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Memorable calls in basketball- one phrase, try not using vids

nychuskyfan said:
“Nothing was ever given to him. He started with nothing and had to grind every step of the way.”

If you haven’t listened in awhile to Nantz talking about the GOAT after the 1999 title game, it’s worth it.
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Thanks, just listened.
 
alexd said:
"One second left. Just one second left to try and pull off a miracle..."
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Did he also say,”It’s late, It’s great, it’s Tate!”?

Can’t remember if the announcer said that, or if it was a headline in the Courant the next day. Either way, that was the play that sucked me into being a forever fan of UConn bball. I was SO convinced as a kid that they had lost the game, that I went up my bedroom before the final play. Learned a hard lesson that day…never lose faith in the Huskies!
 
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Scott2Tate said:
Did he also say,”It’s late, It’s great, it’s Tate!”?

Can’t remember if the announcer said that, or if it was a headline in the Courant the next day. Either way, that was the play that sucked me into being a forever fan of UConn bball. I was SO convinced as a kid that they had lost the game, that I went up my bedroom before the final play. Learned a hard lesson that day…never lose faith in the Huskies!
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My memory is that the "It's late..." was actually a newspaper headline... To do an offshoot of that, after we beat Nebraska in the tourney in maybe 91 or 92, a newspaper headline was "Husker Don't" which is a tremendous allusion to an insanely underrated band.

I'd add that most of Nantz's commentary in the last minute or so in the 99 game is extremely memorable. I always liked, cheesy as it is, "Just when you think you can't, you can, and UConn has won the national championship."
 
boog204 said:
I always liked, cheesy as it is, "Just when you think you can't, you can, and UConn has won the national championship."
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Unpopular opinion, but I've always hated having that line as the enduring coda on our 1st NC.

Nantz had at least 48 hours and probably longer to come up with something (these things are not spontaneous) and that's the best he could do? It's not only cheesy, it's kinda demeaning. "Just when you think you can't"? Who on that team or staff ever let "we can't" enter their minds? No one.
 
storrsroars said:
Unpopular opinion, but I've always hated having that line as the enduring coda on our 1st NC.

Nantz had at least 48 hours and probably longer to come up with something (these things are not spontaneous) and that's the best he could do? It's not only cheesy, it's kinda demeaning. "Just when you think you can't"? Who on that team or staff ever let "we can't" enter their minds? No one.
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Totally get the cheese, for sure... Obviously, in that moment the cheese tasted quite good.

I think we do need to recognize context here. At that point in our evolution JC was still known as a coach couldn't "win the big one." We had been to three Elite Eights and lost to better teams and had gotten upset (and played horribly) in two sweet sixteen losses with teams people thought were championship level and blown out in another. So while everyone knew JC was a good coach who had a built a program out of nothing, there were still tons of doubters regarding if he could get us to a final four. I remember being far more tense for the Gonzaga Elite 8 game than the championship.

And, stupid as it was, very few people besides us (and probably including some of us) thought we would beat that Duke team. I know I was having doubts if we could hang as we started out down 9-2 at the first TV timeout. Momentum shifted completely with the famous KEA diving on the floor play to feed Rip who scored over a flopping Langdon.
 
boog204 said:
My memory is that the "It's late..." was actually a newspaper headline... To do an offshoot of that, after we beat Nebraska in the tourney in maybe 91 or 92, a newspaper headline was "Husker Don't" which is a tremendous allusion to an insanely underrated band.

I'd add that most of Nantz's commentary in the last minute or so in the 99 game is extremely memorable. I always liked, cheesy as it is, "Just when you think you can't, you can, and UConn has won the national championship."
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There was also a small article in Mojo two months ago about Hurley Sr.'s influence on Dan and his brother:
"Bob Moulds his boys into basketball royalty"
 
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hookshot said:
'Havelcheck stole the ball' by Johnny Most is the more famous one
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100% that one is way more famous. But as a Pistons fan born in 79, the Bird one is the one that haunts me most.
 
storrsroars said:
Unpopular opinion, but I've always hated having that line as the enduring coda on our 1st NC.

Nantz had at least 48 hours and probably longer to come up with something (these things are not spontaneous) and that's the best he could do? It's not only cheesy, it's kinda demeaning. "Just when you think you can't"? Who on that team or staff ever let "we can't" enter their minds? No one.
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Jim Nantz, despite his decades of prominence in college basketball, football, and golf announcing, has remarkably few notable calls.

He kind of embodies the safe, high-floor style of announcing that some folks find comfortable but others find boring. I for one am happy to have Ian Eagle in that seat now.
 
businesslawyer said:
The only baseball call that compares to Buck's first quote is the Russ Hodges call (luckily before my time) of Bobby Thomson's home run: "There's a long fly ball -- it's going to be I believe -- the Giants win the pennant!"
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“For the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break, yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth…. thank you.”


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I believe Timmy Brando may have been the 1st but not sure, with his common refrain " well how do you do".
 
I like the signature catch-phrases and things, but I think the spirit of this thread is iconic moments that can be identified on the basis of their call.
 
"Just when you think you can't, you can, and UCONN has won the national championship!!"
 
“He’s got gettin away from the cops speed!!!” - Gus
 
Tenspro2002 said:
I like the signature catch-phrases and things, but I think the spirit of this thread is iconic moments that can be identified on the basis of their call.
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This is the Boneyard. You're lucky most posters got that it was basketball and that you're not seeing movie quotes.
 
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