I thought that there were several posters here who disliked Smith's commentary in the last game he did?

There are times I enjoyed his comments and other times I found them to add nothing more than the obvious or simply be cliche. I think some like him because he's popular from 'Inside the NBA' on TNT/TBS and gives the Knicks some much desired "outside of NY Media NBA credibility" from some fans.

I feel fine with him as an color analyst but sometimes he was just sewing cliched, nonsensical, verbal diarrhea.

The one that sticks out in my mind was a comment, late in the game, about Frye's follow up dunk to Nate's nice drive to the basket that missed. Kenny was like:

"That's what you need to do. Don't expect the guy to hit his shot, you have to go to the hoop too."

Then he started saying again, "Don't expect him to hit it, and don't expect him to not..."


????

Anyway, if you're a forward in the paint, why would you "expect" the ball to always go in? Isn't it commonplace to anticipate a miss on every shot no matter what?

I just thought Smith's whole commentary there didn't really add anything other than he felt the need to say something that sounded "insightful" when they showed the replay.

Again, I'm fine with Smith's approach, but it needs refinement.

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Posted by PresIke:

I thought that there were several posters here who disliked Smith's commentary in the last game he did?

There are times I enjoyed his comments and other times I found them to add nothing more than the obvious or simply be cliche. I think some like him because he's popular from 'Inside the NBA' on TNT/TBS and gives the Knicks some much desired "outside of NY Media NBA credibility" from some fans.

I feel fine with him as an color analyst but sometimes he was just sewing cliched, nonsensical, verbal diarrhea.

The one that sticks out in my mind was a comment, late in the game, about Frye's follow up dunk to Nate's nice drive to the basket that missed. Kenny was like:

"That's what you need to do. Don't expect the guy to hit his shot, you have to go to the hoop too."

Then he started saying again, "Don't expect him to hit it, and don't expect him to not..."


????

Anyway, if you're a forward in the paint, why would you "expect" the ball to always go in? Isn't it commonplace to anticipate a miss on every shot no matter what?

I just thought Smith's whole commentary there didn't really add anything other than he felt the need to say something that sounded "insightful" when they showed the replay.



Im with you, I love him on TNT, absolutely dont like him here. Marv and Clyde was where it was at. I can still bare it with Breen because I know hes a knick fan and most of the times he still has Clyde. Without clyde, telecasts wouldnt be very good.
Also, Id much rather have a guy who is a Knick fan, even if they arent good.

Kenny is still green doing games, but in a good way. He is talking, but tells it like he sees it as a former player.

I love clyde the player, not so clyde the announcer.

Walton has toned it down.

His remarks about LJ being a subpar humanbeing during a game was way uncalled for. He is entitled to his opinion, but it was the wrong stage.

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Posted by gunsnewing:

sorry but I love Bill Walton

Me too. Hes hilarious. I like Kenny too.

You don't know how bad it is until you watch a few games on NBA league pass. some of these other markets have PAINFUl commentating going on. I'd rather play music and watch than listen to them. They are dead, no life, no analysis, no nothing.

Marv and Marc Jackson are pretty bad. Marv used to be the best too, but they are hard to listen to.

Kenny and Bill are better than alot of the homers, that annouce for their respective teams, some of those guys are horrible.

I always and still feel that Walton is one of the worst color guys around. He is wrong 75% of the time and tries to make up for it with humor. Johnny Hoops was a big homer in the 90s. Like most people in the 90s I rather listen to Clyde and Breen on the radio while I have the sound down. I think Clyde is perfect critique of Marbury, he always get on him and lets people know that it is time for Marbury to take over a game. I think Clyde sees alot of himself in Marbury. As much as I hate Greg Anthony he was a decent color guy. Starks is hard to listen to.

I like Kerr. intelligent and really gives good insight

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i'm not thrilled with Kenny but i agree that he's green and expect he'll get better.

Clyde is smooth but anyone who's watched or listened to the Knicks for years wont learn anything new from him. but he's like comfort food for the ears.

my favorite team was Marv and Andariese.

Of the national guys I like Kerr now and I used to like Matt Goukas, but I haven't heard him in a while.

Walton doesn't bother me like he does some, he's just being a goof ball, but I'm very glad they stopped pairing him with Snapper Jones with them doing their annoying old married couple arguing over everything schtick.

I like Kenny! Lefrak lands??? He's cool wit' me!

He does talk a lot, but he knows the game.

Gus & Kenny make a good team. They feed off of eachother.

Kenny is horrible. He picks a point and says it over and over again for like 6 to 7 times in a span of 30 seconds.

I'm still cool with him, but it was funny when he said the same thing I pointed out he said in the yesterday's game against the Mavs about "not expecting shots to go in."