Are our announcers annoying?

[MrJayremmie]

Good future, but also a good team now. Watching Rudy play makes my nipples hard although as for your big man, I think Brook Lopez will pan out to be a better pro than Greg Oden, due to his advanced offensive game.

Great take. Lopez is a HoF in the making, imo...

 

[dpc]

I don't see a lot of other announcers, but one that clearly sticks out in my mind as a terrible announcer was Clyde Drexler. It was just horrid listening to him on the Rockets.

 

[Dumpy]

Czar, where would you place yourself on that chart?

 

[BlazerBeliever]

I do wish I could just turn the volume on the tv down and listen to wheels. I don't like the homer calls from the Mike and Mike. I know they are fans just like us however they have a job to do and be realistic.

 

[Rodolfo]

Mike and Mike react like fans(a good thing in my book)to calls but if they know they're wrong after a re-play they always correct themselves. If you think the Mike's are bad you should listen to Wheels. You had to love Ed Ducet and Steve Jones back in the day...Steve was always cracking up after Ed said ANYTHING. Very similiar to the annoucing relationship he has with Bill Walton.

 

[TheCzar@mac.com]

Czar, where would you place yourself on that chart?

Definitely in the high knowledge/objective quadrant. I'm not quite the caliber of Ian Eagle, but surely I would place myself above Jim Spanarkel, "The Giggler."

 

[Run BJM]

I watch a lot of league pass and my room mate is a Warriors fan, and I have found their guys to be some of the least homer announcers in the NBA.

Jim Barnett (color guy for the Warriors) is awesome and a badass. That chart nailed him- very high basketball knowledge and just the right amount of homerism/objectivity that you want to see from a local color guy. The play by play guy, Bob Fitzgerald is annoying though. Calls games pretty well and while he is a homer he will also criticize the W's and give the other team enough credit. Overall I enjoy them.

Never heard the Blazers but Warriors fans tell me they're terrible. I'd say the Kings' announcers are the worst I've ever heard though.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

This should help people out

Seems pretty accurate when you start to think about it.

It was awfully nice of Mike Breen to provide us with that chart.

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

To be honest I try to watch MB and Rice every time I can. I can't stand the national assclown announcers. I like our announcers a lot.

 

[TehChad]

MB is all right but he's pretty boring. Unless the Blazers are doing very well or very poorly, he sounds to me like he's half asleep most of the time.

Rice gets carried away quite often, but usually he's not too bad.

Overall our announcers could be better, but it could be a lot worse too. And although I don't listen to other NBA local announcers, I can tell that ours are very homerist (is that a word? ). I thought we were very fortunate when we had Snapper, he was awesome.

 

[TowelBoy]

From the looks of this thread, I like our announcers less than most of you all. Mike Rice is embarrassing, and I actually find Barrett's homerism far more annoying because it's sometimes subtle and perhaps even subconscious. Whenever an opponent player does something good, the Mikes act like it's a surprise or that player is playing above their ability, and every mundane thing a Blazer does is gushed over. Don't get me started on the excuse-making. I will say the Suns' announcers were just as bad; When Grant Hill came in and grabbed a completely uncontested rebound on a badly missed shot (there was no one within 10 feet of him from either team), the announcers said "Grant Hill comes in and makes an immediate impact!" That's the exact kind of stuff I'm talking about, though I can't think of any examples as specific from Barrett.

In watching other teams' announcers, I am constantly and pleasantly surprised with the amount of praise they give the Blazers. The Kings are a recent example. The Mikes are not this way at all, as alluded to above. Although, I have considered the fact that our team may just have more young talent worth raving about than most teams...