Best/Worst analysts/commentators/announcers

pc in NM · Post by **pc in NM** » Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:03 am

EastCoastCat wrote: Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:50 am
pc in NM wrote: Fri Mar 08, 2024 8:29 am
Chicat wrote: Fri Mar 08, 2024 5:41 am I think the best thing last night was that when it became a blowout they both loosened up and tried to entertain the listening audience while at the same time still keeping up with what was happening on the court.

I think my biggest grievance with Bill is his tendency to launch into long stories that have nothing to do with the game or the teams (or even basketball) when the game is tight and the action deserves its own space. It’s like watching with my father-in-law when I usually want to say “hey old man, can you give it a rest? I’m trying to watch the game.”
As a big fan of Big Bill, I have to agree...

... OTOH, Bill is a reliable indicator of just how boring much of basketball can be, especially blowouts. And, one has to admit that the second half last night was boring AF.
I actually enjoyed every minute of the second half especially watching Pauley (where I played pick up games as a kid) turn into McKale NW.

UofA! UofA! UofA!

There was a lot going on to for 'Cat fans to enjoy - but not a competitive basketball game

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:07 am

Dave, you ever been to Westwood?

RJ with the digs towards Duke was just classic.

I don't recall a funnier UA player. He's a natural.

PHXCATS · Post by **PHXCATS** » Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:26 am

Couldn't watch with sound yesterday but glad he did good.

pc in NM · Post by **pc in NM** » Fri Mar 08, 2024 1:07 pm

RJ stole my thunder last night - I was literally typing a post in the game thread...

RJ: "Kentucky is gonna beat Tennessee on Saturday! It is written..."

Another (which I said earlier in the week):

RJ: "Arizona is gonna win out!"

dovecanyoncat · Post by **dovecanyoncat** » Fri Mar 08, 2024 1:23 pm

RJ ascended beyond Wildcat deity status last night. He's now alone in a pantheon yet to be filled with living gods of equal stature.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Fri Mar 08, 2024 1:33 pm

Fishclamps · Post by **Fishclamps** » Fri Mar 08, 2024 3:07 pm

Can't even get him for our last game

PHXCATS · Post by **PHXCATS** » Fri Mar 08, 2024 3:17 pm

FUCK

Really hope Walton is okay

TheCat · Post by **TheCat** » Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:10 am

Something tells me this is serious. Hope Bill recovers nicely.

pc in NM · Post by **pc in NM** » Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:19 am

dovecanyoncat · Post by **dovecanyoncat** » Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:36 am

The universe will not allow Bill to be taken from us.

pc in NM · Post by **pc in NM** » Sat Mar 09, 2024 9:15 am

dovecanyoncat wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:36 am The universe will not allow Bill to be taken from us.

Surprised there's not more information being shared. Get well Bill!!

atlantakat · Post by **atlantakat** » Sat Mar 09, 2024 9:44 am

He did not announce for very long but Steve Kerr was an incredible NBA analyst.

TheCat · Post by **TheCat** » Sat Mar 09, 2024 11:35 am

Kerr was the best. Funny and insightful.

dovecanyoncat · Post by **dovecanyoncat** » Sat Mar 09, 2024 12:51 pm

Rewatched the game. RJ is supreme at sounding self-effacing while he humerously slides a shiv into Pasch's eye, causing Pasch to begin a round of sympathetic support only to get half way into it as he notices his own blood.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sat Mar 09, 2024 1:14 pm

dovecanyoncat wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2024 12:51 pm Rewatched the game. RJ is supreme at sounding self-effacing while he humerously slides a shiv into Pasch's eye, causing Pasch to begin a round of sympathetic support only to get half way into it as he notices his own blood.

The best was at the end of the sequences where RJ went over the top with Wildcat praise and Pasch pushed back in the tiniest way possible, RJ asking in a very sincere and almost hurt tone… “Why do you have to bring up all this negative stuff about Arizona?”

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:31 pm

TheCat wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:10 am Something tells me this is serious. Hope Bill recovers nicely.

Scheer inquired about Bill and he was told Bill is fine

TheCat · Post by **TheCat** » Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:34 pm

Okay then he will be at tonight's game if he is fine.

AZCatGirl · Post by **AZCatGirl** » Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:24 pm

Hope Bill gets better soon. Sucks he's missing the end of the Pac 12.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:49 pm

Been a month, doesn't read good.

Walton has also worked several Pac-12 Network games this season but hasn’t worked one since the Feb. 10 Washington State-Oregon broadcast.

AZCatGirl · Post by **AZCatGirl** » Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:14 pm

Some fun times in that thread. Hope Bill can beat whatever is going on.

dovecanyoncat · Post by **dovecanyoncat** » Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:40 pm

Is Pasch grave dancing?

Fishclamps · Post by **Fishclamps** » Tue Mar 12, 2024 7:10 am

Just reminiscing

PHXCATS · Post by **PHXCATS** » Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:12 am

Nothing will be 10% as good in the Big 12

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:48 am

Loser talk

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Tue Mar 12, 2024 9:09 am

Stuff likes this makes me a little sad.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:35 am

Fuck that chair. It should die in a fire.

TheCatInTheHat · Post by **TheCatInTheHat** » Wed Mar 13, 2024 8:03 am

Here's a big shocker. For lead-in conference tournament stories, Wilner (world renowned expert on media contracts and economics with his journalism degree) picks us to lose right out of the box in Vegas, and his conjoined twin Hansen bemoans the loss of some obscure HOF ceremony that I don't even recall hearing about at the tournament and also bitches about future Big XII tournaments that he's never been to. Well, I'm glad we got the burning questions about their attitudes cleared up. Now maybe an IP search to see which board name they use while stealing story ideas.

Postmaster · Post by **Postmaster** » Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:43 pm

Any update on Walton?

MrKyle · Post by **MrKyle** » Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:07 pm

Postmaster wrote: Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:43 pm Any update on Walton?

Haven't seen anything new, they did bring his chair and a pac 12 shirt out on the AZ/OR game broadcast and said they'd brought him along for the last P-12 Network broadcast

Hope hes OK

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Thu Mar 21, 2024 4:16 pm

Matt Muehlebach believes he will be doing some Big 12 games next year, especially on FS1

AZCatGirl · Post by **AZCatGirl** » Thu Mar 21, 2024 4:42 pm

84Cat wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2024 4:16 pm Matt Muehlebach believes he will be doing some Big 12 games next year, especially on FS1

No Pasch so that's good. He always works better with everyone else.

Also hope he gets some boring blowout pre-season games.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Tue Jun 18, 2024 10:03 am

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Tue Jun 18, 2024 10:45 am

If you get cancer three times in two years, I’m not sure you’re exactly beating it but good for him. Hope he doesn’t do any Arizona games.

dovecanyoncat · Post by **dovecanyoncat** » Tue Jun 18, 2024 11:55 am

I wish him good health and long life and permanent remission due an effective therapy that requires his jaw to be irreversibly wired shut. Then he can do any Arizona game that'll have him. He can sit there with a chalk board behind him like Woody Paige on Around the Horn.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Fri Jun 28, 2024 10:16 pm

Chicat wrote: Tue Jun 18, 2024 10:45 am If you get cancer three times in two years, I’m not sure you’re exactly beating it but good for him. Hope he doesn’t do any Arizona games.

Spot on and his doctors no doubt told him the same thing.

TheCatInTheHat · Post by **TheCatInTheHat** » Mon Dec 30, 2024 8:17 pm

The ESPN+ announcers for our first Big XII conference TCU game: Woof. PbP guy Richard Cross is a Mississippi guy, and analyst Barrett Brooks is a former Kansas St and Eagles O-lineman. But, it sure sounded like a TCU broadcast. Motormouth Brooks was just non-stop, like Eddie Murphy in the Shrek cartoons. I had to turn the sound way down low, but even so, I got the: "THAT silenced these fans!" ...and... "HOW can you call a technical foul there?" (Well, if he called a ref a M-Fer under his breath, that would probably do it.) Ah, well. The shape of things to come for non-national broadcasts, I guess. Presumably still better than the old ASU fanny-kissers on Fox Sports Arizona.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Mon Dec 30, 2024 8:20 pm

I thought it was Corey Williams who was the color guy? And he was awful.

Postmaster · Post by **Postmaster** » Mon Dec 30, 2024 9:05 pm

It was CW.

TheCatInTheHat · Post by **TheCatInTheHat** » Tue Dec 31, 2024 8:13 am

Okay, I turned it on late and immediately had to turn the sound way down, which caused me enough interest in bad announcing to wonder who the hell it was. When I looked up who was supposed to do the game "TCU at Arizona 2024", the two I mentioned earlier came up. So much for "if it's on the internet, it must be true." Maybe they did the football game in Fort Worth. In any event, Corey was terrible. Maybe try decaf.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Tue Dec 31, 2024 9:09 am

Corey was really bad. Cracked me up that the play-by-play guy said at one point “You’re really close to this program…” and then like 30 seconds later Corey butchered the pronunciation of Veesaar’s name.

Alieberman · Post by **Alieberman** » Tue Dec 31, 2024 10:27 am

I love Corey- but he is always bad when calling games.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Tue Dec 31, 2024 10:44 am

I always listen to Brian Jeffries and Ryan Hansen. It's only off by a second so not a big deal. They do their homework and are just so knowledgeable

TheCatInTheHat · Post by **TheCatInTheHat** » Tue Dec 31, 2024 12:15 pm

It's a good idea, and I used to do that for Arizona games. (Hell, I used to put on Jack Buck and Hank Stram on MNF so I didn't have to listen to Howard Cosell.) But that was non-delayed direct broadcasts. I already have to monkey around a little bit for ESPN+ games, and I think it depends on your location for the timing of various audio and video streamings. The last time I tried, it was like 30 seconds off, so kind of distracting. Generally, I try to turn the audio down so I can hear when the crowd really roars and the game announcer bellows, but the (usually mediocre) announcers are just kind of a background buzz. But occasionally, a Corey has the knack to be piercing through that.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Tue Dec 31, 2024 12:33 pm

It was always interesting listening to the radio while streaming the game that the shot was good while the ball was still in the air.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Tue Dec 31, 2024 12:56 pm

Merkin wrote: Tue Dec 31, 2024 12:33 pm It was always interesting listening to the radio while streaming the game that the shot was good while the ball was still in the air.

Still that way and I'm fine with it

MrKyle · Post by **MrKyle** » Thu Jan 02, 2025 1:24 pm

Chicat wrote: Tue Dec 31, 2024 9:09 am Corey was really bad. Cracked me up that the play-by-play guy said at one point “You’re really close to this program…” and then like 30 seconds later Corey butchered the pronunciation of Veesaar’s name.

I thought the same - Corey seemed to really struggle the past 2 broadcasts. Was amazed that someone close to the program could continue to butcher players names.

Thought I was just hearing things and then kept happening in the last few games.

Hopefully he pulls it together.

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Fri Jan 03, 2025 3:23 pm

PHXCATS · Post by **PHXCATS** » Fri Jan 03, 2025 5:56 pm

It is amazing to me every time I hear asu radio broadcasts how unprofessional they are every time

And Healey's son is a huge piece of shit

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Wed Feb 12, 2025 2:25 pm

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