Announce team for Regional: Good News/Bad News

At least Reggie Miller won't criticize us for shooting 3s like Shon Morris who, after all this time, still doesn't get it.

I will forever know Marv for his "no regard for human life" comment after LeBron threw it down over KG. It was a sick dunk, but man talk about hyperbole.

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.

Two holes in Izzo, one in Hitler's corpse (just to be safe).

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.

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.

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.

 

Just get the CBC feed and learn why Gary Thorne is overrated.

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.

Really? I was just going to comment on how Raftery needs to be put out to pasture. Adds basically nothing until the replay before they cut to commercial, which is when he performs his trademark move, which I would liken to an old man having a seizure while trying to move his constipated bowel- during which he utters something completely unintelligible about player x, y or z's performance. Dude needs a new shtick.

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.

i don't.   can't stand the screaming.   

Of this tournament that just does not feel the same without him.

Hopefully Steratore is in KC.  He doesn't let his ego control him, unlike most officials.