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I’ll never have anything negative to say about AC.

When I lived in Bryan, Ohio as a kid AC showed up to Orchard Hills Country Club to visit one of his longtime friends during the summer. It happened to be one of my friends birthdays that day and we were having a swim party. None of the kids knew who he was but I remember the adults were making a pretty big deal about him.

Austin was sitting near the pro shop having some drinks when we did a watermelon drop. They would grease up a watermelon with vaseline and drop it to the bottom of the pool. The kids would dive to the bottom and try to bring it back up. It would usually keep getting deeper into the pool and become nearly impossible to get to the top unless you worked as a team, which kids never understood. The pool was about 9 feet deep.

At one point one of the kids started struggling near the deep water. A lot of people don’t know this but when somebody is drowning they often don’t yell “I’m drowning” or wave their arms. They just panic. Austin detected this from about 60 feet away, leapt into the water and pulled the kid out within the space of about 5 seconds. He then dried the kid off, bought him a drink at the snack shop and spent the next 10 minutes hanging out with him while the rest of the kids chased the greased watermelon in the pool.

Once the kid had calmed down, Austin jumped back into the water, swam to the bottom and pulled the watermelon out by himself. He then brought it over to the kid that almost drowned, punched through it and hand fed the first piece to the kid before ripping it apart so the rest of the kids could feast on it.

He then said goodbye to everyone and as far as I’m aware hasn’t been back to Bryan since.
 
Nobody is saying Austin is a bad guy. One of my kids still has a basketball Carr autographed for him as some camp many years ago. It's just that he adds precious little to your understanding of what's going on in the game.
 
bigdog123 said:
Nobody is saying Austin is a bad guy. One of my kids still has a basketball Carr autographed for him as some camp many years ago. It's just that he adds precious little to your understanding of what's going on in the game.
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I don't think that is really true though. It often takes Fred leading him there to tell you about what is going on, but he gets there.
 
FWIW Richard Jefferson did the color commentary for the Nets broadcast when the Cavs played them recently. He was pretty good.

I don't get the AC hate, if you ever listen to very many broadcasts from other teams, I'd say the majority are worse than Fred and AC.
 
Austin is solid for the most part. It's Fred who sucks.
 
Bring Michael Reghi back please.
 
The Oi said:
I’ll never have anything negative to say about AC.

When I lived in Bryan, Ohio as a kid AC showed up to Orchard Hills Country Club to visit one of his longtime friends during the summer. It happened to be one of my friends birthdays that day and we were having a swim party. None of the kids knew who he was but I remember the adults were making a pretty big deal about him.

Austin was sitting near the pro shop having some drinks when we did a watermelon drop. They would grease up a watermelon with vaseline and drop it to the bottom of the pool. The kids would dive to the bottom and try to bring it back up. It would usually keep getting deeper into the pool and become nearly impossible to get to the top unless you worked as a team, which kids never understood. The pool was about 9 feet deep.

At one point one of the kids started struggling near the deep water. A lot of people don’t know this but when somebody is drowning they often don’t yell “I’m drowning” or wave their arms. They just panic. Austin detected this from about 60 feet away, leapt into the water and pulled the kid out within the space of about 5 seconds. He then dried the kid off, bought him a drink at the snack shop and spent the next 10 minutes hanging out with him while the rest of the kids chased the greased watermelon in the pool.

Once the kid had calmed down, Austin jumped back into the water, swam to the bottom and pulled the watermelon out by himself. He then brought it over to the kid that almost drowned, punched through it and hand fed the first piece to the kid before ripping it apart so the rest of the kids could feast on it.

He then said goodbye to everyone and as far as I’m aware hasn’t been back to Bryan since.
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Please let this be true
 
Chardon said:
Once in college. Too be honest, I hated it. To much pressure and I didn’t know what was going on.
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The "Too/To" reversal here is why C-Hard-On is underrated. ADD 10 POINTS TO HIS RCF STOCK
 
AC knows some basketball, i just think he's not very articulate, so he resorts to those catch phrases.
 
NIkeL said:
AC knows some basketball, i just think he's not very articulate, so he resorts to those catch phrases.
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He does know his stuff, and he's entertaining. I think we could do better, but he's not horrible. He does seem to love the midrange game, though.
 
I've got a love/hate relationship with AC. There are brief moments during a game where you get honest commentary from him. That's the part I love. When he calls out guys for playing selfish basketball but those are few and far between. He knows the game but is afraid to call it like he sees it.
 
When the Cavaliers were broadcasting on channel 43 in the mid-1980s, Austin Carr had his first trial as a color commentator. He was eventually replaced because he would hear the director's advice in his earpiece and talk back to the director. Problem was, the viewers were wondering why Austin talked to himself like a hobo. This would completely entertain my father, and since the Cavs were so awful on the floor it might have been the only source of entertainment during the broadcasts. He has gotten much better since his first go around, believe it or not.
 
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