Talking to reporters, he barely breaks for a breath between totally free-wheeling paragraphs. He indulges long tangents, scrolling through his iPhone to share pictures of his parents and his wife, and explaining his theory of how to save room-service waffles from sogginess. All of this is peppered with outsized hand gestures and personal questions for others that all say the same thing: Mr. Lavin doesn't have a filter.
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Though one has to wonder who is dumber
The basketball coach that doesn’t know about basketball, or the guy that asks the basketball coach that doesn’t know about basketball about basketball. Diamond Leung probably knew exactly who he was dealing with.
Leung
I think he wrote the post because he as UCLA alum knows full well that Lavin’s gibberish speak for themselves. I get the feeling that Lavin thinks someone like Leung is giving him some “pub” on ESPN yet essentially Leung is teeing it up for rest of us.
Did the AD who hired him
have a Filter or a Brain?
On the other hand, the reason he may not be talking about basketball is that he will have very little to do with basketball — just a well gelled talking head.
sjh
Declaration of War
You know, the State of New York is going to declare war on California for letting this greaseball leave our state. And I can’t blame them.
The posters on those st johns boards were hilarious
claiming bruin fans were just trying to cover up the huge mistake ucla made when we fired him. oooh well.
It’s the ones that were voicing concern before he was introduced as their “coach” that I’ll feel sorry for.
St. John's is excited about the second biggest oil slick
It means they are both
1. clueless and
2. desperate
The only question is how long before they realize things really can get more screwed up.
On the other hand, one New York group wins. The NY media loved having the worst coach in pro basketball in recent years (Isiah Thomas) so why not do it in college basketball as well? It gives talk radio there something to talk about. (And yes, almost every NY talking head will know more about basketball than Lavin.)
Let's not be so harsh on CHP
After all, by accepting the position as head … (nope, I still can’t say it) as the head of the basketball program, those who actually have the volume up during games won’t have to listen to his pontificating. In that respect, he’s shown himself to be as big a humanitarian as certain other well-known individuals.
As great as it is
that we won’t have to listen to him babble during games, I fear it just means we’ll get to listen to more duke homers on twwl than normal. Not sure anybody wins here!
You, too, can be a winner
Just turn the volume down. Try it once. I’ll bet you can tell exactly what’s happening, and you don’t need some blowhard telling you that some particular thing happened, baybeeeee. Unless you like listening to them, of course. What I don’t understand is why people continue to keep the sound on when the announcers make them hurt.
espn is like Fredo to me. If espn says anything worth knowing, I can depend on Nestor, et al, to mention it here. (I’m proud of you, Nestor, for being able to listen to all that tripe. You are truly taking one for the team.)
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