Kevin Ollie to the Lakers?

[NatiboyB]

You're right. It's a dream come true to most. But look at my previous post. Say He takes the job, gets no real premier talent and winds up fired after 3 years. Then what?

If im him and i want the NBA money so badly I go for a team with young talent IN PLACE and where there is less pressure to win immediately. Lakers could offer a lot of money but he can leverage that UCONN championship and get a big contract from any NBA team at this point.

I say stay at UCONN and become like Mike Kryzewski (sp) or Billy Donovan. Basically build up on your resume/success and be a GOD at the college level to the point where you can pick and choose which NBA team you would coach.
Dont be a young coach who took the first opportunity you got and ran with it and then having to deal with giving you the look when your philosophy doesnt fit his personal agenda

Exactly why go to the Lakers I'd jump on the warriors job though....That's a perfect situation....the Lakers are at least better off than the Knicks but the lakers situation looks bleak.

 

[intruder]

Exactly why go to the Lakers I'd jump on the warriors job though....That's a perfect situation....the Lakers are at least better off than the Knicks but the lakers situation looks bleak.

He'll probably leverage the Lakers interest into a bigger contract at UCONN

 

[NatiboyB]

He'll probably leverage the Lakers interest into a bigger contract at UCONN

Eventually he will leave but the damn lakers ain't where it's at.

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

yea, no homo but dude got a mouthpiece. I had to take a group of kids I work with at an afterschool program to the Basketball HOF when he spoke last year and all them lil dudes were amped up afterwards talking bout they need to get schollies to go to UConn to play for him.

i asked him was he taking the Laker gig....he was political as hell but you can tell just being asked raised his antennas...i legit think dude wants the job

 

[King Poetic]

people say why ollie should take the laker job over golden state?? because the lakers front office has jeanie bush & kup compared to them dirty motherfukkers up in the bay office

plus Ollie grew up in So Cal, so he need to come home to his old area

 

[Danny Up]

Kobe Bryant will make the Lakers infinitely better. That and the signings of Dirk Nwotski, Marcin Gortat & Mario Chalmers

 

[Destined-2-Shine_HNIC]

You're right. It's a dream come true to most. But look at my previous post. Say He takes the job, gets no real premier talent and winds up fired after 3 years. Then what?

If im him and i want the NBA money so badly I go for a team with young talent IN PLACE and where there is less pressure to win immediately. Lakers could offer a lot of money but he can leverage that UCONN championship and get a big contract from any NBA team at this point.

I say stay at UCONN and become like Mike Kryzewski (sp) or Billy Donovan. Basically build up on your resume/success and be a GOD at the college level to the point where you can pick and choose which NBA team you would coach.
Dont be a young coach who took the first opportunity you got and ran with it and then having to deal with giving you the look when your philosophy doesnt fit his personal agenda

He very well could be fired from the Lakers in 3 years. But college is always waiting for him. As is UCONN.

Historically/Prestigously there is no better coaching job than that of the Lakers. If you can climb to the top of the mountain in 1 step why take 100 steps to get there.

Would you turn down a job making 100k with a 50% chance of failure or stay at your job making 50k maxed out and steady. Ultimately it depends on Ollie's own faith in his coaching ability.

Yes Lakers are in a transition period but to act like Golden State is a better coaching opportunity in general is reckless. Maybe for 1 or 2 years. But long term. Na.

It's now or never for Ollie.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

I like how people want to believe this wild fantasy that the Lakers are going to be trash for a long time so the coaching position is unattractive. jim is next to go so don't bother using that deflection, to me Ollie would be a new beginning and for once we'd be doing things the right way. I'm tired of chasing name brands and old geezers, we gotta go back to GOAT franchise making the name brands like before. At most he'll eat 2 years of potentially bad play, then he'll be seasoned and both sides will be ready for the next level.

 

[Regular_P]

I like how people want to believe this wild fantasy that the Lakers are going to be trash for a long time so the coaching position is unattractive. jim is next so don't bother using that deflection, to me Ollie would be a new beginning and for once we'd be doing things the right way. I'm tired of chasing name brands and old geezers, we gotta go back to GOAT franchise making the name brands like before. At most he'll eat 2 years of potentially bad play, then he'll be seasoned and both sides will be ready for the next level.

Or pretend that every player on their roster this season wasn't hurt at one point or another. Kobe coming back is gonna be a huge boost, even if he only scores 20 a game instead of 27. They're gonna sign some players in free agency and if they don't use their high draft pick, they're gonna trade it for a star player. The Lakers are gonna have a talent infusion NEXT season and Kobe comes off the books in two, where they'll be able to sign a bunch of guys again. This isn't gonna be a long drought.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

Or pretend that every player on their roster this season wasn't hurt at one point or another. Kobe coming back is gonna be a huge boost, even if he only scores 20 a game instead of 27. They're gonna sign some players in free agency and if they don't use their high draft pick, they're gonna trade it for a star player. The Lakers are gonna have a talent infusion NEXT season and Kobe comes off the books in two, where they'll be able to sign a bunch of guys again. This isn't gonna be a long drought.

It's ok, these people in the 'seum don't understand the explosion that would take place if Kobe got his farewell squad and then won 6 and retired only for the 2016 FA class to be won by a resurgent and reborn GOAT franchise. If we can win this lottery then I think its a good chance we get Ollie, if we're getting a coach for the future we gotta win the draft for the future too.

 

[Woodwerkz]

You're right. It's a dream come true to most. But look at my previous post. Say He takes the job, gets no real premier talent and winds up fired after 3 years. Then what?

If im him and i want the NBA money so badly I go for a team with young talent IN PLACE and where there is less pressure to win immediately. Lakers could offer a lot of money but he can leverage that UCONN championship and get a big contract from any NBA team at this point.

I say stay at UCONN and become like Mike Kryzewski (sp) or Billy Donovan. Basically build up on your resume/success and be a GOD at the college level to the point where you can pick and choose which NBA team you would coach.
Dont be a young coach who took the first opportunity you got and ran with it and then having to deal with giving you the look when your philosophy doesnt fit his personal agenda

Then what? He could got back to college...that's what. Hell Calipari [NJ Nets] did it as did Rick Pitino [Boston and NYK]...and they both went back and have been sucessful.

 

[Stick Up Kid]

I have a feeling that Kevin Ollie is about to become an absolute PROBLEM on the recruiting trail, brehs. No reason to leave that unless he's getting a prime, ready to win NBA gig.

 

[Lakerman0834]

Overestimate your own worth brehs fukking bum won a title with calhoun recruits and has been trash since

 

[UserNameless]

I’m glad he won the chip but damn the turn from y’all ... y’all we just gassin him up a few years ago

 

[Carolina Slim]

I didn't think the fall would happen this quickly... A national title should have gotten him some sort of push on the recruiting trail... I'm hearing that UConn isn't the job it once was, when Calhoun was running things. It'll be interesting to see where they look for the next coach.