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If Deron ever decides to leave Utah, maybe we can blame it on the local reporters asking dumb questions. No names are mentioned, but yesterday after being asked an amazingly confusing question by a reporter (neither of the two pictured here), Deron gives a short answer. After the reporter walks away, Deron’s inner monologue takes over and wants to get out. He let a comment about the reporter slip and tries to recover. Listen to the link here,
http://1280thezone.com/images/uploads/audio/DWill5-1-08.mp3
It sounds like Ross Siler (not sure) from the Trib steps in to mediate between the two and to keep things going. Not sure what’s happened in the past, but if this reporter asks Deron these types of questions all the time, I could see why his frustration might boil over.
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classic! Reminds me of the Austin Powers “inner monlogue” scene. Go Deron!
HAHA. That’s awesome. I love how Deron just says it like it is. I’m expecting a big game tonight!!!!
I used to host an NBA Podcast, and Deron was hardest player interview I ever did. He loves to give one word answers, or just kind of vague “that’s what I do” responses. CJ Miles was my favorite Jazz player to interview, along with AK.
He’s almost unbearable on Locke every week. Who did you do the podcast for?
our show was this one: http://nba.thepodcastnetwork.com/. In the top 10 sports podcasts in iTunes for most of our run.
That sounds like Rod Zundel to me.
Shhhhhhhhhhhh!
This is a gem, BBJ. A true gem. Don’t know how you found this, and it is somewhat embarrassing to Deron, but I’m still laughing over this.
I originally heard it on the radio yesterday. Neo gave me the link. Great stuff.
Sure it wasn’t some Houston douche? Or maybe it was Steve Luhm, who really needs to start finding a trailer park in Florida.
Deron was always a huge pain in the ass to interview. In college working for the Daily Illini sports section, interviewing Deron was for the guy who lost the rock, paper scissors. He’s a cocky bastard, but man is he good.
Nothing is more awkward than that weekly interview with David Locke. Locke tries to get chummy; Deron shoots it down with a one word, ambiguous answer. Locke gets flustered and throws something else out; Deron emasculates him with a condescending, vanilla response.
From a schadenfreude standpoint, I also enjoy hearing Locke try to get all stat-geeky in his interviews with the players or management and have them do everything short of say “That’s the most ridiculous set of information ever presented in a sports argument.”
Deron definetly needs work on his interviews. I smell some stockton in him