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Can we petition the Root to find new announcers? Boone will always have a place in our hearts because we grew up listening to him, but he can't even complete a sentence anymore. Bolerjack is just a doofus.

25 games into the season, Neto has been starting almost every game - Neto rattles in a three early 1st quarter against the Suns...Boler: "Nothin but... Net-o" He was so proud of himself for coming up with that.

Anyone active on www.change.org ?
 
I'm playing a drinking game where I take a shot for every different pronunciation Boler has for Mirza Teletovic. I've already downed 6 shots of Jamo.
 
Pretty much all NBA announcers are lame given American business culture and the public's delicate sensibilities. So I honestly couldn't care less.
 
One thing I don't mind about Boler is he does have this warm tone to his voice... it's not screechy like other announcers I've heard around the league. He also doesn't pretend to knows stuff about basketball, he just describes the play.


What we need is a 3rd woman announcer ala Hornets announcers... "jazz it up" a bit.
 
Siro said:
Pretty much all NBA announcers are lame given American business culture and the public's delicate sensibilities. So I honestly couldn't care less.
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What the hell does that first sentence even mean? And unless you watch games on mute, why would you not care even a little?
 
TheGobertReport said:
What the hell does that first sentence even mean? And unless you watch games on mute, why would you not care even a little?
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I'm with Siro. I could care less. The announcers are just background noise and I have no problem with Boler or Boone. I would start a petition though to not have an "announcers" thread every 10 games.
 
I'm really not sure what people are expecting. The Jazz announcing crew are pretty much of your average small market team quality - no better, no worse. I listen to all of them on league pass and with a few exceptions play-by-play guys are all made up of about 15-20 catch phrases wrapped around moments of varying degrees of mediocrity.

Color guy are just individuals who have some sort of identity with the franchise - player, coach, etc...they're not even expected to be good or insightful; which is a shame because every market probably has a thousand guys who would be a thousand times better and would kill to have a job like that. Some of them are beyond awful (e.g. Austin Carr, Tommy Heinson, Sean Elliott and that idiot in Houston whose name I can't remember) the rest are just plain bad.
 
fgcamel said:
Gotta complain about something after a good win i suppose
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I started this thread during the game because that's what message boards are for. The crazy thing about message boards is that I commented how ecstatic I was in the game thread about how the Jazz were playing. Then in a different thread on the message board, I could comment on the bumbling Boone and simple Bolerjack. Crazy how the internet works, right?
 
I love boler. Would be pissed if he were replaced.

I like Boone with boler better than hapring or brown.
 
Going to the games is awesome for a lot of reasons. Right near the top, though, is getting to watch and hear the game without announcers. Ok, I'll be more specific: without have to hear Bolerhack. He's terrible.

Last night, my girlfriend was clowning around, talking about CONFIDENCE after every bucket for the first 6 or 7 minutes. I had to ask her, sincerely, to please stop. The people around us were enjoying the jokes, but I've seriously had enough of that concept. For life. Thanks Boler.
 
We were spoiled for so long with Hot Rod. I don't expect in my lifetime to see another Jazz announcer reach that level of mastery.

Call highlights between approx 4:00-8:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWobBFSyPyA
 
I like Boler. No problem at all with him.

As a person, I love Ron Boone, but I've never found his color commentary particularly useful or insightful, and he does seem to have difficulty expressing thoughts clearly. I'd like to see him stick around as, say, a post game commentator, as he is a franchise icon, but it's time, I think, to transition him out of the game calling and get someone there who can contribute more and do so in coherent sentences.
 
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