Tell It Brother Jaynes
Dwight Jaynes hits the nail on the head.
They do a couple of things that drive me – and a lot of fans, from the comments I hear – quite nuts.
The first is to suddenly criticize a former Blazer after years of saying nothing about that player. I’m not sure if these broadcasters understand how bad it sounds when they jump on Zach Randolph, as they did last week on the air, for his horrible defense, when they sang his praises night after night while he was a Blazer.
Thank you! I’m also getting tired of hearing the line about the team showing up for practice a month early. And there’s this. *Blech* I get it. The old crew was a bunch of pot smoking bums who spent their time trying to out bling one another (see Zach’s crib and Pippen’s yacht). Wheels and Rice would have me believe the current team spend their downtime cloistered in a monastery on Scouters’ Mountain. It ain’t so.
All this goodie-two-shoes blathering I hear on the radio almost makes me wistful for the old Jail Blazers. Almost.
I don’t agree. The “suddenly criticize a former Blazer” that he’s referring to is when Mike Barrett said that Zach Randolph was not suited to this style of offense (the run and gun style). That’s not really even a criticism. He was making an observation. That’s all he did during the time Z-bo was with the team too. I don’t see any inconsistency there.