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Guy Molloy's long road to the top of the mountain
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Guy Molloy's long road to the top of the mountain

The veteran coach talks Grand Final tactics and the "dark days" before Melbourne's 2022 championship

Daniel Herborn
Apr 18
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After Game 1 of this yearโ€™s WNBL Grand Final Series, the Perth Lynx looked to have irresistible momentum. With their opponents only needing a single win to clinch the championship, and Head Coach Guy Molloy having decided to step down at seasonโ€™s end to focus on his work with New Zealandโ€™s Tall Ferns, it seemed likely that the veteran would finish his career in the league without a title.

In the aftermath of that first game where the Melbourne Boomers had endured a 27-point loss, Molloy and his staff resisted ranting and raving at the players. Instead, they empowered the group to find solutions themselves, asking each player to come to the next meeting with 4-6 points that they wanted to execute better in Game 2.

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โ€œThe results of that (exercise) were really strong,โ€ Molloy tells The Pick and Roll. โ€œThey came in with all the points that the coaches would have had anyway. We knew that we were much better than what weโ€™d shown.โ€ The players identified they hadnโ€™t been physical enough on screens and hadnโ€™t crashed the glass hard enough (Perth outrebounded them 47-36 in Game 1).  

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