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Harpring to join Jazz broadcast team.

TICC said:
From Hot Rod + Boone to Boler + Harp

You'd think the damn team was in Utah or something. Completely ****ing vanilla.

I demand diversity (and intellectual honesty)!
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Viny, one account per person now.

Seriously though . . . If at least 50% of the broadcast team isn't black, then we aren't diverse enough?

We do have big T.
 
Magic Spray said:
This just sealed my decision to continue not subscribing to Fox Sports Rocky Mountain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX8OCugIaPI

Now the NBATV guys are atrocious, so it's hard to gauge, but I think Harp is awful and going to be terrible alongside Homerjack.

Get ready for this type of insight:

"Jerry needs great players on this team."
"I think he'll be OK."
"Deron's one of the future bright talents of this league."
"How the Jazz go is how Deron's going to go."
"I think [Jerry's] going to focus on defense. I think he knows that defense wins championships."

PS: Thank god Boozer, Korver, and Brewer are gone.
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This was harps first time doing this kind of commentator work last summer. He got better throughout the year and was much better as a color commentator by the end of the year. I think he'll do well.
 
I enjoy Harps commentary. He knows the game and can think fast enough to talk about the plays while they are in motion. That's on O and D ends of the floor too.
 
I always liked it when he pointed out what a player on our team was supposed to do on a play and what they did wrong. It helps me understand the system better.
 
Harp is still too close to the actual floor for my comfort, but I liked what I heard of him last year. Still, I really liked Boone. He's actually funnier than you think because he has such an understated delivery. I can remember a lot of times laughing a few seconds late to one of his jokes. And he's pretty objective which you don't always get in a color guy.
 
Get Boone out of here!

Matt Harpring is somebody who understands the Jazz system better than Boone. He also is not worried about offending people as much. It makes it more entertaining. I am not saying he is offensive but Matt Harpring speaks his mind a lot more. He gives opinions on the game that I don't normally hear from announcers.

Boone is boring and he is too slow to give his comments. Which is very important because the plays happen so fast. Bolerjack would come in to talk about the play before Boone even finished his sentence. Boone also would stop in the middle of the sentences and never finish them. There would be silence after. He isn't a quick enough thinker. Harpring did a great job.

If you guys are complaining about him being captain obvious than you obviously don't pay attention to Boone because he says things that everyone knows. Now I am not saying Harp doesn't either. Every announcer does. But Harp actually said things that made sense and said a few things that we thought were true during games but it was good to hear it from him because he was in practice with these guys so he knows better. He also knows Sloan better than Boone.
 
Harpring is very repetitititive and his odd shaped noggin gives me the creepers. I still want me some delicious Booner. Get out of here with this crap.
 
Marcus said:
I have to agree with the last two posts. We as Jazz fans have been spoiled rotten to the point where we bemoan our broadcast staff when in reality they are amongst the best. If for no other reason they are not paid homers. The Jazz stink it up, they all call it like it is. You could replace Houston's play announcers with Rockette dancers and would have just as scintillating commentary along with the blatant cheerleading and homerism.
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Absolutely correct. The Jazz are up there with having the least biased commentators around. I'll see how Harp is in that department, but he didn't seem that bad to me last year.

Houston, Denver, Portland, Dallas, San Antonio, and Boston (due to the king of all homers Tommy Heinsohn) are brutal to listen to. Just brutal.
 
Here's another thing I like about Ron Boone. The dude is 64 years old. But he looks like he's maybe half way done. If the over/under on Ron Boone is 119 years, I'm taking the over.
 
Here's another thing I like about Ron Boone Part II: He told a story once about how his granddaughter gave him a tie for his birthday and he showed it off on TV. That's unbearably cute and I respect that.
 
Here's another thing I like about Ron Boone Part III: This is my own deal because I can't explain it or recreate it. I'll never find it, either, so it's one of those memories that is lost to humanity except me. And it's kind of stupid, too. But the Jazz were playing the Bulls I think when Nocioni was still on the team. Nocioni spins baseline, shoots, and scores from about 15. When you're watching it, you think the shot looked a little funky. It dawns on you, the happy Jazz viewer, at about the same time as it dawns on Boone that the shot actually banked from like a 4.7 degree angle and it looked like he meant it. Boone says, classic monotone, pure wonderment: "No. No. He. Did. Not. Did he just bank that?" Boler chimes in like a monkey but they check the replay and he did. Booner is amazed--THAT'S what I like about him. He's not all caught up in his job as an 'expert', he still sees it as a beautiful game where amazing athletes do unbelievable things.
 
moevillini said:
da more stoopider da bedder eh biley?
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Well there, Moe, now that you mention it I might've left a story around the corner dat I found and put in my back pocket which I might showya if you share a jug a wine wit me. Ever hear the one about what Ron Boone found when he cut a hole in the stall of a bathroom at a rest stop on I-15?
 
Boone has always been a class act. I admired him as a member of the Utah Stars. Yes, Utah HAS won a basketball championship. I just wish the Millers would pay tribute to the first pro basketball team in the state. Instead, all traces of the Stars were wiped clean the instant the Jazz came to town (and I realize that was not the Millers' fault). I'll never forget Boone, The Big Z, Jimmy Jones and Willie Wise. And then later, some kid right out of HS named Moses Malone. Loved going to those ABA games with my dad.

Sorry though, cj, I guess that's where "hopper ball" originated. A lot of big hair, bad clothes and flashy players in the ABA: Dr J., the Iceman, David Thompson, George McGinnis, Artis Gilmore.
 
GlassEater said:
Jazzgal must be the happiest woman on the planet right now.
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I am ashamed to admit that I just now learned this wondrous news. I am thrilled beyond words and can't believe I denied myself this happiness for several days.
 
JazzGal said:
I am ashamed to admit that I just now learned this wondrous news. I am thrilled beyond words and can't believe I denied myself this happiness for several days.
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Teri, you know I love you, but ****ing a lady, you have absolutely no taste.

Listening to Harpring last night was incredibly painful. Like someone mentioned, he feels like he needs to explain every last detail of whatever just happened. Furthermore, he's a ****ing homer and I hate homers.

Someone, please, call the clown with big shoes to pull Harpring off the stage with his cane...please.
 
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