Do you like the guys doing Orlando Summer League PbP?

ffz2000 · Post #1 » by **ffz2000** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 1:04 am

I really don't like these guys. They talk about anything besides basketball. The camera sucks and they don't even tell us who scores or who has the ball. Donte is okay, but George Galante sucks.

shaqfan1 · Post #2 » by **shaqfan1** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 1:20 am

I love these guys. They're hilarious. They do talk about whats going on in the game. Usually if someone scores they tell you who. They just don't do play by play. Which I think is a good thing. It's the summer league. Only about 10% of the players that are playing are actually gonna play in the league. Why do you care who passes the ball to who?

_BBIB_ · Post #3 » by **_BBIB_** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 1:50 am

shaqfan1 wrote:I love these guys. They're hilarious. They do talk about whats going on in the game. Usually if someone scores they tell you who. They just don't do play by play. Which I think is a good thing. It's the summer league. Only about 10% of the players that are playing are actually gonna play in the league. Why do you care who passes the ball to who?

Thank you. It's really not watchable without the comic relief.

And the camera angle? That has nothing to do with those guys. The camera angle with the lack of graphics and zoom ins should show you how serious you should be taking these games.

carrottop12 · Post #4 » by **carrottop12** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:14 am

Dude, it's summer league ball. They're great.

theTHIEF · Post #5 » by **theTHIEF** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:18 am

well considering they arent required to air these games, you get what you get, you should be thanking Dante and Galante for heading up Orlando's media department and taking the time to broadcast...I mean, seriously...a play by play in the summer league?

PapeSowish · Post #6 » by **PapeSowish** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:48 am

The nasally voiced guy is annoying. Besides him I've enjoyed the coverage.

NetsForce · Post #7 » by **NetsForce** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:53 am

I remember listening to them last year and I thought "haha these guys are pretty funny!" but listening to them this year just makes my ears bleed.

It's one of those things where it's "cool" at first but it slowly begins to annoy the hell out of you...

W_HAMILTON · Post #8 » by **W_HAMILTON** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:54 am

They used to read emails from viewers during the game, and one time I emailed them and said they ought to come out and wave to the camera at the end, and they called me gay for wanting to know what they looked like.

It still stings.

PapeSowish · Post #9 » by **PapeSowish** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 6:02 am

I laughed when they read one e-mail that said they should give Aaron Gray [iirc] some props because he was going to be better than their Dwight Howard soon. This was the first I heard them get serious and got all offended over a sarcastic joke. :lol:

Sashobe · Post #10 » by **Sashobe** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 6:10 am

They didn't believe me with the Andrew Bogut extension. lol

Joseph17 · Post #11 » by **Joseph17** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 6:32 am

They were alright during the Bulls vs. Heat because they were talking about both basketball and other topics. They sucked during the other games though.

CB4MiamiHeat · Post #12 » by **CB4MiamiHeat** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 6:46 am

its funny ... how about the third guy in the booth..the guy never talks, and when he does hes too close to the mic..they always make fun of him.

OzThunder · Post #13 » by **OzThunder** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:45 am

hell no. They are so unfunny and annoying.

i'd prefer a voice over guy just telling me who it was that just put the ball in the hoop.

I watch summer league to see how the new guys are going and with the crap jerseys and horrible camera work you can hardly see the numbers/ players, so it would be good to know who has the ball.

candy for lunch · Post #14 » by **candy for lunch** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:03 am

SUMMER LEAGUE IS SERIOUS AND REQUIRES SERIOUS ANNOUNCERS :evil:

thegreatblaze · Post #15 » by **thegreatblaze** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:10 am

^^LMAO!

Well put.

aznkillabeezZz · Post #16 » by **aznkillabeezZz** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 4:30 pm

seattlefan35 wrote:hell no. They are so unfunny and annoying.

i'd prefer a voice over guy just telling me who it was that just put the ball in the hoop.

I watch summer league to see how the new guys are going and with the crap jerseys and horrible camera work you can hardly see the numbers/ players, so it would be good to know who has the ball.

Yeah I agree. I was dogged by some peeps in the Orlando Magic board for criticizing the way they commentate. I agree with the guy who said, it was alright at first, but it makes your ear bleed after a while. They seem to nag off and get worse later round of games. When it's Bulls game they were better because maybe they know espn's watching.. They have their own agenda, instead of spotlighting attention on the players. And it was hard to see who had the ball and who scored, didn't help when dante galente was reading every email and what they ate for lunch. :roll:

I mean come on i was trying to see how Brooks was doing and he was only mentioned twice in the entire broadcast like his first game. Yeah he may have not had the best of stats , but they don't even do pbp when a top 10 prospect plays, except for Rose and Beasley.

I learned more about this scrub they keep on mentioning named Gorbachev (somewhere along the lines) than some other first round picks

D-31 · Post #17 » by **D-31** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 5:21 pm

Vladimir Golubovic?

They can't even pronounced his name right.

Nick Anderson should be up there full time to balance those two out.

theTHIEF · Post #18 » by **theTHIEF** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 5:29 pm

or they could just cut the feed all together and everyone could get the stats when they are posted after the games...it aint changing...turn down the volume and pretend you're Marv Albert...

Post #19 » by **rsavaj** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 6:07 pm

Dante and Galante are awesome.

"JamesOff Curry" :lol:

wilt · Post #20 » by **wilt** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 7:03 pm

just turn it on mute. Yeah, sometimes it would be nice to have real information, but then again it´s not too hard to recognize the players imo. If you are serious about it you should put enough work into it to check the jersey numbers online and go from there.

Just now they had the soundtrack going, Rick Astley playing :lol:

Do you like the Play by Play?