TJ DiLeo

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Basketball player
TJ DiLeo
TJ DiLeo at the Telekom Baskets Bonn game against the Södertälje Kings on October 25, 2016.
Player information
Full name Anthony David DiLeo junior
Nickname TJ
birthday 22nd June 1990 (age 30)
place of birth Dusseldorf, Germany
size 190 cm
position Shooting Guard
college Temple
Club information
society Telekom Baskets Bonn
league BBL
Clubs as active
2008–2013 Temple Owls ( NCAA ) 2013–2016 Gießen 46ers Since 2016 Telekom Baskets BonnUnited StatesUnited States
GermanyGermany
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Anthony David TJ DiLeo (born June 22, 1990 in Düsseldorf ) is an American - German basketball player . After studying in the United States, DiLeo began a professional career in his native country in 2013, where he first played for the Gießen 46ers and has been under contract with Telekom Baskets Bonn since May 2016 . His younger brother Max is also a player in the basketball league .

Career

Tony junior ("TJ") DiLeo is the son of Tony DiLeo , formerly very successful as a basketball coach in Germany and former general manager and brief coach of the NBA club Philadelphia 76ers , and Anna , a native of Romania , formerly very successful basketball player DJK Agon 08 Düsseldorf . Shortly after the birth of TJ's family in 1990 moved to the home of his father, where this first as a scout took over the Philadelphia 76ers an activity, and was aged in DiLeos home South Jersey , which belongs to the metropolitan Philadelphia southern New Jersey , sedentary. In Philadelphia , TJ DiLeo also began studying at Temple University , where he played from 2008 for the college team Owls in the Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10) of the NCAA . In his first season as a freshman , DiLeo suffered an ankle injury at the beginning of the season and then put the season out redshirted . But also in the following seasons DiLeo found it difficult to get into the starting line-up of the Owls and mostly came from the bench as a substitute into the game. In his last season as a senior , he only got just under three points per game in 19 minutes of average playing time, but was considered one of the strongest defenders in the team, while as a German junior selection player at the U20 European Championship in 2010 he was internally one of the best scorers of his own selection was when they could only ensure relegation in Division A of the best European junior teams in the last game. In 2010 DiLeo won the championship tournament of the A-10 with the Owls and reached the national NCAA finals tournament for the Owls in all of his seasons , but always eliminated after the second game at the latest.

After completing his studies in 2013, DiLeo began a professional career in his native Germany, where he joined the old master and first division relegated 46ers from Gießen under coach Denis Wucherer , who had already coached DiLeo as coach of the junior national team. The Giessen had finished the last first division season after financial problems as bottom of the table and were relegated from the top division for the first time. When rebuilding in the ProA 2013/14 they reached the fourth main round place, but then lost the decisive play-off semi- final series for the re - promotion against the future ProA champion BG Göttingen , who then returned to the first division. For the ProA 2014/15 , DiLeo was appointed team captain of the old master. As captain, he stood on the field for over 30 minutes per game and led his team, unbeaten in the playoffs, back to the BBL.

After the 2015/16 season, in which DiLeo made 20 appearances for Gießen in the basketball league , scoring an average of 5.6 points, collecting 2.4 rebounds and giving 2.2 assists, he left the club and switched to the BBL -Competitors Telekom Baskets Bonn .

Web links

Commons : TJ DiLeo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephen Edelson: An unlikely leader emerges at Monmouth in Max DiLeo. Asbury Park Press: APP.com, November 8, 2014, accessed January 14, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Anthony "TJ" DiLeo changes to the GIESSEN 46ers. Giessen 46ers , July 2, 2013, accessed on January 14, 2015 (Medien-Info).
  3. ↑ TJ DiLeo new captain of the GIESSEN 46ers. Giessen 46ers , September 4, 2014, accessed on January 15, 2015 (media info).
  4. ↑ Baskets press the reset button. In: www.telekom-baskets-bonn.de. Retrieved May 17, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME DiLeo, TJ
ALTERNATIVE NAMES DiLeo, Anthony David junior (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf , Germany