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About From Zero

Built from zero.

We're a basketball performance facility in Keilor Park, Melbourne. We develop complete players: skill on the court, strength in the gym, testing and physio, all under one roof.

From Zero coach with a junior group on court

Our story

The name is
the philosophy.

Scorers aren't born. They're built, one rep, one lift and one session at a time, usually when nobody is watching.

From Zero started with a simple idea. Players shouldn't have to piece their development together from a skills coach in one suburb, a gym in another and a physio who has never spoken to either. Basketball players need all of it, working together, pointed at the same goal.

So we built it in one place. Our basketball sessions, strength and conditioning, athletic testing and sports physio all run out of our Keilor Park facility. Coaches and physio share the same information and the same plan for each athlete.

Some athletes come to us starting from nothing. Some are already good, but good isn't enough anymore. Wherever you're starting from, we meet you there, measure it and build from it. No gimmicks and no shortcuts, just hard-earned progress and the compound effect of showing up.

Led by experience

24 years of the game.

One of us played it at the professional level for 12 years. The other has spent 12 years coaching athletes from their first session through to the pros. Between them, they know what it takes to become a scorer.

Emmanuel Malou
12 years as a pro

Emmanuel Malou

Head of Basketball Performance

Emmanuel played professionally for 12 years, including the NBL and international basketball with Team South Sudan. He brings what he learned at that level to every court session: how scorers move, read the defence and get their shot off.

Jimmy Mullins
12 years coaching

Jimmy Mullins

Founder · Director · High Performance Coach

Jimmy has spent 12 years coaching basketball athletes from grassroots through to NBL, NBA and CBA pros, in Australia and China. That experience shapes everything we do at From Zero: results first, everything tracked, and nothing in a program just because it looks good.

The team

Coaches & physio.

Former athletes and specialist coaches who work side by side every day, so skill, strength and rehab never pull in different directions.

Emmanuel Malou

Emmanuel Malou

Head of Basketball Performance

Jimmy Mullins

Jimmy Mullins

Director · High Performance Coach

Raphael Hadfield

Raphael Hadfield

High Performance Coach

Ashton Ahluwalia

Ashton Ahluwalia

Sports Physiotherapist

What we stand for

How we work.

Results first

Athletes come to get better and our coaches expect to deliver it. That's the standard.

Measure everything

You can't improve what you don't measure. Sessions, lifts and tests are all tracked.

Small groups

Six athletes max on the court or in the gym, so everyone gets real coaching.

One plan

Coaches and physio share one plan for each athlete. Nothing works against anything else.

Earned, not given

No magic formulas or overnight transformations. Just the compound effect of showing up.

See the potential

We look for the overlooked athlete with hunger. Everyone starts from somewhere.

Ready?

Start from zero.

Come in, get tested and see what your game could look like with the right plan behind it.