Give us some examples in today's game, you need to back it up.

"The man can coach, obviously"

That is the part I want to see examples of :p

I have NEVER before seen a game in which they so often ran out of shot clock. Obviously that is a credit to NZ defense, and comes down to the players on the court. But Gleeson is the author. Surely he has a plan B or C?

In the first half Beal got called for his 3rd foul. A softish block, nothing to get excited about, but he was immediately subbed for LUKE Martin. That immediately resulted in two turnovers. Subbing Beal on a 3rd foul is questionable, but standard. Replacing him with Luke (instead of U'U or even Hire) makes no sense.

For some reason this game, every time Jervis was on they kept running the "Centre at top of the Key" on offence (I don't know what you call it.) Jervis is not a great passer, he can't hit from out there, nobody is going to let him put in the floor from there, and he's got buckleys of snaring a board. He has proven his value close to the rim with both points and rebounds. He saw limited minutes today, for limited impact, probably because the plays weren't working.

As per usual, he started the last quarter with the bench, to give the starters extra rest. Fine, except they were getting butchered in the opening minutes and lost the biggest lead of the game.
Daniels was our leading scorer, leading rebounder (and had no fouls), yet Gleeson kept him sitting on the bench for the first 3 minutes.

It also seemed that he could have made better use of his time outs.

Lastly, when after free-throws the opposition has 2.6 seconds to inbound and score, how do you not program a play to stop that?

they kept running the "Centre at top of the Key" on offence (I don't know what you call it.)

Daniels was our leading scorer, leading rebounder (and had no fouls), yet Gleeson kept him sitting on the bench for the first 3 minutes.

Lastly, when after free-throws the opposition has 2.6 seconds to inbound and score, how do you not program a play to stop that?

Didn't see the regular portion of the game, but do you mean a pick and roll? Pretty standard.

He was up 7 at that stage. Very, very common to start a bench rotation in the fourth.

Dazz it's also a game of peaks & valleys. It's easy to blame the coach in hindsight! Jackson misses that shoe & Gleeson rocks?

U being a tad harsh!!

Great explanations Isaac. I thought it was an incredible game to see. Both teams had opportunities to win and you can't really say the better team won. I'd love to see these 2 in the Grand Final after today. That shot was pure luck. You can't write a play to defend something like that. To blame a coach for a half court shot going in is hilarious.

Gleeson didn't miss all those 3s that Damien Martin did. I don't like Gleeson as much as the next guy, but maybe its as much the players fault as Gleeson's at this stage.

I struggle to understand what people don't like about him. He's the most passionate coach we've had in this league IMO, can't see a problem with that.

Dazz, just be thankful that Gleeson isn't Marty Clarke. Perth would be anchored to the bottom even with their roster if he was your coach.

If you want proof just look at the team Clarke took to two bottom places and a second bottom. Then Joey Wright comes in and takes almost the same roster to a Grand Final in one season.

The Cats had plenty of chances to blow the Breakers right out of the Perth Arena but didn't. And I think it had more to do with their woeful shooting than Gleeson's coaching.

Mark Radford was just as bad, Marty had the wrong support around him which didn't help. But thats another story! Your right though, that coaching staff would break Perths streak i a heart beat haha

Hahaha I forget about the garden gnome.

But but but, wasn't he Bevo's assistant when Perth won the GF?

Kinda shows who was the brains of that coaching outfit.

Man you asked Radford, he will always be the brains! Poor guy was so out of his depth yet it was everyone else fault but his. Loved Stevie Weigh though haha

So why is the shot clock running out the coaches problem? Since when?

If Jackson misses that shot we're still excoriating Gleeson for the fact we scraped a 1pt 2OT win against a side where four starters had fouled out and we needed Abercrombie to go 0/2 from the foul line.

Losing that game was simply ridiculous - losing it to a 3/4 court prayer was apt in its own way, but we really shouldn't have lost that, especially when we built a solid 7-pt lead at 3Qtr time.

Dazz it's also a game of peaks & valleys. It's easy to blame the coach in hindsight! Jackson misses that shoe & Gleeson rocks?

I dont think Gleeson is a good coach. Anyone could have coached last years team to the Championship. The next few years will determine his coaching ability with a somewhat ageing roster.

@tornado how do you explain the success he had in Townsville then? Five straight playoffs with undermanned and underfunded teams.

Were any of those appearances in years outside the eight-team playoff format?

I can't see what that has to do with it considering they haven't made the playoffs once in the 4 years since he's been there!

A freak shot in 2 o/t and its the coaches fault and btw he cant coach. Amazing.

I agree. I think I read somewhere recently that he has one of the best winning records of any NBL coach. Credit where credit is due. I don't really care what style a coach has as long as they're successful.

I can't see what that has to do with it considering they haven't made the playoffs once in the 4 years since he's been there!

I'm not sure that "they've only made the playoffs once in the top-four system" is a very good rebuttal to "they only made the playoffs that many times because of the top-eight system." If anything, it reinforces my point.

Dammit, messed up the quoting. First paragraph is a quote, second paragraph is my reply.

Um are you drunk? Read my line again. Townsville made playoffs every year, all 5 of them, when Gleeson was there. Do you even follow NBL?

Yes, but was that because of Gleeson, or because Gleeson's tenure coincided with more teams making the playoffs?

The man can coach, obviously. And he's won a championship, so credit where its due.

Your own words Dazz = cant' coach.