Sean Elliott: King of Broadcasters

[Blue Duck]

Hey look, the spurs pregame show is on and all these "Homers" like Andrew Monaco are talking about the spurs!!!! How dare they be so biases on the SPURS pregame show!!!! This is an outrage!!!! Do I really have to make this blue?????

[Blue Duck]

Hey look, they're doing the spurs keys to victory! !!!!! I'm beginning to believe these guys actually want the spurs to win! !!!!! I'm gonna write a very strongly worded letter to the league about these homers, this nonsense needs to stop.

[Arcadian]

Hey look, they're doing the spurs keys to victory! !!!!! I'm beginning to believe these guys actually want the spurs to win! !!!!! I'm gonna write a very strongly worded letter to the league about these homers, this nonsense needs to stop.

[siraulo23]

He is awesome if you're a spurs fan

[ajh18]

Sean's "homerism" has always reminded me a bit of Bill Simmons (not on broadcasts though, couldn't stand the guy on TV). Definitely a homer, but self-aware enough of it to make it a bit tongue-in-cheek. And like Simmons, his humor and knowledge of the game make it an entertaining personal trait rather than overwhelming annoyance.

[Fireball]

TBH all home team commentators tend to be homers so I have no problems in hearing Elliott be this way. For example my home team the Hornets color guy Dell Curry tends to be biased towards the Hornets. I have also heard Clyde Drexler and Tommy Heinsohn be super homers towards the Rockets and Celtics. I think part of the reason why Sean is hated by neutral fans it has to do with the fact the Spurs have been good for so long and Sean just reinforces it when he calls the games. Elliott to me sounds the best out of all other team commentators in the league.

I always enjoy Warriors, Lakers and Clippers announcers ... although especially the Clips guys got more annoying with each year of the Paul/Griffin era ... but I guess with success comes the homerism (well, tell that to Heinsohn tbh)
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[Kawhi 5-0]

Sean Elliott is the ing man, was my favorite player growing up and the one I "was" when we were out playing in the driveway.

Haha! That's an awesome story!! Brings back great memories of playing ball as a kid

[Kawhi 5-0]

What about his "Tar heel triple, Gday mate" sidekick?

Everyone dig Bill?

Yeah, Bill is pretty awesome! Good complement to Sean!!

[Kawhi 5-0]

He's no Clyde Frazier but I guess he will do..

Clyde is a great one!

[GSH]

I remember his first season as a commentator, when he was laughing about Ben Wallace's hair, and said he looked like a Mister Microphone. I was drinking something and damn near choked. If Sean thinks it, he says it. He's a Spurs homer through and through, but he's not obnoxious about it. For Spurs fans, he makes the games a lot of fun

[Kawhi 5-0]

he still says they over think at times and wanting them to get the ball to the hot man

One of my favorite Elliott phrases: "don't get too cute."

[Kawhi 5-0]

Sean Elliott 2004 broadcast, best quote of his career:

"Ben Wallace....has got LIMBS for arms!"

Yeah, that's one of those unfortunate "when is a metaphor not a metaphor." Double entendre will get you every time...

[Kawhi 5-0]

He was a Blair fan as well. He's a fan of everyone on the team except Tony Parker.

He's said some good stuff about Parker this year. I agree. Tony looks fresh so far.

[hooperflash]

I chose locker number #32 at work in his honor, tbh.

[Kawhi 5-0]

I disagree. He's appropriately homerish, as a Spurs broadcaster, but he's always quick to call out good calls against the Spurs, sometimes even missed calls that should have gone against the Spurs, and he's always on point with his knowledge of opposing teams and very complementary of them, even if they're getting crushed in that particular game. And most importantly, he's intelligent and doesn't sound like a ing moron like most retired athletes-turned-commentators. He also seems to be getting better over time.

To the OP, I was going to make a thread like this, but you beat me to it.

Well said! Thank you!! Great minds think alike

[Kawhi 5-0]

I remember his first season as a commentator, when he was laughing about Ben Wallace's hair, and said he looked like a Mister Microphone. I was drinking something and damn near choked. If Sean thinks it, he says it. He's a Spurs homer through and through, but he's not obnoxious about it. For Spurs fans, he makes the games a lot of fun

[DMC]

Actually I'm commending him for being minimally biased, given his natural disposition to be highly biased. I also think that, even if he were highly biased, he would still be a great commentator. Being a homer does not a bad commentator make.

You're moving the goalpost. I didn't call him a bad commentator.

[DMC]

Clyde is a great one!

Clyde is annoying as .

[MI21]

He is definitely a homer but I don't see him as any worse than a lot of other teams commentators. Definitely not top 5 or anything but I don't see him as that bad?

Cavs, Suns, Rockets, Celtics etc are heaps worse.

[Arcadian]

You're moving the goalpost. I didn't call him a bad commentator.

I thought you were implying that he was. If I may also critique your logic, it's a false dichotomy to suggest that he's either a homer or unbiased. Where's the middle ground? Sean is the middle ground.

[Spurs9]

Wow this is the most ive ever seen Leonard talk in post game interview

[Skoobz]

Man I ing love Sean Elliott

[DMC]

I thought you were implying that he was. If I may also critique your logic, it's a false dichotomy to suggest that he's either a homer or unbiased. Where's the middle ground? Sean is the middle ground.

You're wrongly using modus ponens to suggest "homer" means extremely biased and carrying that forward in your subsequent arguments. It's not been established as such. That being the case, there's no false dichotomy except what you've created in your faulty reasoning.

[Arcadian]

You're wrongly using modus ponens to suggest "homer" means extremely biased and carrying that forward in your subsequent arguments. It's not been established as such. That being the case, there's no false dichotomy except what you've created in your faulty reasoning.

Homer is typically intended to mean extremely biased. If you're using it to mean just a little biased, that's pretty weird, but cool! We agree.

[DeRozan m8]

As much as I hate the Rockets broadcast, one of those Toronto guys sounds like a re ed Bill Cosby or something, s painful, he's just making noise half the time.