Six out of the eight board members stepped down at the annual meeting last week.
Simon Eddy, Rene Sterk and Marie Taylor-Cyphers will come on to the board and three others, including former Nuggets coach Todd Marshall, will be seconded at the first meeting.
It is a dramatic change for Basketball Otago and Carr said part of the problem rests with the way the organisation's constitution is structured.
It stipulates people representing basketball interests on the board must step down by rotation after just a year, and people with business backgrounds can serve a two-year term.
''It has always been a concern to us,'' Carr said.
''We have not got it set up for what I would call a good, sustainable roll-over of knowledge. We're always at risk of losing a large group like we have this time round.''
Previous boards have acknowledged the terms need to be lengthened, but ''we've just never got around to actually making those changes''.
''We've got into re-writing it once but never got it to the stage where we can take it to an AGM and say, 'There are the changes we want to make'.''
With so many new people coming on to the board, it will be up to Carr and the other remaining board member, Gavin Briggs, to get the new members up to speed.
However, Carr said Marshall would bring with him a wealth of experience to the board, having both played for and coached the Nuggets and worked for Basketball Otago.
Carr also felt there would be a better mix of business and operational nous on the board.
One of the priorities for the new board will be to address the financial situation.
While it is far from bleak, Basketball Otago reported a modest loss in the financial year ending December of $13,166. That followed a more sizeable deficit in the previous term of $36,787.
Carr said finances remained a challenge but the organisation was enjoying good growth, some success at age group level and the Otago Nuggets reached the playoff this year for the first time since 1997.
''If you look at our organisation and where we were three years ago and where we are today, I think it has moved forward. It is very robust, it is very positive.''
