Announcers

[NY Fan]

TRU Equally useless; FS1 only slightly less. None hold a candle to SNY!

 

[Jonathan14]

Yeah, I simply had to turn off the volume several times during this game! I mean, what are they getting paid for the game or talking about their own lives and everything else besides the action on the court? I’m guessing Peacock won the contract for the big east this year and and maybe years to come but it’s pretty rough listening to these two.

I agree completely. I thought the combination of announcing and directing made last night's game vs. Villanova really hard to watch. As a former player, Meghan McKeown must have some insights to share, but she doesn't edit herself at all, so what comes out is a rambling stream of often conflicting statements. I think she'd be twice as good if she said half as much.

One thing I really enjoyed about Candace Parker's commentary is that she used basketball terminology and explained what she meant, so listeners unfamiliar with certain expressions or concepts could learn. McKeown must have used the term "rhythm shooter" 97 times last night, and I'm still not convinced she knows what it means. Is everyone who makes a shot other than a layup a great rhythm shooter?

I also think the director cut to replays way too often, sometimes missing the beginning of live action. It was very herky jerky.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

Well, it was Kenny Albert
He learned from his dad how to call a game

(Speaking of Olympic Hockey)

Yes, and he has more than a trace of the Albert voice.

There are announcers who do women's basketball pretty well. Some are ruined by their color commentator and others are terrible and ruin their largely competent color commentator.

My wife was wondering if we could teach Tara Lipinski and Johnny Wier how to color commentate every sport. They are so good at what they do, some might find it repetitive but you have different events with different audiences (ice dance / pairs / singles) and after all the action is mildly repetitive. But they describe what you are watching without overwhelming it.

If you really want my complaint - it is announcers who are so busy talking that they call "out of bounds" a foul, don't know who the foul was on because they were not looking or listening, etc. Happens a lot. The one announcer I particularly like as either color commentator or game call - and the only announcer that does both, so far as I know - is Brenda VanLangen.