Manute Bol
Years ago
At number 1.....
It all about the 48 minute grind baby!
Johnny Sack
Years ago
I will always have a place in my heart for Don Shipway... That incident in Hobart is one of my most cherished memories... This moron has been heckling all game from behind the bench, Don gestures for him to come closer (like he want's to whisper something to him) and BANG! slaps him clean across the face... The best part is the fact that the guy ACTUALLY bent forward towards Shipway when he getsured (all on camera) - ahh Tassie...
Phil Smyth.. for recruiting old players and also players that are injury prone
Sturty6ers
Years ago
In no particular order:
Brian Goorjian (Best coach going around at the moment)
Ken Cole (He had flair)
Brian Kerle (Amazing what he did with the Bullets in the early years)
Lindsay Gaze (The Granddaddy of coaching)
Cal Bruton (You have to have guts to take over WSR)
Al Westover (From the LGaze school of coaching he is a very talented man)
This is my top six. I didn't put in Joey Wright because even 'Booga' could have coached that lot and got the same result.
Phizzer
Years ago
Great photo Manute.
Goorjian "I want you to play defense like a tiger. Like a tiger. Like....a....tiger"
Axeman
Years ago
Brian Kerle
Boy Gorj (hate to say it)
Phil Smyth
Ken Cole
Cal Bruton
Lindsay Gaze
Id probably put them in that order. A top ten? I cant come up with enough quality coaches for a top ten as the NBL (IMO) is not old enough
DrB
Years ago
1.Goorj
2.Lindsay Gaze
3.Barry Barnes
4.Phil Smythe
5.Brendan Joyce
6.Ken Cole
7.Brian Kerle
8.Adrian Hurley
9. Alan Black
10. Cal Bruton
Would have to throw Dave Lindstrom in there somewhere.
Andrew
Years ago
1. Goorj
2. Kerle
3. Smyth
4. Gaze
5. Cole
6. Barnes
7. Palmer
8. Hurley
9. Joyce
10. Black
JohnnySack
Years ago
Just out of curiosity - How does Brett Brown rate??? Incomplete???
I think (correct me if i am wrong) he won the title at his first tilt with a so-so team... But he did have D-Mac...
DB5
Years ago
and he did beat us...damn that shoulder injury to Davis.
TK
Years ago
1 Hurley
2 Goorj
3 Brown
4 Barnes
5 Kerle
6 Gaze
7 Smyth
8 Black
9 Palmer
10 Westover
Isaac
Years ago
I think Westover will be working his way up that list over the next few years.
DB5
Years ago
Not Barnes, I blame him for all those missed medal rounds 90-00.
Plus he screwed Maher as well...
Sween
Years ago
Hurley
daylight
Goorj
Kerle
Brown
Gaze
Smythe
Palmer
Black
more daylight
JohnnySack
Years ago
I am surprised at the love for Barnes as well... Never rated him at all - how he got the Boomers gig i just don`t know...
DB5
Years ago
Couldn't even see straight...Probably didn't even see Maher on the end of the bench!
Andrew
Years ago
JohnnySack,
Brett Brown's effort as a rookie coach with Nth Melb in 94 was fantastic, beating another rookie coach, Dunlap, in the grand final.
Not so sure about your assertion that he had a so-so team though. He had at his disposal a very accomplished, experienced line-up, including veterans Larry Sengstock, Mark Leader and Darryl Pearce, a couple of fair imports in D-Mac and Paul Maley, plus a young Pat Reidy and Paul Rees.
JohnnySack
Years ago
Dunno... Andrew - that was my take on that Giants squad (bear in mind they were on the verge of liquidation when the season began - backs to the wall type stuff)... Maley and especially D-Mac were a fine tandem - but after that the quality dropped off considerably... Those vets were pretty much clapped out in `94... and I never thought that Reidy was that great (but an extremely intelligent player who made something out of his VERY LIMITED physical gifts) and Rees played the season of his career (which he parlayed into a trip to the WC`s in Canada)... I still maintain that it was a (on paper a very weak team) - and rates as one of the best (if not the best) seasons/GF wins in NBL history...
DrB
Years ago
i am also not sure you can place westover in this league a of yet. The team he has had the last two seasons have been over the cap and points system. lets see what happens in the future.
Smyth has gone downhill a bit.. after the title of 2002, he would've been up there with what he achieved with the Sixers in that short period of time
How about worst coaches of all time?
Dave Claxton has to be in there somewhere
Phizzer
Years ago
It's pronounced "Bwett Bwrown"
Sorry billo, couldn't resist.
"Like a TIGER"
(obviously no other Late Show fans on here)
Sween
Years ago
Worst coach has to be David Atkins (Hobart). The yank publicly ripped into Steve Carfino following a season where Carfino carried the team to finals contention. Result -Carfino took his skills elsewhere.
tyrone biggums
Years ago
For anyone who put down the following on their list:
Kerle
Barnes
Joyce
You are jokes and really should ask yourself 'what did the five fingers say to the face?' and slap yourself!!!
Those guys are all mini buses, much like Phil. I am surprised you didnt put in Mike Ellis or Mark Price
I am still laughing, Brian Kerle, please .............and Barry 'Bung eye' Barnes, did you ever see him coach Australia. Put down the crack pipe folks!!!
Graeme LeBroy
Years ago
I dunnnnnnnnnnnnno! I love the late show Phizzer as you are well aware!
Big Bad Brucie Palmer is number 1! Has to be for the number of times he blew an O ring!!! Ah the u20s in Perth last year.... memories!
amy
Years ago
I luv u phil ur are da best to my mum Karen. Mwa p.s thank you for all the free tickets you gave us
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