NBA League Pass & More Marv

DirectTV has been giving a free preview of NBA League Pass this week.  This is a nice freebie and has given me the chance to watch out of town broadcasts.  Last night I watched the Utah feed of the Jazz-Timberwolve game.  I forgot the Jazz play by play man’s name (I’ll get that next post) but he got a little too excited every time a Utah player made a 3 pointer, to the point where he would scream.  Another thing I found  weak was their halftime show which featured the host, David James along with Thurl Bailey, Jeff Hornacek and Pace Manion.  A 4 guy halftime show?  With 4 guys it felt very uncomfortable watching and I’m sure it felt uncomfortable to be up on that panel.  They seemed rushed to give every person a chance to comment on the game, usually with no flow whatsoever.

Good Ol’ Marv Albert is on tonight doing the YES feed of the Nets-Hornets game.  I commented the other night on the poor radio performance by Marv doing the football game.  Tonight Marv is showing where he really belongs-on TV.  He still does a good job doing this, when on radio and asked to paint a picture of what’s going on, Marv just doesn’t cut it.  TV seems to be his natural habitat.