Purdue big man Kaufman-Renn was exhausted after a hard first half and even mentioned he was tired to the CBS sideline reporter but dude kept asking questions prolonging it.
Halftime interviews with the players need to stop
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I think all in-game interviews need to stop, coaches included. There's never any good information and the coaches and players should be together in the huddle/locker room.
The first one of these I ever saw was our first round game in 1997, when they pulled Pitino aside at halftime. It was like what in the world?
The first one of these I ever saw was our first round game in 1997, when they pulled Pitino aside at halftime. It was like what in the world?
This. These guys are pretty much semi professional athletes at this point with NIL.
I click off the sound or change the channel the second the horn sounds. You never learn a single insightful thing from those interviews or the halftime babble.
Paid pro players, they can talk.
What does NIL have to with conditioning? The more money you’re making, the less tired you’ll be?
I don’t watch a lot of sports, but when I do I let the games get way ahead or just record them so I can fast forward through this stuff and all the stupid commercials like Liberty, Buffalo WW, and the awful medicine/drug pushers and now the awful NIL commercials from the pro college athletes. For regular TV I record everything for the same reasons.
It's not like they're pulled up on a podium and take 5 minutes of gotcha questions. It's 15 seconds of How ya doin?
Nothing to do with being exhausted, but pro athletes can be interviewed at half time, so they might as well get use to it. That being said, coach and player interviews at the half are usually bad and useless anyway.
Agree completely. Have never thought it added any value. Only time it’s entertaining is when a coach goes off the rails, and that distracts from the game, imo.
Idc about them being tired. They are paid so they can do the damn quick interview. I don't watch them but these guys are pros. Theu are mercenaries so deal with it.
I don't remember when this started interviewing coaches during timeouts or at the end or beginning of the half. It's stupid. Coaches are going to give the normal coach speak replies. They're not going to give some in depth info on strategy. If I were a coach I'd tell the network I'll see them at the press conference after the game.
Everybody post what Kenny says at halftime.
I never hear it.
And I don't care what Kenny says.
Terrible idea and not one person has added anything of value that we want to hear anyway
Those interviews came from some NY producer who knows nothing about basketball and thought it would be revolutionary for broadcasting.
I think it's probably the opposite. Everything stresses them.
Just gotta hit em with the legendary "That's a really bad question"
I won't argue why you don't like it. I don't understand the mentality they have to stop. No one lost a game because of it. Are you in a hurry to get to the Bateman State Farm commercials?
Do you people just walk around demanding every restaurant you don't eat at shut down? I don't watch NCIS Des Moines, I don't ask it get taken off the air.
Do you people just walk around demanding every restaurant you don't eat at shut down? I don't watch NCIS Des Moines, I don't ask it get taken off the air.
If Kenny reads this, he may get his feelings hurt.
Charles will have to read it to him. Kenny went to UNC.
The kid was out of breath and could barely get his words out after playing his ass off and CBS dude kept asking dumb questions.
