I'm old-fashioned so I really wish they'd just have one single commentator instead of this inane chatting you get with colour commentators. I get that it's supposed to approximate me watching a game with friends, but if any of my friends were as annoying as Boler, I wouldn't invite them to watch the game to begin with.
I guess my issue is with the whole concept of commentators. It's kinda weird that something that originated on radio was just carried over to TV with no change to its core features. I get that early TV was black and white and crap and you could barely make out the players, but is there a need to still do play-by-play as if we can't see what's happening on the floor? Especially when you're Boler and evidently
you can't really see what's happening on the floor and are randomly guessing and hoping you're right.
None of the commentators around the league have any appreciation of silence or how sometimes less is more. Home team just took their first lead in the game with 3 minutes to go after a 17-4 run and the away coach has called a timeout? What we all really wanna hear is the commentator yelling like he's getting a particularly enjoyable prostate exam, apparently. The crowd is on their feet and going nuts. Let me hear that. I'm at home wishing I was at the game. You can pause for 10 seconds to let me soak all the electricity in. Then you can talk and discuss what happened and how it happened.
Someone mentioned they wished Boler was more excitable. No thank you, he's plenty excitable as it is. There aren't 15 plays in a game that make me jump off my seat. Heck, many times, there aren't any. Let's not add to the already existing inflation of threes and dunks by treating every three like it's a back breaker and every dunk like it's a dunk-of-the-season candidate. I hate listening to Mike Breen on ESPN. Dude is like a walking, talking "black dudes reacting" GIF.
When everything is exciting, nothing is exciting.
I don't know if I'd go as far as saying that I would get rid of the commentators and have only the arena sounds, but I wish they'd at least go back to having only one person doing the broadcast. That alone would cut down on pointless banter and the amount of things the commentators say since they'd have no one to talk to and waste time with.