More from The Q&A: Brian Davis
Brian Davis talks for a living, so as the Thunder’s television play-by-play man, he was the perfect subject for The Q&A.
He had more good stuff to say than we could fit in the newspaper, so here’s an outtake from my interview with Davis where I ask him to reminisce a bit:
Jenni Carlson: Tell me about your favorite memories from your broadcast career. Is there a favorite game, a favorite call, anything like that?
Brian Davis: There are two that come to mind, and one … I wasn’t actually calling the game. I was the analyst. It was Northwestern; I was on their radio crew. It was Northwestern at Illinois, and Northwestern came back from three scores down in the fourth quarter. This was two years before they got to the Rose Bowl when everybody still didn’t understand that they had a chance to be pretty good. But they were three scores down at Illinois, and they came back in the fourth quarter to win. That was just an incredible thing to be a part of. And then by the same token, I was doing … Oregon at Washington State. What’s interesting is that Aaron Brooks from the Rockets and Kyle Weaver from our team were in this game. Oregon was down double digits within, like, five minutes to go in regulation, and then Aaron Brooks just got busy and started hitting shots from everywhere on the floor — for two, for three — and then with one-tenth of a second left, they had a center named Marty Leunen who got fouled right underneath the basket. And Marty Leunen had not taken a shot all day, had not scored a point all day and has to go to the free throw line and make both to send the game into overtime. And he does. And Oregon winds up winning in overtime. That was incredible. Those are the sorts of games that you live for to call.
JC: Have you talked to Kyle about the fact that you were at that game?
BD: Well, he knows because I was a regular over there in Pullman for awhile. You know what? He and I have never talked about that game, but Brooks and I have. I still think that might have been Aaron Brooks’ greatest game.
JC: What about this season? What’s your favorite memory so far?
BD: The game in Atlanta (on Monday). Yeah. To win on the road against a good team and to win it the way we won it. This goes back to Jeff (Green) not only making the shot but defending Jamal Crawford, and the fact that our team … they didn’t neutralize Joe Johnson but they really reduced his danger. This team has done this to everybody’s great scoring threat pretty much all season long, and they continue to do that. That’s something that I probably think it’s on everybody’s radar screen yet, but it will be. We take the other guys’ greatest scoring threat, and we don’t shut ‘em down, but we do not allow them to do the kind of damage they normally do. But … that game (Monday) at Atlanta was as good as it’s gotten so far. The nice thing is I can stand here and say to you that “Yeah, that was cool, but I think there are better moments yet to come.”
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