Dave Claxton is a former Australian Boomers Assistant Coach, NBL Head Coach, and Queensland State League Head Coach. Dave was inducted into the Queensland Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016, recognising his involvement in Queensland basketball for 40+ years. In 1973, Claxton moved from Tasmania to Brisbane as a 29-year-old, and quickly became involved at the State League and NBL level. Dave describes his best memory as when he was involved with the Brisbane Bullets in 1980 where he says he was a part-time coach with a full-time job. Dave coached in the NBL with the Brisbane Bullets, the Gold Coast Rollers, the Adelaide 36ers and was assistant coach with Wollongong Hawks. At the state league level he coached the Brisbane Brewers and the Gold Coast Goannas. After being head coach of The Gold Coast Rollers in the NBL, the Club had an early exit out of the league shortly thereafter, but Dave was later a driving force behind the rebirth of the new team, the Gold Coast Blaze, back into the NBL. More recently, Dave has been the basketball director and head coach at The Southport School for over 15 years.In this interview, Dave talks about his style of coaching and we reflect on his fantastic talk at the 2019 Basketball Queensland Coaches Conference on how to prepare a team, getting both yourself as a Coach and the team ready for a season or tournament. Dave gives some advice for new basketball coaches, his emphasis on the defensive part of the game, and his thoughts on the recent changes to the Australian head coach's position, the outstanding contribution of outgoing coach Andrej Lemanis and some thoughts on the appointment of Brett Brown to the Boomers head coaching role. We also talk about whether the Gold Coast might again one day make a re-entry into the NBL.