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

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    Damn impressive job leading UConn to the national championship.
     
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    For the record I like Stotts. I bet the NBA comes calling for Ollie this off season.
     
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    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.
     
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    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?
     
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    My answer...no.
     
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    Mark Emmert always gives me a "sit on my lap, I'm your uncle" vibe.
     
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    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
     
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    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
     
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    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.
     
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    No one has answered it. Requires Facebook. Someone reading this should do so.
     
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    College success usually doesn't transfer (see Rick Petino). Plus his offensive scheme looked horrendous.
     
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    Exactly what I said 5 posts before this
     
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    National championship in his 2nd year with virtually no NBA talent on his team....

    Not.

    Impressed.
     
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    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.
     
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