Brisbane Bullets coach Stu Lash has stepped down effective immediately, the team confirmed on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The club announced assistant coach Darryl McDonald has been ellevated into the top role with the club undertaking discussions around appointing a permanent head coach.<\/p>\n
“We are actively engaged in advanced discussions regarding our next head coach,” Brisbane CEO Mal Watts said.<\/p>\n
Lash stepped down following a poor start for the season with just five wins from 18 games, stating the decision was made after careful reflection.<\/p>\n
Stu Lash, head coach of the Brisbane Bullets\u00a0Sarah Reed\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
“After a lot of thought and discussions I’ve decided to step down as head coach of the Brisbane Bullets,” Lash said.<\/p>\n
“We went into this season with excitement and expectations.<\/p>\n
“I want nothing but success for the players, staff, fans and sponsors and will continue to support the club.”<\/p>\n
McDonald will step into the role and lead the playing group for this weekend’s away game, before coming home to take on the New Zealand Breakers on Monday.<\/p>\n
“Our focus is solely on Saturday’s game and moving forward collectively,” McDonald said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brisbane Bullets coach Stu Lash has stepped down effective immediately, the team confirmed on Thursday afternoon. The club…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-355930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355930","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=355930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}