>I think it helps that Parker is getting a lot of traction in
>general because of how fucking great she is at breaking down
>the game. Putting her next to Chuck or Shaq is going to make
>them look out of touch because, well, breaking down game just
>isn't really their strength. They barely know who the coaches
>and players are on the teams.
>
>And yeah, as mentioned above, Shaq's been doing a lot of
>grumpy old man "back in my day, kids were tougher" shtick
>recently. So to have this clip where Parker calmly and
>effectively explains the modern game, and Shaq comes back with
>something that may have worked thirty years ago but no one
>really does today for a reason, and she looks over at D-Wade
>like "is he serious?"? Yeah, it's definitely a lot of things
>coming together in a perfect clip, lol.


I think what hurts Shaq from his myopic point of view is that the big man is obviously dying out in the modern NBA and Shaq has less and less possible basketball insight to delivery if he isn't present to crack jokes. IMO, he's pretty lacking in the comedy department because he isn't able to crack jokes at himself for the most part and instantly becomes extra sensitive or defensive when the jokes are pointed his way, but I suppose that just a matter of my personal opinion.

Barkley seems to have enough self-knowledge to know not to take himself too seriously, at least from what I've see from the NBA Turner broadcasts. I'm curious if he actually does X's and O's breakdowns when he does television work for NCAA. I don't watch because I don't watch college ball, but he's been back multiple years, so I would hope he does a decent enough job for whatever his role is for those NCAA broadcasts.