Basketball Prep Journal

Talia Ward

LULING, LA- When watching the NBA Finals game and focusing on the announcers I noticed a lot. My overall thoughts on the game was that you can tell they know what they are talking about and they worked plenty of games together. The announcers were very comfortable with each other, they were going with the flow and just talking. During the game I liked how they knew their stuff. They knew what they wanted to talk about and they didn’t just talk just to talk and saying anything. You can tell the difference between the Play-by-Play and the color commentator. The play-by-play really talked about the game and the color commentator explained more of what happened in the game. I think I am suited for play-by-play because I really just talk about the game and say the simple things of what happened. When I was the announcer for the volleyball game I felt like as if I did a good job only because I knew the game and I knew what was going on and what they did wrong for them to mess up. I didn’t do so well at talking the whole time. We could do better at talking the whole the time and practicing before so we really know the game. The professional announcers were better than us because they were more experienced and they know more.