Former Piston Kelly Tripucka gets ripped in a New York newspaper for his performance as a substitute Knicks announcer. I post this not to embarrass to Tripucka but as commentary on how different New York is opposed to Detroit. Can you remember the last time a Detroit newspaper critiqued George Blaha or Greg Kelser? Has it ever happened?
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I used to live in NYC are read all that media criticism. It’s useful when dealing with things like the Yankees relationship to their own broadcasters (they own their own cable station) and the Knicks (owned by Cablevision) and it’s useful calling out broadcasters who are out of touch with reality (I once heard Tim McCarver say that a grand slam was the worst thing that could happen to the Yankees in a rally because it would kill their momentum) but it’s ridiculous to pull commentary from two separate games to call an announcer inconsistent.
If I was watching a game at a bar and ‘Sheed walked away from a ref after a bad call and said “He’s doing better controlling his emotions” and then the next game the same thing happens and ‘Sheed gets a tech for dropping an f-bomb it doesn’t make me inconsistent. You have to look at the trend and the trend is Nate Robinson is growing up as an NBA player. That’s what Kelly Tripuka is trying to convey and I think he did a good job of it. Just because Nate Robinson didn’t transform himself into Joe Dumars overnight doesn’t make Tripuka wrong. Nate’s making progress.
Those newspaper sportsmedia crit guys have a column to fill and there isn’t always big news on that beat.
Note: DBB does a nice job of covering the Pistons various cable and TV situations with regards to broadcast and blackout. DBB readers do a good job of posting all manner of sketchy internet feeds in the comments. Keep up the good work people!