The Adelaide 36ers have outlined a clear vision of who they want as their next head coach, following the shock departure of Mike Wells.<\/p>\n
After two years at the helm, Wells stepped down from his Head Coach role on Wednesday to remain in the United States to be closer to family.<\/p>\n
During a press conference on Thursday, Sixers General Manager of Basketball Operations, Matt Weston explained his club had clear criteria in mind for its next coach.<\/p>\n
“[We] do want someone that’s coached, [or has] been a head coach, not an aspiring head coach,” Weston said.<\/p>\n
“I want a Head Coach that has significant experience and been in big games, because we’re built to win right now.<\/p>\n
“This is a very big decision in the organisation, and not one [we] take lightly.<\/p>\n
“Having someone that’s familiar with Australia is going to be very important.<\/p>\n
“It’s going to add value that they understand Australian sporting culture, and where our team is and how the NBL is played and officiated. I think that’s going to be critical.”<\/p>\n
While the team from the City of Churches has already been linked to five-time NBL champion Trevor Gleeson, with ESPN’s Olgun Uluc labelling him the “frontrunner”, Weston reiterated that his club will go through a detailed process this month before appointing their next Head Coach.<\/p>\n
“My phone’s lit up like a Christmas tree right now because everyone’s going, ‘OK, I’ve got a coach. Do you want him?’,” Weston said.<\/p>\n
“In the next couple of weeks, we will look through the shortlist – it will be, no doubt, 150 people that will want the job, and we’ll get that down to six or seven.<\/p>\n
“It’ll get to three, and then we’ll get right down into what we want out of those three, and who’s going to be best suited.”<\/p>\n
Whichever coach is appointed will have Bryce Cotton, Zylan Cheatham, Flynn Cameron, Isaac Humphries, Bul Kuol, Isaac White, and Ben Griscti on their roster.<\/p>\n
As such, Weston said his team’s goal of a championship remains the same.<\/p>\n
“Because most of the guys are coming back, the aspirations haven’t changed,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I think Bryce [Cotton] was pretty public saying the only way to get over Game 5 [of the Championship Series] is to go win one [championship], and then you can get over it.<\/p>\n
“That hasn’t changed for us.”<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Adelaide 36ers have outlined a clear vision of who they want as their next head coach, following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-655495","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\/655495","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=655495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}