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businesslawyer said:
No employee owes his employer or coworkers any more than his best work for the period for which he is being paid. KO is free to do what is best for him and his family without criticism from me. If he leaves, UConn just has to figure out what the next step is.
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Well, he would owe them a $2m penalty, but that's not the point. He's free from a lawsuit from UConn, but if he walked now after specifically saying that he wasn't interested in the NBA now because he cares too much about his kids here, then that would make him a liar, and I'd feel free to judge him for that.

None of this matters, since he's not going to the NBA. He was linked with the Lakers job weeks ago, and then confirmed he wasn't leaving UConn now. He's not leaving.
 
CL82 said:
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HuskyHawk said:
I guess we need to get used to this. I don't like it though. The good news is that he already just left an NBA coaching offer to be an assistant at UConn. He has a legacy he can build here and his family is comfortable. If he can turn down the Lakers, one of the two marquee teams in the league and his hometown team, I doubt anyone else can lure him away until he feels like he has nothing left to achieve in the college game. Calhoun was once rumored to the Celtics I believe, but was never offered. He did come close to leaving for South Carolina.
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The situation with D'Antoni has been dicey for months, it was somewhat of a surprise that the Lakers were willing to give him next year. Really, this is just a confirmation that the job is OFFICIALLY open. I am sure it has crossed KO's mind that this would be a possibility, it has to play out, and it looks to be a long process. In the meantime, people will do what they need to do. WM, KO & the Lakers IF they have an interest.
 
Lakers are the only NBA team that scares me. Los Angeles connection is the main reason. I do believe that the position will be available 10 years out though. So Ollie hopefully will wait to consider if offered.
 
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CL82 said:
One of the biggest names in college basketball...going into his 3rd year as a head coach. Unreal when you stop and think about it.
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My $0.02:

Ollie is not used goods and would come on the relative cheap. NBA owners are more than willing to take a chance on the untested "wunderkind" on short money. By and large, a mistake won't cost them much and their product won't be too affected. Calipari makes $5.5M and he has a negative track record with the Nets. Pitino is in his early 60's, making $7M, and left a terrible taste in the NBA's mouth. Who's left? Hoiberg is off the market. Bill Self is 51 and making $3 mil. Coach K is 3 years away from being required to draw on his 401(k). Roy Williams is approaching new retirement age. Billy Donovan perhaps? He's making about $4M. Shaka Smart?

If I were making a hire, I'd take a look at the benches of the remaining playoff teams, and start my list with the more accomplished assistant coaches. College coaches struggle in the NBA. It's a different game where the only similarities are the court and hoop dimensions. Tom Thibodeau has not won anything yet. Why would he go to an older, less talented team with cap issues than stay in Chicago?
 
aceboon said:
this article right here should be the definitive piece on why no one should ever take Goodman's basketball opinions seriously. dude was wrong on damn near everything, even took a shot at TSam when he wound up being a legit difference maker in 3 tourney games as a freshmen.
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The Parrish article linked right below it is just as hilarious in hindsight:

"And it's why it would be wrong to spend this space waxing poetically only about how Calhoun made college basketball relevant in New England, about how he built a program out of nothing in the middle of nowhere, about how he signed and developed Rip, Emeka, Kemba and dozens of other NBA Draft picks, the last being Andre Drummond and Jeremy Lamb. That's some of story, and that portion of the story is really impressive. It's why Calhoun is in the Hall of Fame, and deservedly so. But the other part of the story is about a bully who apparently didn't demand the same type of excellence in the classroom from his players that he demanded on the court, about a stubborn man who walked away only when his body failed him yet again, about a rule-breaker who left a program on probation, banned from the NCAA tournament and without the kind of talent necessary to compete in the Big East."

People were acting like it was going to take a miracle to go .500 when Calhoun stepped down. Clearly, as much as the talking heads under-estimated Ollie, they under-estimated the remaining talent on the roster even more.
 
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The NBA allure for Ollie could shine a little brighter, though. His team lost two NBA-bound starters (senior Shabazz Napier and junior Deandre Daniels) and landed just one recruit from Rivals' top 150 (guard Daniel Hamilton, 14th overall).

Ollie played 13 seasons in the league, last suiting up for the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2009-10. He reportedly made quite an impression on MVP front-runner (and free-agent-to-be in 2016) Kevin Durant, a fact that Stein and Shelburne write is "bound to make the promising young coach...a target of any NBA team with aspirations of trying to steal Durant from the Thunder in free agency in 2016."
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Quoted from one of the seemingly hundreds of news items today about KO and the lakers.
The author's rationale flies in the face of everything that KO stands for. I believe he'd be the last guy to take a job offered to him based on his perceived ability and willingness to poach a friend from another friend.

What's even worse is reading the comments generated by some of these articles. Most of these laker fans are more delusional than Rutgers Al, or your average cuse fan. They seem to assume that whichever candidate the organzation wants is theirs for the asking. Like being the lakers coach is the most desirable job in the world, and no one could possibly turn it down.
 
RichZ said:
Quoted from one of the seemingly hundreds of news items today about KO and the lakers.
The author's rationale flies in the face of everything that KO stands for. I believe he'd be the last guy to take a job offered to him based on his perceived ability and willingness to poach a friend from another friend.

What's even worse is reading the comments generated by some of these articles. Most of these laker fans are more delusional than Rutgers Al, or your average cuse fan. They seem to assume that whichever candidate the organzation wants is theirs for the asking. Like being the lakers coach is the most desirable job in the world, and no one could possibly turn it down.
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who wrote that?
 
RichZ said:
What's even worse is reading the comments generated by some of these articles. Most of these laker fans are more delusional than Rutgers Al, or your average cuse fan. They seem to assume that whichever candidate the organzation wants is theirs for the asking. Like being the lakers coach is the most desirable job in the world, and no one could possibly turn it down.
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To be fair, it's maybe the top job in the basketball coaching profession.

Right now they're bad, but they won't be for long...they never are.
 
ericsandiego said:
Let's hope they land Calimari. Then, of course, Ken$ucky comes calling for Ollie. Hmm... Not sure I like that either LOL...
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Ollie isn't leaving Uconn for Kentucky. The Lakers is a whole different story.
Can't blame him for going if he does.
 
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businesslawyer said:
No employee owes his employer or coworkers any more than his best work for the period for which he is being paid. KO is free to do what is best for him and his family without criticism from me. If he leaves, UConn just has to figure out what the next step is.
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Ray is close to retirement.
 
Husky25 said:
Dude is 69 years old.
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He'll be very successful with the Lakers just like Syracuse. I'm sure he'll be able to cram the schedule with wall-to-wall Utahs, Philadelphias and Milwaukees, right?
 
Ollie should talk to the Lakers, and then talk to Warde, then Warde should put together the extension based on that conversation. If KO is willing to do the extension without talking to the Lakers, even better, but UConn shouldn't (and won't) try to lowball him.

Of course, we're not going to get any leaks about any of the steps in that process, and the fanbase will freak the duck* out until the extension is signed, sealed and delivered.
 
amory said:
I really don't think he will, but on the offchance he does decide to leave this year, he'd earn a spot on my personal mount rushmore of hypocrites.

I don't mind Ollie-isms, in fact I quite like most of them. But you can't talk like that and then bolt this fast.
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Pay Him What A,National Champion Head Coach Should Be Making. Right Now Is Underpaid And That Cannot Be Disputed.
 
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Dogdeacon said:
Yuck, but on bright side
1. Adds more credence to Rex Chapman's leak that Calimari would be coaching the Lakers
2. Derek Fisher is a better choice in terms of pleasing both Kobe and luring KD
3. Van Gundy makes a ton of sense and is a less risky higher. KO makes a splash but other than the Olliewood marketing the natural fit parts are missing.
4. The lucky-sperm-club Buss generation seems to be more bungling than smart, hopefully they don't go for the great coach, better person choice.
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5. This is the leverage KO needs AND USES to lock up a long-term deal at UConn
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If we are able to keep him-we better pay him what he's worth, or what it will take to keep him. I'm not sure how KO would not consider the big $$$$$. He could put enough away for them for all their lives. If he goes, I think Jim Calhoun comes back. And then JC leaves at the end of KO's contract, And maybe KO comes back to settle here for a long long time. KO certainly understands both cultures, NBA and college. He will make the right decision for him and his family. Does he have children? I hope he has a boat load and doesn't want to uproot them!
 
Kitaman said:
Lakers are the only NBA team that scares me. Los Angeles connection is the main reason. I do believe that the position will be available 10 years out though. So Ollie hopefully will wait to consider if offered.
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Couldn't blame him for taking the big bucks now and coming back later. His stock will never be higher, or may never be higher than it is now!
 
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