New Boomers coach named

In news just to hand, Brian Goorjian's successor to the role of Boomers coach has been named and the winner is Brett Brown. Considering Brown is an assistant coach for the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA, the announcement certainly came as a surprise to me.

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Basketball Australia has appointed American Brett Brown to coach the Australian men's team through to the London 2012 Olympics, replacing long-serving Brian Goorjian.

BA chairman David Thodey said the board decided to go for 48-year-old Brown's 'fresh energy and new ideas'.

An assistant coach with the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA for the past six years, Brown has extensive experience with the Boomers program and the NBL.

'The Basketball Australia board is extremely proud of the performance of the Boomers in Beijing and recognises the positive building blocks that have been put in place by Brian Goorjian for the Boomers' future,' Thodey said.

'But as we have done in the past we opened the door to the possibility of change after two Olympic cycles and with our sport moving forward in an exciting new direction we decided to utilise Brett Brown's fresh energy and new ideas.'

Brett Brown in his days as coach of the Sydney Kings