Is Lute going loco?
June 12th, 2008, 3:45 pm · Post a Comment · posted by Mark Heller
It’s sounding more and more like it.
The Tucson Citizen covered the gamut in a Q&A with Arizona coach Lute Olson on Thursday. Plenty more, uh, interesting things came out of the most important mouth from down south.
To summarize, he threw former commitments to the wolves and blamed the administration for most of his staff upheavel this spring (since someone of Lute’s clout at the university would have no say in personnel matters. Yeah, right).
His honesty — outside of cutting down current and former coworkers and his boss — is almost refreshing in this generation of cliches and sensitivity to the point of being paranoid.
Then again, good luck finding a coach who isn’t.
Is he a breath of fresh air? Or losing his grip on reality and accountability?
Doesn’t matter when the inmate runs the asylum.
Derek Glasser update: The ASU junior-to-be point guard underwent knee surgery last month in an attempt to repair what’s been misaligned since last fall. His father, Michael, said everything is on the up-and-up during this six- to eight-week recovery, and Derek hopes to be off crutches this weekend.
With Josh returning to UCLA for his senior season, the brothers Shipp will meet two more times next season. Jerren (right) is an 0-fer against his older brother, but that could change next winter.
Josh Shipp (older brother of ASU’s Jerren Shipp) will return for his senior season at UCLA. Shipp gives the Bruins three upcoming seniors from the Final Four teams (Shipp, point guard Darren Collison and center Alfred Aboya).
With hip surgeries a regular occurance after each season, Shipp was wise to stay another season. He was a dangerous scorer and adequate defender, but disappeared from the Bruins too long and too often (Kevin Love’s presence was an obvious factor). His NBA stock wasn’t going to get yield much money.