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Rodney Purvis on campus

ClifSpliffy said:
while trolling around with time on my hands, i decided to give him a ring..
'yo, K, some of the homeboys got the mads for you. saying anyone could have coached the championship squad, and think that you should give back the ring, how aboot it? it might make them happy."
'no.'
'ok, let's try something easier to make the peace. you rang up 11 mil cash on the seeya gift, how aboot giving that back? could go a long way to your redemption."
'no.'
'ok. this one is close to my heart. now about this koolatts wearing disaster...



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No one calls him K. Might as well call him Jermaine.
 
Mazhude said:
So what? So he didn't see anything while he was cooling his heels? Good lord, like he doesn't count because he was on the bench and not on the floor. How does that negate anything he lived through?
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It doesn’t. And I didn’t mean to suggest that it does. But imo it provides context, which is why I said it bears noting.
 
Waquoit said:
I was going tl:dr this because I just knew it was going to be nonsense. But I gave it a shot and was instantly reminded of the old adage about trusting your first instinct. Nothing you say refutes the assertion that Vance Jackson's dad was right about Ollie all along. I swear, if all of my college instructors were of your caliber I would have never made it through.
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No, to be clear, VJ's dad ruined his career. That has nothing to do with the dumpster fire that has long been KO....
 
Hey Adrien! said:
Just caught up with this thread.

I was talking with a buddy about this and we both agree that while major credit is given to him winning a title (the argument that anyone could have lead that team to a championship is pure bunk), the second half of his tenure was not good.

A specific memory is the overall body language of the bench. College basketball teams are known for being super fiery and amped up, but I recall multiple games where that fire wasn’t there, almost a sense of complacency.

That’s rare for any basketball team and might have been a sign of how Ollie led…we don’t know, but I do know that I’m so glad we’re back to playing basketball where everyone on the floor and the bench have passion regardless who we play.
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His last year KO literally sat on the bench looking at the floor while his staff coached around him
 
krinklecut said:
His last year KO literally sat on the bench looking at the floor while his staff coached around him
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Truth. And a reminder, at that point, he had cut out Coach Calhoun ("I'm not taking that old man's calls"), fired all of JC's hold-over staff, and basked quite publicly in the light of his national championship.
 
BigErnMcCracken said:
Sure he does. We rewrite history with this stuff. He was a good, albeit inconsistent player. You don't remember Calhoun telling everyone that he pumped him up before the tournament by telling him he was an afterthought? He was great against Iowa State, very good against Florida, and kind of meh against Kentucky in the national championship game.

Ben Gordon was my favorite UConn player to watch but in '04 people were legitimately concerned going into the Big East tournament that he was too passive and wouldn't be able to carry UConn if Emeka's back acted up. History is written by the winners, as they say.
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To a certain extent it's true. Ben could have been a 25 ppg player without trying against 95% of UConn's opponents. He was that good of a scorer and everyone could see it.

Same could be said of Taliek Brown who took 3 1/2 years to learn how to play at the right speed at the right time.

Ben and Taliek were a lethal duo of physical size and speed. 2004 had the luxury of letting Taliek do his stuff and then put the ball in Ben's hands in the last two minutes because Taliek was a horrible FT shooter.

2004 had so much talent it had obviously flawed players just doing their stuff and there was a quality substitute at all times.
 
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Chin Diesel said:
To a certain extent it's true. Ben could have been a 25 ppg player without trying against 95% of UConn's opponents. He was that good of a scorer and everyone could see it.

Same could be said of Taliek Brown who took 3 1/2 years to learn how to play at the right speed at the right time.

Ben and Taliek were a lethal duo of physical size and speed. 2004 had the luxury of letting Taliek do his stuff and then put the ball in Ben's hands in the last two minutes because Taliek was a horrible FT shooter.

2004 had so much talent it had obviously flawed players just doing their stuff and there was a quality substitute at all times.
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Best thread of the year followed by the worst thread of the year! Keep at folks we are certainly breaking new ground on this subject.
 
Mazhude said:
Nothing you said made any kind of sense. Keep defending KO, keep playing funky with the feedback. You be you, but we see who you is, boy-oh.
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'keep playing funky'
ok.



thank you for the invite to post this, one of my favorite tunes. they never seem to ask for stuff like this over at the music threads.
 
8893 said:
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What you are looking at is a 2004 team which won the championship. Had Emeka been healthy all year it's a 1-2 loss team or less and considered an all-time great team. It was that good.

All that being said (fancy way of saying "but"), there were flawed players on that team. Taliek took a ton of crap from us fans for 3 1/2 years because he couldn't shoot, couldn't make FT's and over penetrated leading to TO's.

Ben was a reluctant scorer even though 20 points a night looked like a warm up shoot around for him.

Emeka struggled with FT's too. Fortunately Ben, Rashard and Denham were close to lights out at the line at end of games and it worked.
 
Waquoit said:
I was going tl:dr this because I just knew it was going to be nonsense. But I gave it a shot and was instantly reminded of the old adage about trusting your first instinct. Nothing you say refutes the assertion that Vance Jackson's dad was right about Ollie all along. I swear, if all of my college instructors were of your caliber I would have never made it through.
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Your instructors passed you through out of pity. To use Vance Jackson's Dad of all people as evidence of anything!!! This board never ceases to amaze. The very idea that Vance was NBA bound after freshman year reminds me of the delusional parents of mediocre soccer players that I encounter each and every weekend.
 
upstater said:
Your instructors passed you through out of pity. To use Vance Jackson's Dad of all people as evidence of anything!!! This board never ceases to amaze. The very idea that Vance was NBA bound after freshman year reminds me of the delusional parents of mediocre soccer players that I encounter each and every weekend.
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Anyone paying attention knew Vance Jackson had stage parents in high school that were going to be annoying wherever he ended up.
 
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NJHoops said:
Imagine being stupid enough to wonder why a former player, any former player, would be welcomed back on campus. The dangers of reading the board when not signed in… it is not for the faint of heart. That ignore list is out here saving souls and sanity.
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well, im wondering why.
not sure the results thus far, are in any way helpful to the problem at hand.
you know, winning a dang tourney game.
what exactly does rodneys whining aboot the past have to do with the now?
how does it make us better now?
how exactly do his complaints offer 'veteran insight' to this team now?
 
upstater said:
Your instructors passed you through out of pity. To use Vance Jackson's Dad of all people as evidence of anything!!! This board never ceases to amaze. The very idea that Vance was NBA bound after freshman year reminds me of the delusional parents of mediocre soccer players that I encounter each and every weekend.
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The guy was right at the time and you were are still wrong.
 
Some of you need more exciting regular lives. Rodney great guy though, so laid back.
 
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mrl2016 said:
I don’t know Rodney but I will speculate that if he was the only one thinking those thoughts he wouldn’t have the gall to say it publicly

Anyways, I do think KOs hands off coaching style and Bazz’s natural integrity and leadership meshed well together but it’s a Chicken/Egg debate.

Did KO’s style give bazz confidence to take those shots or is that who bazz always was and he would have drilled them either way. I tend to lean to the latter but it’s ultimately an unanswerable question
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Never saw a more confident kid than Bazz! I think he was born confident!
 
This will teach me not to think I can avoid coming here on a weekend in the offseason.

And I can't think of anything I want to hear less than whatever these two Kevin Ollie stories are
 
My daughter who graduated in 2016 told me this story. Went to a game at Gampel and immediately after the went to an off campus party. Goes into the party and Phil Nolan is already there. Nice post game chat KO.
 
8893 said:
That’s not my quote, but I do think he stopped doing his job after the National Championship.

You actually used to say the same, and that the thing that made him a good NBA player was the same thing that made him initially successful as a coach, i.e., he worked harder than anyone else. And that he stopped doing that after the Championship.

I’ve never hung it on the divorce; that seemed more symptom than cause.

But I have no first hand knowledge of anything. Just observations.
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Sometime shortly after the National Championship Kevin underwent an extreme personality change. It was this change of personality that's the salient factor behind events being discussed in this thread.

If the not so subtle hints of Kevin's infidelity are true than Stephanie had justification for her action to file for divorce. But if you read this article you get some understanding of what could precipitate the downward spiral in Kevin.

Kevin Ollie is the man for UConn, thanks to two amazing women

It is tragic that Kevin could not control his lust. It is tragic that he could not handle the consequences it resulted in. It is tragic that people associated with him directly and indirectly were impacted by his irrational rage after Stephanie told him she was divorcing him. It is tragic that we are still seeing the impacts from this set of events.

But unlike Kevin who could not take responsibility for his infidelity nor control his irrational rage after the break up, I hope people in this forum can get control of their own anger, not revel in the salacious acts of a fallen individual, heal from their own personal wounds created by this drama and move forward.

And I wish that most of all for Rodney and any of the other players who felt let down by Kevin.
 
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fleudslipcon said:
I’m confused. Is this Sid supporting Rodney? Sounds like a dig to me.

And Rodney’s response to Sid is his first non genuine statement. He definitely is ripping KO. Why mute it?
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Just curious @polycom what are you negatively responding to?
 
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polycom said:
"sounds like a dig to me" When is the idea of someone preaching seen as negative?
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Thanks for responding. I've heard people express to someone offering advice as "preaching" and used in a negative context.
 
8893 said:
Serious question: Do you think he would have stepped out of bounds any less?
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He was just channeling Dan Orlovsky, as a true UConn fan.
 
UConnRock said:
Purvis is getting all the attention because of his tweets, but the player that missed out on the most potential/expected success was Jalen Adams. W/ a different coach/mentor I believe he would be in the NBA today.
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I'll second that. Part of that was Adams's fault. I can't 100% put lack of development on a coach. The player needs to have the work ethic and drive also. But if Adams had a good coach who was better at making him focus and disciplined, with a specific plan for improvement and development, Adams had the talent and the size to play in the NBA.
 
HooperScooper said:
I'll second that. Part of that was Adams's fault. I can't 100% put lack of development on a coach. The player needs to have the work ethic and drive also. But if Adams had a good coach who was better at making him focus and disciplined, with a specific plan for improvement and development, Adams had the talent and the size to play in the NBA.
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Imagine what Calhoun would have done with a couple years with Jalen Adams.
 
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