While his comparation to college basketball is worth disagreeing, pretty much his analysis of the game is pretty much spot on. He's right about the roster in terms of only having 2 or 3 guys that are capable of NBA play and a lot of those shots just turned into "bad isos".

He's also a high school coach and has not coached at any other level to knowledge.

Your going to stereotype a whole country based on one high school coach? You got to get a life dude.

Indeed. Almost a quarter of the NBA is made up of international players. This 'prejudice' isnt holding them back.

The reality with Australia is we produce a hell of a lot of good players but we only have one great one (Bogut, with Exum on his way). For a good player to make the NBA they generally have to have some special attributes (ie Mills speed, explosive scoring; Baynes, power and size) which few of our players do athletically.

I think Dikembe Mutombo would have put this shot back into the stands. I can see the finger waving ...

I agree the comments are being given way more attention than they deserve. Plenty of international players make the NBA including (last time I checked) a few Aussies.

just wondering, if some of the top aussie NBL players were born in america, do you think any of them could get in the NBA, even on the bench? i was thinking about this before.

As a coach who has coached at a high level and been to the US and watched Division 1 college trainings I would not pay much attention to some of these coaches. Their trainings sessions are pathetic, they just yell at players, rather than coach them. Australian coaches do an outstandng job of developing international players considering 99 % of us do it as a hobby and not a job/ career.

Australian coaches were just unlucky to be born in a country where basketball is not a career, whilst in America there are plenty of opportunities and jobs for coaches who have little understanding of how to coach players and manage people.

Thats my 2 cents worth.

St Mary's is one college where they develop competent players who also seem to make them good PEOPLE.

Following up Wayne's comment, college ball has such a high profile it's scary - almost like the expectations on the Demons in the AFL.

College coaching can be a job for life, and it's largely measured on bringing success to the program rather than the quality of the person they graduate.

They generally start with players with great skills, and their job is to harness those skills into a structure to give the program success. Development probably only gets encouraged where there's gap in the structure that needs filling.

They might talk a lot about picking only the best quality people, but I'm sure they'd pick a top-notch shooter who's a prick ahead of a nice guy who will get a few points and rebounds each game.

some american college basketball coaches make more than $3 million a year, they would be set for a rich life after a few seasons.
how much do nbl coaches get paid?

"interestingly, played at a slower tempo but with far more explosive movements."

This is spot on, and what makes the Aussie game (at all levels) quite unique, it's a really tough anaerobic sport the way we play, which unfortunately takes away from the explosive power aspects.

Do I hear dueling banjos in the distance...?

The guy falls short of being a red neck, just!

Agree with ^ comments, it is horses for courses, but the influx of Sudanese immigration here is changing the landscape.

Can we change our coaching style to suit the requirements of a change in the landscape, or are we doing just fine, thank you very much?

Oh yeah, and this guy hangs it on the Euro referees as well, implying they are inferior or inconsistent compared to NBA officials, he is kidding right??!

Have to agree with comments here. Never seen or heard of him and I reckon I have seen and heard from most. Trust me Australian coaches do just as good as USA coaches except we dont:

Have access to the players 7 days a week
Dont have the facilities
Dont have the athletic players they have in the USA

Which makes you see why USA coaches that come out here dont really do that well. They come out here thinking they know it all, but dont deal well with Aussie players.