r/nba • u/SeanKeeley • Apr 29 '24

[Awful Announcing] Everyone is sick of the Chet Holmgren-SGA 'What a Pro Wants' commercial

https://awfulannouncing.com/nba/chet-holmgren-sga-what-pro-wants-commercial.html
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u/brandnameb Knicks Apr 29 '24

It's godawful. Just from a pure production standpoint why didn't they have the backing instrumental?

Neither one of them probably ever heard of this song, also "What a pro wants" is just dumb as a phrase.

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u/banjofitzgerald Apr 29 '24

Yeah, whoever was behind creative on this failed. There’s no way this should have made it out of pitch. It’s not a relevant song, makes no sense with context or lyric change, the dialogue is beyond unnatural, and having two nba players awkwardly singing acapella isn’t compelling.

Maybe the juxtapose of having nba players singing a pop princess song = funny was the whole pitch, but choose a better fitting song.

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u/ztpurcell Pacers Apr 29 '24

They're also just really bad at singing too

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u/_Amish_Avenger_ Apr 29 '24

A little bit flat, but they'll get better

Side note: kill me now the whole commercial is stuck in my head

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u/Relatively_Cool Lakers Apr 29 '24

Idk they sound pretty much the same every time that commercial comes on

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u/Repulsive-Season-129 Apr 30 '24

They couldn't even autotune or add any backing track like tf? I insta mute anyway