Clippers- Any other team and they'd be known as the best.
Warriors- Fast-paced commentary, decent analysis.
Nets- Non-homers will always be near or at the top.
Sonics- Most professional duo calling games, even though Snapper has lost a little bit.
Knicks- if Gus Johnson and Walt did every game, they'd be at the top)
Blazers- Mike Rice is a bag of deutch, but both are the most observant of everything going on in the game.
Hawks- Steve Ssmith knows the game, but his litt;e 'whoo's' are too much sometimes.
Other teams' broadcasters
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Best, or at least most enjoyable:
Warriors--- the colour guy for the warriors provides some very good analysis, personal player critiques, etc; he's very good at what he does. The play by play guy can be a little bit hard to take because he gets too excited for fairly mundane plays made by warriors players.
Clippers--- Lawler (sp?) is good, and him and Smith have very good chemistry as people, which helps make the broadcast entertaining despite the Clippers' mediocrity. Smith, though, is a little bit ignorant. Whenever he's asked to pronounce a name that isn't native to the American consciousness, he makes too big a deal out of it. Something about his world-view irks me, insofar as world-view can be interpreted through a basketball broadcast.
I used to like the Cavs' crew when Michael Reghi was doing the play-by- play. I think it is someone else doing it now, and he is a little too excitable and homerish.
Calabro is very, very, good at his job.
I've grown tired of Breen, but I enjoy Walt Fraizer. He's even-handed and honest about the Knicks, and has no problem pointing out some of the flaws of the New York sports culture, the culture of the Knicks, and individual players on the Knicks team.
Bad colour guys: Houston ( Clyde sounds like an idiot more often than not), Denver( dreadfully boring and seemingly disinterested) Toronto ( Leo), Detroit.
I also find the pair in Sacramento to be very boring.
Warriors--- the colour guy for the warriors provides some very good analysis, personal player critiques, etc; he's very good at what he does. The play by play guy can be a little bit hard to take because he gets too excited for fairly mundane plays made by warriors players.
Clippers--- Lawler (sp?) is good, and him and Smith have very good chemistry as people, which helps make the broadcast entertaining despite the Clippers' mediocrity. Smith, though, is a little bit ignorant. Whenever he's asked to pronounce a name that isn't native to the American consciousness, he makes too big a deal out of it. Something about his world-view irks me, insofar as world-view can be interpreted through a basketball broadcast.
I used to like the Cavs' crew when Michael Reghi was doing the play-by- play. I think it is someone else doing it now, and he is a little too excitable and homerish.
Calabro is very, very, good at his job.
I've grown tired of Breen, but I enjoy Walt Fraizer. He's even-handed and honest about the Knicks, and has no problem pointing out some of the flaws of the New York sports culture, the culture of the Knicks, and individual players on the Knicks team.
Bad colour guys: Houston ( Clyde sounds like an idiot more often than not), Denver( dreadfully boring and seemingly disinterested) Toronto ( Leo), Detroit.
I also find the pair in Sacramento to be very boring.
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A couple of my faves phrases:
- DAGGER! (Steve Buckhantz, Wizards)
- "...slices and dices" (Clyde, NYK)
I hate:
- "If you don't like that, you don't like NBA basketball"
- The millions of phantom "fouls" that Heinsohn imagines in his Alzheimer's-riddled mind. You know, like when an opponent's face fouls one of the C's elbows.
- Any of the monosyllabic grunts and utterances that pretened to be enlightened commentary from the Bulls crew.
- DAGGER! (Steve Buckhantz, Wizards)
- "...slices and dices" (Clyde, NYK)
I hate:
- "If you don't like that, you don't like NBA basketball"
- The millions of phantom "fouls" that Heinsohn imagines in his Alzheimer's-riddled mind. You know, like when an opponent's face fouls one of the C's elbows.
- Any of the monosyllabic grunts and utterances that pretened to be enlightened commentary from the Bulls crew.
"Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart."
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"Try not. Do or do not. There is no try"
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I hate the Boston one's with a passion. I only listened to them like 4 times, but they have got to be the most anoying and biggest homers. According to them the C's have never fouled anyone or commited a turnover and the other teams foul the C's every time down the floor. They also whine like lil girls, when the C's have something go against them.