ostrich52
Years ago
Cuurent GM - USA
New GM - USA born
Perth Head Coach - USA born
Perth Ass Coach - USA
Melbourne Head Coach - USA born
Wollongong Head Coach - USA born
Wollongong Ass Coach - USA
Sydney Head Coach - USA born
Brisbane Head Coach - USA
Brisbane Ass Coach - USA born
National Coach - USA born
mmmmmmm
Years ago
Yea same with Soccer!!! To many foreigners in that sport.... ERRRRR....... Im just been sarcastic of couse.... but there are.
"Im just been sarcastic of couse.... but there are." ... ah .. the hard task of getting sarcasim down pat strikes again ... bad luck mmmmmmmmmm
Kent Brockman
Years ago
i never realised how much ass coaching was involved in the NBL and want to know why the sixers dont also have one of these so called ass coaches.
Add these to the list;
Bullets and Sydney GM also US born.
US based naming sponsor.
Also, add me to the list of people who dont care!
XY
Years ago
Ronaldson just has a huge ass.
Do any other teams have coaches for other body parts? Shoulders, knees...?
Phizzer
Years ago
I think there is a point to be made actually. Look at all the hundreds of young coaches in Australia, working with juniors, elite programs, even the Institute and ABL, yet it's very difficult to get into an NBL coaching job if you've been brought up coaching juniors in Australia and never played at a high level yourself.
Richard Orlick springs to mind as a guy who was never a great player, but rose to get a head coaching job.
Does this mean we are not training our young coaches to the best of their ability or are professional clubs bias and prefer foreigners or ex-players?
Isaac
Years ago
Might there be an issue of professional players not respecting those who've come from junior coaching ranks as much? Or a perception from clubs appointing professional coaches that that is the case?
mmmmmmm
Years ago
"Does this mean we are not training our young coaches to the best of their ability or are professional clubs bias and prefer foreigners or ex-players?"
You have a point but the cold hard fact is you are right and nothing will change that. Players will always have more success at the senior level, but there are exceptions, and americans will always feature heavily in our sport.
Phizzer AFL is played internationally - The USA for example has a semi-national afl comp. Do you think many Australian's are coaching in that league or americans?
If you are coaching kids because you want to coach professional basketball in Australia I would suggest go for it, but dont put all your eggs into that basket its unlikely, nae virtually impossible, you will coach in the NBL. Its unlikely you will get there. I think Aussies should seek to go over to US COlleges to coach. US people love AUssies, there are a lot more coaching roles over there (more schools/bigger coaching staffs), matters less if you played and its more money!
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