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CAST the net far and wide - that is the only tip I would give Basketball Australia following Brett Brown's decision today not to continue as Boomers coach.

And then make a bold bid to get Brian Goorjian back for another go-around.

That's right. Take a minute and check if you're really at my website but once that's done, then hear me out.

For one, I'm not sure he would even have the time anymore, or the inclination, after being unceremoniously passed over in the aftermath of the Beijing Olympics.

Yes, I am aware it has been Australia's unwritten policy to usually give decent coaches a two-Olympics (eight year) run at the helm - witness Adrian Hurley (88-92), Barry Barnes (96-2000), Boy-Goorj (04-08), or Opals chieftains Robbie Cadee (88-*92), Tom Maher (96-2000), Jan Stirling (04-08). {*failed to qualify}

So no-one can complain Goorj didn't get that two-Games component.

But then, remember post-Sydney Olympics, everyone and their neighbor retired, leaving Phil Smyth to have his shot, ending in an Oceania Series loss and no 2002 world championship campaign.

Phil phell on his scimitar and Goorj was turned to as the rebuilder, albeit with considerably greater support than his predecessor.

But then, one failure was enough and even BA had learnt a lesson.

So Goorj didn't really get an eight-year campaign, but a six.

And, in the end, he did no better or worse than Brett Brown.

Now bear in mind Brett, had he legitimately wanted to continue for a second Games stint on to Rio, would have got the job. Of that, I have absolutely no doubt.

But unlike his predecessors, he annually has an 82-game schedule to negotiate as an assistant with the San Antonio Spurs before the perennial NBA finallists go deep into the playoffs.

It is a huge commitment and with a young family, Brett's decision to spend the American summers with his family should be lauded and applauded.

Let's have no baseless and ill-conceived conspiracy theories on this one, for a change.

So the "reviews'' continue for BA and the candidates are fairly obvious.

As Brown's lead assistant through a Worlds and a Games campaign, Andrej Lemanis is the obvious successor, if that is how succession goes.

(It used to, with Lindsay Gaze's assistant Adrian Hurley stepping up when he stepped down and Adrian's No.2, Barry Barnes, stepping forward when he stepped away.

BA veered away from that practice after Barnes, whose assistants had been Brett Brown and Alan Black. Ultimately, ditching the practice did not pay off.)

So Lemanis, whose New Zealand Breakers are reigning back-to-back NBL champs and defending champs, has a name which has to come up in Boomers coaching discussions.

Personally, I would have trouble looking too far beyond Gordie McLeod - who completely outcoached Brown's other London Olympics Boomers assistant, Marty Clarke, as recently as yesterday - as a very strong candidate.

And staying in the NBL, it also is hard to ignore the consistent success Rob Beveridge has enjoyed since going west.

Give him the talent and he will give you the results.

Isn't that what a national coach's job is, to a great degree?

And Cairns' Aaron Fearne is someone I would groom into the Boomers program with an assistant's gig.

But when push comes to shove, and shove comes to punch, and punch comes to brawl, and brawl comes to gunplay, and gunplay breaks out into a major skirmish, which then escalates into warfare, Goorjian is where my buck would stop.

I haven't spoken with him about it lately, but I felt post-Beijing, he did feel he had some unfinished business with the Boomers and now might be the time to revisit that.

Not one of the candidates mentioned so far - namely Lemanis, McLeod, Beveridge and Fearne - would have a problem working with him and subtly, BA could reintroduce the assistant-to-coach succession formula which worked well in the past.

Look, BA needs to take a good look around, check out a Tab Baldwin or a few other overseas names before it makes a decision.

Hell, Phil Jackson was putting his hand up for an NBA gig a little while back - and was completely ignored - so maybe the Great Man could use an Olympic challenge?

Maybe Mike Dunlap might like to supplement his development as Charlotte Bobcats coach with a side Boomers gig.

I don't know. But it's worth asking.

I have no issue whatsoever with revisiting a coach if he/she has the requisite nous and passion to do the job.

I look at what Tom Maher has achieved and, as Peter Griffin might say, it grinds my gears he can't get a national job here anymore.

From the moment he was given the Opals reigns ahead of the 1994 World Championship, Australia became a medal round perennial.

They played off for - and lost - the Bronze in 1994, but were Bronze medallists at Atlanta, the 1998 Worlds in Germany, and Silver medallists at Sydney 2000.

He then took New Zealand into the quarter-finals at Athens, China into the semis in Beijing, and made Great Britain competitive for London.

Would I endorse him as Opals' coach?

In a heartbeat.

But even faster I'd say let's ask Goorj about a Boomers return.

Hell, he may not even be interested anymore, growing rotund and content on rice, and sweet and sour pork in China.

But it's only a phone call.

Or it's Lemanis, McLeod or Beveridge - with all due respect to Clarke, Shane Heal, Chris Anstey and Paul Woolpert.