Speaking in public, off the cuff like broadcasters do, is a hard and a largely unenviable job. Most of us would probably say some pretty stupid stuff if we were thrown in front of a microphone and told to talk for a couple of hours, but then again most of us aren't paid to do that. In the span of a half hour in two different games, Doug Gottlieb and Len Elmore both said things that would have been better off unsaid.First, while calling Oklahoma-Dayton, Doug Gottlieb used the phrase "Basketball thug" to describe Ryan Spangler. Gottlieb was talking about a pest, one of those guys who annoys you if he's not on your team, but you love if he's on your team. Think Sean Avery. Gottlieb used the word "thug," which has become so racially charged that it's just a weird, weird choice of word. And the reason you know it's weird is because he immediately had to qualify it, saying "and I mean that in the most glowing way."Then Len Elmore, calling Wichita State's upset over Kansas, went for a play on words for Tekele Cotton slashing through the Kansas defense, saying "Cotton picking Kansas apart." Again, this is a weird, racially charged word choice. What makes it so weird for both Elmore and Gottlieb is that each one openly questioned whether they should be saying what they were about to say, and proceeded to go ahead and say it anyway.