Doris Burke

Accurate way of stating it from @justtxyank. That's how I see it as well.

 

She REALLY talks A LOT. I don’t need constant analysis.

 

I actually like Doris Burke as an announcer (sorry to all the misogynistic teenagers here). But she clearly does not like Harden. Her insistence that the Harden/Paul altercation was an offensive foul on Harden, even after Steve Javie said it was the correct call on Paul, was a bit much. It’s fine if she disagreed with the call (could have been a double foul, or a double flop) but she just would NOT drop it. Let it go. It was not that egregious of a play.

 

1. Don't put words in my mouth, I don't use words like that.
2. I don't ENJOY defending Harden. He's my favorite player, but he has obvious flaws. It gets openly criticized every game, so it's obvious that I don't need to bring it up.
3. I think the evidence is clear -- Doris favors CP over Harden, and it's worth criticizing Doris over. Her age, her ability to cover the NBA, the fact that she's a woman are all things you're shoving onto my screen to distract everyone else from highlighting her bias.

I'm simply holding Doris accountable because she is in the public domain. We do the exact same and criticize Charles Barkley, Shaq, Screaming A Smith, Shannon Sharpe, Skip Bayless, ALL THE SAME.

 

I'm going to eventually go through the whole game and count how many times she talked about Dort in the game. It's obviously a great many times.

 

1, She isn't attractive.

2, Got no attractive voice.

3, She is biased.

Says it all.

@Jontro

Would?

 

Hope she loses her career for being such a piece of ****. Seems obsessed with promoting anti-harden propaganda.

 

Hopefully she gives it to Dort better then she did her ex-husband apparently..I hate her.

 

Why does everyone care what she has to say?

 

Not a fan at all at the misogynistic comments towards Burke in this thread.

Look, if you don't like how she does her job, just comment on her commentary. No need to be a dick.

 

Cause we are passionate fans that have always seen our H-town teams be consistently bad mouthed.

I care because I love the Rockets. And when you love something you defend it and hate who hate that something you love.

 

I've done EXACTLY this, yet I'm still being criticized even with everyone else basically admitting Doris Burke is biased against Harden/Houston.

Apparently, I can't criticize her at all, because any criticism towards her means I am a misogynist.

 

I see a lot of posters on here take after the former Rockets team photographer.

 

It’s unprofessional to be a national broadcaster and hate on a player that much.

 

Marissa Baecker?

 

That's a generalization I take clear offense to. Stop lumping everything into categories, everything is a spectrum.

 

What makes you think I was referring to you?

 

You're missing the part where she raved about Chris Paul's competitiveness. She clearly expressed that she's looking forward to how OKC responds in this game in relation to CP's competitiveness. Nothing about Harden.

You're also missing the entire transcript I wrote up of Doris' reaction to Chris Paul's foul on Harden, about how she was questioning the officiating because it didn't go in Chris Paul's favor.

This was NOT well-balanced. The only excuse I can give her is that this was technically an OKC home game, and this is a stupid excuse.

 

Not sure how what I said misses any of that. Which statement of mine are you disputing?

This was a response game for OKC, as they are the ones down 0-2. You are speaking from the perspective of a Rockets fan who is specifically interested in how the Rockets respond. That might be the storyline for a local broadcast, but not for a national TV audience.

 

You're clearly not referring to me -- that's also not what I indicated.

I said stop lumping everyone into that misogynist, racist, bigot, homophobe category, there's plenty of people here who are rightly criticizing her including CF.