Anonymous
Years ago

Do we Need a European Coach?

They do it with Football - why not with Basketball?
If were going to play in tournaments where the majority of top teams are European - playing European style ball - for European Refs = then certainly it makes sense to get a European coach?
There must be some top Euro-League coaches that arent coaching National Teams. Maybe a mercenary is what we need - somebody that doesnt care about NBL loyalties and will do whatever it takes to win

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Anonymous
Years ago

Euro coach for a group of players who play either NBA or NBL. Makes sense.

Not.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Makes sense when the 3 medalists are from Europe. Any Australian coach won a medal??? European basketball is way different to American and Australian ball. Let's get some new ideas and experience rather than spud Lemanis who's shit as a Nbl coach. And I'm not the OP.

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Anonymous
Years ago

American coaches have by far the best ratio of tournaments to gold medals. Must get an American coach.

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Just another poster
Years ago

First up every country complains about their coach, even the ones who medal. Talk to the French fans about their coach, they've been trying to get him fired for years. Short of getting Brett Brown, there's no one we're going to be really satisfied with.

Second we didn't medal not because of coaching, we straight up don't have the rosters Spain and France and even Serbia for that matter do. We have a lot of heart and character but that can only get you so far. Be interesting to see what happens next year when we can finally add some top end talent.

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Anonymous
Years ago

In every world cup since it began in the 1950s, a team that wears red, white and/or blue has medalled. Clearly we need to change the colour of our uniforms.

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LC
Years ago

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Isaac
Years ago

Makes sense when the 3 medalists are from Europe.

That's not true.

Further, the silver medallists didn't even have an NBA player, given Scola plays in China. Plus he's 39 years old which would've had some Australian fans clamouring for youth in his place.

We finished ahead of almost 10 Euro teams (depending on how you want to assess Russia, Turkey, etc). Swap Broekhoff for Gliddon and I think we would've won gold, though obviously other teams could play a similar hypothetical game.

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Luuuc
Years ago

Picking a coach based on geography? Then wanting that geographical region to be somewhere that the fewest Boomers actually play?

Silly

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paul
Years ago

"Makes sense when the 3 medalists are from Europe."

I'll let Argentina know.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Outside of the nbl, but an Aussie.

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koberulz
Years ago

"Makes sense when the 3 medalists are from Europe."

I'll let Argentina know.

Argentina has been in Europe ever since Manu Ginobili invented the Eurostep.

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Luuuc
Years ago

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paul
Years ago

Very phallic, Luuc

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Anonymous
Years ago

Thank you Paul and Luuuc you gave me a good laugh after a sad day for boomers fans. :::)))))

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koberulz
Years ago

Very phallic, Luuc

You may need to see a doctor.

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Anonymous
Years ago

No

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Curtley
Years ago

Keep Lemanis.

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Luuuc
Years ago

Keep Lemanis but get him a Swiss passport

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Todd
Years ago

Need a Serbian coach.

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Nostraballmus
Years ago

That's a bit radical
Rather Let’s sell Lemanis and our ' system’ to the majority of Europe who can’t even qualify
It’s proven and guaranteed to deliver a fourth place finish
Could make BA some money to give ol’ Simmo to play

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paul
Years ago

Lemanis is Latvian. Must be the secret to his success.

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Anonymous
Years ago

I think you will find it's Lithuania decent he’s from.

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rjd
Years ago

Must be how we beat Lithuania. So we are looking for a new coach of French/Spanish/Serbian descent to take over from Lemanis for the medal games.

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Hoopie
Years ago

Let's go one step further, rjd.

Let’s have a Boomers coaching group consisting of an Aussie coach with lots of international experience, an experienced NBL coach to manage the NBL players, a COE coach to mange up-and-coming young players, an experienced Euro coach for against Euro teams AND an experienced ex-NBA coach for against athletic tall players such as the US usually sends out.

Simples.

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Hoops

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