Olander

[Fishy]

I don't care that he made one - Olander taking UConn's first three shots is a train wreck.

The ball goes in, it never comes out.

KO needs to learn how to use Calhoun's quick hook.

 

[Ricky1Moore]

Just dreadful on all aspects. Awful basketball. If they go to the rim under control they have layups, not brain surgery

 

[8893]

At this point you have to wonder if that's part of KO's intended game plan. I recall some preseason raves about how much he had improved, especially his shot. Maybe KO keeps thinking he's going to see that in a game. I recall some surprising starts for TO last season too, and he sometimes had a few good minutes right at the beginning of the game.

Hard to imagine that now, though. He looks terrible so far.

 

[UConn990411]

Why are the bigs taking jump shots?

This needs to stop.

 

[hasheemthedream]

as bad as olander is, he still is our best option. We need one of them bigs to just come in run the floor and rebound thats it.

 

[Fishy]

I'm mystified as to why Ollie permits Wolf and Olander to take the shots he does.

For the second game in a row, the bulk of UConn's early shots were taken by two players who, honestly, are not UConn-level players. UConn....eight shots. Olander and Wolf...six shots. Napier and Boat...zero shots.

The game plan seems to be to get under water and then hope Napier can fix it.

 

[Revrat]

Well Wolf comes in and keeps it going.

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[RS9999X]

They do need to get The Bigs going ..... it may be Gerber time....feed them where they can't dribble. Within 3 feet of the basket

 

[crownfox2]

At this point in time, Olander has regressed when he should be taking advantage of his opportunity.Maybe Fishy is right about the return of the Quick Hook. These are the nuances of coaching that Ollie has to show and rather quickly.

 

[Fishy]

Not to put a pin in a bubble or anything, but this team on this day is completely unprepared.

 

[champs99and04]

I don't want to overreact to these first few minutes, but holy this team looks terrible.

 

[8893]

Not to put a pin in a bubble or anything, but this team on this day is completely unprepared.

Hey, you're the guy who predicted 40 minutes of WTF when you saw what we were left with on the roster. The reason it was so funny is because it is true. I have no idea what the game plan is, but I rarely do. I usually just have a sense of whether we're playing well or not, and that sense tends to dull in the haze of whether we win or lose. Right now, we're not playing well. But it's still the same roster that caused you to coin that phrase, and I imagine it's no small task for Ollie to try to figure out what is going to work best with the limitations of this squad.

 

[champs99and04]

Hey Giffey - shoot the *king ball

 

[Fishy]

Forty Minutes of WTF was well-defined chaos.

This is forty minutes of what the duck* are they doing?

 

[8893]

Forty Minutes of WTF was well-defined chaos.

This is forty minutes of what the duck* are they doing?

There's a thin line between genius and madness.

Admittedly, we're on the wrong side right now.

 

[champs99and04]

Wolf any time you want to use any of those 85 inches and get a *king board, I'm all ears.

 

[Revrat]

Oh my the rebounding is a joke. They play like girls. For gods sake sit someone's and berate them on their way to the bench like any good coach.

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[Fishy]

We lead the country in pointing, gesturing and hollering.

 

[champs99and04]

Kevin Ollie is allergic to calling timeouts

 

[8893]

Kevin Ollie is allergic to calling timeouts

He does seem more Blaney than Calhoun to this point. I'd like to see some more of his fire.

 

[3uconn]

OLANDER duck***G SUCKS! WHEN YOU ARE 6' 10" AND YOU CAN'T REBOUND WHAT GOOD ARE YOU! NOLAN SHOULD SEE MUCH MORE TIME IN THE GAME! I EANT BOATRIGHT NAPIER CALHOUN DANIELS AND NOLAN OUT THERE!!!

 

[Kitaman]

If we look confused then the defense must be very confused at our confusion. It's a Globetrotter strategy but its not working well.

 

[Clockshop]

Manuel said. "Kevin is not just rolling the ball out there and telling Shabazz [Napier] and [Ryan] Boatright to score. He's designing plays"

 

[nomar]

He does seem more Blaney than Calhoun to this point. I'd like to see some more of his fire.

Yeah, I mean, you can't shine a turd, but at least if he called a timeout to stop, say, an 8-0 Stony Brook run, then at least we'd know he's trying to do something about it.

 

[champs99and04]

This "work through the big men" offense is nice in theory, but we do not have the personal. Give it to Boatright and Napier and let them create.