UConn v. Temple Broadcast Rant

[HuskyNan]

Experience is not going to change the sound of her voice. Saying that, I hope she succeeds at being an analyst.

There are vocal/speech coaches that can help her pitch her voice differently and speak more slowly, with more volume. She just needs to work at it.

 

[DaddyChoc]

watch on the BIG screen with the volume down... and read the "Game Thread"?

 

[phil sampieri]

Ooops, sorry I thought I was on a basketball site not a critique on broadcasters. I would venture a guess that if they were to take a poll
about who was good or bad it would be a 50-50, so what's the big deal.

 

[BigBird]

Ooops, sorry I thought I was on a basketball site not a critique on broadcasters. I would venture a guess that if they were to take a poll
about who was good or bad it would be a 50-50, so what's the big deal.

If you don’t like it, don’t read it. If we “took a poll” in America as to who does or doesn’t like sports, we might get a 5o-50 result, so let’s not talk about that either.

 

[ctkaiser]

My biggest issue with it was they almost never said what the call was, whom the foul was on, etc. I had no idea that Napheesa had three fouls until they mentioned it in the third quarter. Then there was the play right after they mentioned it, when the Temple player was driving baseline on Pheesa and the ref blew the whistle. Never a word; I presume it was an out-of-bounds call, but sussed that out from what happened subsequently, not based on anything that was said. There were several foul calls that could have been on three different players, but we never found out who committed any of them.

I don't expect (nor do I want) a radio broadcast, but it's nice to know things like foul calls.

That lack of announcing a foul, who it's on, etc seems to have become common. If they're not going to announce it at least put up a graphic.

 

[msf22b]

I take a middle view, just saw the replay.

Other then the fact that Sue and Tiff (for the most part) refrained from calling the game (as the process is generally understood); substitutions, who the foul is on , how many...etc.

In other respects, I found Sue's comments: interesting, informative, illuminating.

I expect, she'll scope out the gig