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Originally Posted by Aegypticus
I think a major issue I have with Cassie is that it seems like she fits her commentary to her pre-game notes rather than crafting her story of the game based on what’s actually happening. Like, for example, if her research says that player X is red hot right now after starting slow, she seems to want to shoehorn in a lot of commentary about how great of a game player X is having, even if player X is doing absolutely nothing. It leads to a lot of dissonance, I think, when viewers are reacting only to what they’re seeing in real-time. Makes her seem like she’s completely out to lunch sometimes.
She’s far from the only commentator to make this mistake, of course. There’s a lot of pressure on commentators to be experts, so a lot of them lean heavily on research, which seems to make them inadvertently create their narrative of the game before the opening face-off even happens.
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Yes, this is very common with rookie commentators. It's very difficult to react to and commentate on real happenings in a game, as you have to be a natural on air communicator to casually see something and speak to it professionally.
So unfortunately what you often get is commentators getting storylines in your head before the game and then trying to find examples of it so they can speak to their rehearsed stats, stories and anecdotes.