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commentator pet peeve theyre way too quick to say a guy is "down" "injured" its disturbing and the guy is usually not really down or injured last nights game ian eagle said chet was down holding his head and chet ran into view before he was finished

so how is the “hey let’s see what other ideas the TV execs have, imagine all the possibilities in a world without shaq & chuck” feeling about this scintillating vince carter/draymond combo

i appreciate draymonds commitment to his beef with gobert

lol, draymond will ride his rudy beef til the wheels come off

Dray had a good little rant about Halliburton post-game

Boy he kept going back to Rudy. Just hammering him over and over.

Yes he did haha

draymond repeatedly airing out his personal problems with gobert on national tv is embarrassing for him but i will watch it

“When you lose the belief… it’s over. They don’t believe they can win anymore, which means this series is over.”

Draymond sounds off on Gobert and the T-Wolves 👀 pic.twitter.com/c0U7LLOxKw

— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) May 15, 2024

"im a truth teller" lmao

Draymond: "BBQ chicken is happening...I'm a truth teller and right now the truth is, Rudy Gobert don't stand a chance against Joker." pic.twitter.com/SJvNrfTm4n

— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) May 15, 2024

tbf to draymond i can understand why rudy having four dpoys while he has one would upset him it is a farce

I find Draymond's voice unpleasant

hes not a pleasant person

I've always really liked Draymond. I think it's because I wasn't really exposed to him much until the last couple of years.

lmao

he smirks when he talks on tv, it’s really irritating

for someone who is supposed to be like a controversial loose cannon i found him to be really devoid of personality or energy on that broadcast. even his needling of gobert was pretty low wattage

hes still a player and has to face these guys im sure he doesnt want to go full draymond until after hes retired

maybe that’s part of it. i more so mean that barkley is a showman, he has a presence on TV. shaq for all his faults had plenty of experience doing on camera entertainment by the time he retired. draymond is committing the worst sin which is being boring. but maybe it would get better over time

richard jefferson talking about the crowd crowd psychology so much tonight says that one advantage denver has is their crowd has championship experience especially considering the broncos have won rings too, lmao

i think sometimes tv guys get in a zone where they dont even know what theyre saying theyre channeling some sort of higher truth

there's really nothing like the COMING UP KENDRICK PERKINS chyron

carry the hell on

espn guy prefacing a question to perk with "you were a leader on your teams" citation needed

watching some clips this morning, Bob Myers is so bad, he makes things so awkward

My wife commented last night asking what Huey Lewis was doing on a basketball show.

lmao honestly though Huey would be way better

if myers would just ditch the self deprecating schtick and talk ball hed be so much better

hes just a another middle of the road talking head

i think most GM types are already too sanitized to be interesting even before they get trained for TV. these guys are boring in public for a living.

yeah true theyre company men, maybe thats why sportswriters like morey so much he occasionally says something interesting

the nuggets/wolves coverage has been extra annoying just because these bizarre jeckyll & hyde games really feed into the current "go apeshit shouting and overreact to whatever happened in the last game" post stephen a smith paradigm

lol yup

i've been getting push notifications before and after every knicks' game that tell me about stephen a's feelings. the one before game 5: "knicks in trouble? stephen a. smith explains why he believes winning could be a challenge moving forward"; after game 5: "stephen a. gets hyped with mad dog and perk after knicks win"; and now before game 6: "why stephen a thinks celtics should want knicks matchup next"

if i wanted to know what he thought i'd text him myself!

yeah of all the major sports I think hoops is the most predictable but there's just no telling what's gonna happen here. on the treadmill usually First Take is on, they talked about "whos gonna win" for 20 minutes, luckily I had my headphones in because I really have no clue what they could possibly be talking about for that long

stephan a was bizarre this morning, he had legler and monica mcnutt on and he literally wouldn't talk about the game he was fixated on how joker had been standing on the sidelines and staring and he said this was some ominous message of death for the wolves and he just wouldn't drop it mcnutt in particular seemed to be frustrated

lmao

“i know they look! every producer i’ve ever had has given me that look!”

*that look

listening to the lowe post hes like jayson tatum is a top ten player but hes closer to ten than one hes just not as good at getting shots as the other top guys left in the playoffs he cant get shots like jokic or donic... maybe not like playoff ant... uh brunson

thats why we listen to the smart guy podcast, counting ability

hes not wrong ive made the same point myself but the number of super elite shot creator is just very small, considering lukas current physical state there might just be one left playing, and theres a good chance he only has one game left

what’s happened to lowe is truly a cautionary tale about starting a TV career.

hes become a narrative guy, but even by the very low standards of sports narrative hes not good at it

listening to him and the timberwolves guy trying to act all amused at the wolves ownership snafu was tough couldnt do it

ive really cooled on a lot of the og pod guys

who is good now where can we turn

ILH

we are the only source of truth (good hoop content)

be your own podcast

i enjoy some hoops tiktokers. jokicjoestar is good, so is pablo escoball, coach jackie focuses on women's sports in general but covers a fair amount of hoops and is good