Capone then daylight. Then a little bit more daylight.

Agreed. Caporn.

Forde

There will be a Tassie coach called for soon I would imagine. I would take Caporn.

Smythe a terrible idea, need a cleanout so Brooks out and have Deja vu feeling with Caporn and Marty Clarke. Big difference in going from coaching kids to adults. And assistant to boomers doesn't count.

Have you all not learned from the Marty years? Don't take a coach whose only coaching experience is walking straight into a cushy AIS job.

There's plenty of assistant coaches in the league that have grinded their way up winning at multiple levels.

He's a good bloke to speak to but let another club take that risk on Caporn.

Ben Rush is available.

It's not that you exclude anyone who has mainly coached kids, it's that you exclude those who have only coached kids. Caporn has no pressure to win at the COE.

Also picking an American who has been an assistant only and never had to make in game decisions would be just as bad. Haven't we seen from Weaver's terrible performance so far how poor some of these American coaches are who spend their careers as assistants and never had to make in game decisions can be. Sure he threw out some adjustments in game two of the GF series but otherwise he has been comprehensively demolished by the other coaches in the league and is being saved by talent.

Henare coming back from Japan would be best.

Brooks with Smyth as assistant. Locked in, avoid the PR spin machine from the front office.

Adelaide should be chucking the kitchen sink at Gleeson, or Nielsen. Get someone that knows the nbl system and is good, I don't rate ais coaches in that bracket.

Capone is clueless.
Has very little coaching experience coaching actuations games and that matters a lot.
If you have ever watched his teams play it's almost comical.
God help the 6ers if he’s their new coach.

Capone is clueless.
Has very little coaching experience coaching actuations games and that matters a lot.
If you have ever watched his teams play it's almost comical.
God help the 6ers if he’s their new coach.

Include Scott Roth and Adam Forde from Kings

Dunlap is available again after parting ways with LMU. What about even giving Worthington a look, knows league. Give him an experienced assistant and see what happens.
Pity Pitino just signed with Iona, would have given league just as big a boost as Ball and Hampton.

Brooks as head coach and Smyth as assistant? That's a joke right?

Who's actually going to do the coaching? Neither of those two, that's for sure.

Is there a fourth candidate?

Brooks. Um no and I don't even like Adelaide but that would be a dumb move.

Genius move. Hire the coach you fired 20 years ago that no other club in the world has hired to coach since. Egg on every other clubs face. Sneak attack!
You go Adelaide. 36 years behind the rest of the country like your name says.

We just forgetting Caporn is a shit coach? Remember what happened with his U19 team at Worlds? Sucks in seabl.... ask the former AIS/COE players how much they like him. I know some players that won't want to be in Adelaide if he’s there. Mcveigh, Froling, Vasilejevic and Wilson all hated playing for Caporn. Goodluck Adelaide lmaooooo

Phil isn't on the coaching select panel

The independent that was on the panel has stepped down due to a conflict around Phil becoming a coach

Good work Triton, way to rep your club and your guy. Whilst he has an over sense of his own significance (albeit a great guy and local coach) I think he would realise he is a long way off an NBL coach as does everyone else around.

Don't care who gets it, but everyone who was there this year has to go. No clowns from that circus should be re-employed. Have a total cleanout and rebuild.

Caporn it is

Marty mk2 or Phil Mk 1?

Fearless would not be to bad, his teams play D and with more money he would have better players.

To the anon above recommending KB, have you seen him coach locally?

^thanks for that Kevin. Or more probably Jantke.

Please stop banging on about people who either haven't coached their own team or have very little experience.

Just because you have played means fk all when your coaching against really coaches.

Every now and then you get lucky but history suggests you wont.

Athletes aren't dumb. They want to be coached properly.

Gaze = dud
Clarke = dud
Ninnis = dud
Heal = dud
Anstey = dud
D-Mac = dud
Brooks = won 1 game caching centrals woman = dud

What do they all have in common? Very little experience head coaching their own teams.

Nick Nurse = coach who put in the hours coaching his own team. No one ever heard of him until he got the job

There are plenty of guys like that around the world.

If you want to cycle back, where is Dean Kingsman? He's a proper coach. Invested time and effort in developing his craft.

Ex-players think because they know how to call a time out that they can coach a team at this level.

Boti reporting Aaron Fearne on shortlist of canditates

Won a title at woodville men.

I stand correct if KB won with the men.

Doesn't change my point that we recruit professional players so why not do the same with coaches?

These players who do very little time honing their craft walk into these jobs and fail and we wonder why.

AFL saw Voss and Hird fail miserably before they started to value coaches who have coached their own team and invested in their development.

Just saw a name that id be happy with, John Rillie. Still a rookie head coach but done a good apprenticeship in college. Better than Caporn

Anon, you are either:

A) trolling
B) KB

You have no idea what you are on about. Ask those who've worked closely with KB. You may not like the responses.

Based on initial list it's like choosing Hitler, Stalin or Pol Pot.

JR would be a good choice.

He was an assistant for so long because Joey keeps his friends around.
No doubting he knows basketball but being a head coach is a different beast.
He's lazy and does not put in the work.
Ask around, you’ll find this to be true.
There is just no need for another rookie coach with the 6ers.
KB in the mix because there are very little people making basketball decisions in these clubs that have any idea themselves.
Look at the NBA. Most of the GM’s or Presidents are not ex players and have busted their backside doing everything and anything to work there way up.
Is Australia, we reward names, not knowledge.
JVG is another poor hire. He hired Gaze in Sydney why? Not because he can coach. Gaze was a terrible junior coach and showed the same coaching at a higher level.
Knowing what levers to pull and when is honed over many years working on your craft, coaching games. Not sitting on a bench keeping track of fouls.

So Smyth never applied for the job. Did Bevo? Who else is on the list?

Smyth just wants to be on the gravy train, not be the chef.

He isn't on any gravy train. Do you actually know what he is doing now? The loonies are getting worse here every day.

Has KB ever applied for other openings or been head hunted by other clubs? If not there's nothing wrong with that but would think if he was good enough he would have thrown hat in the ring a few times, even if it was for the experience. And clubs would have enquired on his availability.
They would have to give his application thought but this bad public split by Joey surely has hurt his chances, if Joey had walked off into sunset, no allegations against coaching staff or management and Joey had given his support I reckon he would be a front runner. But the next hire has to be a delicate one, KB does speak his mind and has alienated players before.
American coaches seemed to have struggled, Weaver had a hot start but cooled off and questionable decisions despite having maybe most talented team ever had them facing a runners up position before all the bullshit started.
Take a look in Europe, find an up and comer at smaller Euro club or even one that's a national team coach at smaller country. Despite getting sacked at Phoenix Igor Koskokov did a great job with Slovenia a couple of years ago and now head coach of Serbia. May as well take a risk on one of those than some of the boring names on the list. Would way preferred a Euro guy for boomers instead of keeping Simmons happy with Brown. And let's face it, Brown is guaranteed to get sacked before new season. Good at losing, not so good at winning and hasn't exactly set up a Spurs culture.