This highlight video is made noticeably worse by the amount of times that Reggie Miller has over-the-top reactions to plays made by Joe “The Aushole” Ingles and his teammates. Commentary, when executed correctly, can elevate a highlight video by providing a crescendo of excitement. Normally, I find it does nothing other than fill in the otherwise empty soundscape of my videos. This time around, I am actively annoyed by his disbelieving moans of “UH UH UH” and his dorky catchphrases.
I didn’t used to mind Reggie Miller so much. People have complained about him since day one of his broadcasting career, but I never really understood the hate. I’m too young to have seen Miller play live and destroy my teams, so that wasn’t part of the hate-equation. However, a few years ago, I started to get on the hate train with everybody else. Now I get mad whenever he features in a highlight video that I’m making, and I get extra super-duper mad when he actively ruins a highlight video that would otherwise be enjoyable. As he did with this one.
Isn’t Australia still a prison colony? Can we ship Miller there and make him call NBL games as punishment for ruining my highlight videos? The people of Australia don’t really deserve that fate, but they deserve it more than Americans because they’re the ones who live on a prison island overrun by cute, cuddlable wallabies that hop around everywhere.