Say what
The Lakers have become Charles Barkely’s favorite target. We knew there would be early season problems. As for the TNT analyst he claims he’s going to refuse to eat until they win a game. I wonder if the “ol” Chuckster has gained a few extra pounds and the Lakers become an easy out, I have no proof just sayin’.

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Pop does what Pop do
The headline above is not correct English but I wanted to be emphatic. The Spurs will play the Rockets for the first time in the early season. I haven’t check the number of games the Spurs has played but it can’t be that many. Coach Popovich has chosen to “rest” Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili and Tiago Splitter. An ESPN reporter said earlier today; “The game is on national television.” You think Pop really cares the game is nationally telecast?

Broadcasters can be characters too
A couple of stories have been written regarding the number of characters that have existed in basketball. You know who they are the folks whose vocabulary sometimes includes unusual and often funny sayings. Past focus been players and coaches however a number of these characters exist behind the microphone too. College basketball analyst Dick Vitale’s vocabulary includes “aircraft carrier” his description of a big man and “He’s a PTPer tonight, baby!” prime time performance by the player. Those are but a few of his sayings; Vitale is not alone there have been others past and present day broadcasters. The late Chick Hearn Laker play by play broadcaster could be included in the discussion. How bout these gems; “the eggs are coolin', the butters getting hard and the jello is jiggling” translation the Lakers have won the game.

Another from Hearn; "He got caught with his hand in the cookie jar" a foul was called on the player. "There are lots of referees in the building, only three getting paid” players are complaining about being fouled and the officials don’t agree. Former Knick and longtime analyst Walt Frazier belongs in the discussion. “Dishing and Swishing” or “Out-muscling and Out-hustling” and finally “Wheeling and Dealing.” I’m going to leave it up to your imagination to define Frazier’s view of the action on the court. The late Johnny Most legendary Celtics broadcaster may have not originated any sayings but listen to that voice. Most sounded as if he’d smoked 4 or 5 packs of cigarettes. I almost overlooked veteran college color man Bill Rafftery. Just a few of his gems; “Count your Chiclets” a blow to the mouth or “And the Kiss off the glass” a shot banked off the glass. Finally this Rafftery gem; “Return to Sender” mail returned as undeliverable or in Raff’s indicating the shot was blocked.

Cable and satellite
I hate to go ol skool on you however checking Mizzou’s 2015-15 schedule prompted this account. Every game on the schedule will be televised; this is certainly not a first but a reminder of an earlier era. Once upon a time basketball faithful were only able to view a select number of games. Locally prior to the existence of cable or satellite we had one Big 8 game which was a Saturday only event.

Some time later the networks CBS and NBC would begin hosting a nationally televised game thus we had the possibility of viewing two Saturday games. Forget about “Big Monday” or any other weeknight game college basketball on television was a Saturday only event. College games were played during the week however rarely were they televised. Television coverage of the NCAA Championship was even limited with mostly weekend telecasts; we’ve come a long way from the dark ages.