to his defence they are calling the game back in here in australia (i believe) calling a game from a tape must be difficult due to the limited vision you have.

he is C R A P

True but at least we dont have to hear two pieces of the iron without success and user friendly roll and other disgraceful expressions.

you are wrong

Understand he is the play by play caller here - not the colour man as he normally is for Fox in the NBL.

I am not fan either but he is a woeful play by play caller - Casey not much better but its what we've got.

He is not the most exiting commentator that is around. Who else could of done it?

Anonymous - What does that have to do with Carfino's commentary... The guy has been working this gig for how long???... He stank back in the day (12 years or so) with Bill Woods... and i catch his plays of the week on the web (I'm in Japan) - and he still lets WHATEVER comes into his head out of his mouth... "the measure of a man isn't what he says - it's what he doesn't"...

And i think alot of people will disagree with your hypothesis...

(#97449) You are a total disgrace!!

97449, I don't find it as entertaining as the NBL, but don't mind watching the WNBL on ABC if I get the chance. Sure, sometimes they shoot some low percentages, but basketball is basketball.

Anon 97449

You are so wrong it's not even funny.

Some of the best basketball I have ever seen has been Women's games.

A lot of the WNBL games are much more interesting to watch than a lot of NBL games, and when I was at the Commonwealth Games, some of the toghest, tightest games were women's matches. In fact for a lot of us who were there and saw a LOT of basketball in 2 weeks still class the prelim rounds India vs Malta women's match as one of the best games of basketball ever seen (ok, the quality of skills wasnt the nest, but the game overall, the way it was played, the tension, and the drama at the end was awesome).

Back luck Steve cannot pronounce Australia (Ostraya)---grating!
Did anybody find Carrie Graf's commentary equally annoying with her machine gun delivery and adding "Steve" to about every second sentence?

mm i watch WNBL on abc cos its the only basketball i get to watch! only free to air thing on tv and i make the most of it.

Nope i heard that the same as you anon, there was also an awkward moment when Graff mentioned that one of the Russian gilrs had a "few more inches than Lauren" you could just tell where Carfino's mind was at as he fluffed his next few comments and there was this weird silence from Graff

Ditto to much of the above, and Yes, I found them BOTH bloody irritating during the Gold Medal presentation, especially Carrie Graf. I wanted them both to shut up so you could hear the intros. And then to top it off, they cut off the presentation of what I presume was the tournament lead scorers trophy to Lauren Jackson & didn't even show the presentation of the MVP to Penny Taylor.
On a positive note....thank goodness Penny Taylor went to the USA and met her hunk of a volleyball player husband and didn't waste too much time on that 'tosser' Simon Kerle.

anon #97449 disrespectfull, go crawl back under the rock u came from,