I’ve read so much about the great television commentary chemistry between best buddies Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson, and nothing about the fact that Jackson is terrible.  He’s just an awful commentator.  The plodding monotone delivery might not so unbearable if he didn’t call games like he used to play defense: slowly, passively, telegraphing every movement, lacking the ability to change direction.  He’s worse than Bill Walton, because at least Bill Walton sucks uniquely.  Jackson makes only the most obvious comments, which normally have something to do with Kobe just being Kobe because that’s what Kobe does, because he’s a superstar, because he’s the best player in the world, just being Kobe, doing what he does.  The ever-steady flow of platitudes is only occasionaly interupted by him saying you have to keep your hands up on defense.  (That’s literally everything he knows about playing defense.)  So here’s hoping Jackson knocks em dead in the interview.  Make it happen, Mark.