Donny Marshall

[YearoftheHusky]

Anyone else feel like he’s trying too hard not to be a homer? Keeps talking about phantom three seconds calls on us when Sanogo is outside the key. Said that foul on Clingan’s dunk attempt shouldn’t have been called in that situation. Just seems like he’s trying too hard to prove he’s not rooting for us, and in my opinion it’s a bad look. If I didn’t know he was a UConn grad, I would question whether he actually knows basketball sometimes.

 

[gsmooth]

I am at the game right now. Has he really been that bad? I like Donny a ton but I do feel he does go overboard in proving he isn't pulling for UConn. I always felt Jay Bilas has the right balance

 

[Huskybass]

I knew this thread was coming. I like Donny. I don't always agree with him, but I can see his point of view. But he may indeed try a little bit to come off as a non homer, and it comes off as awkward to say the least.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

He is a KO crony. He’s not faking anything. Hates UConn

 

[YearoftheHusky]

I am texting with a neighbor who is a passive Villanova fan. He literally just said that we are getting away with everything and even the commentators have pointed it out.

 

[LIUCHusky]

He is a KO crony. He’s not faking anything. Hates UConn

Not even close to true.

 

[uconnfan68]

I am texting with a neighbor who is a passive Villanova fan. He literally just said that we are getting away with everything and even the commentators have pointed it out.

Tell him he’s watching the wrong game.

 

[GotNets?]

He may try too hard to be impartial at times, but he also bleeds blue from time to time. He went on a 30 second rant at the 4 minute mark about how the Huskies could turn it on at any moment and friars would be in trouble…

 

[UCan3]

He may try too hard to be impartial at times, but he also bleeds blue from time to time. He went on a 30 second rant at the 4 minute mark about how the Huskies could turn it on at any moment and friars would be in trouble…

I don’t agree. After what seemed like about a dozen fouls on UConn, we finally get a call and what does Donny say? “In a game like this I say lett’em play.” Hmm, a game like this Donny?

 

[Huskygrad88]

I completely understand the frustration that leads to ridiculous threads about why Donny is not a homer, people need to focus their frustration on the issue that Providence played about 50x harder and smarter than we did tonight. Not coaching. Not the refs. Not the announcer.

 

[Huskyforlife]

Bringing up Hawkins kicking his legs when he got ran into was pretty bad.

 

[Valleyfan]

I said the same thing in the WBB thread about Lobo. I also feel the same way and dislike former players announcing their former teams games.

 

[UConn990411]

Donny definitely tries too hard to be impartial, and ends up being wrong a lot of the time.

He’s just not very good in this role if we’re being honest. He was much better in studio.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Donny is fine as color commentator. I have no problems with him at all.

 

[uconnfan68]

I completely understand the frustration that leads to ridiculous threads about why Donny is not a homer, people need to focus their frustration on the issue that Providence played about 50x harder and smarter than we did tonight. Not coaching. Not the refs. Not the announcer.

Agree on the harder and smarter by PC, but that game wasn’t evenly reffed. It was one-way physical.

 

[Pmac923]

Incredibly biased for PC. Call the game. We don’t need you to referee. He questioned the few calls on UConn.

 

[geohusky]

Donny and Dave were just too chatty tonight

 

[CL82]

He is a KO crony. He’s not faking anything. Hates UConn

Don’t know about that, but he’s not a Dan Hurley fan for a lot of reasons.

 

[Malamute]

Anyone else feel like he’s trying too hard not to be a homer? Keeps talking about phantom three seconds calls on us when Sanogo is outside the key. Said that foul on Clingan’s dunk attempt shouldn’t have been called in that situation. Just seems like he’s trying too hard to prove he’s not rooting for us, and in my opinion it’s a bad look. If I didn’t know he was a UConn grad, I would question whether he actually knows basketball sometimes.

I like DM but was actually thinking the same thing tonight. I also notice he makes up odd things that either aren’t germane at the time or just flat out wrong. I know he is a big Cooley guy.

 

[husky429]

Bringing up Hawkins kicking his legs when he got ran into was pretty bad.

Hawkins: Gets fouled in the leg, hip, chest, face, and hand.

Donny: Well gosh, you know he does kick his leg out!

 

[AdamaNation]

I completely understand the frustration that leads to ridiculous threads about why Donny is not a homer, people need to focus their frustration on the issue that Providence played about 50x harder and smarter than we did tonight. Not coaching. Not the refs. Not the announcer.

It’s called “target on backitis”. But this loss will drop us to about 8-9. We will fade a little and perhaps some intensity against will as well. The silver lining us Provo is now ranked and we didn’t take a bad loss.

 

[auror]

I've liked him in the past but he was brutal tonight.

 

[willie99]

I love it when we're on the wrong side of the one way street, and the only bad calls to be found are the few calls we get

Somewhat surreal

Yes Donny doesn't want to be a homer. That's pretty obvious when he's doing our games

On a sidebar, think we shot as many free throws in the last minute as we did the first 39 minutes. Had to close the gap I suppose

We need a home game

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

I've liked him in the past but he was brutal tonight.

Maybe it was the knot in his necktie.

 

[tcf15]

Thought it was a weird shot when Donny made such a big deal of the amount of staff that UConn has coming out of that timeout. It seems like a normal amount of staff lol

 

[businesslawyer]

I thought he leaned against us last night, but not on the three seconds talk. Sanogo was allowed to stay in the lane as long as he wanted without any ref saying anything ever. And there were possessions where he stayed in the lane for at least double the legal limit.

 

[jake14mw]

I think he does a great job. It has to be extremely hard to do games for your old team and not seem like a homer. It's a difficult balancing job.

 

[BGesus4]

I've liked him in the past but he was brutal tonight.

The play by play guy was killing me. He was calling every play from the tip like it was a buzzer beater.

 

[auror]

The play by play guy was killing me. He was calling every play from the tip like it was a buzzer beater.

Yeah Providence got a random lightly contested rebound and he sounded like they hit a 3 to force OT.

 

[StllH8L8ner]

I don’t agree. After what seemed like about a dozen fouls on UConn, we finally get a call and what does Donny say? “In a game like this I say lett’em play.” Hmm, a game like this Donny?

Said the same thing in the chat. I heard that and almost spit out my drink.