LSU hires Brendan Suhr as associate coach
LSU head coach Johnny Jones has finalized his coaching staff after adding former NBA coach and executive Brendan Suhr as associate coach, the program announced Tuesday.
With over 25 years of NBA experience, Suhr comes to the Tigers with back-to-back NBA championships in 1989 and 1990 as an assistant with the Detroit Pistons under head coach Chuck Daly.
"We are very excited with the addition of coach Brendan Suhr to our coaching staff," Jones said in a statement.
"He brings a great deal of experience with a wealth of knowledge that will certainly be very beneficial and impactful for our LSU basketball program and players. We look forward to him starting here this week as we begin to prepare for our upcoming trip and games in Australia."
Suhr will be on hand for the team's preparations and will travel to Australia to play games against the country's National Basketball League or area pro all-star teams.
"I had seen LSU play a lot in the past year, and I've been watching them since Johnny (Jones) has been back for his three years," Suhr said.
"I'm very impressed with what he has done with this program. Philosophically, in our visits over the last month, we are totally on the same page, basketball-wise. It’s a great honor for me to be involved with a program that is on a rise like this in a great, great conference with good young talent, but also with a terrific coaching staff and a guy that I just think the world of."
As an assistant coach and director of program development for UCF since 2010, Suhr helped the Knights earn two trips into postseason tournaments.