Was reading twitter..even some ESPN people are publicly blasting Bayless. Awesome.

Really? I thought they weren’t supposed to publicly criticize colleague. Any links?

to be fair, analysts have to analyze multiple games and do so in a limited amount of time.

I have zero facts to support this, but I bet most of the sheep in this country clicked away during those segments that Mangini did during the NFL season where he would break down video of a particular team’s offense or defense and point out things that none of us would have looked at.

You’re both right … and it sucks.

If they talked about X’s and O’s nobody would watch.

I have zero facts to support this, but I bet most of the sheep in this country clicked away during those segments that Mangini did during the NFL season where he would break down video of a particular team’s offense or defense and point out things that none of us would have looked at.

Calling Mark Cuban a hero for this is comical…I’d wager a lot of dough that this was all orchestrated in advance, and he and Skip Bayless shared a good laugh about it later.

Like Bill Maher and Ann Coultur being best friends in real life.

First Take is more scripted than a CBS procedural.

Cuban made some really good points about how some “analysts” treat their job. So many of them go about it with generalizations. It’s really easy to play The Mentalist and analyze the game based on psychoanalsysis instead of actually watching the game and breaking down the X’s and O’s. I love when he asked Skip about how the Thunder defended LeBron in the post and he stmbled and stammered.

to be fair, analysts have to analyze multiple games and do so in a limited amount of time.

Cuban made some really good points about how some “analysts” treat their job. So many of them go about it with generalizations. It’s really easy to play The Mentalist and analyze the game based on psychoanalsysis instead of actually watching the game and breaking down the X’s and O’s. I love when he asked Skip about how the Thunder defended LeBron in the post and he stmbled and stammered.

If they talked about X’s and O’s nobody would watch.

Of course, we are talking about the dumb show, and it will get attention, so just get ready for more of it.

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all i know is that when i saw the heat were underdogs gambling wise, i jumed all over it for the series. if anything it should have been thunder minus 120, not 145. happy me, only wish my guy would not have a 100-dollar cap on any one bet

Whoever ESPN picks as favourites, bet against them.

they wanted it more in the sense that they already blew the opportunity and were more focused on the task at hand. But the games themselves showed that OKC wanted it to. It had nothing to do with will, more with execution and performance. Harden fucking up hurt OKC big time.

I can imagine that isn’t the context Skip put it in.

The goat, that’s perfect, that’s what Skip Bayless is…..a goat.

“the Heat wanted it more.”

they wanted it more in the sense that they already blew the opportunity and were more focused on the task at hand. But the games themselves showed that OKC wanted it to. It had nothing to do with will, more with execution and performance. Harden fucking up hurt OKC big time.

while conforming has its time and place, i think the problem here lies with the tie itself. always boggled my mind that sports shows have hosts wearing them

The ESPN sweatshirt and sweater vest is much more appealing. I agree.