I got to be honest. As an example I waited for her to get home thinking she probably wanted to watch it again. I told her in advance I was going to stop it a few times as I wanted to review some things to see if I could learn a bit on what I was wanting to watch. Peacock is a bear to try to rewind because it always takes you a commercial and after several times of going through a commercial trying to see positions, players and if things changed off of makes and misses, who had the ball, locations and who was out there all in a few second clip I was going back and forth and standing by the TV and saying now watch this? No, she isn't as interested in the particulars, but she is getting more interested as time goes on. I have or operate more on math/stats whereas she is much more creative and you can see that in basketball as well. That said, she knows not to ask me if I saw that person...while the game is going on.
She knows I like seeing some of the details in which ironically is a simple game. We get to a game 60-90 minutes ahead of the game. We make a couple of laps and I usually try to catch Dave Schellhase to say hello and almost always shake Dustin's hand and chat for just a few. Then she may still be walking, but I may be sitting in the handicap seat (nobody there) or standing and just watching the warmups. Years ago I used to point out how Aaron Wheeler shot in warmups relative to how high he jumped and then pointed out that in a game he jumped much higher and shot worse.
Like a teacher in the classroom, I have a "captive audience". Like a teach in the classroom I can tell when she just wants to see from a mile away. She just knows its my thing...trying to understand AND liking basketball.
Bottom line---if she disagrees she doesn't tell me!