Basketball On The Internet.

YEAH, NO KIDDING

IT’S as if Fox has decided to take on the guise of professional wrestling and just look to see whether Corey “Homicide” Williams gets a reaction – good or bad.

There’s been quite a lot of both but I’m starting to fall into the “bad” category.

I mean, I love that he called out a few players who were dogging it but that quickly was cancelled big time by his only description of anything as “big time”. It was a “big time play”, a “big time shot”, he’s a “big time player”, that’s a “big time move” … “big time blah blah blah”.

Truthfully? That was a “big time yawn”.

The relentless self-promotion also wears thin. OK, we get that he was trying to “get ‘Antman’ trending on Twitter” but the nonstop calling of Jerome Randle as Antman in the 36ers-Kings game was simply tedious.

Even in the post-game interview, all Corey wanted to do was tell Randle how he was getting ‘Antman’ trending.

Really? This is quality commentary? Hearing about how some woman in Perth still was harassing Williams for past alleged indiscretions in the West?

Can we stop with the “gangsta” nonsense and self-promotion long enough to actually add something to the game in progress?

It seems not while Fox’s prevailing attitude appears to be: “Oh wow, isn’t Corey cool?”

Frankly, I’ll take Derek Rucker’s professionalism, knowledge and insight seven days a week, Brad Robbins has even called out former teammate Shawn Redhage for not keeping his feet and Tommy Greer knows what the rules are and can tell us in 20 words or less WITHOUT needing to resort to catch phrases and BS.

As one reader sent me: “Corey is definitely guilty of the homicide of good commentating.”

Then again, while he’s getting a reaction – and some are loving him – Fox isn’t likely to pay attention to how many do not. Like I said, it’s like pro wrestling. If you get a fan reaction, good or bad, you go up the rankings.

But unlike pro wrestling, fans here will simply turn off the sound or turn off the game which, I’m fairly sure, wasn’t the intent.

THE innovation of whacking a camera on a referee’s head was new and different.

But your telecast needs a smart director for it to be of value, and by smart director, I mean someone who recognises it maybe should not be used for live action.

Keep it in the domain of replays, which then definitely gives the viewer the ref’s perspective and may provide insight into why he/she made the call as they did, or how the ref saw that particular piece of great action.

ONCE again, I tuned in to Nine’s Sunday coverage to enjoy the less “rah rah” nature of Bill Baxter and Brad Rosen’s pre and post-game banter and was delighted last week was the template for good viewing.

Of the Goulding/Webster USF, I loved Rosen calling a shovel a shovel, saying he believe Goulding flopped and it was the wrong decision.

That was a “big time” call.