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OT: Worst catch phrases in sports.

Tenspro2002 said:
Some guys I play with use this.

It's when their defender has their hand down (instead of up), and they pull up to shoot a 3. The "man down" is for when they make the shot, it's like the defender has been shot.
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I thought it was something like that but its still a strained expression. The man isnt down, hes running back on offense right now. You dont knock a player out by hitting a jumper over him. I just think Jackson needed to come up with something to say all the time, to be known by something.
 
How long does it take a pithy phrase to become a cliché? What descriptions do you like?
 
"For the benefit of our student athletes......" As said by any major college athletic department representative.
 
uconngb said:
I HATE when anyone says dribble drive. You can't drive without dribbling.....if you don't have the ball and you "drive" it's called cutting. So why is it necessary to say "dribble drive"? Just say drive
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Trauma response to the harsh way her producer forbade her from saying "dribble penetration."
 
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WlfdHusky said:
Cant get through any game this season without hearing "gets downhill" or some variation of downhill a dozen times. No announcer said this a couple of years ago.
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I remember wondering if I was crazy thinking that came out of nowhere in our 2022-2023 season. I felt like I had never once heard that phrase in basketball prior and all of a sudden it was like the main descriptor for getting to the basket.
 
"He had the presence of mind..."
Especially with receivers. They practice getting their feet down all day long. It's not like he thought of it at the last minute.
Or shooters. I can't stand when someone chucks the ball at the rim when he gets fouled trying to turn it into a shooting foul. No, it was not a
"Headsy play"

"True Freshman" Can't we just assume freshmen are freshmen and save the additional descriptions for redshirts?
 
Yes, and it counts.
 
I hate "pick six", especially when it doesn't even lead to scoring. I hate it in football, but even more in basketball.
 
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Every single thing Fanta and Donny ever say.

I find the “how do you do!”’thing that Brando and the insane Hornets announcer do beyond annoying. Actually most of what that Hornets guy does is beyond unhinged.
 
By the way, just heard Fanta say "Pick six" in a basketball game. I hate that.
 
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I'm sick of "unbelievable" in any context where I just saw it with my own eyes
 
When they score and get fouled - "The hoop and the harm". UGH.
 
boog204 said:
Every single thing Fanta and Donny ever say.

I find the “how do you do!”’thing that Brando and the insane Hornets announcer do beyond annoying. Actually most of what that Hornets guy does is beyond unhinged.
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I love the Hornets announcer. Don't you dare.
 
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Tenspro2002 said:
Some guys I play with use this.

It's when their defender has their hand down (instead of up), and they pull up to shoot a 3. The "man down" is for when they make the shot, it's like the defender has been shot.
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I personally like that one, though I have a different understanding of the meaning. I've always took it as if you don't get a hand up in their face and just let them take a shot with no defense, it's like your team is playing "a man down", as in they might as well only have 4 defenders out there. Not that the defender has been shot and fallen down.
 
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In football how many times have Mahomes, Manning, Jackson, Rodgers, Favre, Rivers, Elway, Brady, and dozens of others…. “Only Mahomes can make that throw.” Meanwhile Marino Fouts Etc have been making that play decades before.
 
exit velocity -announcers get excited when the "exit velocity" is 110 but and is caught. give me exit velocity of 50 that drops in for a hit

backing into the playoffs - teams that make playoffs have legitimately made the playoffs

bye week when it is really an off week. byes advance you on a tournament or playoffs without playing a game
 
My daughter’s hockey team wasn’t great this season but did finish strong. The parents are nice enough but not really ‘sports parents’ so while I appreciate the positivity they try to maintain, I don’t really need to hear a mom wearing a $900 Canadian Goose coat with a $3k coach purse on her arm yell “We got this!” down 9-1 with two minutes left in the third period.
 
“Generational talent” seems to be used at least once a year so… not exactly. To provide a specific example, everyone said it about Wemby and then again about Cooper Flagg only two years later - two people very much in the same generation.
 
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