UConn lands top 40 player in 2017 class

[hoopmanx]

As long as Ollie is coaching all this talent, feels a little like playing Pastner's Memphis squads.

[sadderbudweiser]

As long as Ollie is coaching all this talent, feels a little like playing Pastner's Memphis squads.

Funny, I never viewed it that way but yeah.

For a Brown protege, KO really doesn't have much of a plan. Great recruiter though.

Winter in Storrs sucks. I'd take Dallas in a NY minute.

[mustangxc]

...and yet he won a national championship his first season of post-season eligibility.

[hoopmanx]

He won w calhouns team, whom radically underachieved until going on a prayer run

[mustangxc]

No doubt, those were Calhoun's recruits. However, you can't say that he is killing it in recruiting but can't coach if that is the case. If he is now recruiting well, he has already shown the ability to coach in the past.

[hoopmanx]

Not following. When did he show he could coach? We've seen him be an awful bench coach w mostly more regarded talent than the whole league, 4 years running. We've seen him not develop kids and have them lose draft stock etc.

[mustangxc]

He was on the bench when they won a national championship. It doesn't matter whose recruits it was with, it shows he is capable of leading a team to a national championship. Perhaps he has player development issues, but he has proven he can coach and now he is showing he can recruit.

[sadderbudweiser]

His recruiting looks good but how does it actually pan out?

Hamilton went backwards.

The Boat show took on water and sunk to the bottom in it's own harbor in the Conference Semi against us.

His players (like this guy we had for awhile who under-achieved his way to NTSU) are capable of brilliance....on occasion.

He gets good players...does he get great kids? Does he move them forward? I really don't think so.

I'd put him not far behind Pastner in the under-deliver column. The program lives by it's great tradition of success, men AND women. They'll tire of KO soon.

[hoopmanx]

He was on the bench when they won a national championship. It doesn't matter whose recruits it was with, it shows he is capable of leading a team to a national championship. Perhaps he has player development issues, but he has proven he can coach and now he is showing he can recruit.

he didn't lead them, Calhouns backcourt did. Talent wins most of the time, ask any coach. Cal wins titles too, and he's a visionary in some ways, but his x and o's are laughable in legit coaching circles. There are tons of examples of guys who've made deep runs in the tourney, but aren't necessarily better coaches than High school guys. Right place, right time is everything in hoops and life. Ollie's teams, roll the ball out, and hope their highly recruited kids are on. They don't out scheme anyone, adapt ever, or even use the clock appropriately. He doesn't situatiin sub

[Rebel10]

UConn just got another one.

Phenom Hoop Report‏ @Phenom_Hoops2017 four-star forward Tyler Polley just committed to UConn.