ESPN has been accepted to cull anchorperson stunts afore (see Dick Vitale on NBA games) and they followed the aforementioned archetypal on Friday night. The Sports Guy, Bill Simmons, was added as a blush analyst to the Heat-Warriors advertisement forth with Dan Shulman and Mark Jackson. Though the haters brought their criticism, I anticipation Simmons did fine.
At aboriginal he brought a absolutely 18-carat activity to the advertisement badinage he was aflame the Bulls-Lakers adventurous didn’t go into overtime because he was aflame to do his “stand-up” accession to the game. Simmons got in a few Steve Kerr references, one of which was apropos Carlos Arroyo’s role on the team. He brought his archetypal amusement back talking about Reggie Williams adage he fabricated the account of Top 75 D-League belief and that Dorell Wright was “playing like a spurned girlfriend.”
Simmons seemed to be best adequate acrimonious on the little guys. In accession to Dorell Wright and Reggie Williams, Dan Gadzuric was one of his targets. He acicular out article best announcers wouldn’t touch, that Gadzuric is arena harder now that he’s activity to be a chargeless abettor than he was in Milwaukee area he had a nice contract. Also, he mentioned that the news about players defective aplomb in Erik Spoelstra acceptable came from LeBron’s camp, article abroad best announcers wouldn’t be adventurous abundant to say.
Aside from the jokes actuality and there, Simmons wasn’t overwhelming. He didn’t beat the advertisement and asphyxiate out Mark Jackson or Dan Shulman by talking constantly. Additionally, he knew back to get out of the way of the annual man back activity was activity on and abide his belief later.
Most of the criticism of Simmons centered about one issue: his voice. Folks on cheep complained that Simmons’ articulation is too aerial pitched and too feminine sounding. Maybe it’s because I’m a radio host who wasn’t adored with aureate pipes, but that didn’t bother me at all. Content-wise he was good, and he was technically sound. Now the alone catechism is why ESPN put him on a Heat game; Miami draws eyeballs behindhand of the announcers — they would accept been more good served application him on a adventurous with beneath absorption because he is a draw himself.
By: Larry Brown
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