Kevin Ollie

[Cheeky]

My only beef with Ollie today was that pocket square, which I thought was a little loud for the outfit, generally. Solid white would have been my preference.

I "liked" it, even though I don't know what a "pocket square" is.

 

[Gurleyman]

I "liked" it, even though I don't know what a "pocket square" is.

The pocket square was the inbounds play where four guys form a square 50 feet from the guy with the ball, and then put their hands in their pockets while the ref counts to five.

Sorry - my second joke about that moment in two different threads. I only laugh since we won.

 

[ColoradoUCFan]

I think starting both Brimah and Nolan was a brilliant stroke of genius given the match ups with SMU.
Being at the game I was a little confused at what the defensive help principles were with the bigs. I wish I had taped it.

I was at the first Tulane game in New Orleans. KO went over in the middle of a point and slammed the scorers table so hard that a drink flew off and had to be cleaned up. It was totally missed on TV.

 

[TXHuskyFan]

I think starting both Brimah and Nolan was a brilliant stroke of genius given the match ups with SMU.
Being at the game I was a little confused at what the defensive help principles were with the bigs. I wish I had taped it.

This may be the 3rd straight game with that lineup. Maybe we were preparing for this game, but it did not come out of nowhere today.

 

[CTBasketball]

Not that it detracts from the impressiveness of his resume, but to my knowledge KO has not beaten Buzz Williams.

The refs took that game from him in 2013. Worst officiated game I can remember in a while. That call to start overtime led me to punch my Christmas tree.

 

[Ts5034]

I have complete faith that KO knows what he is doing. This year hes been showing a lot more emotion and I honestly believe thats a good thing. It seems like the team responds very well to a fired up KO.

 

[huskiesnyc]

KO made great adjustments today packing it inside and daring everyone other than Nic Moore to shoot 3's. He's also getting a lot more fired up lately which I like.

 

[Kitaman]

My only beef with Ollie today was that pocket square, which I thought was a little loud for the outfit, generally. Solid white would have been my preference.

Some posters wearing rose colored glasses will say it looked beautiful.

 

[UC990411]

Get out of here, troll. Ollie is our coach and we real fans stand by him.

Relax dude, what I was getting at is those are some good coaches.

 

[mauconnfan]

My only beef with Ollie today was that pocket square, which I thought was a little loud for the outfit, generally. Solid white would have been my preference.

I liked it. Very ordinary usually brought some passion to the outfit, and game. Usually very blue on blue, gray on gray I noticed early this outfit had some flash for KO

 

[willie99]

Impressive list, to be sure.

But he'll never beat Jim Calhoun, which some twisted minds will always hold against him.

And Shaka Smart. Hasn't beaten SS, has he? There are yarders who still hold that we'd have been better off with Smart.

silly, and I'm one of the biggest JC jockstraps alive

 

[willie99]

I like the fire in Ollie yesterday, it's about damn time too

now go get a T when they screw AB

 

[Danzz]

My only beef with Ollie today was that pocket square, which I thought was a little loud for the outfit, generally. Solid white would have been my preference.

Completely disagree. The pocket square complimented the tie is a monochromatic way that only high style people can comprehend. Nice suit too, could have been a Brioni. No Mens Warehouse for KO.

 

[CallMeBruce]

You misunderstand my comments. There were yarders upset with Ollie's style just a few weeks ago. They wanted the fire on the sidelines instead of KO's stoicism. In some minds, he'll never be as good as JC, and that means he was the wrong hire. I don't agree with it, but that seems to be the sentiment sometimes. And yes, there were some posters with 'shaka envy' who seemed to be waiting for our first stumble under KO to voice the "boy, we should have gone after shaka" argument.

It's very likely that KO is never as good as Calhoun. Calhoun is one of the very best college coaches of all-time. Of course, that doesn't mean that Ollie wasn't the right hire. It would be ridiculous to expect anyone, whether Ollie, or Shaka Smart, or Brad Stevens, to be as good as Calhoun was.

 

[ctchamps]

It's very likely that KO is never as good as Calhoun. Calhoun is one of the very best college coaches of all-time. Of course, that doesn't mean that Ollie wasn't the right hire. It would be ridiculous to expect anyone, whether Ollie, or Shaka Smart, or Brad Stevens, to be as good as Calhoun was.

I don't know. It's more likely that if we let things play out we'll find out how the successor does relative to the master. No matter what, we have one legacy coach and one coach whose career has already exceeded our wildest expectations. I'm glad I'm a UConn fan. I'm also glad I'm not a (insert a whole lot of teams here) fan!

 

[ctchamps]

It seems to me that KO has chosen to take a more calculated approach to when and whom he shows that fire.

Young team with different personalities needs selective coaxing. Constant screaming, screaming at people with fragile egos or mistimed screaming will cause people to tune out, crawl into a shell or minimize impact.

Best thing about KO is he's not afraid to reevaluate his approach. He doesn't quickly abandon things but he doesn't hang on to things forever. Some one wrote in this forum that KO made a decision about 6 or 7 games ago to change how they approach the players.

A lot of dudes could have his resume of getting tutelage from some of the best coaches in the game and still come out none the wiser. Not KO imo. He evaluates what they do, and implements what he thinks is beneficial. And I think he really understands people. That's a terrific combo which is why I had ten toes in even before he was selected, kept them in when he was selected, had them in during this entire season and will have them in as long as he coaches UConn.

 

[UConn9604]

It's very likely that KO is never as good as Calhoun. Calhoun is one of the very best college coaches of all-time. Of course, that doesn't mean that Ollie wasn't the right hire. It would be ridiculous to expect anyone, whether Ollie, or Shaka Smart, or Brad Stevens, to be as good as Calhoun was.

...and equally ridiculous to have expected Smart or Stevens to have done what Ollie has in three years. He's only 6-0 in his first six NCAA games of his career, with wins agains bums named Martelli, Wright, Hoiberg, Izzo, Donovan and Calipari.

I would have been happy with Smart or Stevens. I'm downright giddy with Ollie, though.