Coaches

 

We are committed to providing a Clear coaches pathway for coaches to progress from Foundation to Advanced, gaining experience and coaching opportunities. We want to Increase in the number of ‘professional’ basketball coaches & Increase the number of coaches affiliated to the Thunder Basketball Club.

Head Coach Steven Bucknall

Growing up in South London where he came through the Crystal Palace Basketball youth system. He left England as teenager for high school in Boston. Recognition as a McDonalds All-American followed in 1985 and he went on to play at the University of North Carolina under the legendary Dean E Smith. Steve holds the honour of being the first Englishman to play in the NBA, suiting up for the L.A. Lakers in 1989/90.

Peter Bishai

First picked up a ball in 1975 at Forest Hill School and that year joined the Malory Programme run by Tim Hall and Keith D’Wan. I played for Malory in the Junior National League and played representative basketball for London.

Natasha Green

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Peter Lang

Peter played school level basketball at Samuel Pepys School in Brockley. The school was famous for winning many games,cups and trophies. Peter went on to play in the Junior National League for Malory School.

Freddie Maggar

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Andrew Mckella

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Dejan Paunovic

Growing up in Belgrade (Serbia) Dejan started playing basketball in primary school. At the age of 12 Dejan joined the youth academy of KK Crvena Zvezda (Red Star Belgrade Basketball Club) where he was coached by Mihailo Uvalin.

Steve Sadler

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Clive Sinclair

Clive started playing basketball at school and reached National League level. Over the last four years he has worked in various schools teaching and coaching multi-skills and basketball.

Eric Sommers

Eric originally taught at Samuel Pepys School and introduced basketball into the school curriculum before reaching the 4 English Schools finals.