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Billy Packer

I'm also a big Raftery fan. Personally, I like Jay Bilas most of the time, although some of the quotes I've seen from him about mid-majors seem pretty stupid. Steve Lavin is one of my favorite color guys.
 
did anyone else notice during the pregame stuff on ESPN? when they were talking about motivation for this game and Bilas made reference to the job Calipari had done this year. Knight looked like he rolled his eyes at Dickie V, while Bilas was talking....kind of funny.
 
mportsch said:
I'm also a big Raftery fan. Personally, I like Jay Bilas most of the time, although some of the quotes I've seen from him about mid-majors seem pretty stupid. Steve Lavin is one of my favorite color guys.
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Lavin annoys the crap out of me.

Bilas is alright but tends to overuse phrases... i.e. "He's not a good (defender/scorer/rebounder/passer/etc.), he's a great (defender/scorer/rebounder/passer/etc.)."
 
Scouter said:
Has a team ever started out in anything but man-to-man when Bill Raftery is on the call?

"And, Gus, Bradley goes ... 2-3 zone???"

Gus and Bill would be incredible.
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It's OK if you zone.

"And Gus, Bradley goes with a soft 2-3 zone, with MANTOMAN PRINCIPLES!

Someone find this on youtube: Gus and Bill did a regular season game where Adam Morrison hit a game-winner. Insanity. You could go deaf from a thing like that.
 
p.s. Billy Packer is old. Go take a nap.

There's not too many good PBP guys left. Nantz is tolerable. Lundquist is good, but he probably needs some naps too. Enberg is already comatose. For the love of God, someone tell CBS to put Gus Johnson in there.
 
Da Coach said:
By the way,
Happy Birthday, beninator! :eek:
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Yeah, happy birthday, Beninator.

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TheAsianSensation said:
Someone find this on youtube: Gus and Bill did a regular season game where Adam Morrison hit a game-winner. Insanity. You could go deaf from a thing like that.
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That's what I was thinking, man, Gus Johnson's head might've exploded if he got a chance to make the call on Chalmer's game tying 3!

And in reference to my earlier post, here is Billy Packer's quote at the 3:29 mark of the second half:

"Kansas knows what it's like to be in an overtime game in a championship, the triple overtimer they lost to North Carolina in 1957"

Where do I start to rip the idiocy of that statement? I'll give it a shot:
*NONE of the Kansas players were alive in 1957
*Bill Self (and I'm pretty sure the rest of the coaching staff) wasn't alive in 1957
*Doc Brown's DeLorean Time Machine does not exist, so they couldn't have gone back in time to experience it, either.
*Any players, coaches, fans, or any other individual that actually did experience the 1957 championship cannot magically transmit their thoughts and experiences to this squad, unless the University of Kansas has somehow secretly discovered telepathy and managed to keep it hidden from the world, only to pull it out to win a basketball National Championship.

If anybody else has anything to add, please feel free to add to this list.....
 
Braveman said:
He also loves to reference things and players from teh 40's- liek anyone watching last night remembers the 40's!

I hardly can remember my 40's!

He is a clown and Nantz isn't much better- and why do the tv announcers do the intros? Crazy
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I don't think even Packer would remember the 40's even though he was probably born then!
 
BU ICEMAN said:
That's what I was thinking, man, Gus Johnson's head might've exploded if he got a chance to make the call on Chalmer's game tying 3!

And in reference to my earlier post, here is Billy Packer's quote at the 3:29 mark of the second half:

"Kansas knows what it's like to be in an overtime game in a championship, the triple overtimer they lost to North Carolina in 1957"

Where do I start to rip the idiocy of that statement? I'll give it a shot:
*NONE of the Kansas players were alive in 1957
*Bill Self (and I'm pretty sure the rest of the coaching staff) wasn't alive in 1957
*Doc Brown's DeLorean Time Machine does not exist, so they couldn't have gone back in time to experience it, either.
*Any players, coaches, fans, or any other individual that actually did experience the 1957 championship cannot magically transmit their thoughts and experiences to this squad, unless the University of Kansas has somehow secretly discovered telepathy and managed to keep it hidden from the world, only to pull it out to win a basketball National Championship.

If anybody else has anything to add, please feel free to add to this list.....
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I think you covered it all. :)
 
My favorite Billy Packer moment was this year in the Michigan State/Memphis game. After getting down big MSU ran off 16 straight points, which prompted Packer to note that "John Calipari can't like the way Memphis is trading baskets."
 
Aha!! we have confirmation that Billy Packer harbors a lifelong grudge against the NBA dating to when he finished college
and nobody in the NBA coulda' cared less, and nobody gave him a chance to play in the NBA!!
 
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