Comments on: Three-man game in NBA Finals http://sportsmediajournal.com/2009/06/11/three-man-game-in-nba-finals/ Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:24:32 +0000 hourly 1 By: NMS http://sportsmediajournal.com/2009/06/11/three-man-game-in-nba-finals/comment-page-1/#comment-2465 NMS Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:57:35 +0000 http://sportsmediajournal.com/?p=1210#comment-2465 You can also see this with ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball. Jon Miller + Joe Morgan + Steve Phillips = awkward disaster. I'm okay with Miller, but the other two are poor excuses for color commentators. If you only have one of them, it's at least tolerable. With both of them it's atrocious. You can also see this with ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball. Jon Miller + Joe Morgan + Steve Phillips = awkward disaster. I’m okay with Miller, but the other two are poor excuses for color commentators. If you only have one of them, it’s at least tolerable. With both of them it’s atrocious.

]]> By: Jack Finarelli http://sportsmediajournal.com/2009/06/11/three-man-game-in-nba-finals/comment-page-1/#comment-2461 Jack Finarelli Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:25:41 +0000 http://sportsmediajournal.com/?p=1210#comment-2461 Ray: You said: "Three in a booth — no matter the sport — is never better than two." In the vast majority of cases you are right, but please tip your hat to the "Three in a booth" tandem of Gifford/Cosell/Meredith. That trio worked - - and I submit that it worked better than any two of the three would have worked as a pair. Also, the three man "booth" of Dick Enberg/Billy Packer/Al McGuire doing NCAA basketball in the early 1980s was also excellent. If you say these are the exceptions that prove your rule, so be it. But those "Three man booths" need to be recognized for their excellence. Ray:

You said:

“Three in a booth — no matter the sport — is never better than two.”

In the vast majority of cases you are right, but please tip your hat to the “Three in a booth” tandem of Gifford/Cosell/Meredith. That trio worked – - and I submit that it worked better than any two of the three would have worked as a pair.

Also, the three man “booth” of Dick Enberg/Billy Packer/Al McGuire doing NCAA basketball in the early 1980s was also excellent.

If you say these are the exceptions that prove your rule, so be it. But those “Three man booths” need to be recognized for their excellence.

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