Think Melbourne might just pull this one off, even though Fire have beaten them twice, if Boomers come out like they did last night they may just take this home

I wonder if any teams will push Nicholson to her right hand this season. I don't track track every possession like Ryan (new poster - preview of Southside v Tville game) although it seems like she does all her damage going left (interesting for a right handed player).

Nicholson drives left and puts the lay up in with her right hand and draws the foul almost every time

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Not a single mention of Liz in this thread. She isn't playing in this game.

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regret, ABCiview quality is almost unwhatchably bad

iview all good, now. In comes the league's best 6th woman... Gonna dunk it..

Someone call heal a taxi, she's travelled almost every possession and nothing is called

You r a useless coach Molloy!!!!!!!
Please don't give him another year!!!!

Oh my Molloy.

Hopefully that now is the last we have to see of Molloy and zboomers can start a rebuild minus tall ferns and their coach

Madgen scored 0 second half.

She was like a deer in head lights , couldn't make a firm decision the entire night, she was cooked at half time, Garrick played great as but god she makes some bad shot choices

At some point this season, Garrick needed to start hitting shots consistently. 31-FG% and 27-3P% just doesn't cut it.

Surely this now needs to be the end of Molloy at Melbourne boomers! how many seasons has he had and how many championships he won? just can't get there there. Time for a change

Today

Has he seriously been around for 12 seasons?? With that budget how he has not won a championship is baffling


Don't think it’s 12 , more like 8 but still a very long time

He’s 4 years in the job over what he should have been for sure

" Molloy began his coaching career with the WNBL Canberra Capitals in 1989 before switching to men's coaching. From 1993-96 he returned to the WNBL and coached the Perth Breakers to four consecutive finals appearances, including a grand final loss at the buzzer. In 1995, he was awarded the WNBL Coach of the Year award for the first time.

After a lengthy stint as an assistant coach in the NBL with the SE Melbourne Magic and Victoria Titans, he moved north to head coach the fledgling Cairns Taipans from 2000-05, taking the club to its maiden finals appearance in 2004. He moved to the South Dragons in 2006 as an assistant coach, and eventually reunited his partnership with Brian Goorjian in 2008-09 when the Dragons won the NBL Championship.

In between NBL seasons, Molloy did a ton of high-level junior men’s coaching leading Vic Metro U18’s to three successive gold medals, and three Australian teams to the quarter-finals or better at FIBA World Cups, the highlight being the 2012 Australian U17 men’s team which won the silver medal.



2013 saw a return to where it all started in the WNBL, this time as the head coach of the Deakin Melbourne Boomers, picking up the accolade of Coach of the Year for the 2013-14 season and another finals appearance. Molloy has been with the club ever since.

“I had been coaching men’s basketball for a long time, and I was ready for something different. A good friend of mine, Lori Chizik, and another person who was to become a good friend, Linda Perry, both talked to me about the possibility of coaching the Boomers."

“I thought, I’ll do it for a year and see where things sit after that. It’s now seven years later and I’m still here.”

“It hasn’t been a smooth, continuous journey at all. The Boomers have gone through a complete life-change, from the old model as an arm of the Bulleen-Templestowe Basketball Club into the new model of private ownership and professionalism; a model under which the Club has flourished. We’ve had so many challenges and problems, but I’m just proud to have served the Club so long and hope to enjoy coaching while the Club is at such a wonderful point.”

As for career highlights whilst at the Boomers, Molloy points to his unheralded first team in 2013-14 which defied odds and made finals, and then his 2017-18 team which won an amazing semi-final series vs Perth but lost the grand final series to Townsville after three fierce games. “

He’s been going for a very long time lol

Yep, he goes back to the 80s and in the 90s had a stacked Perth Breakers team. Add in NBL stint at Cairns and he has been failing for a very long time. No one else would be even close to having this much of an opportunity without a Championship.

So that's 17 seasons in total as a head coach combining both WNBL and NBL, spanning 1989 to present. Amazing.

Maybe he needs to go into politics, he seems to be able to profit enough BS to get a job, lol.

But you would have to think, unless he's got financial input into Melbourne Boomers , this would be his last season , even he himself must be able to see he needs to move on