so whats your point/question? I'm not sure what your getting at

It's not a question! Point is criticsm of recruiting, game style, win/loss etc. General comparison to other coaches in the league.

There are three world class coaches in the NBL. Rob Beveridge, Gordie McLeod and Marty Clarke.

Agreed Ganymede 64!coaching is about developement and improvement not how much money you have,36ers and Hawks both have limited $$$, 36ers are young, Hawks have some old heads, but both are improving. Thats what good coaching can get you.

Agreed ganymede 64. Beveridge and Mcleods teams the two best in the league, systems in place and virtually unchanged over the last couple of years. Marty is quality and Radford is a chamionship assistant, they will improve that club.

yeh its good to not see people calling for the coaches head, however i think everyone only called for ninnis because he was just making some poor decisions last season.

sixers will definitely go along way in the near future, some people just have unrealistic expectations and expect a championship right here right now. it will be good to win a championship without going bust at the end of the season though, its gonna be good watching this team grow.

Marty and Mark have done well so far since the Phi/steve days,Sixers will do better in next few years, i believe a grand Final appearance within 4 years.

I think Fearne is doing an excellent job.

lemanis anyone?

Exactly, teaching the game of basketball and improving your players and teams is what coaching is all about, and Clarke and Radford appear very good, look at the improvement in Dowdell for an example, Hill also appears a bit more steadier than he used to.

I was watching a basketball vid a few weeks ago about young americans building a career after college, i forget what its called, it had Robert Johnson (college player graduating) and Bennet Davison was also in it, he was playing in Europe and going to summer leagues in the NBA to try and get a contract and they interviewed a coach from somewhere in Europe (from memory he was american) and i think the best thing he said was something along the lines of

'coaching is all about the kids and making each player better and better every week, some coaches get too caught up in winning and losing but its all about the kids and if the kids improve the other stuff takes care of itself'

I was like Amen

Im sure that anyone that coaches knows you improve at practice, then put it into a game situation. Im very confident coach Clarke knows exactly where DJ is at in his developement, good player DJ,great player soon.

Im not sure if lemanis is, he definatly has the money we know that, or he can make 1 Million go a long way, Might be the exchange rate helping him out!

Was a tough matchup for Johnson trying to chase Davidson out to the three point line. I imagine he will get more minutes this week against Sydney. The week before against Townsville's 'traditional’ bigs he got plenty of minutes.

I also like the fact that I believe the coaching staff have told their players to play in the SBL this season coming to continue their development under their wacthful eyes. Should make for a tough SBL if they are spread across teams.

I think Johnson is a good talent, not many mobile 7ftrs like him. He is young and part of recruiting him i imagine would be where he will be in 2 years time. Creek speaks for himself so the future looks bright. Holmes?? yeh i agree but i wouldnt throw the young guys to the wolves too early!!

Lemanis has a squad but I'm suspect till his team makes some noise in the playoffs.

There is a vision for SA basketball, not just the 36ers. Well done coaches, development in the off season, everyone wins.

johnno did you just state that hill has improved which game were you at l have seen better basketball brains in a butchers shop than in hill .as for the coach as gaze said why would you take some one like balls out when he was red hot is beond logic.in saying all this what a great game at the gong

Paul I agree about Fearne. The silent achiever.

marty clarke is real good.. had patty mills, joe ingles, nathan jawai, aaron baynes, stevie weigh and AJ ogilvy all on the same team and couldnt win the SEABL

Before they played pro...

How many SEABL championships has the AIS won?

Not enough if they're supposed to be our best kids from around the country and most go to good college programs in the US straight afterwards. I agree, Marty Clarke had NBA and Euro League players a year or two before they were stars, should've won the SEABL with that talent

vesta 15 and john = same IP *and* same computer. Of course you agree...

Shall I save you the 'but we're two people sharing a computer' reply?

Hill is a little steadier than last season.
Clearly sensing he was gonna be told to do push ups, for mistakes at training, he raced over and did 'em, anyways, during a play. . made me laugh.

A good teaching coach, obviously.
I confess the subs are an enigma to me.

Made the very tough calls on Winder, DeVries and followed up earlier contacts - Howard Shannon Bogut and the like - impressive.