Thread by @gauravsabnis

LOL NBC commentator on the Purcell match is saying "why do Australians keep calling this color gold? Where is the gold? Your color is yellow. Just call it yellow "

Haha one of my pet peeves too

I tease my Aussie colleague about whenever he talks mistily about the baggy green and the green and gold. The baggy green is green but not really baggy, just a little loose. And that's just not gold. It just isn't.

The same commentator though has pronounced Osaka as Osaki and Xu as Yu.

I really wanna find out this commentator's name. He has a very ted lasso feel.

Gold helmet Not gold helmet

This dude also just said "Aussie Aussie Aussie oi oi oi" as if he were reading out a prescription 🤣

Lol now he's giving elaborate baseball analogies for extremely simple tennis facts "for someone so tall, he doesn't have a bone crushing serve. It is like if he were a pitcher, he would probably be pitching 90"
Lolwut

I really don't think this commentator dude has watched too much tennis. Could even be an NBC page. 🤣🤣 #NBCOlympics

His name is BJ because he was just asked "hat backwards or head band for you, BJ?" and now BJ is ranting about players who wear visors. And now they are poking fun at man-buns. This is some quality tennis analysis during the #1 doubles tennis team's match, #NBCOlympics

The game is in deuce and these dudes are just talking about hair accessories throughout it all.

"that was a good opportunity there but he was not able to return it and you need to return it to win the point." #profound #NBCOlympics
It's hilarious to hear American network commentary 🤣🤣

Ok BJ was probably harassed by a giant visor in his dream because he's going on and on about visors. And now they are talking about how some player looks like Ralph Macchio from the karate kid. This is seriously Ted lasso level stuff, people. 🤣🤣🤣

There is no one in this doubles match featuring the number 1 team in the Olympics even wearing a visor. And this dude has given a Ted talk on why he is opposed to visors in tennis, which afaik are rare in tennis anyway.

He is how I imagine an extremely drunk McEnroe would do commentary 🤣

He is like Jason Bateman in dodgeball 🤣

A very underrated source of entertainment is @NBCOlympics commentary at non-marquee events from a lot of people who have clearly done very little homework and probably have ten Wikipedia tabs open on their phone. 🤣🤣
Trying to make non A list sports sound relevant to Murrca.

When he's not doing random tangents, when he rarely talks about the actual match, he just describes literally the point we all just saw. Like the serve was long and the return was close to the net and then that was lobbed to the baseline and then that was returned left. 🙄

"one thing we know is Italians get fired up" he sagely notes

"They really want to win this match because that puts them one match away from getting a medal"

Where I come from, athletes really want to win every match.

Now he's giggling that Musetti let out an Italian curse.

Earlier he said "it is really good for Croatia that they have two doubles specialists from the same country because you have to represent the same country to win an Olympic medal and not all doubles teams are from the same country."
Which is true but really?