OT: Sorta OT - Doris Burke

[HuskyNan]

I’m watching the Orlando Magic-Cleveland Cavaliers NBA playoff game and Doris is the color analyst. It took 30 seconds for Doris to mention how the Magic “comported” themselves. I kind of miss her doing women’s college basketball games but I don’t miss “comport”.

Go Magic!

 

[Kaizen]

I’m watching the Orlando Magic-Cleveland Cavaliers NBA playoff game and Doris is the color analyst. It took 30 seconds for Doris to mention how the Magic “comported” themselves. I kind of miss her doing women’s college basketball games but I don’t miss “comport”.

Go Magic!

Are you sure it is not "compart" themself ? ...

 

[RoadMaster]

I’m watching the Orlando Magic-Cleveland Cavaliers NBA playoff game and Doris is the color analyst. It took 30 seconds for Doris to mention how the Magic “comported” themselves. I kind of miss her doing women’s college basketball games but I don’t miss “comport”.

Go Magic!

I'll see your Doris "comported", and raise you Meg "savvy"...

 

[irsh4242]

100% miss Doris and also Kara Lawson. I wish Doris still called women’s games. I totally get that Kara is now a coach.

 

[CTtoSanDiego]

I have always admired the way you comport yourself here on the BY, Nan...

 

[oldude]

Doris Burke is the only person I have ever heard use the word “comport.” It’s kind of her thing.

 

[NEforceUConn]

I’m watching the Orlando Magic-Cleveland Cavaliers NBA playoff game and Doris is the color analyst. It took 30 seconds for Doris to mention how the Magic “comported” themselves. I kind of miss her doing women’s college basketball games but I don’t miss “comport”.

Go Magic!

She learned that word at that hick school in RI, known for its…..um….hockey teams?

 

[nwhoopfan]

My least favorite announcer cliche that he uses multiple times every game is Ryan Ruocco with "insisting her way to the rim."

 

[Huskee11]

Breen with Van Gundy and Jackson were much better than the current crew.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

I’m watching the Orlando Magic-Cleveland Cavaliers NBA playoff game and Doris is the color analyst. It took 30 seconds for Doris to mention how the Magic “comported” themselves. I kind of miss her doing women’s college basketball games but I don’t miss “comport”.

Go Magic!

Maybe she meant to say “composted” themselves.

 

[RSHERMVIKES]

I always liked Doris Burke!
She sure respected Geno and UConn!

 

[MilfordHusky]

I always liked Doris Burke!
She sure respected Geno and UConn!

In talking about the UConn offense, Doris said that she admired Geno's package.

 

[JonathanXIV]

She also used the term “threeability.” I can’t…

 

[Viet Vet]

“Score the basketball” has become pervasive. Ugh.

 

[my2cents]

I hate , "Going downhill to the rim", isn't the court flat?

 

[HuskyNan]

She also used the term “threeability.” I can’t…

She might have coined "spurtability" too. And "they come at you in waves".

 

[RockyMTblue2]

I know of no NBA players who comport themselves except maybe Nikola. Was that her point?

 

[HuskyNan]

I know of no NBA players who comport themselves except maybe Nikola. Was that her point?

What is the meaning of comport?

behave

: behave. especially : to behave in a manner conformable to what is right, proper, or expected. comported himself well in the crisis.

 

[Plebe]

I for one happen to love the word “comport” and particularly its reflexive form “to comport oneself”. Doris, you keep doing you! Language is fun.

 

[Geew1992]

Breen with Van Gundy and Jackson were much better than the current crew.

Yea... You're talking about Jeff Van Gundy, right? Cuz whomever thought replacing him with his brother Stan def got it wrong

 

[Huskee11]

Yea... You're talking about Jeff Van Gundy, right? Cuz whomever thought replacing him with his brother Stan def got it wrong

Jeff of course. Stan was not part of that team. He is not very good.

Ian Eagle is good on play by play. Kevin Harlan is too intense but at least he focuses on what is happening on the court.

Hubie Brown is the best technical analyst hands down. I was surprised to see him doing a broadcast recently. He is 90 years old!

 

[Drift]

Playthings =

Playing with more energy
Playing with agency
Using one’s athleticism
Brings to the table

All overused. Analysts might best do without them.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

What is the meaning of comport?

behave

: behave. especially : to behave in a manner conformable to what is right, proper, or expected. comported himself well in the crisis.

I see a gentleman in his suit and tophat escorting his lady in her finery and her umbrella down a path in a London garden in 1865.

 

[BlueSkyGLW]

What is the meaning of comport?

behave

: behave. especially : to behave in a manner conformable to what is right, proper, or expected. comported himself well in the crisis.

As verb, yes....and in context does comport with of Doris' declarative (see below)

but also:
accord or agree with.
"our outdated rules did not comport with 21st-century realities"

As noun?
noun: comport; plural noun: comports
another term for compote (sense 2).

Origin: French
late 19th century: apparently an abbreviation of French comportier, variant of compotier ‘dessert dish’.

 

[Gus Mahler]

My favorite basketball saying is

She can really put the ball on the floor.

 

[nwhoopfan]

I hate , "Going downhill to the rim", isn't the court flat?

I'm assuming they borrowed that from football terminology, sometimes you hear about a running back running downhill. Of course it doesn't make sense in a literal sense, but I think it refers to the ease with which an athlete appears to do something.

 

[Forego]

“Comport” is for city dwellers only. I graduated from UConn with major in English Literature and consider myself to be fairly well read with a better than average vocabulary, but until the word appeared in this thread I had never seen it in print and never heard it being spoken.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

My favorite basketball saying is

She can really put the ball on the floor.

Gus, I’m changing my avatar to Richard Strauss, pronounced “Reekard” or “Rikard”, but I’m sure you know that.

 

[Gus Mahler]

Yes, but I can never get the guttural throat sound right.

Anyway, I'll look forward to it!

 

[GoUconn7961]

If you did a shot of Tequila every time Doris says either comport or physicality you'd have alcohol poisoning.