Hoops

Massingale speaks out

It is refreshing to read a first hand account on what happened.

Two sides to a story but Marty or Management need to offer their first hand account if the club wants to offer a credible rebuttal!

I fell sorry for CJ I'm a coach at Woodville and very week I take players to and from games and few trainings to help them out I want them to feel part of the club and get better as player and as a person. Marty Clarke has no idea how to coach and read the game or even help his own players that is poor by a head coach

Emabarrassed to be a member at the moment - that was a very tough read.

WTF is going on with this club?

Re: Bye bye Marty chant should ring throughout the arena on sunday!

"someone starts it, and I will happily join in".

Hey Jack Toft... I know you weren't having a go.. I thought the smiley face indicated that :) :) I agreed with your point.

Young Gun, I'm not having a go, just stating that different styles of leadership and personality work under different situations. I mean you wouldn't have some introverted brainiac as a Marketing Manager, you usually find them elsewhere

Hey Jack Toft. Don't be too hard on INTJs.. some of us are reasonable :) I think you may be onto something. Clarke seems to be better suited to Boomers Assistant or at the AIS.. or in a high performance centre.

When a guy is on $37000, sure it may be $72000/year, but that isn't that much either, the club should do what they can to look after him in other ways (that is legal under the T&C's of the NBL)...when a friend of mine was being recruited to the sixers, Smyth put him up in his spare room for the weekend. Would it have hurt to have organised lifts & like someone else said, organised a spare room in someone's house?

To me, I just back up what others have said.. the comments on Radford just reinforce what we've suspected. The unneccessary tech fouls are an outward sign of some bad character traits.

And, as others have said, I see that CJ was a player playing away from his strengths. It's hard to get momentum when you're only played in short bursts.

I'd probably also agree that the plays have been too complex. Boti has suggested as much as well. On the whole, NBL players aren't going to be rocket scientists, so it pays to keep the plays simple. Again, in his heyday, Smyth was good at this.

I really hope this isn't the end of the NBL road for CJ, because he was a model for a new generation coming to the NBL, like guys like Kelly, Cooke & Lowry were before him.

On the wages he is/has been on, how could he even afford to pay a decent manager?

"Seems to me that if a coach allowed CJ to play to his instincts he could pretty much bank a Perth performance every game."

I would love to see Marty's Myers-Briggs personality report. That might explain a fair bit about his coaching style and how he does things.

I could be wrong, but I suspect he may be an INTJ which is a rare group and around 2% of the population. This group is also called the "masterminds". INTJs live in the world of ideas and strategic planning. They value intelligence, knowledge, and competence, and typically have high standards in these regards, which they continuously strive to fulfill. To a somewhat lesser extent, they have similar expectations of others.

That may explain why Marty's complex game plays may be OK in his mind, but take longer for those "dumber" than Marty to understand.

I suspect that Phil was probably an ESFP (The Performer or The Composer) (Bill Clinton is an ESFP) They notice any little variations in their physical world or in the people around them. They are very sensitive to balance and understand well what does or does not fit, whether in a work of art or any other aspect of their lives.

An ESFP may be suited better to game day basketball as situations change, an INTJ may be better suited to skills based basketball where transfer of knowledge is paramount.

What do people think?

(There is no "right" personality type)

Whether Boti is using CJ as a pawn for "his motives" is immaterial, as his motives are just and true. F**k Marty and Radford off ASAP. Or at least tell them now that they will coach out the season, then be gone, maybe then they will walk of their own accord.

Again, whether CJ was "producing" or not is not relevant. He was a 9th man (according to supercoach himself), why not sack someone who has a real effect on the fortunes of the team? Or maybe the ghost of a player who plays the most minutes yet delivers in approximately 3 two minute bursts a game?

It's like if the Lakers were struggling, and they sack Devin Ebanks. Why not sack the coach, or Pau for shooting 42%, or Dwight for crippling them with his 46% foul shooting?

The whole situation stinks, good on Boti for "using CJ as a pawn" to force his agenda. I'm all for it!

Seems to me that if a coach allowed CJ to play to his instincts he could pretty much bank a Perth performance every game. It was obvious to anyone who attended the Perth game that CJ had very good basketball smarts. So why would you tell him to go to the corner & get his feet set? I feel embarrassed by this organisation.

Nuf said

I think it just shows you how much Marty is at of his depth.

At the AIS, he wouldn't have to organise insurance, living arrangements, transport arrangements.

But this is professional basketball. Obviously, he still doesn't realise that yet.

If a player can't perform within the offensive structure then the coach must take action however he sees fit.

In saying that. No excuse for:
A. Making the player pay for his own flight!
B. Not helping a foreign player find a place to live!
C. Not helping a foreign player with transport!

The part about Clarke not calling CJ, that you can get away with. I know a number of coaches that aren't hands on coaches like that. But they're rare these days, but they exist.

"The opinion or assessment of my ability that got me released came from a coach who has been just as successful as I was in the NBL"

lmao