wrote on Twitter on September 27.<\/a><\/p>\n“Worldwide search for a (Head Coach). Gifted by his mate and co-owner (Jason) Levien. Basketball Resume: Scout & Video co-ordinator (02-06); (and) Director of play personnel (09-12).<\/p>\n
“This team deserves better. He\u2019s not a coach. Vandy & DMac are babysitting.”<\/p>\n
Watts responded to the criticism and defended Lash on Breakfast with Corey Parker and Ian Healy on SENQ ahead of the team’s home opener against the Tasmania JackJumpers on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was waiting for it. I think our first loss, I think they were going to come for us,” Watts said.<\/p>\n
“I think part of that was just the way that we’ve gone about putting the organisation of the club together this year. It has been an unorthodox approach. I do unorthodox really well, so I think I’m very comfortable with the direction we’ve taken.<\/p>\n
“I expected it to come up at some point.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Despite the Bullets suffering two losses in round two, although they had injuries to Sam McDaniel and Javon Freeman-Liberty, Watts said it was “fairly early to cast any judgement.<\/p>\n
“From inside the tent, everything’s going really well and I’m not just saying that,” he said on SENQ.<\/p>\n
“I think from what I see day to day, Stu has implemented, it is an unorthodox approach in that we’ve empowered our assistant coaches because we believe that they’re extremely high quality as well.<\/p>\n
“So, you know, I think there’s probably optics on people watching some games, you know, probably looking and thinking that our assistant coaches are doing a lot more than they should.<\/p>\n
“But it’s just leaning into empowering them. But also it’s, Stu is without a doubt the head coach in the building and he knows his stuff. But we were going to get that criticism. I knew it was coming.<\/p>\n
“We stand by the decision and I think, you know, things are going to be on the up from this weekend.<\/p>\n
“For anyone that’s ever been inside an organisation, the assistant coaches absolutely do a huge amount of work but ultimately the wins and losses stop with the head coach.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brisbane Bullets CEO Mal Watts backs coach Stu Lash after Mark Worthington questions his credentials Brisbane Bullets CEO…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-184497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}