Ok, let me get this straight. People don't like listening to Bill Walton?????
I don't understand it. He is simply amazing. Now, I get it, perhaps you turn to college basketball for some insight and information from the color analyst. Maybe you do that. Maybe I do it too, when the game means something. But I like to be entertained, and against Chaminade, a team where some sort of aside was warranted 15 real time minutes into the game, Bill Walton made it really fun to watch. This was never a contest, so why not listen to his old hippy mind ramble on for a while.
As Bill said to his broadcasting partner, "It's a TV show."
He's right.
Some of his best lines of the night:
- Likening KU to a breaching whale (and then ESPN adding a breaching whale graphic).
- Comparing Dok's power and strength to a waterfall- one of the things Walton enjoys outside of "being on TV or flying to be on TV."
- Somehow incorporating a Bob Dylan concert that a friend of his was going to into a conversation about Virginia Tech's game plan to beat Michigan State.
- Constantly trying to give us a geography lesson about places like Nigeria, Angola, the Netherlands, and Idaho Falls for some reason.