The Perth Wildcats, smarting from missing the National Basketball League finals for the first time in 35 years, appoint former Australian Boomers player John Rillie as their new head coach.
The Perth Wildcats have appointed John Rillie as their new head coach after Scott Morrison departed amid a tumultuous time for the NBL's most successful club.Rillie, 50, was most recently an assistant at UC Santa BarbaraCanadian-born Morrison resigned last month
Queensland-born Rillie has been coaching in the US college basketball system since 2011 after finishing a successful 16-season NBL career. The appointment of the ex-Boomers guard means the Wildcats will have had three coaches in the space of just 12 months, with Morrison's tenureIn the space of the last two months, the Wildcats have lost their commercial general manager, their financial controller and their head coach, and have sacked their CEO.
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