Elliott called out on his homerism

[Sean Cagney]

Sean Elliott is an unbelievably great person. If anyone should ever in their lifetime meet a cooler, more bad-ass, and more talented person, then please tell tell the world!!!

Yes he is all of that and us Spurs fans love him, but dude is a homer like most announcers and that probably gets on other fans nerves too. We see it as Spurs and Elliott fans! They see it as a former player and homer.

[Phenomanul]

These days it's actually rarer to find non-homer announcers...

I will second on the Lakers having knowledgeable and objective announcers... How I would rank teams' announcers from best to worst:


Atlanta Hawks
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Brooklyn Nets
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Los Angeles Lakers
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New York Knicks
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Indiana Pacers
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New Orleans Hornets
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LA Clippers
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MOST EVERYONE ELSE (middle of the pack)
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Dallas Mavericks
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Miami Heat
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OKC
Phoenix Suns
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Denver Nuggets
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Houston Rockets
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Portland Trailblazers
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Boston Celtics

[HarlemHeat37]

Atlanta? Their announcers are boring, tbh, and Wilkins is pretty ty IMO..

Team announcers are supposed to be biased, tbh..they're appealing to the fans of their team, there's a reason both teams involved have their own set of announcers..

Overall, based on entertainment/knowledge, I'd rank the announcers:

Elite: Brooklyn, Golden State, Sacramento, Indiana, Minnesota

Good: New York, LA Clippers, Milwaukee

Irritating but entertaining/listenable: Boston(Heinsohn is amazing), Chicago, Utah, Dallas, San Antonio

Fair, but boring: Toronto, New Orleans, Atlanta, Orlando, Philly, LA, Miami, Charlotte, Washington, Detroit

ty: Denver, Memphis, Cleveland

The worst of the worst: Portland, Houston, OKC

[spurraider21]

Main lakers announcer is unbiased. Sutherland is his name. The color commentator, Stu Lanz (as all) shows more bias. Now his bias isn't extreme, but his mannerisms are impossible to deal with. The Lakers radio voice is solid, Jon Ireland. He used to be their sideline reporter, then after hosting a Laker talk show got bumped up the radio play by play where he's great. His color commentator, Michael Thompson (klay's dad) is in terrible. I was listening to the start of the most recent Laker/Spurs game on the radio and Tiago scored for a second time and he said "Tiago Splitter has scored twice this quarter! We cant allow that. Hes not even an offensive threat, he's mostly out there for his defense."

Bill and Sean are pretty bad tbh, though at least they give props to the other team

[Thread]

He's a disgrace.

[Richie]

I'm sure "OH MAMA!" gets old to other fans, even though I enjoy the out of it.

Just like how I hate the Clippers announcer going, "Oh Me, Oh My!"

This is exactly how I feel. The Clippers annoncer annoys the out of me when he goes crazy on every alley-oop, but I love Bill's Oh Mama

[look_at_g_shred]

Can't stand the Miami announcers for !

[temujin]

OKC, Memphis and Drexler of Houston are the worse.
OKC actually look like guys that are new to the business.
Reggie Miller and Jon Barry are also really bad.
Boston is pretty bad, but they often stay silent for like 10'', which is good.

Mike Fratello the best, but haven't heard him this year.

[Drom John]

Yes, Sean is a homer, but ...

After the second call, Elliott says “Ibaka looked like he had that rebound anyways.”

was not a homer quote. D'oh, Sean was complaining that Boris made a stupid foul.

[Russ]

I don't mind homers long as they call the team "we" like Elliott does. That's an appropriate disclaimer that gives license for all kinds of misbehavior.

The worst are the ones who employ objective pronouns and then bombard you with biased whining (like Tommy Heinsohn used to, ah heck, I loved him too).

[xtremesteven33]

Not only is the guy one of the coolest people you could ever meet, Sean Elliott is a great color commentator who is not afraid to show his homerism. He used to color commentate for ESPN and was one of their best analysts. Sean always offers good evaluation of plays and brings great insight into the game.

Bill Land is a bit corny and is targeted more towards an older audience.

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

Rockets have one of the worst in Matt Bullard who somehow is actually an upgrade over Drexler and Calvin Murphy.

[quentin_compson]

I like Sean as a color commentator. Sure he is a homer, but he knows it and admits it and is able to laugh about it himself. But he is entertaining and his basketball knowledge is good as well.

[weeks]

cleveland is bad
the color commentator in that city is the worst ever

[SupremeGuy]

meh... as team announcers are like that

The announcer that really gets under my skin is Reggie. My fave is probably JVG. He's hilarious.

[Man In Black]

No one is a bigger homer than ...

MYCHAL Thompson, Radio Broadcast team LAL-
http://espn.go.com/blog/los-angeles/...he-radio-booth

Mychal Thompson is terrible, how the does he know what kobe's thinking, is he a mind reader. Bad hire, obviously whoever made the decision to keep him must not listen to the broadcast.

[rjv]

a homer calls out a homer. nice

[superbigtime]

Wasn't the first time, won't be the last.

[LarryDavid]

Aren't all home team announcers going to be homers?

[Obstructed_View]

http://hangtime.blogs.nba.com/2013/0...ls=nbahpsplit1

3. Calls against your team are not for the faint of heart
Game: Oklahoma City @ San Antonio, March 11
Broadcast: San Antonio (NBA TV)

video i cant link

Sean Elliott ranks as one of the biggest homers on League Pass, and he doesn’t change his stripes when the Spurs’ broadcast goes national for NBA TV. Here, he has issues with two straight loose ball fouls on Boris Diaw.
After the first call, Elliott tells us that he “didn’t like that one at all.” No kidding. Then he says that “It’s a grown man’s game underneath,” and “The paint area is not for the faint of heart.”
I guess that means that Diaw is allowed to hold down Serge Ibaka‘s arm as the rebound comes their way.
After the second call, Elliott says “Ibaka looked like he had that rebound anyways.” Well no, he didn’t once he got fouled.
Then, “Ibaka gets rewarded for not boxing out.” Actually, Diaw gets punished for pushing Ibaka in the back.
Bottom line, a foul is a foul, even if it happens 94 feet from the basket.
“Two wrongs just make it wrong,” Elliott says.
That’s exactly what those who were listening to him were thinking.


we all know Sean is a homer but i think he was right here tbh
Serge gets away with a lot of contact and goaltends and when the game is in the bonus as expected the Thunderrefs striked full force calling fouls before OKC even had possession of the ball

Actually, I don't think Sean is a big homer, but I really disagreed with him on that particular call. Boris pushed him in the back. That happens several times a game. I'm unsure how anyone could even argue that call, but that's not something Sean does a lot in my experience. He's better than 95 percent of the color commentators on national broadcasts.

[jimbo]

Oh mama, tar heel triple, ka-wow all that stuff is just terrible. Sean is corny enough for the both of them without putting all of that in there.

Sean isn't too bad of a homer imo, he just commentates with the expectation that the Spurs should win every game so he gets disappointed when there's sloppy play. Only other thing he does is he'll tell it like it is, like if a team is bad-- he'll call them bad.

[Obstructed_View]

Yeah, maybe my definition of homer is different from others. Sean holds the team to a ridiculously high standard, speaks up for them when he thinks they're wronged, and calls them stupid when they make a mistake. He says "we" because it's a team he literally risked his life to play for. One can understand why the Spurs are so personal to him.

[Beaverfuzz]

I can definitely see why other fans don't like Bill and Sean. I'm not even gonna debate that.

Other homer commentators:

- Heinsohn
- Blazers commentators (Living in Portland and having to listen to these commentators is annoying as )
- Nuggets commentators
- OKC commentators

Any other ones?

You seriously don't like Barrett and Rice? Rice is f'n awesome, anyone who gets kicked out of a game by Javie is just fine in my book.

[maverick1948]

Bill's "Oh Mama" is allowed on tv. Oh , Holy , yah, and other expletives are NOT allowed. Will live for each "OH MAMA" Bill screams out.

[DejuanorwhatDude]

Why would anyone care that Spurs announcers that call Spurs games are pro Spurs? I'd rather have it that way than have them be bland like all national TV tandems outside of Breen and Van Gundy.