Do you like the commentator of NBA Live?

by **K-Mart.6** on Wed Oct 01, 2003 4:26 am

this year, we have Mike fratello(ex coach des cavs) et marv albert, but every country have his own commentator?

germany,spain,maybe italy have someone else
France : it's a very very bad man :eric besnard from france's chanel call CANAL +; so in france, we want one thing : we supply EA Sports to sign George Eddy and Bruno poulain, Two commentator of NBA and NFL on Canal +, to give their voice for the next game Live 2005, because the french voice is Horrible!

in PS2, you can put it on english,french,spain or german mode, and you have the game on the console's language!

by **K-Mart.6** on Wed Oct 01, 2003 4:30 am

i hope that you can understand my english,lol

by **Bredrin** on Wed Oct 01, 2003 12:28 pm

i dont know about france but i like the english version of commentary from what ive heard

by **cocobee** on Wed Oct 01, 2003 12:34 pm

Marv Albert = basketball in my book. The only person i would've like better is Sir Charles and kenny smith. ESPN got Tolbert--i hate that guy, I wish they got Walton--annoying ,YES, but atleast he's entertaining. :lol:

by **TMACFOREVER** on Wed Oct 01, 2003 12:49 pm

I like Tom Tolbert and Bill Walton, their arguing is classic.

*No sarcasm intended*

by **cocobee** on Wed Oct 01, 2003 1:05 pm

I think Tom Tolbert tries too hard to be like Barkley but doesn't have the career to back it up. When Charles says something outlandish, I'm like that's funny. But when Tom does it, it's like WhoTF is this guy?

Same with Walton, he has the career to back his comments up so I find him entertaining plus he has his own style of calling a game.

by **StevenK** on Wed Oct 01, 2003 2:39 pm

Marv Albert is a great commentator. I miss Bob Costas on NBA on NBC, though.

by **ReyJ** on Wed Oct 01, 2003 2:47 pm

Hey I'd prefer Tom Tolbert over some blow-ass, like Peter Vecsey.

Sides, Tolbert's comments are good and appear to be non-biased to me. I don't know, maybe it's just me.

A commentary team of Dick Bavetta (spelling?) and Hubie Brown would've been good, but Brown's coaching the Grizzlies.

Sean Elliott and the 'other' guy (sorry, don't know his name) could be considered.

But I think Marv and the Czar are going to be commentators for NBA Live for awhile. The one voice they should definately change is the PA announcer. How sweet would it be if they got each of the PA announcer's for every team in the L?

They got each stadium for every team in Live now (except for Indiana and Boston I believe). And that brings a great atmosphere to a game, especially in the playoffs. Having each team's PA announcer could be the next step.

by **DANet** on Wed Oct 01, 2003 4:15 pm

I like the choice of Marv Albert and Mike Fratello. They have worked as a team for many years and are well known and respected for their game commentary.

ReyJ wrote:Having each team's PA announcer could be the next step.

It will be a very long time before that happens

...EA would have to record 30 arena announcers saying every player name 3 different times. The NBA Live 2003 file for the arena speech with Al Murdoch saying each players name is 30 MB. So...

30 announcers x 30 MB each = 900 MB = 1.5 CD's of data

The above numbers also tell us why it will be a long time before we get more than one set of play-by-play commentators...since the play-by-play files are almost 200 MB...

YouTube · by **Andrew** on Wed Oct 01, 2003 6:58 pm

I have the dubious honour of sharing my birthday with Tom Tolbert.

As for Marv and Mike...excellent choice for commentary. (Y)

The snippets I've heard on the play of the day videos hint at grealty improved commentary.

by **ReyJ** on Wed Oct 01, 2003 9:01 pm

DANet wrote:It will be a very long time before that happens ...EA would have to record 30 arena announcers saying every player name 3 different times. The NBA Live 2003 file for the arena speech with Al Murdoch saying each players name is 30 MB. So...

30 announcers x 30 MB each = 900 MB = 1.5 CD's of data

The above numbers also tell us why it will be a long time before we get more than one set of play-by-play commentators...since the play-by-play files are almost 200 MB...

Where there's a will, there's a way.

by **alexboom** on Wed Oct 01, 2003 9:28 pm

K-Mart.6 is right for french commentators, we suffer from having this silly Eric Besnard, that can say "Malik Sealy" when he's talking of Malik Rose (IRL, not in the game). He has no intonation in his voice.

George Eddy was in Live 97. That's bad he's no longer the commentator of the series, he's such fun !

Here's a glance at what he ever said :

"you have to make Miles to see Darius" (yes that's true he said that)

"po po po po po po po po po po po" (Kobe dunks)

"boink" (Fat Thomas Hamilton sitting on the bench)

Man, if he were in Live 2003, I would have bought the game only for him, without caring of the bad gameplay

by **Carmo** on Thu Oct 02, 2003 12:06 pm

Marv Albert is the best commentator in the whole world!

by **endofanera** on Thu Oct 02, 2003 12:16 pm

It seems to be far improved over the two morons we have had to put up with before.

I would have loved to have Bill Walton, my favourite

GET A REBOUND

by **BMG** on Thu Oct 02, 2003 1:24 pm

Carmo wrote:Marv Albert is the best commentator in the whole world!

yes!! and it counts

marv is one freaky mofo but he is the best nba commentator alive today.
before it was chick hearn RIP,
after marv its kevin harlin

by **K-Mart.6** on Thu Oct 02, 2003 8:37 pm

CANAL + is with the NBA since 1984, and George Eddy is from Orlando

he's a very special man,

he says "oh la la la la la la" what is means "this is amazing"

and this channel got NBA TV for this season!! it's very great for us!

by **nublu01** on Fri Oct 03, 2003 12:04 am

for some reason, i cant stand walton as a commentator. the stuff that he says gets kinda annoying....

"thow it down big man, throw it down"
"what a shot, what a move, what a play"
:lame:

by **Latrell** on Fri Oct 03, 2003 1:01 am

I don't like George Eddy, he's too bad, but that could be funny whit him.

B.Poulain is the worst commentator of france. I prefer Eric Benard.

by **havasufalls** on Fri Oct 03, 2003 3:49 am

Bill Walton and Kevin Harlan r my fav commentators (Y)

they appeared together on one of the NBA Jam games and they r just so funny to me. Bill Walton is always praising the lakers and Harlin is always so close to blowing a lung but marv and the Czar r cool to and should provide a new flavor to the live commentary. I guess this means good bye to Don Queir(cannt spell it) and Bob Elliot.

by **K-Mart.6** on Fri Oct 03, 2003 4:06 am

hey latrell, you're a fan of spree? but why show us carmelo's face?

eric besnard is a very bad commentator because he does not, know that marcus fizer is from iowa state, or lonny baxter was a big man at maryland!....this man has not a basketball culture!

and george eddy is a real fan of basketball, and football , he was at Florida university(gators), he's speak a very good french,

by **Latrell** on Fri Oct 03, 2003 7:09 am

'cause i love Melo too

Im ok with u, Benard hasn't got any basketball culture but i like him he's a good commentator.

I don't like eddy's jokes, their is too bad. But it's right, he know a lot about basket, more than Benard

by **[Q]** on Sat Oct 04, 2003 7:51 am

You know, I think anyone is better than that guy Don Poier. I would rather have Marv and the Czar because (1) they are real commentators and GOOD at it and (2) they don't bore us to death like Don Poier. I think they should talk about the game more, (other than "he passes it to Payton") but at the same time talk about things relevant to the teams playing during the game (discuss a key injury and its effect on the team, or discuss a player's performance in that game).
And KMart6, your english is good enough, but some people don't know French, so they might not know what "des" and "et" mean, but there are many online translators, so I don't have a problem with bad English.

by **jerk_factory** on Sat Oct 04, 2003 11:57 am

You know, I think anyone is better than that guy Don Poier

Rod Black on TSN (in Toronto) is THE WORST COMMENTATOR EVER, and would have been GOD AWFUL as a commentator on NBA LIVE. Don Poier wasn't very good, but it could have been worse. I like what I've heard so far from Albert and Fratello.

YouTube · by **Andrew** on Sat Oct 04, 2003 1:08 pm

they are real commentators and GOOD at it

Don and Bob are (or were) real NBA commentators too, they're just not as good as Marv and the Czar. :wink:

by **Jackal** on Sat Oct 04, 2003 1:30 pm

Andrew wrote:
they are real commentators and GOOD at it

Don and Bob are (or were) real NBA commentators too, they're just not as good as Marv and the Czar.

Not as good? Their not even CLOSE, sorry but Bob and Don sucked, hooray for Marv and the Czar

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