Guy Molloy has called it quits on coaching the Melbourne Boomers WNBL team after almost a decade with the club. Molloy will move to New Zealand to take on a dual role which includes coaching the New Zealand Tall Ferns (National Women’s team) and coach the Wellington Saints in the NZNBL.
Molloy has spent 32 years coaching at a national level in Australia which included stints with The Australia Women’s national team, Canberra, Perth and Melbourne in the WNBL and for the men spent time in the NBL coaching both the Cairns Taipans and South Dragons.
It’s fair to say no other coach has the experience Molloy has at coaching both sexes at a national level and he joins the podcast to chat with Dan Boyce on the differences between coaching men and women and the lessons he’s learnt from coaching in our national leagues.
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Molloy also coached Ben Simmons and Dante Exum as head coach of the men’s national under-17 side, the Emus.
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Podcast topics include;
- Guy on his decision to leave the Melbourne Boomers WNBL and coach in New Zealand (2:00)
- Thoughts on the growth and development of the WNBL over the last 9 years (6:00)
- How the Boomers players feel about Molloy leaving at the end of the year (7:30)
- Guy Molloy outlines his new role in New Zealand which includes coaching the Women’s National Team and the Wellington Saints in the NZNBL (9:00)
- Guy takes us through his 32-year coaching journey that started with coaching the Canberra Capitals (WNBL), Canberra Cannons (NBL) and Canberra Gunners at only 23 years of age (13:30)
- Guy on his experiences coaching the Australian Opals in the early 90s and memories of Oz94 – FIBA Women’s World Championships held in Australia (18:00)
- Coaching the Perth Breakers in the WNBL (24:00)
- Michelle Timms, the trailblazer, and what she did to put Australian Basketball on the map (26:00)
- Switching from the WNBL to the NBL to coach the Cairns Taipans in 2001 (31:00)
- Remembering the Cairns Taipans from the early 2000s (38:00)
- The hard work involved in building a winning culture with the Taipans program and making the playoffs for the first time in 2004 (41:00)
- Winning a championship as part of the South Dragons in 2009 (46:30)
- The demise of the South Dragons (50:00)
- Coaching Ben Simmons and Dante Exum on the Australian junior team (56:30)
- Returning to the WNBL and being a part of the Melbourne Boomers in 2013 (101:30)
- Recruiting or coaching what’s more difficult? (105:00)
- The differences between coaching Men and Women (107:00)
- The toughest lessons Guy faced over his coaching journey so far (112:00)
- The highlight of his coaching career so far (1:14:00)
All of this and a whole lot more…
