Any interest in Kevin Ollie as head coach of the Blazers?

[SlyPokerDog]

Damn impressive job leading UConn to the national championship.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

For the record I like Stotts. I bet the NBA comes calling for Ollie this off season.

 

[PapaG]

If scoring 58 ppg is your thing, I say yes!

Nice win for UCONN. I've always liked Ollie, and I don't hate UCONN like I hate Duke/UNC/Syracuse/Kentucky. Amazing that UCONN has won 4 out of the last 15 NCAA titles, isn't it? They are never considered in the "elite" class in terms of Dookie V and the rest of the ESPN gang. Well, until now, of course. Hard to deny their titles at this point.

 

[PapaG]

For the record I like Stotts. I bet the NBA comes calling for Ollie this off season.

Ollie just started coaching them last season, and they missed the tournament. He's not going to the NBA as a head coach yet. He didn't even coach as an assistant in the NBA, did he?

 

[riverman]

My answer...no.

 

[PapaG]

Mark Emmert always gives me a "sit on my lap, I'm your uncle" vibe.

 

[PapaG]

Best photo bomb ever?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Before coaching, Kevin Ollie was a great leader in NBA. Kevin Durant credits him for turning OKC into a contender:
Kevin Ollie is coaching Connecticut tonight in the national championship game. Before he was a coach, he played 13 seasons in the NBA and he was a tremendous leader.

Kevin Durant credits Ollie for turning around the Oklahoma City Thunder and teaching their young team what it takes to be a contender.

“Kevin Ollie, he was a game-changer for us," Durant told Grantland. "He changed the whole culture, I think. He might not say it, but he changed the whole culture in Oklahoma City. Just his mind-set, his professionalism, every single day. And we all watched that and we wanted to be like that. It rubbed off on Russell [Westbrook], myself, Jeff Green, James Harden — and everyone that comes through now, that’s the standard you got to live up to, as a Thunder player, and it all started with Kevin Ollie.”

http://sulia.com/channel/all-sports...1c/?action=prop&source=tw&form_factor=desktop

 

[jlprk]

I knew years in advance that the Sonics were dying, after they replaced Bob Whitsitt with Wally Walker. So I jumped to the Blazers. Walker kept acquiring defective players to save money. The ESPN Sonic board used to disparage their own slow, unquick substitute guard, Kevin Ollie, a thoughtful tortoise. He shocked them by lasting 7 more seasons.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/o/ollieke01.html

 

[julius]

It's so crazy that their regular replay screen is still huge, and then you see the one above it.

 

[riverman]

Yeah, maybe he's the best thing since ice-cream but they said the same about Rick P when he left the college game to coach the Celtics, didn't turn out so well.

 

[jlprk]

John Thompson.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_black_coaches_have_won_the_NCAA_basketball_championship

 

[PapaG]

John Thompson.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_black_coaches_have_won_the_NCAA_basketball_championship

It's a Wiki site. A hamster with an internet connection is more reliable.

I didn't even think about his race, though. I guess we leave that stuff to old-timers who have guilt over how unfair things were in the olden days.

 

[jlprk]

No one has answered it. Requires Facebook. Someone reading this should do so.

 

[jlprk]

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_ncaa_basketball_championships_has_been_won_by_black_coaches

 

[dviss1]

Damn impressive job leading UConn to the national championship.

College success usually doesn't transfer (see Rick Petino). Plus his offensive scheme looked horrendous.

 

[riverman]

College success usually doesn't transfer (see Rick Petino). Plus his offensive scheme looked horrendous.

Exactly what I said 5 posts before this

 

[jlprk]

Two black coaches have won the NCAA Basketball Championship. John Thompson of Georgetown in 1984 and Nolan Richardson of Arkansas in 1994.

I used my toes to get this pattern: 10, 20, 30. The next time will be 2044.

Maybe it's 10, 20, 10, 20,... So the next time will be 2024.

 

[MickZagger]

Ollie just started coaching them last season, and they missed the tournament. He's not going to the NBA as a head coach yet. He didn't even coach as an assistant in the NBA, did he?

National championship in his 2nd year with virtually no NBA talent on his team....

Not.

Impressed.

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

He kinda is a more likeable Nate McMillan. Needs a dominate ball handler who can score as well as he breathes and a team willing to play D.

 

[riverman]

Big difference coaching kids who want a job someday and play for free compared to adults who have contracts and are now independantly wealthy.

 

[riverman]

Big difference coaching kids who want a job someday and play for free compared to adults who have contracts and are now independantly wealthy.

Nolan Smith and Allen Crabbe were rock stars in college too

 

[BigGameDamian]

Damn impressive job leading UConn to the national championship.

And P. J. Carlesimo did a damn good job at coaching Seton Hall University.

 

[tlongII]

Ollie just started coaching them last season, and they missed the tournament. He's not going to the NBA as a head coach yet. He didn't even coach as an assistant in the NBA, did he?

They were on probation last year and weren't permitted in the tournament.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

This Derek guy would make a great mod here!

 

[Hobbesarable]

This Derek guy would make a great mod here!

Yeah, I get visions of the following video!

[video=youtube;rQqiuynMwCQ]

 

[Charcoal Filtered]

From what I heard, Ollie is not going anywhere. UCONN is his home and dream job.

 

[BlazerWookee]

Nope.

 

[Strenuus]

Pitino did great in Boston.

Oh wait.

 

[magnifier661]

Remember that coach from Kentucky that failed in the nba?