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MAL's father speaks out

mauconnfan said:
Dads supporting his kid can’t blame him. Problem is coach isn’t wrong kids not so good right now.

Lots of people here killed KO for losing him and “settling” for Akinjo. Hmmmmm...
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we are supposed to give Ollie credit for failing his way into a better player? Sheer luck that he would have had Akinjo instead of MAL
 
Whtdmd said:
The main mistake he made was to decomitt from UCONN. KO was the perfect coach for him. They r both point guards, have the same size and play the same way. Neither r good shooters, KO would have allow him to play through his mistakes.
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Are you insane? Just curious, the coach he would have flourished under is fired but the coach he plays for has only had his point guards, each and every one of them become 1st team all be players, and all Americans. The fact is that Makai is not what we all thought he was. It happens, every time he steps on the court, (does not mean he still can’t get better) I can see his passes telegraphed from 3,000 miles away. He turns it over, can’t shoot, can’t make a clean pass yet your coach who you are suing would have been the perfect coach for him??? I will grant you some of it is confidence but when you see him fly down the court only to pull up at the 3 pt. line and pound the ball into the court for 15 seconds it’s more than coaching.
 
FriarJ said:
Are you insane? Just curious, the coach he would have flourished under is fired but the coach he plays for has only had his point guards, each and every one of them become 1st team all be players, and all Americans. The fact is that Makai is not what we all thought he was. It happens, every time he steps on the court, (does not mean he still can’t get better) I can see his passes telegraphed from 3,000 miles away. He turns it over, can’t shoot, can’t make a clean pass yet your coach who you are suing would have been the perfect coach for him??? I will grant you some of it is confidence but when you see him fly down the court only to pull up at the 3 pt. line and pound the ball into the court for 15 seconds it’s more than coaching.
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Actually, it’s just coaching. Look at our guards from one year to next. From pounding the ball to 100% fast break and motion offense in a few months. MAL needs to learn how to shoot. You have to be truly exceptional off the dribble and at the rim to excel at this level without a jumpshot.
 
Whtdmd said:
The main mistake he made was to decomitt from UCONN. KO was the perfect coach for him. They r both point guards, have the same size and play the same way. Neither r good shooters, KO would have allow him to play through his mistakes.
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You want him to flourish under a coach who isnt even a coach anymore. Brilliant.
 
Fishy said:
People killed Ollie for losing MAL because people should have killed Ollie for losing MAL.

You act like it was some master stroke of player analysis...it wasn’t. It was just garden-variety laziness. The same kind of laziness that got him punted from recruiting Reeves and Duke.

Anywho....parents are an issue at every level of sport. It’s a little more public in this instance, but it’s nothing a college coach doesn’t deal with on a daily basis.

Guy who coaches our kid’s old USA Swimming club got a job as an assistant coach at a DI school...he says that gig is a thousand times easier because the swimmers’ parents aren’t around as much as the club swim parents.
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2 different years so not all because of the other right? I mean maybe Akinjo doesn’t say yes to Ollie because MAL was here if it worked that way but he wanted to play for KO and was committed to him. All the same people find ways to continue to hammer the man for everything that still occurs (rightfully so for most too) but find little at all to give him credit for. Not deserving of much admittedly but when I see people talking wonderful things about Akinjo and I try to tie it to one of KOs positives it still gets shot down? He recognized a Top 200 recruit and won a war as Akinjo’s game grew, but its a mistake by KO huh? Lol

Hey it may have worked out for the kid because it seems that KO wasn’t a good enough developer (not sure on Ewing either) but that wasn’t what the post was about. KO saw a good talent and won but it’s hard for many of you to give him anything I know.
 
My problem with MAL is that every time I saw him play I went away thinking Wabissa Bede was the better choice; at least for college. Other than a nice run with BABC, not sure what Ollie saw that made him so enamored.
 
Lynyrd said:
My problem with MAL is that every time I saw him play I went away thinking Wabissa Bede was the better choice; at least for college. Other than a nice run with BABC, not sure what Ollie saw that made him so enamored.
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The kid was a top-50 recruit. Ollie wasn't the only one enamored.
 
Lynyrd said:
My problem with MAL is that every time I saw him play I went away thinking Wabissa Bede was the better choice; at least for college. Other than a nice run with BABC, not sure what Ollie saw that made him so enamored.
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At the time, he was considered a winner, a long pg with huge defensive upside and and a nice athlete that was becoming more athletic and was showing improvement on his shooting and other skills. He was highly thought of by a lot of people although there were other point guards like Waters who I liked much more because of shooting and ball handling ability.
 
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mauconnfan said:
2 different years so not all because of the other right? I mean maybe Akinjo doesn’t say yes to Ollie because MAL was here if it worked that way but he wanted to play for KO and was committed to him. All the same people find ways to continue to hammer the man for everything that still occurs (rightfully so for most too) but find little at all to give him credit for. Not deserving of much admittedly but when I see people talking wonderful things about Akinjo and I try to tie it to one of KOs positives it still gets shot down? He recognized a Top 200 recruit and won a war as Akinjo’s game grew, but its a mistake by KO huh? Lol

Hey it may have worked out for the kid because it seems that KO wasn’t a good enough developer (not sure on Ewing either) but that wasn’t what the post was about. KO saw a good talent and won but it’s hard for many of you to give him anything I know.
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Stop.

You’re really bad at this.

We should give Kevin Ollie credit for not getting off his ass to go see MAL because he then got Akinjo?

No.
 
Hoophound said:
Actually, it’s just coaching. Look at our guards from one year to next. From pounding the ball to 100% fast break and motion offense in a few months. MAL needs to learn how to shoot. You have to be truly exceptional off the dribble and at the rim to excel at this level without a jumpshot.
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Chillious taught Markelle Fultz how to shoot. Imagine what he would have done with MAL
 
Fishy said:
Stop.

You’re really bad at this.

We should give Kevin Ollie credit for not getting off his ass to go see MAL because he then got Akinjo?

No.
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I'm not bad at anything. If you were here I know I'd be real good at punching you in the throat though!
 
And you guys laugh when compare the Ollie crowd with those Japanese soldiers who held out until 1976.
 
Hoophound said:
Actually, it’s just coaching. Look at our guards from one year to next. From pounding the ball to 100% fast break and motion offense in a few months. MAL needs to learn how to shoot. You have to be truly exceptional off the dribble and at the rim to excel at this level without a jumpshot.
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You are right, he is exceptional at getting to the rim when closely guarded, for whatever reason he lacks confidence. At this level you can expect to be challenged at the rim and he has not adjusted. He gets the ball on the inbounds after a make, flies up the court then puts on the breaks at the 3 point line, the defense catches up and he proceeds to pound the ball into the ground while the shot clock ticks. It's very frustrating to watch because he is fast and can take his man off the dribble but he is trying to avoid being lost in the lane which happens a lot, he has zero midrange game currently. And, as you said though they don't play him close because they do not have to worry about his shot. He needs to work on his shot from everywhere.
 
This thread might make the yard hall of fame, actually. Guys arguing whether a coach who is no longer here would have been the right guy to coach 2 players who didn’t come.
 

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