Ollie

[Mr. French]

The whole downside of hiring a head coach with no prior coaching experience at a major program with big expectations is starting to manifest. It's starting to become clear Ollie may have never had a real chance to develop his X's and O's and clipboard game.

But why?

I have serious issues with what's going on, and has been for a bit...but I don't think his in game coaching was bad early on...so with 5 years of coaching he can't at all?

I don't have the specific answer, and without being there none of us do, but there's something clearly not working with how the offense is run. For about 2 years now.

 

[Doctor Hoop]

The bigs need big man development; the guards need playmaker development; the shooters need to knock it down when open; and KO needs a week with Brad Stevens learning offense.

And could somebody please learn a ball fake? That about sum it up?

 

[donyell34]

Can't he see it though? The other coaches? I mean we can see it and we are armchairing this thing to death. They must be able to see it.

I concur on this,mystery as to what the coaches are seeing out there. Couple years now of more of the same. No rebounding , no scoring. UMASS -LOWELL had 78 against Indiana and we struggle to get 60 pts. against Wagner and Northeastern .

 

[jibsey]

We all know KO's creds as an NBA point guard playing under the best coaches who ever lived, so he knows what to teach especially regarding how to run an effective offense. So I think it comes down to this, the players are not following through, not trying as hard as they should or being tough enough. There is always the possibility that some of them don't have the skills needed, as in our bigs are flawed, we all know that's true. Our guards can't throw the ball away or make stupid decisions, and they have to make shots. To this point Jalen and Gilbert are not solid shooters, ditto Purvis. Hoop brought up ball fake which i totally agree with because every other big we play against uses it against us to make easy baskets rather than getting the ball slammed back in their face. It's inconceivable that Brimah and Facey haven't been shown it in 4 years, they just can't do it. Same with boxing out and giving up on and leaking out on rebounding. These guys are not listening and if they don't start who knows but I can't lay it all on KO.

 

[upstater]

We can only speculate. We did have coaches like Hobbs on the bench in the last couple of years, who has a track record teaching guards, and who has been a head coach before. We saw great offensive sets and coaching in 2014.

My speculation is that Ollie imagines these players doing something that is on another level, something he learned from the pro game. Everyone outside the 3, one screener, isolation, pick and rolls. He is simply imagining something these kids have a hard time doing.