Australian Basketball Coach

Liam Flynn

Coach Liam Flynn is an Australian Basketball Coach with an extensive local and international basketball coaching resume. His international experience includes working as a NBA Consultant (to the Phoenix Suns in the lead up to the 2016 NBA draft, providing video analysis on potential draftees for the franchise), and has been an advanced scout for the Australian Senior Men’s National Team for the 2016 Rio Olympics. Liam was Head Coach in the German Bunderliga for five years (BBL & 2.BBL with s.Oliver Wuerzburg, Dresden Titans, Walter Tigers Tübingen and Gießen 46ers). He led his team to become ProA Champions, and two play off appearances. Liam was also Head Coach in the New Zealand NZNBL for three years with the Nelson Giants, featuring in two playoff Appearances and one grand final. Liam has six years of Australian NBL Coaching experience, as an Assistant Coach with the Townsville Crocodiles 2010 - 2012 and Adelaide 36ers 2008 – 2010. In his time his teams featured in three playoff appearances. At the state level, Liam has eleven years of State League/ABA Coaching Experience in South Australia (Sturt Sabres) and Queensland (Townsville Heat and Southern Districts Spartans) with eight playoff appearances, and 3 championships. Liam has twelve years coaching experience with Australian Junior State Teams - QLD U/18 Boys, SA Metro U/16 Boys & U/18 Boys; and South Australia U/20 Men. He also has a combined twenty years coaching experience at Junior Representative Level in Queensland and South Australia with Sturt (SA), Southern Districts (QLD) - U/12s through to U/20s. Liam holds a Masters in Sports Coaching (University of Queensland) and a NCAS Level 2 Coaching Accreditation. In this interview, Liam discusses his thoughts on a range of contemporary basketball topics and reflects on his overseas coaching journey and his annual CLF Showcase event. Listeners can follow Liam on Twitter (@coachliamflynn) and also through his website https://www.coachliamflynn.com/

CJ Bruton

CJ Bruton is Assistant Coach of the Brisbane Bullets in the NBL, where he had a long career with 516 games. CJ played in the last Bullets championship win in 2007, adding another NBL title to a playing resume that also included two titles with the Sydney Kings and three NBL titles with the New Zealand Breakers (6 NBL titles in total). He is one of the most awarded players in NBL history: Grand Final MVP (2012); 2× All-NBL First Team (2006, 2009); All-NBL Second Team (2008); 2× All-NBL Third Team (2004, 2007); NBL Most Improved Player (1999) and the Gaze Medal (2005). CJ first played in the NBL at age 18 with the Perth Wildcats, before taking the opportunity to attend college at Indian Hills (1995-97). He was a second round pick in the 1997 NBA draft, picked 52nd overall selected by the Vancouver Grizzlies. His draft rights were later traded to the Portland Trail Blazers in a draft night trade. CJ played for the Australian Boomers in the mens team from 2006-2008 at both Commonwealth and Olympic games. CJ started his coaching career with the South West Metro Pirates in the Queensland Basketball League (2007), the Brisbane Spartans in SEABL 2015-16, and from 2016, he linked with his former coach at the Breakers and former Boomers Head Coach, Andrej Lemanis, joining the Bullets coaching ranks as they re-entered the NBL competition in 2016/17. CJ is locally involved in basketball in Brisbane, coaching in the 2020 Qld State League (QSL) with the Southern Districts Spartans, and won the title with his open boys high school team (Church of England Grammar School) to the 2020 Champion Basketball Schools of Qld tournament. In this interview, CJ discusses the highlights of his playing career, the challenges college hoops presented, and some of the insights into the Bullets review of the 2019-20 season, and preparations for the upcoming 2021 NBL season. You can follow the Brisbane Bullets on their website https://www.brisbanebullets.com.au/

Jarrod Moore

Jarrod Moore is the Coach Development Manager for Basketball New South Wales (NSW). His role encompasses coach education, organising basketball clinics, player development, as well as maintaining an active social media page on Facebook for basketball coaches. In this interview, we talk about Jarrod's tertiary background, having completed 2 Bachelor degrees (Secondary Education and Human Movement Studies) and also a Masters degree in Sports Coaching, and how he uses that knowledge in his approach to coaching and educating other coaches. Jarrod started his basketball journey at Newington College as a high school coach, and then moved into a Community coach role with Norths Bears in Sydney. Jarrod became the basketball Participation Officer at Penrith & Districts Basketball Association, a hands-on role where he ran basketball events, coaching kids from the age of 3-21, ranging from a skill level of beginner to elite and scouting and recruiting for potential future players in the sport. Prior to his current role, Jarrod was also the Basketball Development Officer at Werribee Basketball Association in Victoria, where he connected with many well know coaches in Australia. Jarrod explains his own coaching philosophy, highlighting the many positives of productive mentoring relationships and the challenges in delivering coach education in times of online meetings and videoconferences. To learn more about activities conducted by Basketball NSW, get in touch with Jarrod at jarrod.moore@bnsw.com.au or visit https://www.bnsw.com.au/

David Herbert

David Herbert is a former WNBL Head Coach and is currently Head Coach of the Australian Gems Under 19 womens team. David currently works with the Basketball Victoria high performance network and is Director of Pathways and Development at Basketball Geelong, and has held key development roles in Queensland and Western Australia. Growing up in country Victoria, Dave moved into coaching in his late teens and was the first Head Coach of the Townsville Fire WNBL team from 2001 to 2007. Dave was the Head Coach of the West Coast Waves women's team in Perth (2010-11) and then Assistant Coach with Head Coach Carrie Graf at the Canberra Capitals (2012-13). Dave was CEO of Cairns Basketball from 2013-14 and moved back to Geelong from 2016 as Head Coach of the SEABL Geelong Lady Supercats. In this interview, we discuss some of Dave's coaching philosophies and learnings he has had being involved with Australian youth teams at FIBA Asia-Pacific and World Cup events and WNBL teams. Dave has a great Facebook coaches group (Herbie's Coaches Network) and is will be coaching the Gems in the next U19 World Championships.

Rob Coulter

Rob Coulter is the Coach Development Officer for Basketball Victoria (BV) and is host of BV's "Talking Split" podcast which has been running since 2017. Check out the Talking Split podcast at: https://audioboom.com/channels/4933327 [https://audioboom.com/channels/4933327] Rob has a lengthy career in basketball coaching including several years as Assistant Coach and Head Coach for Victoria Metro U18 boys (2013), Under 16 boys (2014 and 2015). Rob was Director of Coaching at Eltham Basketball from 2012-14 and also coached in Diamond Valley Basketball's senior basketball programs. In this interview, we talk about Rob's previous career with the Victorian Police, the Talking Split podcast and it's evolution over time, and the Victorian state team programs, coaching network and rep team processes for players and coaches. For more information on Basketball Victoria's coaching programs, check out their website at: http://basketballvictoria.com.au/coaching/ [http://basketballvictoria.com.au/coaching/]