It is time to replace Kevin Colabro for the Blazers. Kevin does not report what is happening effectively. Most importantly, he does not specify who fouls are called against. He does not explain fouls, omits who has done what, and thus fails in this important part of the job. In the Spurs game, he kept referring to both of the players named Leonard by that name, when he should have been calling them Meyers and Kawhi, as both of those first names are well-known and distinguish the players. During the game, he repeats the same statements while failing to describe the action. And he strays from basketball to talk about wrestling and other distractions. Let's find a sports announcer to provide the essential game information.
Simple really..mute the sound and listen to Wheels...I've been doing that throughout the Mike and Mike era....Calabro is a rookie with the franchise and this has been a weird season to start with a team...I have no problem with the new guys but Rice could go off on tangents and forget names about as well as anybody...so if that's the beef...I don't get it.
If they put him with the right guy then he will be good. You gotta put him with someone who does the things he doesnt. Hurd just sounds like an idiot praising our opponents and babbling on. He makes Calabro look worse than he is, draws attention to the weaker points of Calabros work. If they can find a guy who does what Calabro doesnt, the humor and charisma, then it will hide those nuances, and draw out what Calabro does best. He's not comfortable with Hurd it's very clear. Too, like you said riverman, it's his first year with the blazers. I've seen what he can do, he just needs the right pairing.
I ain't gonna lie. I miss Mike and Mike now. Hurd flat out sucks IMHO. I can't stand his voice and he tries too hard to add "flavor" to the color commentating. I HATE it when Calabro says: "to the cup"...
Or whenever he says "the cast...(forget the rest of this line because I like to tune him out as soon as I hear the word cast) wow I'm aggravated just thinking about it.
I could probably survive Calabro another season but please can Hurd. He's as useless as 3 day old used dish soap. The Nurkic Fever bit is the only half clever bit he's come up with and he even flubbed that!
I replaced Cola, bro with water, bro! Btw, I don't care if he muffs up Leonards name, the fact that Meyers is in his 5th year and still makes rookie mistakes means he hasn't earned the right to not have his name mistaken for someone elses.
The fact he mistakenly has said Seattle a few times alone should lose him the job. He's overrated honestly. Mike and mike were the shit. Fuckin McGowan
