Hurley has plenty to pass on to the coaches. He founded the basketball program at the Australian Institute of Sport, coached Australia at three Olympics and guided the Perth Wildcats to a National Basketball League championship.

He is the Boomers assistant coach these days, and works for the Sydney Kings, and Hurley was happy to help out where he could.

"I agreed to come up and work with the coaches and I'll be doing a few clinics while I'm here," he said. "It's an extension of the work the coaches here are currently doing and in many ways I'm really an affirmation of what they're doing.

"I'll spend an hour or two speaking to them on how to build up their team structures and what not."

Hurley said that while every coach comes from somewhere different he was quick to say that the fundamentals should always remain the same.

"Some will have had a lot of exposure to elite coaching and some won't," he said. "What I will do won't be overly complicated but what I do is reinforce to them is what we do with the Boomers, it's the same things they do with the kids.

"Sometimes people think when you coach with the Boomers or whatever it is different but it isn't. The fundamentals are the same."

He was very happy to see a program in place that allowed the kids to learn about off-court matters as well as on-court skills.

"They are teaching the kids what to eat, how to work on certain skills and giving them the pathways to being a great player," Hurley said. "I applaud them for doing that this week. It's tournaments and programs like these that breed the next Patty Mills or Andrew [Andrew] Bogut.

"We realistically know that one or two will go all of that way, but a lot will play representative basketball and it will give everyone a chance to go as far as they want to go if they put the work in."