Being a Net fan, I wasn't very happy two years ago when they announced an all new commentary team of Marv Albert and former NY great/completely inexperienced play-by-play guy Mark Jackson. I didn't like Marv taking over the majority of the games from my personal favorite commentator, Ian Eagle and for Jackson, we had Kelly Tripuca who was a pretty bright guy with a great basketball IQ.

Jackson was terrible at the beginning sputtering and murdering more words than Emmit Smith. His style though over the past two years has improved and grown on me. I never took him for a very articulate or passionate guy but tonight, I'm watching my Nets look worse than I've seen them during the Jason Kidd era and the angriest guy on the Nets staff appears to be...Mark Jackson. He's really giving it to the Nets verbally, telling it like it is. He's not just throwing out the typical regurgitated answers like "they just don't have it tonight" "this is a team that needs to regroup and find who they are". Mark is really pointing out they know their game, they just don't care and even questioned if the coaching staff's fire stronger than the players. Tonight's broadcast really made me respect him more, if he gets the GM job to replace Ed, we at least know he's going to care..