People, people, not that kind. Get your head out of the gutter. He makes some sort of glaring mistake every single game. It's getting old. Tonight he claimed it was gonna be side out for Okie City when we clearly committed our 5th team foul.
Mike and Mike made mistakes every game for years. That happens when you are talking 100 m.p.h. for 2 1/2 hours.
No, they didn't err that often. And each of them knew more about basketball than Kevin and Lamar put together, especially Rice.
They messed up so often a group of us made a drinking game based purely on just that. No one went thirsty.
Rice was beyond horrific. It was well past time for him to go. I like Barrett better than calabero, but overall the broadcast crew has improved
Rice was amusing at times with his seemingly beverage aided style and I like Barrett as well. My issue with him was that he overly anticipated calls over and over again and always in the Blazers favor. Then he was constantly having to correct himself when on TV, it was obvious he'd made the wrong call to begin with.
I'm interested in the mechanics of how they watch the game. Sometimes you can tell from commentary that they're on the monitor, because they talk about things you can't really see from Courtside. I got the feeling again today after a couple of small errors/omissions that Calabro and Hurd probably watch the game live more (like Rice did), which screens some angles or obscures some views of swipes, off-the-ball action, etc, while Barrett used the monitor more so he could comment on something the courtside fan may not see but the viewer at home could. But I don't know. Edit: I'm with TBpup, though...what they do is hard, and a couple of minor misses during a 48-minutes game is fine by me. Dear God, we could be listening to 20+ other horrible duos--I like our guys.
He's getting better, and sounds truly excited when the Blazers do well. That's good enough for me. Give him a break.
You do realize that Kevin started calling NBA games in 83, right? I think it's safe to say he knows as much, if not more, than Mike Barrett did.
I, along with everyone else on here is away of his history. It doesn't make anyone perfect. He was good enough to be the national voice for ESPN so apparently they didn't think he messed up to often.
His biggest blunder tonight was totally missing Lillard setting the All-time Blazer record for most consecutive free throws made. He never said a thing about it.
Thats nothing compared to the OKC announcer who call CJ "Evan Turner" 3 times in the last 2 minutes of the game. (In a game whee CJ scored 34)
Actually 2 of those mistakes was the OKC announcer going off on "ET" for making a stupid foul....and of course he was not even in the game.
No, he didn’t. I was watching when Lillard broke the record and Callabro never said a thing. He and Hurd were talking about a completely different topic.
