Video: BBC presenters struggle to call a Bulls-Jazz game

Far be it for the NBA blogosphere's resident Anglophile to have a go at a litany of limeys trying to call an NBA game, but even this plonker has to admit that this was pretty bad. Ruddy awful, as it were. The BBC threw out a couple of radio presenters, Mark Pougatch and Colin Murray, hoped their familiarity with the sports world in general would prove fruitful in calling Tuesday's preseason game between the Utah Jazz and Chicago Bulls, and the whole enterprise failed miserably. The Larry Bird line is my favorite. You'll hear it, after the jump. Look, basketball isn't exceedingly popular over there, and I'd appreciate some thanks for not using the phrase "not their cup of tea." Still, it's a big island, and there's even a solid-sized island right next to it, and you're telling me the BBC couldn't find one basketball-fanatic to at least join the duo for the length of the game? Hell, we know for a fact that Sham from ShamSports.com writ...