NBA experience X, bad finish…how did I make the final two?

A coach’s market full of greats. The Detroit Pistons are going their own way.

The Detroit Pistons have narrowed their head coaching search to Charles Lee (Milwaukee) and Kevin Ollie (Overtime Elite), Yahoo Sports’ Jake Fisher reported on Sunday. One of these two men will be the next head coach.

The NBA head coaching job comes with a hefty salary and a lot of prestige. The 30 most talented coaches in the world are selected. That’s why Detroit’s selection is so puzzling. The quality of the candidates is disappointing.

Charles Lee, a key coach with the Milwaukee Bucks, is a well-known leader who deserves to be on the list. He’s also highly regarded by other organizations.

The problem is the other candidate, Kevin Oladipo. From the moment he was first announced as a candidate, Detroit fans were baffled. He made it from the first round of interviews to the finalists, and now he’s one of the two finalists 안전놀이터.

NBA fans will recognize the name. He was a point guard who played as a junior in the NBA from 1997 to 2010.

After retiring, he had a brief coaching career. He was an assistant coach at the University of Connecticut from 2010 to 2012, and then head coach for the next six years. That’s it. Although he had some good years at the University of Connecticut, his final year was so bad that he was fired from the program. He got into quite a bit of trouble along the way.

He is currently a player development coach in the Overtime Elite League, an amateur league.

He has no experience coaching in the NBA. He was dismissed from the college ranks for poor performance. He’s currently a player development coach in an amateur league, not a head coach.

Ollie is Detroit’s second finalist for the head coaching job. According to a report by The Stallion, Detroit general manager Troy Weaver is a big fan of Ollie and is open to the idea of him becoming head coach.

There have been some big names in the head coaching market recently, including Mike Budenholzer and Nick Nunes. There are other young but experienced NBA assistant coaches who are raising their stock, including Chris Quinn (Miami), Kevin Young (Phoenix), and Jodie Fernandez (Sacramento). The embarrassment for Detroit fans would be enormous if they let Ollie go and hired him as head coach.

There aren’t many success stories of coaches coming from the college ranks. Brad Stevens (Boston) is a prime example, and Billy Donovan (Chicago) is hard to evaluate.

The rest of the coaches have a dismal track record. The most recent college coach to come over from the NBA, John Beilein of the University of Michigan, was fired by the Cleveland Cavaliers after less than a season.

A college head coach is a risk in and of itself, and Ollie’s college track record is far from stellar. There are a lot of head coaching candidates out there, so why did Detroit stick with Ollie, and what was it about him that made them so happy? From an outsider’s perspective, it’s certainly a baffling development.