Announce team for Regional: Good News/Bad News
We get the CBS slot, as opposed to TBS which is good for a lot of us cord cutters.
The good: Kevin Harlan is probably the best pure PxP guy doing national basketball in both the NBA and college. Dana Jacobson is, famously, an alum.
The neutral: Dan Bonner is fine
The Bad News: Reggie Miller. Who is the worst.
March 20th, 2017 at 12:28 PM ^
Harlan is fine to good, but he's nowhere near the best (Breen, McDonough, Marv Albert, Shulman, Gus are all better off the top of my head). He is the best of the CBS guys though.
March 20th, 2017 at 12:35 PM ^
I don't know who else could give you this.
March 20th, 2017 at 12:45 PM ^
At least Reggie Miller won't criticize us for shooting 3s like Shon Morris who, after all this time, still doesn't get it.
That was hilarious and I am a Pacers fan!!. Those were some great mathups in the early 00's between Detroit and Indiana, up until the Malice in the Palace. Even though I love reggie for the phenomenal player he was in Indy, he is atrocious as an analyst.
This image is blocked by work firewalls, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's when Prince hustled back and blocked Miller's lay-up.
I think someone posted a link to it up above.
Marv Albert? Is this a joke? He is way past his prime. He constantly mixes up or mispronounces names, trips over his words, and is generally just confused. It's been that way for years.
Watch this clip of Marv at the 6:20 mark from the Elite 8 game against Florida in 2013: https://youtu.be/GiRUTvXGx5g?t=6m20s
"Burke able to probe and gets inside for the first field goal for the Gators!"
Marv does stuff like this all the time.
Also I think Breen is completely average with one wayyy overused and lame catch phrase, "BANG!" Does he ever say anything different when a player makes a big shot?
Gus is a living meme. Okay in small doses I suppose.
McDonough is good, but he triggers me for obvious reasons.
I forgot how badly we put it to Florida that game. That was awesome! Right after Albert blew the call, Spike picked off the inbound after a McGary make and put it right back in for basically a 4 point trip
March 20th, 2017 at 12:29 PM ^
I don't care if the announcing team is Thad Matta, Tom Izzo, Rick Pitino, and Adolph Hitler's bloated corpse, so long as we win the game!
March 20th, 2017 at 12:32 PM ^
Two holes in Izzo, one in Hitler's corpse (just to be safe).
March 20th, 2017 at 12:36 PM ^
If I had a gun with 2 bullets, and I was in a room with Hitler, Bin Laden, and Toby, I would shoot Toby twice.
March 20th, 2017 at 12:39 PM ^
I hate when people get lazy and have to use cheap comparisons to one of the worst humans in the history of civilization to make a point.
Leave Izzo off next time.
(right after enabling another murderer), and he is feeling left out.
March 20th, 2017 at 12:31 PM ^
I don't really have an opinion on this announcing crew. I'll take Reggie if that means no Nantz.
I don't love Nantz (except for the Masters), but it lends a big game feel to things to have him on the call. Considering he did the the final two games of the B1G Tournament and our first two of the NCAA Tournament, I wouldn't have minded the continuity.
Having said that they were never going to not have their lead crew doing UCLA-Kentucky. Kevin Harlan is one of the best (though no Gus Johnson). Reggie is one of the worst.
Either way, the same basketball will be played, so it's not that important.
Raftery on the other hand tries so hard to make his own shtick and it's just awful. I'm gonna be so pissed when he's doing our Final Four games.
March 20th, 2017 at 12:31 PM ^
I don't mind Reggie, but understand why some do.
March 20th, 2017 at 12:31 PM ^
Ha - Tracy Wolfson, 'passing the torch':
March 20th, 2017 at 12:46 PM ^
Thanks for stealing those Louisville plays for us Tracy!
Especially that one late in the game where Louisville fouls us on the inbound with 3 seconds left on our shot clock.
Seemed like a strange call for them to make, but what do I know? I'm just a fan.
I guess there is a fine line between genius and stupidity.
March 20th, 2017 at 12:35 PM ^
I just want Gary Throne back doing hockey. Can someone make this happen please?
March 20th, 2017 at 12:36 PM ^
Just get the CBC feed and learn why Gary Thorne is overrated.
then you gotta love Kevin Harlan. Harlan hasn't seen a play he couldn't over-describe in more exciting detail and overhyped rhetoric without advancing either the game storyline or that play's significance to it. To Harlan, everything is exciting, from a throw-in to a pass downcourt.
Unrelated... Irony is fantastic!
Harlan's PbP calls of "pitch" invaders are everything. He's brilliant.
Thorne did some Kings' games this year while they were on the east coast since Bob Miller has been out. He struggled a bit identifying players. Randomly shouting "SETOGUCHI" when any Kings' player scores is fun though.
March 20th, 2017 at 12:36 PM ^
March 20th, 2017 at 12:39 PM ^
At all.
Bill Raftery is hands-down my favorite color guy for CBB, but Miller's not horrible. There are plenty of worse options out there.
He's one of the best IMO. Entertaining and knows the game.
March 20th, 2017 at 12:44 PM ^
March 20th, 2017 at 12:44 PM ^
I have this superstition that we play worse with shitty announcers calling the game. Maybe it just feels that way because the overall experience is worse.
Though winning four straight Nantz called games does put a hole in this theory. Maybe Raftery is cancelling him out.
March 20th, 2017 at 12:47 PM ^
March 20th, 2017 at 12:57 PM ^
I miss Gus Johnson :(
i don't. can't stand the screaming.
Your opinion is wrong and you have shamed your family
Of this tournament that just does not feel the same without him.
Now those refs are another matter. I just want objectivity out there.
Hopefully Steratore is in KC. He doesn't let his ego control him, unlike most officials.
Who reffed the Big Ten Tournament Final?
I was at that game up close and I thought they did a realy good job. They called the stuff that mattered, but they did not call every little touch that was immaterial.
They also did not try to insert themselves into the game by making dramatic game-changing calls in the last minutes. No TV heroics.
I want them the rest of the way.
EDIT: I just checked, it was Lamont Simpson, DJ Carstensen, and Bo Boroski.
Boroski was involved with one of yesterday's fuckups. The other two I don't recognize, which is often a good sign.
Makes a Difference.
One of my favorite Kevin Harlan moments; broadcasting the 1992 Michigan/Purdue football game with the rabbit on the field....
"fuck touchdown jesus!"
- dana jacobson