Derrick Taylor

Derrick Taylor
Player information
Nickname	Daddy cool
birthday	November 20, 1963
place of birth	Thibodaux (LA), United States
size	183 cm
position	Point guard
college	Louisiana State
NBA draft	1986 , 72. Pick, Indiana Pacers
Clubs as active
1987–1989 Mississippi Jets / Wichita Falls Texans ( CBA ) 1989 Calgary 88's (World Basketball League) 1989–1990 Sunair Ostend 1990–1991 Wichita Falls Texans 1991–1996 Steiner Bayreuth 1996–1997 Rolly Pistoia 1997–1999 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1999 EB Pau -Orthez 1999–2000 Bipop Carire Reggio Emilia 2000–2001 Opel Skyliners Frankfurt 2001–2005 TSK / GHP Bamberg 00000 00000
Clubs as coaches
2004–2006 TSV Tröster Breitengüßbach 2005–2006 GHP Bamberg ( Co ) 2007–2009 BBC Bayreuth 2009–2012 Nuremberg Basketball Club 2013–2015 Cybex Bayreuth 2017–2018 BBC Coburg since 2019 Nuremberg Falcons BC ( Co ) 0

Derrick Taylor (born November 20, 1963 in Thibodaux , Louisiana ) is a basketball coach and former player who has both US and German citizenship. Taylor, who became German champion as a player in 2005 . After his playing career, Taylor was coach in Bayreuth and Nuremberg.

Career

The 1.83 m wide Taylor played during his studies for the Tigers of Louisiana State University (LSU) in the NCAA . For this university team, for which "Pistol Pete" Maravich and later Shaquille O'Neal played, Taylor scored 1590 points, which meant sixth place in the eternal LSU basket hunter list at the time of his departure. With 404 assists , he reached the fourth-best value in team history. After completing his studies, he began a career as a professional basketball player in his home country. After he failed to make the leap into the highest endowed professional league NBA , he tried to recommend himself through engagements in the US minor leagues . From 1987 on, he played two seasons for the Mississippi Jets in the CBA , which moved to Wichita Falls in 1988 as Texans . In between he also accepted short-term contracts in various countries such as the Philippines . Despite his sometimes above-average performance, he was twice appointed to the All-Star team of the CBA, the way to a long-term engagement in the NBA was hopeless. He therefore dared to move to Europe for a full season, but came back to the Wichita Falls Texans in the CBA after a rather unsuccessful year with multiple Belgian champions Sunair Ostend. There, with 24.2 points per game and a free throw rate of 90%, he had a decisive share in the winning of his team's CBA championship and was therefore recommended for higher tasks.

Then Taylor was signed in 1991 by the former German champion Steiner Bayreuth , but despite Taylor's 24.4 points per game and the best personal free throw rate in the league, surprisingly had to relegate at the end of the season. Taylor stayed in Upper Franconia and led the team as a crowd favorite for immediate promotion to the first division and in the following season in the play-offs for the German championship. After two mixed years, in which Taylor played only a few competitive games due to a torn cruciate ligament , he received a twelve-year contract in Bayreuth in February 1995, which was to hold in Bayreuth beyond his playing career. However, the collaboration ended well before the end of the contract. Taylor found back to old strength in the 1995/1996 season and competed with Bayreuth in the Korać Cup at the same time . The German passport, which he also received during his time in Bayreuth, made Taylor interesting for other clubs in southern Europe and at the beginning of the 1996/97 season he was signed by the Italian first division club Carmatic Pistoia after further assignments for Bayreuth in the Korać Cup . At the time of his temporary departure from Bayreuth, the association was plagued by money worries.

After only a year Taylor returned to Germany and received a contract with the dethroned series champion Bayer 04 Leverkusen, where he had been observed for a long time as the preferred player of the then coach Dirk Bauermann , later national coach. After two years on the Rhine , in which Taylor scored an average of 17.85 points, he moved to the French champion EB Pau-Orthez. Here he was not successful, so that in December 1999 he moved back to the Italian Serie A to the club from Reggio nell'Emilia . However, this was knocked off bottom of the table on the season and Taylor returned to Germany again. He actually wanted to end his career and settle with his family in Bayreuth, but then decided to accept an offer from the Skyliners Frankfurt to help out there in the face of the injuries of Pascal Roller and Kai Nürnberger . During the 2000/2001 season he played eleven games for the Opel Skyliners from Frankfurt am Main and then complied with the request of TSK Bamberg's manager Wolfgang Heyder to join the unsuccessful team as an experienced playmaker. A “step in” in Bamberg became more: Coach Dirk Bauermann, under whom he already played during his time in Leverkusen and who took over the post in Bamberg in 2001, relied on him. Taylor experienced his most successful time in Germany in Bamberg, despite his age of more than 38 years for a basketball player. As the extended arm of the coach, Taylor was in the position of playmaker for years, but could not win a title for the time being and ended his playing career in 2004. After he subsequently worked as a coach of the Bamberg cooperation club TSV Tröster Breitengüßbach in the second basketball league, However, he returned to the pitch for the GHP Bamberg during the 2004/2005 season when some top performers were injured and was able to celebrate winning a German championship as a player with Bamberg at the end of the season. In the fifth game of the final series against Frankfurt, Taylor converted two free throws with a score of 65:62 and thus secured the title. Due to his strong nerves and his advanced age for a competitive athlete, he was nicknamed "Daddy Cool" during his time in Bamberg. Taylor scored a total of 5906 points in the Bundesliga.

Coaching career

After Taylor's final resignation as an active player, he first worked as head coach of TSV Breitengüßbach, but also looked after GHP Bamberg as an assistant coach at Dirk Bauermann's side. In the 2007/2008 season, Taylor then moved to the BBC Bayreuth , which has inherited Steiner Bayreuth, Taylor's first position as a player in Germany. After six months as the club's youth coordinator, Taylor was then appointed head coach of the first team in the second basketball Bundesliga ProA in February 2008 . However, the expectations could not meet all and was dismissed shortly before the start of the 2009/2010 season despite a third place in the final table. A few weeks later Taylor signed a contract as head coach of the ProB league club Nürnberger BC, with whom he finished fifth in the ProB second division at the end of the season. Due to the license waiver of the Dragons Rhöndorf in the ProA, he and his team were able to rise to the playoffs despite the semi-final defeat. The new league, who strengthened himself with the former ProA MVPs Jaivon Harris and Ryan DeMichael, started with high expectations, but missed participation in the play-offs for promotion to the first division. Therefore, Taylor's expiring contract was no longer extended. September 2013 Taylor returned to the coaching profession and became the new head coach of the 2nd team of his former club BBC Bayreuth. His new team ran under the name Cybex Bayreuth in the 1st regional league. Taylor received a contract in Bayreuth until the summer of 2014 and ultimately remained in office until the end of the 2014/15 season.

At the end of November 2017 he became the head coach of BBC Coburg in the 2nd Bundesliga ProB , but could not prevent relegation. After the end of the season there was a separation. At the beginning of December 2019 he became co-trainer and youth coordinator at the second division club Nürnberg Falcons BC .

successes

• 1990/1991 : Winning the CBA championship with Wichita Falls Texans
• 2004/2005 : Winning the German championship with GHP Bamberg

Private

Taylor has two children, a son and a daughter. He lives with his wife Marion in Eckersdorf near Bayreuth. Taylor's son David was a German national youth player, moved to college in the USA and then to the basketball league . The family spends the summer holidays in Taylor's home town of Louisiana, USA.

Web links

• Derrick Taylor: "The championship was like a dream" - Interview by David Hein with Taylor about his playing career on crossover-online.de (March 2011)
• Derrick Taylor: The Bauermann student - Interview by David Hein with Taylor about his coaching career on crossover-online.de (March 2011)
• Derrick Taylor (GHP Bamberg) - player profile on the statistics pages of the Basketball Bundesliga (as of 2005)
• Legabasket: Derrick Taylor - player profile on the statistics pages of Serie A (Italian)
• Derrick Taylor | FIBA Europe - player statistics from European cup competitions of FIBA ​​Europe, status 2004 (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2011-12 LSU Men's Basketball Media Guide. Louisiana State University , p. 121 , accessed April 26, 2012 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Maja Kolonic: NBC coach Derrick Taylor in portrait. In: Nürnberger Zeitung . February 23, 2010, accessed April 26, 2012 .  
3. ^ ^{A b} Dino Reisner: Because Derrick Taylor signed a 12-year contract . In: 111 reasons to love Medi Bayreuth: A declaration of love to the greatest basketball city in the world . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-86265-770-4 , pp. 137-139 .
4. ^ Derrick Taylor / Korac Cup 1997 / FIBA ​​Europe. FIBA Europe , accessed on April 26, 2012 (English, player statistics from 1997). 
5. ↑ BBL legend Derrick Taylor in an interview. In: netzathleten.de. Retrieved September 7, 2019 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Linus Müller: Because Derrick Taylor returned at the age of 41 and turned the free throws into the championship . In: 111 reasons to love Brose Bamberg . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2018, ISBN 978-3-86265-721-6 , pp. 70-72 .
7. ^ GHP Bamberg: Taylor with comeback. (No longer available online.) Basketball Bundesliga , April 13, 2005, formerly in the original ; accessed on April 26, 2012 (press release GHP Bamberg).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
8. ↑ The 200 best basket hunters in the Bundesliga since 1975 . In: Basketball Bundesliga GmbH (Ed.): 50 Years of the Basketball Bundesliga . Cologne, ISBN 978-3-7307-0242-0 , pp. 212 .
9. ^ GHP Bamberg: Taylor becomes a trainer. (No longer available online.) Basketball Bundesliga , July 7, 2004, formerly in the original ; accessed on April 26, 2012 (press release GHP Bamberg).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
10. ↑ Michael Birkhan: Derrick Taylor is the new head coach in Bayreuth. schoenen-dunk.de, February 18, 2008, accessed on April 26, 2012 (press release BBC Bayreuth). 
11. ↑ Derrick Taylor succeeds Alex Krüger as head coach. schoenen-dunk.de, October 13, 2009, accessed April 26, 2012 (NBC press release). 
12. ↑ Ides inherits Derrick Taylor. Nürnberger Zeitung , April 12, 2012, accessed on April 26, 2012 . 
13. ↑ bbc-magazin.com
14. ↑ np-coburg.de
15. ↑ bbc-magazin.com
16. ↑ https://www.nordbayern.de/sport/die-falcons-verlieren-und-gewinnen-daddy-cool-1.9612804