JVG preventing steve and yao from talking to Jim Gray after the game

why did you start a new thread about this? Yes. Just discuss it in the gam thread.

I already read about it in another thread too.

anyways, yes they did.


They spoke (did interviews) for the Ch.51 Houston tv channel. NOT for ESPN National TV channel.

So people in LA didn't hear them.

 

Ya, but it did seem a little rude, Us fans not in Htown wanted to hear some bragging from our players...

 

No, it was needed. Jim Grey has been known to ask the wrong questions like the Pete Rose thing for which the Yankees left him high and dry at the world series. Van Gundy is doing the samething to him for the way he blind sighted Francis and caused him to curse.

 

Retribution for the last ambush. Jim Grey shouldn't get awarded for what he does and JVG seems to be the grudge holding type.

I did find his behavior funny as he yelled a question to JVG after he turned his back and was already walking away.

 

You know, Jim Grey is a model journalist. As a young aspiring journalist, I look up to him. He asks the tough questions, so what? That's what journalism is all about.

 

No, he's not. He has no tact and he has no sense of when the correct time to ask a question is.

 

Nah, he wouldn't have allowed the peasant Rocket players bragging over beating the mighty Lakers who are chosen by God.

Like some other poster said, he probably would've asked them questions, like "What do you think La did wrong, to ALLOW such a defeat?" etc etc

 

Jim Gray is the anti-journalist.

 

Interesting, but kinda cowardly. I'm guessing JVG didn't want them to say anything that would fire them up, when the attitude we should be taking is that there is no winning in the TC.

It would be great if we went undefeated in the TC.

 

Maybe that's one of the reason:

From Chron http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/sports/bk/bkn/2528113

Rick Fox was skeptical that Yao Ming's comments were "lost in translation" during Thursday's practice. Yao suggested that the Lakers were saving some of their energy for the next round and that the Rockets should take advantage of that. When coach Jeff Van Gundy heard the remarks, he said Yao must have been inaccurately translated by interpreter Colin Pine.

Fox is confident Yao said what he meant.

"What was lost in translation?" Fox said. "That sounded like pretty good English to me. I think that's just inexperience of dealing with the media and letting out what is said in their locker room out here to the masses."

 

If you go the Jim Grey route, you better be prepared for all the bridges you're gonna burn. It's your right to pursue your career as you feel like it, it's also their right to ignore you as much as they can.

 

i run a online music website and jim gray is the opposite of what we view as good jourmalism. www.prefixmag.com

 

What's even funnier. I saw Jim Gray eat it tonight,

 

No, it's not. Journalism is getting the story. Accurately.

Gray does ask a different level of question than the typical sideline reporter but sometimes he is the story.

 

Who cares. I'm glad he grabbed them and took them off to the lockerroom. No better time to give praise for a good, all around game by everyone and emphasize the importance of staying focused, than right after the first playoff win in 5 years. There will be plenty of time for interviews later. The only thing any of our players needs to be concerned with is playing good, smart basketball.

Props to JVG for his move.

 

HAHAHA @ Jim Gay running after athletes like a little lost lamb, getting his nose sooo brown that you can see it on his fingertips, only to go about putting athletes on the spot on national television.
I am waiting for the day someone loses it and punches him in the face.
This situation may have had something to do with Steve cursing on national television the last time Mr. Gay ran him down. Even the League didnt suspend Francis because they know what an A-Hole this guy is.
There is more honor in the papparazzi.

 

"Tough" is the most overused and meaningless word in journalism. Somehow the public has become brainwashed into thinking that "tough" jouranalism is good journalism. Why? Explain to me please.

In the context of doing personal interviews what does "tough" mean? That you are going to reveal something about someone that they don't want to be revealed? Somehow by being "tough" you are going to get them to accidentally answer a question honestly in the midst of a lying session? And this is assumed to be a good thing because everyone lies and has dark secrets? Is journalism somehow related to prosecution or questioning a witness? Journalism is supposed to be entertaining and fun for us and grueling and miserable for them? We enjoy watching other people suffer?

There are no dark secrets that I care to be unveiled by Francis in the 30 seconds following the 2nd or 4th quarter of a basketball game. That isn't going to happen. Even in politics, I don't understand why being "tough" is helpful.

Stay up late and watch Charlie Rose if you want to see a good interviewer. He isn't "tough", he is "smart" You have been watching too much Barbara Walters and Bill O'reilly.

 

a tough question from Jim Gay means that he has about 50/50 chance of getting his teeth pushed in.