Re: Tommy Heinsohn

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Dorine Pratt wrote:
> 
> Just a thought here - I love Tommy, but for the past few years we had to
> listen to him telling us how they were trying to play the running game,
> you had to run all the time, and it takes time for everyone to get used
> to that style.  It started with Chris Ford and continued through ML.
> Now he's on this "learning Pitino's system" every night.  Sometimes I
> feel as though I could choke him.  He seems to think there should never
> be a moment's silence, that someone should be talking all the time.  I'm
> also a bit tired of his silly analogies, such as the one last night
> about "brush strokes" or something.  Guess I'm just getting jaded or
> something.  I love Mike Gorman, and I think when WSBK has the games they
> should have a real announcer.  Tommy should always be the color man, not
> the play by play man.  Anyone else feel this way?
> Dorine

Absolutely. Tommy's a lovable lug; unfortunately, he never, ever takes
his green-colored glasses off. The first five years or so listening to
him was OK, but then it just became tiresome. I can only handle so much
blind, congenital, completely detached from reality (in the M.L. era)
optimism. He knows the game, but please! let's not completely lose touch
with reality. Gorman is a real pro, he's my favorite. Cousy also, speech
defects and bungled player name pronunciation aside, is very good - he
doesn't mince his words about any player, Celtic or not. 

K. Kveraga