Is ANYTHING more boringly predictable than Warriors announcers?

[crandc]

EVERY game against Portland. Whether in Portland or Oakland. Whoever is winning. Close game or blowout. Two things they are absolutely, positively, without fail, guaranteed to talk about.

1. Sam Bowie was injured (Oden being injured adds fuel but they mentioned Sam Bowie EVERY game against Portland when Oden was still in grade school).

2. Paul Allen is really rich. Yes he is. We know that. Everyone fucking knows that. It is not necessary to say it EVERY game against Portland.

After 20 years can they get some new talking points please?

Well, at least the NCAA women's championship was interesting, although my heart was broken by Stanford's one point loss.

 

[julius]

What else do you expect them to talk about? The Warriors making the playoffs again? Or actually being a franchise that has at least made the finals in the last 35 years?

Although they might not have talked smack so to speak, that team (franchise/players/whatever) wishes it only had our bad luck. Because that'd be vast improvement over their good luck.

 

[BBert]

Warriors marketing and specifically broadcasting and Bay area sports reporting has been virulently anti-Blazers forever. I don't know if it is due to competition for the southern Oregon market, or if (pre Kings) they were angling for a Warriors - Blazers rivalry angle or what it is.

 

[Natebishop3]

They're still bitter because they could have had a team with Tim Hardaway, Chris Webber, Chris Mullin, Mitch Richmond, and Latrell Sprewell.

 

[VanillaGorilla]

Women's basketball. LOL!

 

[crandc]

Women's basketball. LOL!

Unlike 18% shooting in a "national championship" game, which you take seriously?

 

[3RA1N1AC]

nothing wrong with womens sports, i especially enjoy volleyball

 

[3RA1N1AC]

on topic, never heard the warriors announcers, but yeah that could get annoying after 20 years, maybe they could start talking about our devastating knee injuries?

 

[Mediocre Man]

The Blazers offense?

Womens basketball as well. Horrible, horrible game to watch

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Those announcers were horrible.

On a side note, my dad went to the game last night and picked me up a Mike & Mike shirt. :MARIS61:

 

[SheedSoNasty]

It's kinda like when we play Houston, one of the Mikes always has to mention how Chase Budinger played volleyball.

 

[THE HCP]

They let women play basketball?!?!

 

[3RA1N1AC]

woman are better at basketball than fat mexicans

 

[THE HCP]

woman are better at basketball than fat mexicans

I don't think I know you well enough for you to make fun of me.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

then dont call us nerds! two way street

 

[THE HCP]

It's hard because I am so much cooler then you people. The funny thing is, I can go to the gym, but you will always be a computer geek.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

It's hard because I am so much cooler then you people. The funny thing is, I can go to the gym, but you will always be a computer geek.

haha! ok now we are on to something lol, sorry i called you fat man, big boned better?

just sayin if you can give it, you gotta take it too, like at an all male orgy

 

[THE HCP]

You can call me anything you want. I'm just messin' with you. But you can ask guys on here that I do nothing but show the utmost respect to everybody on here.....

 

[3RA1N1AC]

save the drama fams, i was just giving you a little well deserved ribbing, and i can take it back anytime, know this.

and you are our insider! when we need you to slip a mickey into kobes smoothie, we need to know we are on the same page with you! the enemy is out there damnit!

 

[Run BJM]

Never noticed the W's announcers making any kind of rivalry against PDX. Generally a lot of stuff is repeated every game depending on the opponent. Like someone else said with Budinger, when hes in and makes a play its always followed up by the "and a gliding move to the rim by the former volleyball standout!".

Maybe the rivalry will be more prevalent with the Kings leaving Sac? The only way its a rivalry at all is because we somehow beat on you even though we're terrible every year.

 

[MARIS61]

EVERY game against Portland. Whether in Portland or Oakland. Whoever is winning. Close game or blowout. Two things they are absolutely, positively, without fail, guaranteed to talk about.

1. Sam Bowie was injured (Oden being injured adds fuel but they mentioned Sam Bowie EVERY game against Portland when Oden was still in grade school).

2. Paul Allen is really rich. Yes he is. We know that. Everyone fucking knows that. It is not necessary to say it EVERY game against Portland.

After 20 years can they get some new talking points please?

Well, at least the NCAA women's championship was interesting, although my heart was broken by Stanford's one point loss.

1. Had Bowie not been so unfortunate to get injured, the Blazers would have several more titles and Jordan might never have gotten a single ring or even remained a Bull.

2. Quick, name someone who owns a major league sports team that isn't rich.

3. WTF? Girls playing basketball?

 

[MARIS61]

You can call me anything you want. I'm just messin' with you. But you can ask guys on here that I do nothing but show the utmost respect to everybody on here.....

I guess that's technically correct, since MIXUM is banned at the moment.

 

[julius]

1. Had Bowie not been so unfortunate to get injured, the Blazers would have several more titles and Jordan might never have gotten a single ring or even remained a Bull.

2. Quick, name someone who owns a major league sports team that isn't rich.

The owners of the Green Bay Packers.

 

[mgb]

It's hard because I am so much cooler then you people. The funny thing is, I can go to the gym, but you will always be a computer geek.

He could get a lobotomy, that would level the playing field for you.

 

[STOMP]

as a longtime Bay Area resident I can attest that their duo is just the pits. They are completely over the top homers to the point they make Mike and Mike comparatively sound as if they're rooting against the Blazers. When they get an initial observation wrong and then the replay reveals this in slo-mo, they stick by their initial call. They're not funny or insightful but for some reason are incredibly smug. When they're calling a game, I turn the sound off and listen to music instead of being tempted to throw something at the TV

STOMP

 

[Run BJM]

as a longtime Bay Area resident I can attest that their duo is just the pits. They are completely over the top homers to the point they make Mike and Mike comparatively sound as if they're rooting against the Blazers. When they get an initial observation wrong and then the replay reveals this in slo-mo, they stick by their initial call. They're not funny or insightful but for some reason are incredibly smug. When they're calling a game, I turn the sound off and listen to music instead of being tempted to throw something at the TV

STOMP

Bob Fitzgerald (play by play guy) is fucking AWFUL. Hes 100% of the smugness and always making excuses for the pathetic ass team out there. Blows minor Warriors feats out of proportion and sort of epitomizes what is wrong with the W's ownership (perhaps new ownership will be different). Jim Barnett who does the color is insightful and enjoyable to listen to. Hes a bit of a homer but he'll also call guys out when they make a shitty play, though still not often enough.

I was surprised how good the PDX guys are when listening to the stream the other night though. I've found that most TV guys are fucking terrible. Homers, uninsightful, uninteresting, not funny, not good at what they do really at all, no redeeming qualities at all. PDX play by play guy was pretty decent and the token "old guy who preaches the fundamentals of bball" doing the color wasn't absolutely terrible. By NBA standards that is above average.

You should hear the Utah and Sac TV guys. Its like they live on totally different planets from the rest of the world.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

yeah the blazers play by play is one of the best for sure, kinda like the sf giants radio team!

 

[STOMP]

Bob Fitzgerald (play by play guy) is fucking AWFUL. Hes 100% of the smugness and always making excuses for the pathetic ass team out there. Blows minor Warriors feats out of proportion and sort of epitomizes what is wrong with the W's ownership (perhaps new ownership will be different). Jim Barnett who does the color is insightful and enjoyable to listen to. Hes a bit of a homer but he'll also call guys out when they make a shitty play, though still not often enough.

Barnett was on the first Trailblazer team and scored the first bucket in franchise history. Beloved Blazer broadcaster Bill Schonely is supposed to have first made his catch phrase "Rip City!" following one of his shots. I suspect that something must have gone wrong with how his Blazer career went/ended, as instead of having a warm spot towards his former team, he eagerly piles on with negative gossip/innuendo in every single Blazer-Warrior matchup where I've listened to him over the years.

The worst example of this was the game which ended with the Bonzi Wells-Chris Mills dustup and a near riot in Oakland. Replays show Warrior fans raining drinks, throwing trash, and one woman spitting repeatedly on Blazer players entering the tunnel following their last second victory... all with Barnett going on and on with what terrible people the Trailblazers are. One full drink then clearly hits Rasheed (who'd hit the game winner) in the face, and he goes into the stands to confront the fan. Security is on it and the fan is arrested... Barnett is even higher on his horse saying this is unprovoked and Wallace should be arrested.

to land the job initially Fitz undercut his mentor (quality play by play voice Greg Papa) a year after Cohan bought the team. Reportedly he came in at less then half the rate. He's an empty paint by numbers shill as a broadcaster. He's been their TV voice for 17 years now yet I've never heard a Warriors fan speak well of him. I occasionally have dropped by W's forums and seen posters with names like Fire Fitz NOW

Hopefully both are let go as new ownership puts their stamp on the team in their first full off season.

I was surprised how good the PDX guys are when listening to the stream the other night though. I've found that most TV guys are fucking terrible. Homers, uninsightful, uninteresting, not funny, not good at what they do really at all, no redeeming qualities at all. PDX play by play guy was pretty decent and the token "old guy who preaches the fundamentals of bball" doing the color wasn't absolutely terrible. By NBA standards that is above average.

I'd agree with all that

You should hear the Utah and Sac TV guys. Its like they live on totally different planets from the rest of the world.

I've the league pass too... those guys are all pretty over the top homers. Jazz announcer Hot Rod Hundley takes it to a level that is entertaining for me at least. My favorite announcers in the league are the Clipper duo

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[STOMP]

yeah the blazers play by play is one of the best for sure, kinda like the sf giants radio team!

especially with Miller, the Giants broadcasters are a cut above. I'd put them on par with Schonely in his prime as I just like to listen to them. I don't even like baseball that much but they make the experience better.

STOMP

 

[maxiep]

especially with Miller, the Giants broadcasters are a cut above. I'd put them on par with Schonely in his prime as I just like to listen to them. I don't even like baseball that much but they make the experience better.

STOMP

I lived in DC when Jon Miller was the Orioles' announcer (before the Nationals). He was incredible. People in the mid-Atlantic still can't figure out why the O's dumped him.