Stefan Weissenböck

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Stefan Weissenböck (born June 25, 1973 in Mistelbach ) is a former Austrian basketball player . Today he is head of player development at Brose Bamberg and an individual trainer at the NBA club Brooklyn Nets.

Career

player

After winning many titles in the junior division, Stefan Weissenböck and his team UKJ Kaufstrasse Mistelbach made it from the Lower Austrian regional league to the highest Austrian basketball class in the early 1990s .

After a year of college at Hawaii Pacific University , he returned to Austria in 1996 and experienced his most successful period in sport in the dress of UKJ SÜBA St. Pölten . Three national championship titles, a cup win and great performances in the European Saporta Cup made him probably the most successful national basketball player at the time and probably the first professional athlete in his division in Austria. His brother Martin also played in the Bundesliga.

After moving to Arkadia Traiskirchen, the St. Pöltens championship team was falling apart, he won another cup title with his new team . A short stay at Belenenses Lisbon was followed by two more seasons at Arkadia Traiskirchen before the then 30-year-old moved to the German aspirant Falke Nürnberg . As so often in his career, however, he was hit by bad luck with injuries. After several serious knee operations in the mid-1990s, Weissenböck had to end his active career in 2004 because of a serious spinal disc damage and immediately switched to the coaching industry.

Trainer

In addition to his two-year activity as a training manager and trainer in the St. Pölten performance model, he was promoted to the top German league with Falke Nürnberg in the position of assistant trainer (2005). As Sellbytel Baskets Nürnberg, the team suffered a financial collapse in early 2007 and relegated to the newly formed second German league ( 2nd Bundesliga Pro A ), in which they started as Dimplex Falke Nürnberg. It was relegated to the third division, the 2. Bundesliga Pro B , in which the team - after selling the license - now starts as a Franconian witcher .

Until 2011, Weissenböck was the individual trainer or coach of the NBBL team (U19 Bundesliga) in the Franconian cooperation structure Franken1st (Bamberg, Nuremberg) as well as an expert commentator for the Austrian Bundesliga at Premiere Austria.

From the 2010/2011 season, Weissenböck was Chris Fleming's assistant coach with Arne Woltmann at Brose Baskets and was also responsible for player development. In 2013, Weissenböck also founded the Pro Skills Camp , a multi-day training camp for professional basketball players that specializes in the individual development of game and throwing technique as well as athletics. In June 2014 he was released in Bamberg, but returned to the Bundesliga team in March 2015 and took over the duties of the individual coach again. “I am consciously invisible. The players know that I exist, the head coach knows that I make their players better. Otherwise I stay in the background, ”he told derstandard.at about his work. In Bamberg he worked with several players who then made the leap to a top European club or the National Basketball Association (NBA), including Kyle Hines , Tibor Pleiß , Brian Roberts , PJ Tucker and Marcus Slaughter . During the summer break, he also gave the NBA players Jakob Pöltl and Tomáš Satoranský individual training sessions and received offers from the NBA, which he did not accept. In May 2018 he finally signed a contract as part-time individual trainer for the NBA team Brooklyn Nets and remained employed in Bamberg.

National team EM statistics

Stefan Weissenböck was a member of the Austrian national team from 1992 to 2004 and represented his colors 34 times internationally.

During this time he took part in 3 European Championship qualifying rounds and scored 127 points in a total of 14 games. Against the Czech Republic and Belarus he achieved personal bests in 2001 with 20 points.

Competition Games Min./sp. Points P./Sp. Reb./sp. Ass./Sp.
EuroBasket 2003
qualifying round		 3 29.3 18th 6.0 1.7 1.7
EuroBasket 2001
semi-finals		 5 27.2 58 11.6 2.6 1.0
EuroBasket 1997
qualifying round		 6th 19.5 51 8.5 1.3 0.0

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Weissenböck's future is open. Accessed December 30, 2018 .
  2. ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: New coach: Bamberg signs Italian Trinchieri - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Sport. Retrieved March 11, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Weissenböck returns to the Brose Baskets . In: inFranken.de . ( infranken.de [accessed on March 11, 2017]).
  4. ↑ The conspicuously inconspicuous Trainer - derStandard.at. Accessed December 30, 2018 .
  5. ↑ press agent: basketball coach Weissenböck - the invisible trainer - sport. In: Sports Press. June 30, 2017, accessed December 30, 2018 .
  6. ↑ The NBA is fishing for Austrian coaches. Retrieved July 4, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Weissenböck in the NBA: "I'm only from Mistelbach" - derStandard.at. Accessed December 30, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Brooklyn relies on "Guru" from Mistelbach , orf.at, 2019-04-16.
  9. ↑ MEET THE EUROPEAN SHOOTING GURU AND 'TELE-COACH' WHO'S HELPED BROOKLYN NETS 'TURNAROUND , closeup360, Yanir Rubinstein, Apr 12, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Weissenböck, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian basketball player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Mistelbach