Worst Draft Coverage Ever?

rz04 · Post #1 » by **rz04** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 5:25 am

I thought JVG would have made it tolerable, but even the few highlights of his funny comments couldn't save the show.

It was painful to listen to Stewart Scott make idiotic comments over and over again. What made it worse was that Stewart talked ALL THE TIME. They didn't even report on most of the rumors flying around the league. Hell watching him made me want SAS back on the table with them. He never provided any useful information. Thanks Stewart, I am so glad to know that Arthur was chewing gum while he sat there painfully listening to your remarks about him....... chewing gum.

ESPN please for the love of God don't bring Stewart Scott back to do anything remotely associated with the NBA ever again.

jumanji · Post #2 » by **jumanji** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 5:29 am

It is actually painfull listening to Marc Jackson.

Art Vandelay · Post #3 » by **Art Vandelay** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 5:34 am

jumanji wrote:It is actually painfull listening to Marc Jackson.

I never understood the phenomena of Marc Jackson getting mixed up with Mark Jackson. Although I'm sure it is painful listening to Marc Jackson too.

MaRcu5 · Post #4 » by **MaRcu5** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 5:35 am

rz04 wrote:I thought JVG would have made it tolerable, but even the few highlights of his funny comments couldn't save the show.

It was painful to listen to Stewart Scott make idiotic comments over and over again. What made it worse was that Stewart talked ALL THE TIME. They didn't even report on most of the rumors flying around the league. Hell watching him made me want SAS back on the table with them. He never provided any useful information. Thanks Stewart, I am so glad to know that Arthur was chewing gum while he sat there painfully listening to your remarks about him....... chewing gum.

ESPN please for the love of God don't bring Stewart Scott back to do anything remotely associated with the NBA ever again.

LOL. Could the crowd hear what the table was saying? That makes the entire night 5 times funnier if they could. :lol:

jumanji · Post #5 » by **jumanji** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 5:37 am

Art Vandelay wrote:
jumanji wrote:It is actually painfull listening to Marc Jackson.

I never understood the phenomena of Marc Jackson getting mixed up with Mark Jackson. Although I'm sure it is painful listening to Marc Jackson too.

Ok Vandelay you got me on that one.

Post #6 » by **TMU** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 5:52 am

Stu Scott and Mark Jackson were awful. Stu makes all these unnecessary comments and dude acts like he's a genius.

Stu Scott: "(Omer) Asik means lover in Turkish."
Others: ...

BROWN · Post #7 » by **BROWN** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:03 am

Stu Scott is an idiot "Dick thanks remember we need a little more enthusiam on t.v" ...
he thinks he's funny, but he's really really really bad.

Cavsfan4lyfe · Post #8 » by **Cavsfan4lyfe** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:12 am

I missed SAS. His opinions may be off base most of the time but he was definitely more entertaining than these stiffs.

Post #9 » by **MagicMadness** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:19 am

I had no problems with the night's coverage. I'll be part of the minority.

Post #10 » by **DelaneyRudd** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:34 am

It was a very boring draft I must say. There wasn't much to talk about.

CITYOFANGELSX3 · Post #11 » by **CITYOFANGELSX3** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:56 am

awful coverage.

Frosty · Post #12 » by **Frosty** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:33 am

I got the impression they put Screamin A Smith on interviews to tone down the negative remarks about the prospects. But it went too far. You'd swear every unexpected pick was a great one anyways. They talked up every pick I saw even if someone better was on the board.

Datruth345 · Post #13 » by **Datruth345** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 3:32 pm

2 things really annoy me about espn's Nba coverage

every pick Stuart Scott had a "this is the first since.." "he is the first..." everything was a **** first..who cares!!!

stuart scott used to be the man, but now he is a bum

and every time Mark Jackson makes a point he says "when you talk about..."

Mumbles · Post #14 » by **Mumbles** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 4:00 pm

I'm not a Scott hater, but like everyone else he is simply aging. There comes a time when you're just not cool anymore. His prime was what? Late 90's early 00s's? Sorry my guy you can't carry a whole draft anymore.

Putting Smith on interviews was interesting. He's entertaining as hell..I thought they should have kept him as an analyst at the table. It didn't work because it seemed like the producers wanted him to get sometihng "more" out of the rookies. But eventually he started getting tired of the politically correct answers. Well what do you expect? If one of the rookies says, "Yea were gonna make the playoffs, maybe win it all!", then ESPN is talking about their cockyness and character problems the next day.

The coverage sucked but I think they all do. NBA TV showed some drafts from the past on TNT with ernie and the gang, hubie brown etc...and they were horrible, boring etc..it's just too much live tv time...the filler jokes suck live so you know they won't age well.

DraftBoy10 · Post #15 » by **DraftBoy10** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 4:03 pm

the worst is fran frishitta saying ever int'l guy is good

Post #16 » by **Buck You** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 4:06 pm

DraftBoy10 wrote:the worst is fran **** saying ever int'l guy is good

Yeah man. According to him every international guy should be enshrined in the hall of fame right now.

Frosty · Post #17 » by **Frosty** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 4:08 pm

The NBA needs to add something to encourage trading on draft night. A one night only deal that gets some action. Not this crap that causes us to "know" a trade went down but it won't be announced for another week or so when hardly anyone notices.

Mumbles · Post #18 » by **Mumbles** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 4:14 pm

omg I forgot how f'n annoying Fran was. He talks up a Euro for like 2 minutes straight then casually remarks "yea he might need to improve his defense'. I'm like shut the f up Fran. That had to be fustrating to some of the domestic ballers waiting in the 2nd half. Not only were they not getting drafted, they had to sit there and listen to this guy who gets paid to put these international guys over when most of em probably suck.

6_Rings · Post #19 » by **6_Rings** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 4:20 pm

We need SAS back.

Post #20 » by **UGA Hayes** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 5:25 pm

It was really bad. I can't believe someone thought putting Jackson after he was terrible last year and stuart Scott who just isn't talented enough to carry a draft show was a good idea. I know people don't always love Tirico but he is much more capable of running a draft show.

Also one of the things I realized is that ESPN really really needs to bring in some new blood (Bilas is getting old as well). All in all though I couldn't believe how poor the coverage was. I know its crazy but I think they would have been much better off if the much more prepared Doris Burke (who hello actually covered college and the pros this year) had been the analyst instead of JVG or Mark Jackson who clearly hadn't seen the prospects play. Jackson repeatedly saying when asked that he would take the best player was infuriating.