I cannot listen to the broadcasts because Kayte just talk endlessly and will not stop her long stories. She talks over the play by play and it clear it annoys mark and Kyle. You can tell Kyle just says “uh huh” and “yah” and “k” just waiting for her to stop. I think either Deuce or Mo would be a great replacement. Honestly it’s nice to move on to something different sometimes. Not everyone should have a long term career like the G-man, but I fear they will just let Kayte stay because it’s what we have done, not what’s best.
Any time we join a KINGS game in progress, my wife and I joke that Kayte will be talking. 95% of the time, she is. And the other 5% of the time we just happen to join during a commercial break.
If you think she’s a rambler now you should have heard her ask questions during postgame when she had the sideline reporter gig. It really drives my wife crazy because Kayte can rarely ask a simple, straightforward question and, instead, typically waterboards the interviewee with a long prefaced story that she thinks makes her sound smart.
We gave her a chance to change our minds the first season. But, boy, is she AWFUL.
We all know why she got the gig and why she still has it. And it ain’t because she’s the best or most qualified.
TBF, I don’t think Mark Jones and Kyle Draper are all that good either. But they aren’t Kayte level bad.
However, she is an experienced professional basketball player that often shares insights into the game and strategies that might otherwise be missed by the casual viewer. But there are other color commentators on other broadcasts that are far worse regardless of their credentials.
She brings absolutely nothing to the broadcast. Nothing. Except incessant rambling. No avid or experienced NBA viewer is learning anything they didn’t already know.
Her “WNBA” playing experience is no more relevant to the NBA game than HS football is to the NFL. They are technically the same sport, but completely different games played at completely different levels. The ball is smaller. The 3 point line is closer. The game time is shorter.
The only thing her professional experience has in common with NBA’ers is the travel. And even that is drastically different since the WNBA plays half the games against half the teams and nowhere near the back-to-backs. They don’t even play the same number of minutes per game.
A former men’s player that only played collegiately at the FCS level would own a better perspective, as that game is played above the rim and with better, quicker, faster, longer athletes.
People can be mad about that all they want, but it doesn’t change the reality.
That said, I don’t think former men’s players are anymore qualified to provide tremendous insight into the women’s game as they play completely different versions of the game, too, and lack first-person perspective of what the ladies go through in that league.
