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The Roman empire – even Panathinaikos can't conquer them

December 14, 2007

Why would you lose to Virtus Roma if you haven’t lost one game in the Euroleague so far? Why would you only score 9 points in the third quarter and why the heck would Roberto Gabini push Sani Becirovic to the ground? Those are just a few questions that went through my mind as I was watching the game of Roma winning against Panathinaikos at home.


But the biggest question to me was – why would you have THIS Euroleague TV commentator? I really like Euroleague TV and I must say I love to follow most of them and their not 100% perfect English doesn’t bother me at all, at least they have knowledge. But that guy from last night should be sent home right away. I rather don’t want to listen to perfect English, that, by the way is presented in a very weird way by this particular commentator, but when you mess up EVERY name of the 23 players you just did not do your homework. It seemed that this guy read the names of Becirovic, Tsatsaris and Giachetti the first time. If I would have to do this job, the least thing I would do is try to ask people how to say their names!

But that wasn’t even the best: Did somebody hear the commentator say: ” 7.15 meter tall Fucka gets the rebound while the just 1.09 meter Giachetti hustles all over the place”? What is this? The game of the giants and midgets or Michael Jordan fighting the monsters in “Space Jam”? If you don’t believe me or missed the game, just check Euroleague TV, watch the game of Roma vs. Panathinaikos again. Just watch the 3rd quarter – that should be enough.
EDIT: If you want to know how to say BECIROVIC, PALALOTTOMATICA, TSARTSARIS and 7.15 meter people, then listen to this, I promise you will laugh.

Like I said, I really like Euroleague TV and I don’t mind some mistakes or language problems at all but when it comes to simple things as learning the names of the players, I rather don’t hear perfect English.

This is why you should watch the top plays of the game with some nice music instead.

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Comments: 15
  1. Vic
    17 years ago

    Lol… Essepannilos for Spanoulis
    ZarTeesaris for Tsartsaris

    I won’t even try Becirovic or Obradovic.

    Btw. there are actually some good guys on euroleague tv. Especially the Italian commentators. I really don’t give a damn about their accent. They have great insight of the game. It’s a pleasure to hear them.

    The best internet commentator though is from Media Zone. Fiba Euro and World Champiosnhip broadcaster.

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  2. Tobias
    17 years ago

    Don’t get me wrong – as I said I really like a lot of the commentators – but this guy is just funny with his names 🙂

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  3. Vic
    17 years ago

    There are two guys on Euroleague tv who just suck. The rest of them are ok.

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  4. Chris K.
    17 years ago

    You should really not be criticizing anybody’s English since you yourself obviously are struggling with it too.

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  5. Kerem
    17 years ago

    Where’s the love Chris K.?

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  6. Kerem
    17 years ago

    P.S: Kind of a contridicting title for the article, don’t you think? They have been conquered many times this year the Roman competitors, maybe this is an uprise from their huge slump?

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  7. Julien
    17 years ago

    Chris, sure our English is not perfect. I don’t think we are struggling at all. But anyway, even if we did, I think there’s a huge gap between struggling and calling one of the best players in Europe Bitch-Rovic. Don’t you agree ?

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  8. Vic
    17 years ago

    I don’t know who you are refering to, but nobody is criticising anybody’s english.

    Just some fun comments about the pronounciations.

    So I suggest you read better.

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  9. Chris K.
    17 years ago

    I fully realize that the article is about the pronounciations of these commentators, but Tobias also points out their not so perfect English, which I just believe to be silly since he isn’t exactly an expert either. Not dissing your blog here, just pointing out the hypocrisy.

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  10. belalik
    17 years ago

    Dear Chris, the problem is that people here are just keeping a free basketball blog, writing in english which is not their native tongue.. In doing so, they provide free content which some of us (you included) obviously like..

    The euroleague tv commentators, are being paid to commentate – an essential part of which is speaking clearly and pronouncing names the right way … Or at the very least, trying to do so.

    Being a professional, usually means keeping up to fairly high expectations. And accepting criticism when failing to do so … In contrast, I would be more strict with the blog’s english if they were, for example, articles in the economist. But they ‘re not, they ‘re just a free blog (and their english is fine, by the way).

    I said all this just to put things into perspective, though I don’t mind funny accents (in fact I like them sometimes, as long as the message gets across at least), myself not being a native english speaker (I ‘m greek)…

    PS. I dont have euroleague tv…

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  11. Arkadios
    17 years ago

    Excuse my language but this guy sounds as if he was watching some porn or taking a dump while doing his commentary.

    Becirovic sounds normal, I’m not sure about the overtone, but 1 second later the same game calls the same name in a different manner!

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  12. Arkadios
    17 years ago

    Well I’ve been browsing through basketball websites, blogs, forums, articles, whatever… forever and may I say that this blog writers’ English is at a very high standard…

    Personally I prefer watching the game from Ring TV, listening to the nice and calm voice of a lady commentator who does not pronounce names in the wrong way.

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  13. elaj
    17 years ago

    In my opinion that so called commentator is drunk. 🙂

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  14. krmc
    17 years ago

    palaloti!!! o0ooh palaloti!!! palalati!! oh palalati! palalotimatimotimatica in roma. alsalah-sasasaris and so on. This commentator is pure devine.
    Its not about the guy speaking poor english its about euroleague.tv not respecting their own customers.
    But guys,maybe its just coach K exploring alternative career posibilities.
    – here in roma Zarharrahrasaris (wtf is this player called?ill just call him number 8). is charged with an off. fault.
    think abou it 😉

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  15. Christophe
    17 years ago

    What does the guy mean at the end? The player with the name of steel? or what?

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