Marv saying like 3 words about the play happening, a bunch of silence, then back to the Shaq trade or The History of The Great Jim Boylan.
Then the cameras continually missed freethrows, steals, etc. and there were literally 40 pans to Jim Boylan in one half; an interim coach getting more face time than Nelson, or even coaches like Pop or Jackson would get.
There were many contreversial calls during the game that changed how the game went down, yet there was no talk of it at all (not even "wow, all the fouls calls hurt the pace of the warriors). Nothing. Fouls against both teams called when a player was not even touched. Ticky tack stuff, etc. it was a horribly officiated game and the announcers almost never even explained fouls except to always support the officials.
Marv seemed disinterested, but really is a prisoner of the terrible Miller/Fratello pairing. Soooo bad. Miller isn't a great speaker, then Fratello's insight is basically useless and he mostly talks about unrelated topics that have no bearing on the game at hand. He and miller always joust at each other in a way that is not funny and is absolutely boring.
Anyone else catch the game last night and wonder WTF was going on with the announcing? They would go four or five possessions on long unrelated stories. Awful.
Marv Albert, Reggie Miller, Mike Fratello
literally over half the game they talked about non warriors/bulls topics. Shaq, the lakers, "czar" vs. miller, reggie's playing days, on and on... absolutely horrible. When there was talk, it was just Marv saying like 3 words about the play happening, a bunch of silence, then back to the Shaq trade or The History of The Great Jim Boylan.
Then the cameras continually missed freethrows, steals, etc. and there were literally 40 pans to Jim Boylan in one half; an interim coach getting more face time than Nelson, or even coaches like Pop or Jackson would get.
There were many contreversial calls during the game that changed how the game went down, yet there was no talk of it at all (not even "wow, all the fouls calls hurt the pace of the warriors). Nothing. Fouls against both teams called when a player was not even touched. Ticky tack stuff, etc. it was a horribly officiated game and the announcers almost never even explained fouls except to always support the officials.
Marv seemed disinterested, but really is a prisoner of the terrible Miller/Fratello pairing. Soooo bad. Miller isn't a great speaker, then Fratello's insight is basically useless and he mostly talks about unrelated topics that have no bearing on the game at hand. He and miller always joust at each other in a way that is not funny and is absolutely boring.
Anyone else catch the game last night and wonder WTF was going on with the announcing? They would go four or five possessions on long unrelated stories. Awful.