Weird basketball commentator clichés

[ctkaiser]

Loved Al McGuire expression when he referred to the last few minutes of a game as BLT referencing his Marquette PG Butch Lee. Also referred to centers as aircraft carriers.

 

[Zanzman]

When they refer to turnovers or missed free throws at the end of the game as critical how bout at the beginning of games they can hurt as much

 

[BroadwayVa]

My top 3:

1. "There's a timeout on the floor."
As opposed to those timeouts that occur, say, on the ceiling or underground.

2. "From downtown!" (referring to a 3-point shot)
So the basket is located in the suburbs?

3. "She can really score the basketball."
But can she score a bowling ball? How about a watermelon?

If

you remember DOWN TOWN BROWN. What would you call him if no one used : He sunk that one from DOWN TOWN. (I think there were 2 downtown browns).
She's throws up Bricks---isn't this a basket ball game?
She kissed that one off the glass---(is kissing allowed in basketball? )
It rimmed out! Is there such a thing as rimming in?

 

[BroadwayVa]

Loved Al McGuire expression when he referred to the last few minutes of a game as BLT referencing his Marquette PG Butch Lee. Also referred to centers as aircraft carriers.

Al was a good if not great coach. I could listen to him speak on the game for hours. He and his brother were fine players. His daughter or niece played for UVA.

 

[BroadwayVa]

Hearing the Doris Burke (I think it's her) talk about a players' "comportment". I didn't mind it the first 50 times I heard her say it, but had enough by 51...

When it's the first new word you learned in 50 years you tend to over use it. I comported this.

 

[BroadwayVa]

A young psychoanalyst can make a pretty penny (nice cliche ) getting referrals at the BY.

I have my own psycho-analyst. She analyzed me when she was age 10 and hasn't changed the diagnosis--

 

[Urshurak]

Take a season. Write down what a player says to Holly or Justine (or whoever it is this year) and then read it all back at the end. It’s such nonsense, but in defense of those poor kids, what are they supposed to say? So we get a bunch of basketball
Cliches.

 

[StarMan]

How about the "ill-advised" turnover?