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Sack Lemanis

Lemanis needs to be pulled into line. Selections shouldn't hinge on his personal grudges.

The most disappointing thing about Lemanis last night was his response to Japan's zone defense. It's like we had no plan set to deal with it. Although good perimeter shooting is going to make a difference against a zone, but we just shot bricks.

"Gotta be honest.
I have given Lemanis massive cred for his NBL championships with the Breakers.
But nothing he has done since, and nothing he has done internationally, have inspired any confidence."

LOL, it was the Blackwell money. He sucked the first seasons he was there until spending started.

We all know the boomers selectors are way too
conservative.

ME, maybe " borderline nba players " is a more
suitable discription.
Delly, Baynes, Ingles were all undrafted, but are all playing in the nba now.

Unlike most of nbl guys in the squad right now, these players I have just mentioned have the tools to play in the nba.

Mathiang, Acuil are not young kids, they are already 25.

ME, Adel, bolden, acuil, Mathiang are all nba level players. They cant do much worse than the likes ol gliddon, kay, martin, kickert.

In fact I believe they are better than at least
half of the useless nbl players in the boomers squad right now.

ME, Thon Maker only got picked because he is in the nba. Will Thon get picked by the boomers if he is still in college right now? I dont think so. I just hate our dumb selectors, they would rather pick uselese players in the nbl.

ME, Yes Australia have a Hachimura equivalent, Josh Green, who is 17 year old.
Will Lemanis pick him when he is 20? I don't think he will.

What I hate about the Aussies basketball selectors is they are always reluctant to pick young players in colleges. Why did'nt we pick players like Adel, Bolden, Mathiang, Acuil ?
They are surely better than average players like Kay, gliddon, martin, kickert. Picking 30+ year olds are not going to help the boomers'future. Look at Hachimura and Doncic, if you are good enough, you are old enough.

Kay missed two 3 point attempts in the last
30 seconds. Enough said.
Why was he asked to take these 3s when he is not a good perimter shooter?

All true Todd, but the flow offense has been functioning pretty well in most of the recent games. I'm not sure if last night was the result of bad work by Lemanis or good work by the Japanese in forcing the wrong players in position to take shots.

But yes ultimately the bench is the best way to stop players shooting. I have to admit that I did fall asleep on the couch for a good portion of the middle of the game (haha, I'm old) and only saw the 1st and last quarter. Will have to rewatch it some time. I do know that I'd much prefer thundering dunk Maker to bricking three Maker

Duke Fan,

Shooting percentage is the outcome, the process was horrible.

Getting the right people in the right shots is the role of the coach and play makers.

Kay went 4-17 (4-16 2 point shots) and his makes the assists under the basket.While, Goulding went 8/12 overall and 5/8 3's. Maybe,if we went to Goulding more and Kay less the shooting percentage would have been better.

Lisch only taking one shot in 12 minutes and Kay taking 19 shots in 23 minutes. That's not smart offense.

The out of bounds with Kay taking the shot was a joke. Maker or Kickett should have been the screener and not Kay.

Sure, Delly and Maker went 1-9 in 3's. But again, Delly is best as a pure point and getting the ball to the best players.

Also, the main strength of the Flow offense is that you go into the offense seamlessly from the secondary break. That never nappen, no drag screens, no dribble hand offs, no trailers until Maker in the 4th or no spot up 3's.

Many a team shooting 34% can make a coach look like a spud. Blame him all you like for the attitude and the defensive scheme but professional players should do better. Shoot a reasonable clip fellas and we win easily

Some thoughts
1. His subbing patterns were crazy. Making a sub every 1 or 2 minutes line ups to never were to settled.
2. No thought to combinations out on the floor.
3. Maybe, selecting only bigs and combo guards isn't a good idea. Lemanis have you heard of a small forward/wing player.
4. Offense had no purpose and maybe, an idea is to get the ball to the hot player Goulding. Also, pick and pops for Delly/Goulding and Maker/Kickett.
5. Lemanis maybe use a few ways of defending the pick and roll/pop.
6. Getting back to subbing, play less players and play better players more.

I rate the World Cup in 2014 a success. For the first time ever we we good enough to get into a position to tank and we did it well. It got us the best position for crossovers.

You have to remember we were beaten in the round of 16 by a very good team from Turkey who hit some massive 3 pointers down the stretch to get over the top of us.

I just wish he'd mix and match the defenses more like Bevo does, the offensive stuff is fine.

He coached the Breakers when the level of basketball in the NBL was pretty average too. They were winning against the easiest opposition in league history. As soon as the league improved they dropped back into the pack.

I have got a lot of heat over the years on here saying Lemanis is a dud due to NZ making him look good once they started to spend (he sucked there too the first two seasons). Finally people are realising.

give him the 12 players from the Olympics and of course he will do well.
Any coach would have.

Plenty of better options. Most of the assistants do nothing too.
Caporn the only one who has something to contribute.

Never been a Lemanis fan but cannot ever forget the way the Boomers played at the Rio Olympics. Simply our best basketball to this point!

As far as I am concerned he has the job as long as he can put up with the fair weather fans who bay for blood any time games aren't played to their perceived standards and requirements.

Vickerman
Wright
Beverdige
Gleeson

All better than lemanis.

The gronk only picks his mates in Cadee,Brandt and Hodgeson at times when he ignores the likes of Daniel Johnson and AJ Ogilvy when he was fit and the nbl best centre.

Dude is a spud. Lucky enough the NBA players will coach themselves during the champs and olympics

Gotta admit i haven't been all too impressed with Lemanis in general since he left NZ. His tenure with the Boomers so far has been mediocre and 2 wooden spoons with Brisbane (albiet injury depleted in both seasons) have been underwhelming. His casual demeanor also annoys me a bit too.

Hope he can turn it around.

Contracted to 2020 unfortunately.

People were saying keep him because we got 4th place in Olympics.
Wasn't the coaching that was getting us the results imo.

Agreed. He was caught on camera laughing and being way to casual being down just before HT.

Soon he will be out of a national and NBL gig. Then who will be laughing.

Here's an article that suggests that Milwaukee are definitely open to moving Bogut. They only vaguely suggest that he could be involved with a deal for Howard but nothing concrete mentioned.

I understand that people whinge about Bogut not getting the ball enough but I would like to see Bogut stick with the Bucks. He's injuries have been more about luck then him being fragile unlike Greg Oden. I can understand the Bucks frustrations though, one more injury to Bogut after the one he has had and he might be definitely gone.

http://www.brewhoop.com/2012/2/26/2826307/andrew-bogut-trade-rumor-all-star-weekend