Ollie post game interview

[Marat]

His attitude about so many things is simply too accommodating. The press conference just reflects that attitude. Live and let live, it's all fine, peace in our time, everybody gets a trophy. Kevin Ollie has become a hippie. This team needs the Kevin Ollie that was known as the most tireless worker in the NBA.

Ollie's worst moment last night was watching Vital shoulder into an opposing player, then shove him and give him lip, earning a T. There shouldn't have been a double T, so Vital, and UConn got lucky. Calhoun would have yanked Vital and screamed at him, or worse, given him the look and said nothing. But he wouldn't have stayed in the game or gone back in quickly. Other guys make stupid mental mistakes or show no effort or hustle...the stay in the game. No reaction from the coach. We have a soft, lazy team because the coach is letting them be soft and lazy. It's sickening.

Very valid points there. The team could really use some fire from KO from pregame -> tip -> end of game.

 

[Bagel&Cheese]

This team reminding me of OKC Thunder. Have some great pieces but not clicking to expectations/potential. Just a mess.

This team is nothing like OKC. OKC has 2 all-stars and a scorer in Anthony. We have no all-stars and no scoring machine. Adams has no heart or grit. Larrier can't dribble or pass. Gilbert is a tbd. Sorry but the talent just isn't there.

 

[Balker]

Watch us beat Monmouth by 25, Syracuse by 10, and we all have us in the final four again...

 

[tentoes4rings]

His attitude about so many things is simply too accommodating. The press conference just reflects that attitude. Live and let live, it's all fine, peace in our time, everybody gets a trophy. Kevin Ollie has become a hippie. This team needs the Kevin Ollie that was known as the most tireless worker in the NBA.

Ollie's worst moment last night was watching Vital shoulder into an opposing player, then shove him and give him lip, earning a T. There shouldn't have been a double T, so Vital, and UConn got lucky. Calhoun would have yanked Vital and screamed at him, or worse, given him the look and said nothing. But he wouldn't have stayed in the game or gone back in quickly. Other guys make stupid mental mistakes or show no effort or hustle...the stay in the game. No reaction from the coach. We have a soft, lazy team because the coach is letting them be soft and lazy. It's sickening.

I’ve thought about this a lot, maybe he’s just gotten complacent since he got the big contract after 2014. We see pro athletes get complacent after landing big contracts, I’m sure it happens with coaches too. He just seems like an entirely different guy.

 

[CL82]

I think everyone who follows the football program realizes this now.

I don't know that I realize it yet, but I'm sure as hell worried about it.

Diaco's level of ineptitude, paranoia, idiocy and lack of self-awareness is pretty much the gold standard of suckiness. I don't throw around the comparison lightly.

 

[CL82]

I’ve thought about this a lot, maybe he’s just gotten complacent since he got the big contract after 2014. We see pro athletes get complacent after landing big contracts, I’m sure it happens with coaches too. He just seems like an entirely different guy.

It may just be that he's got a scheme that works with two exceptional guard who can breakdown the opponents at will and doesn't understand why it doesn't work without that level of talent. Maybe the adjustments we saw in the 2014 NC run actually did come from Miller. I don't know but the guy we saw out coaching icons like Izzo and Calipari sure seems to be MIA.

 

[Saab04]

He called Columbia “great” too. Can’t make this stuff up.

1-5 and they’re great! Wow!

 

[gtcam]

Huskybass, tenspro2002 and others were ridiculed as well but now even the strongest apolliegists have seen the light and owe them an apology. This is a poorly run program that sinks to new depths with each season.

You are crazy
No apologies necessary

 

[Marat]

1-5 and they’re great! Wow!

KO has been calling every opponent great in SNY post games - " ... now we have to prepare against a great BU team ..... "

 

[QDOG5]

Remember the good old days when the Ollieisms were quaint?

 

[whaler11]

I don't know that I realize it yet, but I'm sure as hell worried about it.

Diaco's level of ineptitude, paranoia, idiocy and lack of self-awareness is pretty much the gold standard of suckiness. I don't throw around the comparison lightly.

I’m talking superficially - young, good looking, first time with a head coaching job, religious, wacky press conferences, etc.

You are right that the reason for their struggles is different.

Ollie is likable and I want him to be successful.

Diaco was unlikeable and I got to the point where I wanted things to get so bad they had to move on. I enjoyed every pasting Nebraska took this year.

If Ollie someday is coaching Siena or DePaul I would root for him.

 

[UconnFanDC]

This team is nothing like OKC. OKC has 2 all-stars and a scorer in Anthony. We have no all-stars and no scoring machine. Adams has no heart or grit. Larrier can't dribble or pass. Gilbert is a tbd. Sorry but the talent just isn't there.

i agree TL can not dribble but i disagreed with u on everything else. Im sorry but Ollie has to find a way to develop his players or pass the baton. He won with Calhoun players and did nothing after.....

 

[Adios]

I’m talking superficially - young, good looking, first time with a head coaching job, religious, wacky press conferences, etc.

You are right that the reason for their struggles is different.

Ollie is likable and I want him to be successful.

Diaco was unlikeable and I got to the point where I wanted things to get so bad they had to move on. I enjoyed every pasting Nebraska took this year.

If Ollie someday is coaching Siena or DePaul I would root for him.

Ollie thinks he's OG and paid his dues. He can do whatever he wants now, as long as he knows he's getting paid and wins enough.

 

[auror]

We are 7 games in and have beaten everyone we should have beaten, which is an achievement, given we have 4 returning players. Glass half full.
I'm still holding out hope that Jalen takes this team by the scruff of the neck, and leads us to the NCAA tournament.
All it takes is to not come out of the gate losing 18-7 every game, and we will be viable.

Sure, we haven't completely screwed ourselves yet. But margin of victory and level of performance indicators are not good. We are not playing like an NCAA tournament team and 4/6 next games are against tournament level competition, 3 of them away from home. We don't have time to gel... we need a switch to flip.

 

[Bagel&Cheese]

i agree TL can not dribble but i disagreed with u on everything else. Im sorry but Ollie has to find a way to develop his players or pass the baton. He won with Calhoun players and did nothing after.....

Adams is just so frustrating to me. lots of talent but disappears and when he wants to show up and dominate, he does but that's not always the case so that why I said that about him not having heart or grit. Tough following two warriors in Napier and Walker. I think Gilbert has high level talent but he's a tbd because of injuries. Poor kid..I hope the shoulder isn't serious....and I do agree with you that Ollie has to develop his own recruits. So far we haven't seen that.

 

[QDOG5]

I hope the shoulder isn't serious

It is.

 

[LStudfellow]

He said he was proud of the guys and it was a great win for the U.

I guess I've never heard a UConn Coach talk like that after a beating Columbia in OT.

Just saying he seemed pleased and not upset at all. All smiles and all is well I guess.

His hollow platitudes are just cringe inducing at this point. I feel like I'm watching a caricature of a head basketball coach.

As one of the up-until-now Ollie defenders on here, I admit that both of you, Whaler and others are right. I'm mystified that KO feels in any way, shape or form that this was a good win, or that Columbia is a good team (a 1-5 Ivy league team... seriously?). And even worse to say, it does have a Diaco-esque feel to it, and it does seem to be a consistent pattern. He has become satisfied with lackadaisical play, inconsistency, and all around mediocrity.

Did anyone see the Steve Kerr press conference from last night? Hey, his team won, in overtime, against an "up and coming" Los Angeles Lakers team. Brandon Ingram in particular played an excellent game for the Lakers. Did Steve Kerr talk about how good the Lakers played, and what a job his team did fighting back to force overtime and win the game?

HELL NO. He came right out and dissed his own team for bad passing and inconsistent play.

From Anthony Slater, a Golden State beat reporter: Steve Kerr on the Warriors "galling" passing tonight and Steph Curry's rough 4 quarters and then strong overtime pic.twitter.com/EjyXCCy92N

For me, KO gets until the end of the year... and although I really want to see what Akinjo, Matthews Jr. and Kisunas can bring to our program, I fear we will see the same play from them that we see from too many guys now if Ollie does not stop celebrating what should be unacceptable play by anyone in a UConn uniform.

 

[freescooter]

"We were down one of our soldiers" about AG...


stop.

But you played Columbia. I remember being down or 2 best guys and beating a top 5 Stanford team on the road. Ollie has more excuses than some yarders. After the next loss I half expect him to tell us they might have lost the game but the won breakfast by a huge margin and gave lunch a run for its money too.

 

[LIuconn]

It is.

F

 

[Stinger92860]

Watch us beat Monmouth by 25, Syracuse by 10, and we all have us in the final four again...

I hope you are right, but I don't think it happens like that.

 

[UCDaveD]

But you played Columbia. I remember being down or 2 best guys and beating a top 5 Stanford team on the road. Ollie has more excuses than some yarders. After the next loss I half expect him to tell us they might have lost the game but the won breakfast by a huge margin and gave lunch a run for its money too.

Or when we walked into Bloomington sans Dyson and Wiggins and took down Eric Gordon and #7 Indiana.

 

[ctchamps]

I thought the innuendo last year about KO was that he tore into players and that's why players transferred. Did I read those innuendos incorrectly?

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

I thought the innuendo last year about KO was that he tore into players and that's why players transferred. Did I read those innuendos incorrectly?

It was more than innuendo. The experts on here said last season KO's problem was that he was too mean. This year he's too nice.

 

[ctchamps]

It was more than innuendo. The experts on here said last season KO's problem was that he was too mean. This year he's too nice.

That's what I thought. The team has nothing on these fans.

 

[Paesano]

Anyone ever hear of the importance of consistency? Integrity? This is basic leadership stuff. Great coaches, like great supervisors or great parents or great generals, send a consistent message that is distributed as fairly as possible. The standard never changes. The consequences never change. Excellence is a habit. Good habits can't be established if the person being led doesn't know what to expect from day to day.

 

[Allbite]

It is.

Do you think it's a career ending injury?

 

[elmcityboy]

It was more than innuendo. The experts on here said last season KO's problem was that he was too mean. This year he's too nice.

On the Hartford Courant podcast, they imply that KO often goes off on players in the locker-room, but then puts on a smile for the media. Amore and Jacobs seemed to think that dynamic had confused & bothered some of the players last year.

 

[Saab04]

i agree TL can not dribble but i disagreed with u on everything else. Im sorry but Ollie has to find a way to develop his players or pass the baton. He won with Calhoun players and did nothing after.....

Facts! I don’t see Ollie taking UConn to another championship.

 

[Saab04]

Adams is just so frustrating to me. lots of talent but disappears and when he wants to show up and dominate, he does but that's not always the case so that why I said that about him not having heart or grit. Tough following two warriors in Napier and Walker. I think Gilbert has high level talent but he's a tbd because of injuries. Poor kid..I hope the shoulder isn't serious....and I do agree with you that Ollie has to develop his own recruits. So far we haven't seen that.

Adams is very inconsistent. I think it’s his immaturity level. The kid has tremendous talent, but he needs to own it

 

[Saab04]

As one of the up-until-now Ollie defenders on here, I admit that both of you, Whaler and others are right. I'm mystified that KO feels in any way, shape or form that this was a good win, or that Columbia is a good team (a 1-5 Ivy league team... seriously?). And even worse to say, it does have a Diaco-esque feel to it, and it does seem to be a consistent pattern. He has become satisfied with lackadaisical play, inconsistency, and all around mediocrity.

Did anyone see the Steve Kerr press conference from last night? Hey, his team won, in overtime, against an "up and coming" Los Angeles Lakers team. Brandon Ingram in particular played an excellent game for the Lakers. Did Steve Kerr talk about how good the Lakers played, and what a job his team did fighting back to force overtime and win the game?

HELL NO. He came right out and dissed his own team for bad passing and inconsistent play.

From Anthony Slater, a Golden State beat reporter: Steve Kerr on the Warriors "galling" passing tonight and Steph Curry's rough 4 quarters and then strong overtime pic.twitter.com/EjyXCCy92N

For me, KO gets until the end of the year... and although I really want to see what Akinjo, Matthews Jr. and Kisunas can bring to our program, I fear we will see the same play from them that we see from too many guys now if Ollie does not stop celebrating what should be unacceptable play by anyone in a UConn uniform.

Lol so true. Ollie stays clapping every time I see these kids play poor defense.