Should not retire, this is one season. Give him a chance to revive what he let slide this season.
If he goes then s will breahny.

Who does ADELAIDE want as their coach? include current or non current NBL coaches.

Stacker will get the gig I think.

I've also heard Stacker mentioned.

I hope not..

If Phil Smyth walks (he will not be pushed) the onlyperson for the job is Scott Ninnis.

Hiring Ian Stacker would almost be as bad as Brendon Joyce (almost) because he is just a knob head who didn't do squat at T/ville.


Ninnis or talk Smyth into staying on.

Have found Stacker professional in my dealings with him, for what that's worth.

Ninnis/Arsego is the rumoured alternative.

Left field and it wont happen .... Carrie Graf.

Depends what you classify as a tight budget. For all intents and purposes, they spent the cap, but not more.

Phil to walk? Sounds plausible. I'd bale. Not a fun job this year. He'll get another gig somewhere soon.
Ninnis/Arsego - sounds good to me.
Graf - pffft. Jan Stirling would be much better (got a better gig tho)

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I don't think Phil would be sleeping with any of the players either...

My vote is for Scott Ninnis, time to rebuild with a plan and a vision. You can't do that with guys 35+.

Ninnis for sure. Young, local, 10 years experience as assistant at 3 teams. He is well known and well liked and will pull a lot of young SA talent back to their home state. The 36ers defiantly need a change at the top just to freshen thinks up if nothing else.

The coach is irrelevant, get some f**king talent on the court first

Stacker WAS in Adelaide last week. Dunno if it had anything to do with the sixers.

Awesome news! I will admire Smyth if he has the courage to stand down at the end of the season Instead of continuing so he can collect another seasons salary.

We need a rebuild and Ninnis is the man to do it! Signs are looking great for next season.

WOW, i sorta want Smyth to stay on and hava crack at rebuilding it with Hemmerling, but given he did the same thing with the Boomers i wouldnt be surprised if he just cut his losses and moved on, he hinted he would do it if he felt it was time on his interview with peter walsh on abc.net.au. I just saw a post on ozhoopsboards about a rumour of Stacker, Newley, Cat and Mee coming to Adelaide, anyone else heard this one or think its true???

If only there was a board to support him.

Phil to go Ninnis to come in

Phil Jackson

Adelaide needs some Zen

Jonno, yes that rumour is around the place, but then there are loads of them, many at odds with others.

ok yea, we will just have to wait and see, i dont know about Stacker as a coach im not his biggest fan and would personally prefer Ninnis or Smyth but i would love to see Newley, Mee and Cat back in Adelaide, a team like PG Mee, SG Maher, SF Newley, PF Cat, C Horvath with a bench along the lines of Cooper, Majstro, Ng, Sutton, Hill would be a great team in my opinion, some would question the age of the starting 5, but Horvath and Newley are both under 30 and the other 3 can still play and it would still be a younger team than this years so i would have no problem with it. I guess we will have to wait and see what happens!

No, naturalised during this season which is why Cairns are able to suit Owens and Thornton as their imports.

At least the Adelaide - Goorjian rivalry would continue to flourish if Stacker was coaching the Sixers.

Yea thats a good point, and if Stacker is able to bring guys like Newley with him that makes him very attractive to hire, but yea i would still prefer Smyth or Ninnis personally, interesting times ahead it seems, has the Smyth to jump rumour been confirmed yet??

Phil is being pushed but will portray it as it was his decision to leave. Stacker will get the gig with Ninny as his assistant plus he will bring Newley with him if Mal opens the cheque book. Good situation for Newls at the moment with Gold Coast also bidding for his services. As it will be a rebuilding phase it is a win-win for both coaches. Stacker has the experience and is just happy to coach again and it brings Ninny home without the pressure of starting a programme from scratch, which is essentially what will need to be done. Not good for Ninny to take charge as there is no harder job than a rebuild plus throw in the pressure of being a new head coach, better to sit as an assistant for another year or two. Top job would be guaranteed after that.If you screw it up you only get one chance. Just ask Richard Orlick or Frank Arsego.

Only the one source reporting it to date - not really all that confirmed at this point.

what happens to his assistants??? Breheny seems to be a package deal with Smyth, but what happens to KB??? i guess it will depend on if the new coach wants him

Phil should be given another year to see what he can do with a much better team. While this year it appears he has failed, he has had poor tools to work with. He knows how to win championships when he has the right team. While Joey Wright seems to be the coach of the year because of what he has done with his team, he also had a team last season that on paper should have won a championship (and also rumored to be well above the salary cap). They didn't even make the grand finals. A great coach can have his work cut out for him if he doesn't have a great team to work with. Give him the right tools and then leave it up to him to use them right.

EC, Phil was quoted as saying his team had the talent to win the championship. Is he a poor judge of talent or has he failed to get the best out of what he believed to be a very talentd group.You cant have it both ways.

Its very easy to re quote Phil from earlier this year lets face it he is not going to say we have no hope. Do not buy your tickets its all doom and gloom. He still has to support the product and instil some confidence for the fans and the club.

Previous seasons when we have a team which I did not rate we have done fairly well. Although I have been very disappointed this season so 1 in 10 geez I feel so hard done by. Imagine being a Hunter fan or Newcastle fan try Townsville whom on paper have had some really good squads and delivered not that much.

Its all about perspective, bringing up what Phil says preseason its a product does everyone here purchase anti wrinkle creams on the hope it will work? try being a coach of side that really is a band aid and tell the fans what you really think who are you kidding.

Thats a fair post

couldn't we put this season down as an expirement young v's old.....
last seasons crew holmes, foreman, gower and slambour v's copeland timmons and wheeler.
the young crew made play offs but where knocked out in sudden death,where the old crew are struggling to even make playoffs.

With all this talk Stacker vs Ninnis, why cant we have them both? Give Stacker a two year deal with Ninnis as 1st assistant for two years - sappa, kb whoever as second assistant, than after the 2 years stacker gets moved on Ninnis has a team he has had a hand in assembling/rebuilding and is now headcoach with the 2nd assistant moving up as well.

Seems logical to me?

booga - i dont think you could view it that way at all - timmons and copeland both signed during the season.

i still think copeland has been one of the better performers this season, Timmons I think is well and truly past the NBL.

The youngs guns have done a serviceable job this year, but i wouldnt say any of them have had a stellar year.

Um Yogee, Copeland was signed before the season started!

Anthony, if you don't have confidence in the roster, pitch them as the underdogs or recruit and development talent for the future benefit of the club (and don't bother with the 'young talent just goes elsewhere' argument - that only happens if you let them come out of contract). You don't need to float an average team as contenders if you don't believe it.

Remember that Boti, too, had high hopes for the roster and he is not in marketing for the club, he reports on what he sees. Everyone can remember Breheny touting Majstrovich as a potential Cattalini, Boti saying Willie was looking like he was in 2002 form and that Nashy would be a contender for the Sixth Man award.

Now, a lot of the year does come down on the player's shoulders but you're suggesting that Smyth would puff up the team to sell tickets - I don't think we were ever going to be favourites, but I think pitching them as an outside chance was fair and that fans hoping for a 6-8 finish were reasonable.

So its pretty clear... you adelaide boys want Joyce as head coach...ha.
The impact of a switch to Ninnis would create a hige amount of Buzz in Hoops in SA. Everyone loves him, he's connected.
Ninni

So its pretty clear... you adelaide boys want Joyce as head coach...ha.
The impact of a switch to Ninnis would create a hige amount of Buzz in Hoops in SA. Everyone loves him, he's connected.
Ninni

Simple answer to this

Smyth head coach in 07/08 as per contract, scott ninnis assistant coach in 07/08..with first option on head coach 08/09+ if results dont stack up

Me, why would Ninny want to come back and be an assistant to Smyth again? What is he going to learn now that he maybe didn't in the past? He'd be better off staying where he is if this scenario were to happen.

I assume he (Ninnis) would want to come back, if he were guarenteed a head coach role in 08/09.

If (lol) as the current owner the stats man from fox is correct, KB wont have a role next year..which opens space for Smyth, Ninnis/Breheny

I still believe there is not a better head coach option available to replace Smyth with, maybe with an increased Assistants coach's role, Ninnis will be the option.

Yep, I'll concur with that....

Ninnis wants to be a head coach, not an assistant to Smyth and Breheny. Why would he take a backward step?

Its not a backward step..what is his current role? Which by the way lets be honest was one hell of a slap in the face in my opinion.

What evidence does anyone have to suggest that Ninnis will be a better head coach than Smyth. My 'theory" is based on Ninnis taking a very senior role at the 36ers with an assumption of the head coach role in 08/09 (if he has shown to have the right stuff.)

Apart from the typical rantings of the anti Phil brigade. What i have seen this year (and i will be honest, being stuck over here means ive only seen then twice live) Phils coaching has appeared much that same as years in which we won the championship.

Seems clear to me, from everyones comments here as well as what ive seen as to what has been reported.
1) Willie has had a poor year
2) the replacements were not up to the job
3) Maher has had a less than "Maher" standard year.
4) injuries were relevant
5) we had a cr#p squad

Players win games, coaches win championships, we havent won enough games!

Me,
Maher has averaged about the same as he has the last 3 seasons, plus carried us a lot more than ever!

I agree with the rest of your comments though...

Phil will have to stay regardless of what happens with Ninnis, he is contracted, doesnt have a choice really. (other than to leave, which would save the club cash..and give those of you who want him, Ninnis as head coach)

Ninnis went to dragons be the 1st assistant...is he?

Regarding Maher, i havent checked the stats carefully, my apologies, was just a general feeling i had about his season, I certainly was not suggesting he had not performed...more that injury etc had restricted him. I stand corrected.