Basketball On The Internet.

YEAH, NO KIDDING

SERIOUSLY, is Fox Sports paying any attention to the barrage of discontent any and every time Corey “Homicide” Williams butchers an NBL game on its commentary?

Clearly not. We were mercifully saved the usual “I told you, I told you,” antics from Captain Obvious and Oblivious this round until the last match between Melbourne and Adelaide.

"Somebody's got to win, somebody's got to lose". Wow. You can’t pay enough for insight like that.

Late in the game, when Jerome Randle, who apparently played his college ball at UCLA, if Corey is to be believed  - actually, University of California, Berkeley, but eh, what’s a stray fact here and there? – Williams’ ego got the better of him.

He told us he’d resisted calling Jerome by his nickname after suffering some social media backlash but no, that didn’t stop him from dragging out his Marvel super hero reference yet again anyway. Corey, mate, forget social media for a second. It’s JEROME who hates the nickname.

“If you don’t like it, I don’t care,” he told us.

RANDLE HAS THE HANDLES: Jerome is a giant of the NBL.

Exactly. You don’t care because you just have to say it. Why? Because as far as the game in front of you goes, you have zero to offer.

You can only say “CG43” a dozen or so times before it gets as tedious as the “I told you! I told you!” self praise for again, stating something earlier that was painfully obvious to even first-time viewers.

Stuff such as “the first five minutes of every quarter is very important” has added so much to the coverage!

Not nearly as much, of course, as asking Melbourne coach Dean Demopoulos about his clothes in the halftime interview.

Don’t know what the hell to ask? Congratulate a guy on what he’s wearing.

“Townsville, Homicide is coming back,” he warned the faithful of the Green Machine. Enjoy that.

MEANWHILE, Casey Frank on the coverage out of NZ again showed how good he has become, with nice turn of phrase and genuinely relevant comments for the viewers.

Brad Robbins, James Harvey – they’re all getting sharper and Shane Heal too has had those head-nodding moments when you have to agree.

Derek Rucker is by far the most polished caller so it was good to get him twice last round.

Listen to a Rucker call to hear how it should be done. No self-promotion or superficial hype masquerading as insight.

Pity no-one at Fox is listening, literally.

WHILE I think of it, why don’t clubs collude on uniforms colours ahead of games?

Cairns in black, Sydney in purple? Kings should have been in yellow for that one.

Crocs in grey against anyone with a darker uniform? Ugh.

Is this stuff really that difficult?