I've been watching some of last night's game on TiVo over my lunch break, and realized that knowing the outcome, I was having nearly as much fun laughing at the clueless Dick Stockton as watching the Celtics win.  What's your favorite of the dozens of mistakes he made?

I think mine is when Big Baby dove on a loose ball in the paint, and made a Time-Out gesture while the backboard mic picked up him yelling "Time out!" Stockton, immediately after the whistle blew and the ref pointed to our bench to indicate the timeout: "The Celtics didn't call timeout, it should be a jump ball!  ...looks like the refs are saying there was a 20 second timeout."

Is this the same guy who described Lebron's dunk in Game 4 as "having no regard for human life"? How can a dunk have no regard for human life?

Quote from: Steve Weinman on May 15, 2008, 02:43:20 PM

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EDIT: Also, fairweather, I'll also direct you to my sig for your entertainment, which has been present since Game 5 of the Atlanta series...what a mess.

Haha, TP for foresight...is that a relative of yours?

After three days of miserable discussion about what had gone wrong with this team in Atlanta, the conversation after Game 5 felt like a parade over the phone.  The Guru waited patiently for me to bring up his boys, taking the time in the interim to teach me of something previously left unmentioned -- his long-standing dislike of Dick Stockton.  He was in rare form: "When this guy came into this business, it was fairly evident that he had left journalism school and hopped into the booth without ever playing in, watching, going to or reading about an NBA game in any capacity.  The color guy would say something, and ten minutes later Stockton would regurgitate it.  He didn't know anything about basketball.  Did he call Tony Allen a tremendous offensive player tonight?  And was he watching the game at all?  There were at least three fouls that he called on Atlanta, which led me to wonder why the Hawks were presented with the ball immediately afterwards.  One of those times, he corrected himself.  On the other occasions?  Not so much.  I have to hand it to this guy; he's improved over the years.  Thanks to that improvement, he's now reached the point where I'll settle for calling him an out-and-out moron."

For a guy who usually couldn't be bothered to know what channel the game is on much less who the announcers are, to hear him thoroughly ripping a play-by-play guy was a rare treat.  It was an absolute pleasure, and it put me in hysterics.

Quote from: VINandTonic42 on May 15, 2008, 02:44:17 PM

Stockton is solidifying his status as the Joe Morgan of Basketball broadcasting

STRONGLY disagree...miller and morgan are an outstanding team on sunday night baseball for espn.

there is NO comparison whatsoever.