Bob Picozzi is doing the PBP for the Tulane game this Saturday. I for one, am very excited. I loved him and Megan on the call for CPTV. He will be working with Debbie Antonelli.
I believe you mean to say Sunday. UConn/Tulane game is on Sunday.
Well that's both good and bad news. Bob has been a great CT personality all these yrs but the second half of the pairing, not so much...Bob Picozzi is doing the PBP for the Tulane game this Saturday. I for one, am very excited. I loved him and Megan on the call for CPTV. He will be working with Debbie Antonelli.
Bob Picozzi is doing the PBP for the Tulane game this Saturday. I for one, am very excited. I loved him and Megan on the call for CPTV. He will be working with Debbie Antonelli.
Bob Picozzi is doing the PBP for the Tulane game this Saturday. I for one, am very excited. I loved him and Megan on the call for CPTV. He will be working with Debbie Antonelli.
I don't know if moving to SNY was the cause for him to stop doing UConn games. If you remember the last years of broadcasts on CPTV, Eric Friede was already doing a lot of the games. Initially as a fill-in, but it seemed with each passing year he was doing more of them.At first I didn't care for Picozzi when he started doing the women's games on CPTV. But he grew on me, to the point where I was greatly disappointed that he was no longer doing the UConn women's games when the games were shifted over to SNY. He shares a trait with Chris Jones doing UConn baseball games on WHUS in that they are both low key, easy going, and knowledgable about the sport they are broadcasting. Those traits make a sportscaster easy to take over the long haul of many a season.
I don't know if moving to SNY was the cause for him to stop doing UConn games. If you remember the last years of broadcasts on CPTV, Eric Friede was already doing a lot of the games. Initially as a fill-in, but it seemed with each passing year he was doing more of them.
I don't know if moving to SNY was the cause for him to stop doing UConn games. If you remember the last years of broadcasts on CPTV, Eric Friede was already doing a lot of the games. Initially as a fill-in, but it seemed with each passing year he was doing more of them.
I can take him for a game or 2 but him and Culmo for a whole season... NO THANKSAs an announcer, Picozzi is very good. Start with a great set of pipes. His voice is really good. And he knows the players. But there was something about working with Meg at the end that was really grating. They would get off on chats about this and that factoid -- none relevant to the game at hand -- and especially in blowouts, the second half lacked play-by-play. Personally, I think they covered the same team together for too long. Working for ESPN, none of this surfaces and he really does a fine job.
Picozzi does not do play-by-play. When he does a game, we get two color commentators and we are left to figure out which players did what. Those of us who follow UCONN closely can handle it, but it must be frustrating for occasional viewers.I can take him for a game or 2 but him and Culmo for a whole season... NO THANKS
No one better than Doc. Even when watching him call my Rangers loss to Flyers last nightPicozzi does not do play-by-play. When he does a game, we get two color commentators and we are left to figure out which players did what. Those of us who follow UCONN closely can handle it, but it must be frustrating for occasional viewers.
If you want to see a great play-by-play artist at work, catch Doc Emrick on a hockey game.
I've never seen him do a UConn game, but on other team's broadcasts, I agree with the initial statements that he is an excellent play by play man. He tells you what is happening.I agree. I said earlier that he does a fine job for ESPN, and I based that on a couple of games that I watched. I guess that when he calls a UConn game, all bets are off. His call of the recent UConn game was dreadful. As others mentioned, there was no play by play. The chit-chat with the other color commentator was distracting. That overly long interview with Rebecca -- which important action was happening during the game -- was just awful. There were at least a couple of amazing plays that happened during that stretch. It would have been great -- and certainly appropriate -- to have comments about them or evn replays at appropriate times -- but the Lobo distraction made that impossible.
Bob Picozzi is doing the PBP for the Tulane game this Saturday. I for one, am very excited. I loved him and Megan on the call for CPTV. He will be working with Debbie Antonelli.
Let me use this thread to air my biggest gripe about many WCBB announcers, certainly including Picozzi/Culmo: I think the play-by-play person should ALWAYS and IMMEDIATELY announce two facts: (a) who committed the foul; and (b) who entered and left the floor. This is OFTEN not done, even when the foul was committed by an important player who is approaching or is in foul trouble. And frequently the first time we will hear a player's name is when she is involved in a play, even though she has been on the floor for a minute or more. And then we have to figure out whom she replaced.
These are not things that a TV viewer can necessarily observe on his/her own, since the camera is typically not on the official calling the foul or on the substitution table. The viewer won't know these things unless the announcer tells him.
I don't disagree, but my related complaint is - reporting violations (travel, kick ball, 3 / 5 seconds) as a foul. Don't the announcers look at either the action or the TV? It happens on average I think once a game (maybe not at all one game but more than once in another). You see ref signal 3 seconds in the lane and hold up someones number and the commentators start talking about a foul.Let me use this thread to air my biggest gripe about many WCBB announcers, certainly including Picozzi/Culmo: I think the play-by-play person should ALWAYS and IMMEDIATELY announce two facts: (a) who committed the foul; and (b) who entered and left the floor. This is OFTEN not done, even when the foul was committed by an important player who is approaching or is in foul trouble. And frequently the first time we will hear a player's name is when she is involved in a play, even though she has been on the floor for a minute or more. And then we have to figure out whom she replaced.
These are not things that a TV viewer can necessarily observe on his/her own, since the camera is typically not on the official calling the foul or on the substitution table. The viewer won't know these things unless the announcer tells him.