Walton is commenting the Notre Dame/UCLA game on ABC with Digger Phelps and I can't stop laughing.
Digger is clearly annoyed...lol.
Digger is clearly annoyed...lol.
Bill Walton is a treasure
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He should be buried treasure at this point (and for all you sensitive folks I don’t mean dead). His act is tired and for me he takes away from the broadcast instead of adding.
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I am 1000% with you. If Walton is on I either turn the sound off or switch channels.
It seems to me he thinks people are tuning in because of him. And he then has to perform. No thanks. Vitale got into the same territory but not quite as bad.
Great player, but lousy color analyst. West Coast Crazy!!
If he cut his schtick in half then I might be able to tolerate him but it’s just tooooooooo much to listen to for a full college game broadcast. Also, I don’t give too shits about John Wooden. Enough Wooden stories. Great coach but UCLA had a bag man and Wooden knew it.
I find him oddly entertaining. I like him picking on the guys he broadcasts with. He is much better than Dickie V screaming his dumb sayings like diaper dandy and the like. Granted, he comes from a different era, but I would think most guys would enjoy him, because most of the guys I know enjoy a ball buster!
And that has what to do with the actual game? I can see a bit of schtick in football because the broadcast is so much longer. But hoops? As someone posted up above it's always a problem when analysts think they're the show, not the actual game.
He sounded like a jerk at the Maui Tournament, and it was all Dan Shulman could do to not tell him that on live TV.
The funny thing was that he made a couple comments about Notre Dame paying players back in the day. If Digger were a little bit more of an arsehole he could have pointed out that back when Walton was at UCLA UCLA was literally the biggest cheater in the NCAA. And then Digger could have asked Bill how much money Sam Gilbert paid him when he was at UCLA. I'll bet that would have shut Bill up. For a few seconds anyway.
I don’t even bother to be anywhere near the TV when he’s on. He’ not allowed in my house. One night he was doing a game when I was at a bar with the sound off, and I had one drink and got up and left. It ruined my drink just just looking at him.
I couldn't stop watching! If Walton and Digger are doing any more games together with Pasch as the straight man (I mean play by play) sign me up!!!
They were hilarious! Outstanding as far as entertainment value.
They were hilarious! Outstanding as far as entertainment value.
IMHO, Walton was the best collegiate center ever.
Personally, I enjoy his discursive self and especially his rambling forays into some of his favorite topics; however, I can understand it might not be everyone's cup of tea.
But if you lived thru the Walton era, and all that implies, you'd probably have a warm spot for the big redhead.
Personally, I enjoy his discursive self and especially his rambling forays into some of his favorite topics; however, I can understand it might not be everyone's cup of tea.
But if you lived thru the Walton era, and all that implies, you'd probably have a warm spot for the big redhead.
Appears Walton is like cilantro - you either love it or hate it.
I like Cilantro. And I love listening to Walton. Especially some mundane, middle of the season BB game. I don't need some hoop geek, always explaining X's and O's, sometimes I just want to be entertained.
For me cilantro tastes like taking a piece of soap, shaving it and placing it on my tongue.
Oddly enough, for me that's what Bill Walton's like.
On a good day.
Seriously though, he'd be a great guy to sit down and have a beer with. But when I'm watching a basketball game it's because at least at some level I care about the actual game going on on the court. And way too often, Bill just simply doesn't care, or heck, even sometimes seem to notice, that there's a game going on that he's supposed to be commenting on.
IMO it would be annoying if he was doing a Pitt game that I was locked into.
But it’s awesome/hilarious when I’m watching 2 mediocre PAC-12 teams I don’t care about at midnight on a random Tuesday.
Definitely can see how it rubs people the wrong way though.
What I find more annoying is the middle tier commentators who take themselves too seriously and act like they know it all.
The thread title is "Bill Walton is a treasure" - okay, I can agree, so bury him. Not literally but do us all a favor and go away... and please take Dick Vitale with you.
I don't feel like it takes away from the game. I just feel as though it supplements the entertainment value of the game. I don't watch to see Bill Walton, but, when I do see him, I know I am going to laugh quite a bit during the broadcast.
Okay...so I’m not a Walton fan but us west coast guys are still watching Utah hammer on Kentucky right now.
Walton is on a roll. He asked Pasch if he had ever read some book by Tarkanian (I think), when Pasch said no Walton asked him if he can read...too funny.
He then said the Utah point guard looked like Dennis the Menace, lol
Walton is on a roll. He asked Pasch if he had ever read some book by Tarkanian (I think), when Pasch said no Walton asked him if he can read...too funny.
He then said the Utah point guard looked like Dennis the Menace, lol
Yes, at the time I posted that they were up by 15 and looking to extend more. Started playing sloppy once their PG went out with injury.
