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absolutely correct PJ! Need more people posting about the positives. 2 years without your 5 star point guard... isn't fair to trash his coaching skills brutally like people do on here all the time. Not saying he doesn't have lots of work to do on his coaching, he certainly does but he has lots of positives that are so overlooked on here. These young men are student athletes and will be better people when they leave Uconn because of his work with them.He's a stud who has good chemistry with KO.
This is the upside of KO as a coach. If KO can fix his weaknesses he can be a great coach. It's really hard to evaluate him with the limited roster we have now (yes, I know that's his responsibility, but hopefully they have fixed recruiting and S&C/nutrition).
If we bring in a big time coach we’ll keep himNice article on the kid. Sounds like Ollie was a big reason he's coming to UConn. Let's see what happens if/when Ollie is let go at the end of the year.
I agree needs help with X and o. With the NC team he had great plays coming out of timeouts...Maybe they matched the players he had? Or did glen miller call those plays? He certainly hasn't been sucessful with the team last year and this year.If KO wants to succeed, he needs an old school, X and O assistant sitting right next to him. I hate to shuffle staff too often but he's got to get humble, get the helper that he needs and listen to him. Any team with Jalen Adams and Terry Larrier should be well above average. These guys are better players than we are seeing. I'd be happy to bring in Akinjo so KO has a true PG to work with and see what happens, but he's got to bring in a tough, no nonsense czar to help him with offense and defense.
agreed. It is on him for a majority of it but I do feel there are other things that are going on or have happened behind the scenes that he can't control. He really hasn't had a team of consistent players for 2-3 years in a row to grow individually and togetherHe's a stud who has good chemistry with KO.
This is the upside of KO as a coach. If KO can fix his weaknesses he can be a great coach. It's really hard to evaluate him with the limited roster we have now (yes, I know that's his responsibility, but hopefully they have fixed recruiting and S&C/nutrition).
Your not firing Ollie and getting a big time coach. No big time coach wants to come to a place that will fire a former player and big time coaching prospect every year for the NBA because he didn't make the tournament with half his team injured. Firing Ollie will make our program "irrelevant" as people like to say about what Ollie is doing to our program. Our conference is what makes us irrelevant game by game.(hopefully that will change) Our history won't change and it will always make us relevant(thank you Jim Calhoun)There will always be players that want to bring Uconn back to its greatness because that is what our history is.If we bring in a big time coach we’ll keep him
As good as this kid may be, if KO goes and he goes too then so be it. We need long term good coaching.Nice article on the kid. Sounds like Ollie was a big reason he's coming to UConn. Let's see what happens if/when Ollie is let go at the end of the year.
We won’t and he won’t.If we bring in a big time coach we’ll keep him
In fact remember how highly rated Ollie’s teams were at scoring out of the time outs? They used to rave about him being one of the best in the country. We used to have shooters and scorers.I agree needs help with X and o. With the NC team he had great plays coming out of timeouts...Maybe they matched the players he had? Or did glen miller call those plays? He certainly hasn't been sucessful with the team last year and this year.
On the surface I say Jalen and Larrier should win you a lot of games but especially Larrier they don't play defense well enough to stop any team. Bad teams look like good teams and average teams look like great teams because they don't know how to defend.
I agree needs help with X and o. With the NC team he had great plays coming out of timeouts...Maybe they matched the players he had? Or did glen miller call those plays? He certainly hasn't been sucessful with the team last year and this year.
On the surface I say Jalen and Larrier should win you a lot of games but especially Larrier they don't play defense well enough to stop any team. Bad teams look like good teams and average teams look like great teams because they don't know how to defend.
That's the key. Adams and Larrier are great athletes. There is no reason for them to struggle defensively, it is coaching.
It's only coaching because he doesn't sit them, reprimand their butts like JC. It's on them they don't put in the effort to be as good as they can be every second they are on the floor. They only "struggle" because of lack of effort not because they don't know how to play defense. Not sure who they talk to or if they even listen to anyone but those they are trying to show off for are taking notice and it's not pretty for now I am pretty sure.
It's on the coach if he doesn't know how to induce effort. They want to be NBA pros but they don't connect the sacrifice in this moment to that long-term success. They need an authority to make near-term rewards and punishments that they can respond to, in order to act in the way that will generate the long-term rewards. They'll be grateful later to the coach who paves the road to the NBA for them.