Hubie Brown

[bigfoot5415]

I call dibs for the 2017 Celebrity Death Thread.

 

[KilgoreTrout]

My issue with him, and the reason I created this thread (outside of being drunk) is that he consistently seemed to downplay the heavy contact made by Atlanta while calling it out on us. Milsap shoves a guy, things go quiet. Shumpert tries to fight through a Bazemore screen, gets elbowed in the back and pushed into Korver "now, you can't do that..." Obviously creating a thread to talk about this was an overreaction on my end, but it gets frustrating when anyone from the national media seems to be biased against our team when they are supposed to call it evenly. But hey, I feel the same way about the refs.

I don't think an overreaction at all. Hubie is a menace. He needs to be forced into retirement.

 

[KilgoreTrout]

Where's my editing pencil??!!

 

[Kyrieville]

How many times did he express deep disappointment when the Hawks didn't capitalize on a Cavs' turnover? Disgusting.

 

[ACisKING]

He's not. He's just getting old and his mind slips at times.

And maybe he's not a fan of LeBron. I get the impression he's probably not a fan of this new-school of age tactics, which LeBron is the front page poster boy of. Swapping teams back and forth kind of thing. That's just MY guess.

He probably doesn't care for it one bit.

If that's how he feels, I really don't blame him. I don't think he purposely tries to sabotage LB or us on air though.

Why the hell would Hubie dislike Cleveland? He has like zero reason to.

Hubie just roots for whoever is behind (especially when that team is the underdog in a series). He has nothing against Cleveland or any other place. He's always been this way for as long as I've watched listened to his comment on games (both on TV and the radio).

As for LeBron, Hubie Brown is probably one of the biggest LeBron fans out there. He always talks endlessly about his "beep beep speed", his passing ability, how LeBron plays the game "the right way", and how getting in front of him is like getting "hit by a truck". Even that first year when LBJ went to Miami, he was one of the few national commentators that spoke nothing but praise for LeBron. He's said more than once that LeBron is one of the few NBA players he would pay to watch.

That's not to say there aren't anti-LBJ commentators out there. Jeff Van Gundy in particular comes to mind, at least when it comes to the broadcasts. His bias is unbelievable, and I'm saying that as a fan of JVG (he's probably the one Knicks coach I really loved). Reggie Miller always seemed to be pulling for the non-LeBron team (especially the Bulls for whatever reason), though he's nowhere as bad as JVG.

 

[KilgoreTrout]

Hubie is losing it, he's been terrible for years now. He is also an annoying cheerleader for the underdog, which is why he's rooting against the Cavs most of the time.

Cleveland IS the underdog. ALWAYS. Always WILL be.

A region without a major professional sports championship in 51 years is the EPITOME of an underdog.

It's amazing that the league and the media haven't caught on to that.

By contrast: a team from the fourth-largest market in the country, which has experienced 3 World Series titles in 6 years and 9 Super Bowl wins in 40 years is decidedly NOT an underdog.

 

[glockcoma]

I respect Hubie's basketball knowledge but during the Hawks series he was horrible to listen to. He spent the majority of time justifying foul calls/non-calls, particularly in favor of the Hawks.

 

[col63onel]

Hubie reminds me of Brent Musberger, in the sense that everybody thinks is pro "whoever your opponent is".

If everyone thinks you are biased against their team, you must be equally biased against every team, right?

 

[Randolphkeys]

I rewatched game 4 against the Hawks two nights ago to see if I'm missing something. He got confused once or twice by which replay the network was going to use before a commercial break, other than that it was same old Hubie. He had lots of praise for LBJ and Kyrie, gave credit to Frye a number of times. He describes what the team who is losing needs to do. That's no departure from how he always called the game.

 

[Andrew]

I enjoy his basketball IQ more than anything, dude knows EVERYTHING about this sport.

 

[BooyaCS]

Hubie reminds me of Brent Musberger, in the sense that everybody thinks is pro "whoever your opponent is".

If everyone thinks you are biased against their team, you must be equally biased against every team, right?

Only difference is I haven't heard Hubie talking about the hot blonde in the front row

 

[SteelSmack]

What drives me crazy isn't the words Hubie and Tirico were using, they'd mostly give praise where due and criticism where it is due, but when a Hawk three rattled out Tirico let out a verbal groan. Like why is he disappointed a three for the Hawks didn't drop?! Hubie does the same.

They both were cheering for the Hawks. Maybe not in their words, necessarily, but when a Cav would make a shot they'd get down and when the Hawks would make a shot they'd get excited. That's not very professional, in my opinion.