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Recycled Coaches - NBL

Downer will be a very good NBL coach. He's an astute thinker, has the ear of the players, and also a good Xs and Os guy.

Pearlman is heading to NZ for his first head coaching role after this NBL season. He'll do well, too. More Aaron Fearne prodigies.

Of the incumbent NBL coaches, only Gaze stands out as likely or deserving to be axed. Even then, it's only his second season, and JVG has fucked up the roster. It'll be interesting to see if they can get some mojo happening during the remaining two thirds of the season.

Wasn't Hill an assistant coach at 36ers for a couple of seasons?

Anstey did a reasonable job with that Tigers team in 2013/14.

Perry deserves a shot. Hopefully has a good run with the u19's and gets a shot at NBL

stewart from Seabl = no. If there was anybody from seabl (probably isnt) surely it would be Hill given what he has achieved in mount gambier.

I remember the televised timeouts. He didn't know what to say. Not a coach.

Anstey took over a team that won 2 of their last 13 games in 11/12, rebuilt the roster, won 12 games in his first year and 15 in his second year plus a SF win.

That's hardly a terrible coaching record (28-31) in those two seasons, he had that 13/14 team producing greater than the sum of its parts and he certainly didn't deserve to be sacked one game into the United era.

Not saying he was a master coach, but certainly some people are re-writing history about the results he produced coaching the Tigers.

WTF proud, Anstey was another ex-player fast-tracked too quickly into head coaching and he stunk. No thank you.

Anstey been busy winning championship with his HasBeens team in Masters comps. His team is the GSW of the league :p. Was crowing about his latest DP, some dude that got headlocked by Maric in the NBL... Wort something... his name. Anyways, kid might turn out ok in a couple of years for the over 35s...

I thought this thread was about coaches like Cotter, Anstey, Heal, McDonald, Clarke, McLeod and the like that have coached before and what are they doing now and which is best suited to a gig of any expansion team.

Was wondering what Anstey was up to, didn't like him as a player but felt he got the rough end of the pineapple as a coach and wouldn't mind seeing him get another role at an NBL team

Fearne another who started as a player then assistant now head coach like Henare has now.


If 3 of 8 head coaches have only ever had one NBL head coaching gig how is this recycling?

Plus all the other coaches listed below have proven themselves at other clubs previously by winning titles (except Gleeson who did it with his current club).

Wright 3 clubs - Bullets, Blaze, 36ers
Gleeson 3 clubs - Crocs, Tigers, Wildcats
Beveridge 3 clubs - Razorbacks, Wildcats, Hawks
Lemanis 2 clubs - Breakers, Bullets
Vickerman 2 clubs - Breakers, United

Fearne/Gaze/Henare - first club

The "recycled" term would be correct if you had most head coaching positions filled by old timers who had never acheived anything.

Shows how strong the coaching pedigree is when Shawn Dennis can't get a job here. Hope he gets a job with an expansion team, works really well with young players.

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