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 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 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 [email protected] or visit https://www.bnsw.com.au/

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 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

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/

Steve Edwards is Director of Coaching and Head Coach of the South West Metro NBL1 North women's team at South West Metro Basketball Association in Brisbane, Queensland. Steve grew up in Philadelphia PA and began his working career with the US Air Force stationed initially in Korea then Japan, and travelled extensively during his service conducting several tours of duty and special operations assignments, and achieving the rank of Sergeant during his tenure.

Steve came to Australia in the late 1990's and was first associated with Club and rep programs in Sydney, and more recently in Brisbane, with both the Southern Districts Spartans and South West Metro Pirates. Steve has been a state level Head Coach and Assistant Coach and has his teams have won silver medals across U14 & U16 age groups. Steve has also been Assistant coach in two SEABL Championships in 2009 and 2014 with the Spartans women's team and in this interview, acknowledges the influence of coaching mentors such as Donna Rinaldi, Joey Wright, Leonard King and Brendan Joyce.

In this interview, we discuss the journey that led Steve to be in Brisbane as Coaching Director, his coaching philosophy and his non-negotiables as a coach. You can follow the progress of Steve's NBL1 North team through South West Metro's website :https://www.piratesbasketball.net.au/

David Patrick is Head Coach of the Division 1 NCAA UC Riverside Highlanders mens basketball team in California, USA. David was born in Bermuda and moved to Australia aged 10 and has a basketball background in Australia, having played with the Melbourne Tigers, and also Victorian Metro State teams and Australian youth national teams.

David arrived in USA in 1994 enrolling at Chapel Trafton High School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he was district MVP and First Team All-Parish, while also being selected to play in the Louisiana State High School All-Star Game.

David's college playing career started with Syracuse under Head Coach Jim Boeheim for one season where he was part of the Orange's 1996 NCAA Tournament Final Four team, who lost to Kentucky 67-76. David transferred to play his remaining three years of eligibility at Southwestern Louisiana (later Louisiana-Lafayette).

David then played with the Canberra Cannons in the NBL in 2000-01 was was named Rookie of the Year. In 2001-03 he ventured to England playing with the Chester Jets and earnt second team all-league honours. He then went on to Spain in 2003-05 Spain with Castellion, before injuries brought his playing career to an end.

David began his coaching career in 2005-2006 with Nicholls State as Assistant Coach to Head Coach JP Piper, his Trafton high school coach. From 2006-2010, he was Assistant Coach at St. Mary's (Moraga CA) with Head Coach Randy Bennett and helped recruit Boomers stars Patty Mills and Matthew Dellavedova. St Marys featured in NCAA tournament appearances in 2008 (1st round loss to Miami) and 2010 (Sweet Sixteen loss to Baylor) during his tenure.

David then worked as a Personnel scout with Houston Rockets, and soon after from 2012-2016 became Assistant Coach at LSU for Head Coach Johnny Jones, recruiting his godson Ben Simmons, who later went on to become 2016 overall number one NBA draft pick. From 2016-2018, David was Assistant Coach at TCU (Texas Christian University Fort Worth) for Head Coach Jamie Dixon, and during that time won the 2017 NIT against Georgia Tech (season stats of 24-15).

In 2018, David was recruited to Head Coach of UC Riverside Highlanders and in the 2019/20 season had won 17 games, setting the school record for the most games won most in school history. Also in 2019, David became Assistant Coach on the coaching staff for Head Coach Andrej Lemanis for the Australian Boomers, for the FIBA World Cup and preparations for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic campaign.

In this interview, we talk about David's playing and coaching journey, his involvement with the Boomers and his strong Aussie connections, and the relationships he has built with others through basketball.

You can follow David's team at: https://gohighlanders.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster

Damien Anderson is an Australian Basketball Coach living in Louisville Kentucky and is Head Coach at DeSales High School.

Damien is originally from Brisbane, Queensland and had a lengthy basketball career playing in the NBL (Brisbane Bullets), South Eastern Australian Basketball League (SEABL) and Queensland Basketball League (QBL), with the Southern Districts Spartans (Brisbane) and Mount Gambier Pioneers. Damien was co-captain of the Pioneers team which won the 2003 ABA National Championship with Damien being named in the SEABL All-Star starting five that year. Damien set all sorts of records in the early 90's when he had a 75 point game shooting 20/33 from the 3 point line, which at that time was the highest points scored in a professional game in Australia by an Australian player, and remains the 5th highest points scored in a game at that level. Check out the highlight clips at https://youtu.be/jv1SrsAnDbs

Damien took on a graduate assistant coaching role in 2007 with Division 1 college University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, where he stayed for 3 years before moving to Louisville KY to take up the role of Assistant Coach at St. Xavier High School with Head coach Kevin Klein. Damien then took on a role in 2013 at Bellarmine University in Louisville with Head Coach Scott Davenport during a period where Bellarmine achieved a 77-19 record and appeared in three consecutive NCAA D-II tournaments.

Damien moved on from Bellarmine after the birth of his daughter and then coached again in the 2017-18 season at Aspire Basketball Academy as Associate Head Coach, and then was appointed in 2018 to his current role as Head Coach at DeSales High School.

In this interview, we talk about Damien's playing days, his introduction to college basketball as a coach, and his thoughts on developing a new basketball program.

Jeremy Kendle is a professional basketball player based in Brisbane, Australia, having played in 3 seasons in the NBL, 1 with the Sydney Kings and 2 with the Brisbane Bullets. Jeremy attended Bellarmine University (D2) in Louisville, Kentucky and was an integral part of the 2010-11 NCAA Division 2 Championship team under Head Coach Scott Davenport, and in that season, he was named GLVC Player of the Year, 1st team All-American, and a member of the D2 all-tournament team.

Jeremy played professionally in Switzerland and Morocco before coming to Australia in 2015 with the Toowoomba Mountaineers to play in the Queensland Basketball League (QBL). Jeremy helped the team reach the semi finals and won the MVP Award and highest points scoring awards for the League that year, averaging 30.2 points, 7.3 rebounds, 6.5 assists and 1.9 steals per game.

Jeremy then went on to play for the Bendigo Braves in the South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL). The Braves finished first on the ladder with a 21-3 record, while Jeremy earned the league's scoring title with an average of 27.7 points per game and was named MVP of the league. He was fortunate enough to go on to win a championship with the Braves, the club's first championship since 2005. He scored 34 points in the SEABL national grand final and was awarded the Hugh McMenamin Medal.

Jeremy then went on to a season with the Canterbury Rams in the NZBL, and appeared in all 19 games for the Rams in 2017, averaging 20.5 points, 5.3 rebounds, 5.6 assists and 1.2 steals per game and was named Import Player of the Year and 1st team All NZNBL. After the NZNBL season, JK was picked for an NBL All-Australian team that travelled to China to play the Chinese national team in a three-game series. In an 89-75 win in Game 3, Jeremy scored a game-high 20 points.

He finished the 2017 QBL season with the Southwest Metro Pirates under Head Coach Mick Downer. His next contract had him back in the NBL but this time he was playing for the Sydney Kings. This was an injury replacement gig, eventually replaced by Jerome Randle who was the league's MVP the previous season for the Adelaide 36er's.

His next move was back to Bendigo where he knew he could have a big impact on and off the court. He appeared in all 22 games for the Braves in 2018, averaging 23.1 points, 5.5 rebounds and 5.3 assists per game. Despite having a successful season as a player, he was more proud of the impact he was able to have off the court as a trainer.

Jeremy moved back to Brisbane and immediately began training players and being involved in the basketball community in as many ways as he could. For about 3 months he was building his resume as a trainer as well as training full time with the Brisbane Bullets as a player. Bullets head coach Andrej Lemanis and his staff were generous enough to allow Jeremy to help out at training even though he was not contracted with the club. Their consideration of his situation led to him being able to stay in shape which ultimately led to him signing with the club on December 5th 2018 because a spot opened up on the roster. He was fortunate enough to help the club making the playoffs for the first time since they were reinstated in the league in 2016.

Jeremy was appointed as Head Coach/Player Captain with the South West Metro Pirates for the 2020 NBL1 North season, which was cut short in the pre-season due to the COVID19 situation.

In this interview, we talk about his college career, professional career and the impact of the current pandemic on players and how Jeremy uses his faith and discipline to stay focused.

You can contact Jeremy (or JK as he is known locally) through his website:

Karina Aguis is in her first season as Head Coach of the Toowoomba Mountaineers NBL1 North women's team. Karina previously coached the Mountaineers SBL women and also coached at North Gold Coast Seahawks at the junior level.

Karina had a playing career in Victoria at Sunbury then Bulleen and was a Vic Metro junior rep player, and played under Head Coach Ray Tomlinson. In this interview, we discuss her basketball journey and the areas she is focusing on in recruiting players and player development leading into the 2020 NBL1 North season.

Note: due to mobile phone signal issues, some sections of the interview dropped out hence listeners may hear sections of static.

Footnote: this interview was recorded on 15 March 2020, 2 weeks prior to the cancellation of the 2020 NBL1 North season.