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its kinda funny to think back on those great reggie battles with the knicks and bulls with the knowledge that reggie is such an absolute goober. he was always a fun player to hate/root against but with hindsight have to think that for guys like ewing and starks and mj, the rivalries were less "fun" and more like "this mf guy"

ha true being fucked with by a guy whos lame and sucks is so insulting

actually you know what he doesnt suck hes fine hes just super lame

and he cant pronounce any players names even when theyre jones

xp i think that’s right. and back in the 90s we didn’t have the tools to always know who was lame so those reggie trolling videos took on a different tone.

honestly i don’t hate reggie like he doesn’t grate on me the way mark jackson or richard jefferson do/did. he’s just kinda dumb. or more than kinda. the clock thing last night being a great example

his biggest offenses as an announcer imho

1 can barely talk, consistently mispronounces very common words forget about at all unusual player names theres no hope, and just has a weird way of talking in general he has a flat affect like theres something amiss in his brain

2 is always way behind the action, theyll be some big play then the other team has the ball across halfcourt and hes like wow zion is really putting the team on his back, hes just never has his head in the game no sense of timing doesnt bring any emotional intensity, just very disconnected from the general goings on

3 is consistently wrong even about what hes currently seeing in a replay, but also about the rules of the game, strategy, whats normal in basketball, player evaluations etc

comparing him and jefferson is interesting cause jefferson is so unlikable but otherwise understands the job does it pretty well, where reggie has no personality and is deeply incompetent

“i’ve seen him rise to the occasion occasionally” was so classic

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its a great pod obvs and i know they have this adversarial schtick but i wish sometimes they would give each other a lil credit windy tells great stories has cool lines like that and theyre just on his ass immediately after, even just let it breathe a bit bontemps particularly is always stepping on everyones punchlines

At one point he said Zion was 6’3”

At one point he said Zion was 6’3”

Twice

ha yeah he does shit like that all game he has no idea whats going on ever

lol what

Wow shots fired at @KendrickPerkins from @NBAonTNT panel 👀 pic.twitter.com/0lpDkiUXus

— Bri Marie D (@BriMarieD) April 24, 2024

love that lol

whats the backstory there

Chuck's outfit there is rough

lmao at lagoon's list of Reggie offenses ... "can't talk" "bad timing" and "always wrong" ... not great if your job is to talk about live basketball on TV!

im sayin

also incredibly unfunny

the total package

And one of the most grating voices

https://theathletic.com/5432961/2024/04/23/lebron-james-goat-michael-jordan-nba-player-poll/

lol at Pierce pulling the same percentage of GOAT votes as Magic.

wtf!

i.e., one inexplicable vote. Pierce floated the idea that it was LeBron who voted for him, which is lmao.

There's definitely some interesting data in that poll, I've been meaning to bring it to ilh. Thing that jumped out to me the most is how insanely Giannis' stock has plummeted. One measly vote for best defender, distant 5th (behind Tatum) for MVP, and a massive fall from being the runaway 52% winner last year of "who would you start a roster with" to just a single vote for that as well. Other things, the players seem to love Adam Silver, they still hate Rudy Gobert, and Thibs' reputation as grueling precedes him so strongly that it's gotta influence signing players.

Link to the full survey is here: https://theathletic.com/5433545/2024/04/22/nba-player-poll-2024-lebron-jordan-goat-celtics-nuggets-rudy-gobert-timberwolves/. Lmk if someone wants full text in that other thread though it will miss the very helpful graphs

full text would be nice thanks

Only reading it now, some nice gems, like guys being afraid to fight James Johnson, and nobody wanting to play for Thibs by a longshot.

just remembered was half asleep in front of the game last night when i heard chuck and the gang rapping a public enemy song, i was like i should wake up and figure out whats going on but i did not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9g0Hl1KD9c

i appreciate TNT for looking for solutions to the problem of putting reggie miller on TV but i’m not sure adding jamal crawford to the mix is the answer

its not good, theyre actually very similar

it’s wild bcuz i think SVG is easily the best in game analyst now on either network now, he’s as good as his brother at quickly calling out strategy stuff but w/ fewer of the antics. but then their main broadcast team goes entirely in the other direction in having zero ppl who can explain what is happening on screen

celtics fans were very mad at stan that last series idk what he got up to i watched the local broadcast

they should have the local guys do all the playoffs idk why its just the first round, mb its cause some people dont get nbatv

iirc the celtics were killing the heat but he was unimpressed by the celtics defense and thought the heat were missing easy shots

which may well have been partially true but isn’t that fun to refer to multiple times on a broadcast when the celtics are up by 25 or whatever.

yeah thats silly

Yah he’s mostly ok but can get fixated on stuff like that and it borders on him seeming like he’s choosing a side

he was the coach of the heat for a while iirc

imo stan's bias crossed a line throughout that series, nitpicking whatever the c's were doing run and praising the heat for hanging in when they were down 20 yes. hate to say but it soured me on him and while he is definitely one of the best in-game analysts in the national rotation in terms of the level of insight but i find him pretty joyless. hard to say why but his brother's misanthropy is endearing, and stan's is grating. makybe because jeff leans into and embraces it. i'm at the point that i would certainly take redick over him, and doris (though she also gets stuck on personal bugaboos). hope i never get to the level of preferring reggie tho lol

run=wrong

ok i think you guys need to take a breather lol i don't think svg has an anti-celtics bias

he doesn’t he was just being annoying

i'll accept that bias was the wrong word there but the particular narratives he got stuck on were a mismatch for what was happening on the court

i'm not all precious about this stuff and of all players jokic isn't going to give a shit but what is the point of shaq doing this on the broadcast? grow up

Shaquille O'Neal tells his "vice president of the Big Man Alliance" Nikola Jokic that he did not think The Joker should win his 3rd MVP this year pic.twitter.com/f5jAciL5Th

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) May 8, 2024

it was really disgraceful

shaw sucks so bad

shaq

single handedly ruined inside

cop, commercial whore, huge bore