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36ers Coaching staff

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.

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

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

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!!

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

This is the first time that I have written on this site as I tend to reader and not a writer but like all things I have something to say.I know my comments wont please some!

My area of work is with marketing and sponsorship and yes I have been involved in Basketball as a player and now as an active parent watching my two daugthers.

Once again Basketball SA has lost a Golden Opportunity in promoting itself. My daughter plays Div 1 for North and Friday nights is the night where we crab the pillow and drinks and head of to stadiums scattered throughout the metro area. It has become all to familiar but as a parent you do it.

My daughter is most fortunate in reaching the Grand Final which is a credit to her and the girls in her team and I dare say the girls in the opposition side as well, well done to all.

I have glady stated to all our friends and family that the Final is on a Sunday morning. Immediately this has attracted a negative response, Why Sunday and not Friday, thats my sleep in and so forth.

All year we play Friday nights and for some reason the GF is Sunday morning...this is totally out of character (again) and not thinking about the sport in general. My friends and family would love to see our daughter play but will not go down on a Sunday...Surely at a time where money is a hard product to find why they wouldn't stick to a Friday night GF.....what about those families who attend church or children who are not allowed to play on a Sunday?

This GF is in my opinion a retrograde step and one Basketball SA should look at. Dont tell me that they cant or do not have the stadiums Friday night as we have played everynight for the last several months, We all know months out when the GF is going to be so why not schedule?.....Basketball SA you need to look at your marketing and the ease in which people would like to go and watch on a Friday Night...by attracting spectators to a sport that they dont rarely see can only build a new market to the game...Why cant we have sell outs at the Sixers games now? Why! because we do not sell the game to the people instead lets just throw it on a Sunday morning and hide the game from everyone.

It's about time the few were accoutable to the Game and bring basketball back to the people! Hey you never know you might actually make extra money at the door with spectators!!!or sell more season tickets to the Lighting and Sixers?