What's More Excruciating?

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Watching Texas play basketball or listening to Bobby Knight? I can't decide. Is Knight drinking while he commentates? Or perhaps smoking weed? It seems like it. He couldn't grasp why Dunn got a technical. Perhaps he should have watched the TV replay and read his lips. That's why. Knight is a fool.
 
I really like BK. One shouldn't be too critical of him for being disoriented while watching this team play. I get the same way at times.
 
I'd rather have Stevie Wonder as my driver than watch this years basketball team.
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Bobby Knight isn't talking to be enjoyed, Bobby is teaching the game. Which as a dad of young boys who love bball, I hang on to every word and make them too. Now, if we could get Bobby to talk loud enough for our players to hear, then watching the game wouldn't be so bad.
 
I guess you would rather hear Dickie V scream a bunch of nonsense?

BK might lack something on the delivery [he will get better] but he is paying attention and conveys what he sees very well.

Just listen to what he says, not how he says it. There isnt a person on the planet who understands fundamentals of college basketball better than Bobby Knight.
 
What's more excruciating? I'd have to say watching this Texas team get bounced out of the NCAA tournament possibly as early as the first round. It's been years since I've seen us play as poor as this.
 
Bullzak--I'll take Dick V. Knight says the same thing over and over. And over and over. He thinks he knows so much he never shuts up. I hope he retires. Or his ego leads him to believe he can still coach and gets hired somewhere.
 
I think it's pretty obvious Bobby is just like most 1st year commentators, he doesn't watch the monitor. It was soooo incredibly obvious the first time I saw the replay the tech was because of "F___" but he just doesn't watch the monitor.

Other than that, he does watch the games. He doesn't wait until seeing the replay to comment on anything. example last night Brent said "so and so sets his feet and tries a three", Bobby immediately said no he didn't set his feet, in fact he traveled.

No way would I have seen the travel live unless I was within about 20 feet or less. Even then, since I'm not used to the speed of the game, I would not see it. Bobby is used to the speed of the game, he catches that stuff.

IMO, he is far and away the best color commentator in the history of college basketball, at least since Al McGuire.

Since I caught Al toward the end of his career, I remember more of Al's sayings such as "french pastry", etc. I don't remember Al being quite on top of the live action the way Bobby is.

I take that back, Al was into strategy big time. Anybody remember when Penn was in the final four and their star player had three fouls? Al was begging the coach to put the star player back in the game. Penn was behind by maybe 20 points or something. I can almost still hear it

"come on coach, you gotta put him in, it's the final four!!!!"
 
I love the way BK and Mus coordinated their gimme ESPN sweaters. Very posh look those two. And to answer the question, uh, definitely watching the Horns flail about helplessly with their leadership stunned and shamed in defeat on the bench is more difficult. No question. At least when Bob Knight speaks, he knowledgeable about the subject.
 
Ugh those sweaters are absolutely hideous. And they wear them every freakin' game.

Knight is a terrible "broadcaster," but I guess that has been established so I'll forsake that point since it seems to not be important to most here.

He points out the obvious (which I guess is what the average fan thinks passes for insightful knowledge). He is routinely 2 to 3 plays behind the current action, which is unacceptable for a color guy who needs to say his peace, shut up, and let the play-by-play guy do his job. He is also extremely negative the entire game--basically insulting any play or decision that doesn't fall within how he would coach his team/what would make him happy as a coach. This philosophy obviously wasn't working very well, as we could see from his lackluster performance at TTU. He doesn't understand that basketball is constantly evolving--what worked 30 years ago at Indiana no longer even constitutes a winning season in today's landscape.

That being said, I'd listen to him 24 hours a day if it meant this team would play better.
 
The most excruciating part for me is seeing a Texas basketball team with a ton of talent and potential, and a coach insisting on coaching them to do things "his" way rather than coaching to their strengths. No connection to his players this year.
 
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