Žan tobacco

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Basketball player
Žan tobacco
Zan Tobacco.JPG

Žan Tobacco (2008)
Player information
birthday June 15, 1970
place of birth Split , Croatia
size 213 cm
position center
NBA draft 1991 , 51. Pick, Houston Rockets

Žan Tabak (born June 15, 1970 in Split , Croatia ) is a former Croatian basketball player and current coach.

career

player

Tobacco originated from the junior staff at KK Split . From 1987 to 1992, the 2.13-meter indoor player was a member of the club's men's team; in 1988, 1989, 1990, and 1991 he was the Yugoslav champion and in 1990 and 1991 the Yugoslav cup winner. At the European level, he won the European Champion's Cup in 1989 under coach Božidar Maljković with the team that was then named KK Jugoplastica Split because of a sponsorship agreement . Tobacco was only given a minor role in the final with eight minutes of playing time. In 1990 the European Cup triumph was repeated, Tobacco was still a substitute player, in the final against FC Barcelona he was on the field for one minute. In 1991 he won with Split (now called KK Pop 84 Split and supervised by coach Željko Pavličević ) for the third time the most important European cup competition, Tabak scored two points in the final against Barcelona with nine minutes of playing time.

The NBA team Houston Rockets secured the rights to the Croatian in 1991 when they called it 51st place in the draft process in the second selection round. Tobacco won the NBA championship title with the Texans in the 1994/95 season, but was in the shadow of Hakeem Olajuwon and played little. After moving to the Toronto Raptors in 1995, his playing time increased significantly. With 7.7 points and 4.8 rebounds per game, he achieved the best statistical values ​​of his time in the NBA in 1995/96. During the 1997/98 season he was released from Toronto to the Boston Celtics . In 1998/99 tobacco played at Fenerbahce Istanbul in Turkey and then went back to North America. From 1999 to 2001 he was part of the Indiana Pacers squad , but remained a supplementary player. In the 1999/2000 season he moved with Indiana into the final series of the NBA, where they lost to the Los Angeles Lakers .

In the 2001/02 season Tobacco was under contract with Real Madrid and from 2002 to 2004 with Joventut de Badalona . In 2004/05 he strengthened Unicaja Málaga and won the Spanish Cup with the team.

National team

With Yugoslavia's national cadet team, he was European champion in 1987, then U18 European champion in 1988.

At the 1992 Summer Olympics he won the silver medal with Croatia and the bronze medal at the 1993 European Championship. Tobacco also took part in the 2001 European Championships and the 1996 Summer Olympics. At the games in Atlanta, the inside player was the Croatians' third-best scorer with 14 points per match.

Trainer

After retiring as a player, he worked for two years as a player judge for the New York Knicks and then embarked on a coaching career. From 2006 to 2009 he was assistant coach at Real Madrid and in 2007 he contributed to winning the Spanish championship title and the European club competition ULEB Cup . From 2009 to 2011 he was an assistant coach on the staff of another Spanish first division club, CDB Sevilla . As in Madrid, he worked there with head coach Joan Plaza . In the summer of 2011, Tabak took on the position of head coach at the Spanish second division club Basquet Sant Josep Girona. His first year as head coach was overshadowed by the club's economic difficulties.

Tobacco accepted the offer in July 2012 to become the head coach of the Polish first division club Trefl Sopot . He left the Polish team in November 2012 to join the Spanish first division club Caja Laboral . Tobacco also took part in the Euroleague with Caja Laboral. The collaboration ended after the end of the 2012/13 season. Caja Laboral had meanwhile won 17 games in a row under Tabak's direction, but was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the Spanish league.

In the 2014/15 season he worked again as an assistant coach at Real Madrid and won the Euroleague with the team as Pablo Laso's assistant . In July 2015 he was introduced as the head coach of the Spanish first division club Baloncesto Fuenlabrada . He led the team to three wins and three losses in the ACB league , in November 2015 he moved to Maccabi Tel-Aviv , which had a bad start into the Euroleague season with one win and four losses. Maccabi paid a transfer fee of 100,000 euros for tobacco. He worked as head coach in Tel Aviv until the end of the 2015/16 season.

In the summer of 2016 he returned to Seville and took over the head coach position. In April 2017 he was released there for sporting reasons. In the run-up to the 2019/20 season, he took up the post of head coach at the Polish club Stelmet Zielona Góra , he retained his position as Slovak national coach, which he took over in February 2019. With Stelmet Zielona Góra, Tabak was at the top of the Polish league with 19 wins and three losses when the game was stopped in March 2020 due to the spread of Covid-19 and his team was awarded the Polish championship title. Tabak was then named Trainer of the Year in the Polish League by the specialist portal eurobasket.com . His wife became seriously ill with Covid-19 in the spring of 2020, but survived.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c ZAN TOBACCO: TRAYECTORIA Y LOGROS. In: ACB. Retrieved June 27, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Champions Cup 1988-89. Retrieved June 27, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Champions Cup 1989-90. Retrieved June 27, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Champions Cup 1990-91. Retrieved June 27, 2020 .
  5. ↑ 1991 NBA Draft. In: NBADraft.net. Retrieved June 27, 2020 (American English).
  6. ↑ Interview: Zan Tabak. Retrieved June 27, 2020 (English).
  7. ↑ a b Žan Tobacco Stats. Retrieved June 27, 2020 (English).
  8. ↑ 1999-00 Indiana Pacers Roster and Stats. Retrieved June 27, 2020 (English).
  9. ↑ archive.fiba.com: 1987 European Championship for Cadets. Retrieved June 27, 2020 .
  10. ↑ 1988 European Championship for Junior Men. Archive.fiba.com, accessed June 27, 2020 .
  11. ↑ 1992 Olympic Games: Tournament for Men. Archive.fiba.com, accessed June 27, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Greece - 1993 European Championship for Men. Archive.fiba.com, accessed June 27, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Croatia accumulated statistics - 1996 Olympic Games: Tournament for Men. Archive.fiba.com, accessed June 27, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Martha Worboy: Cameron Mathison on upcoming W Network show Game of Homes. trnto.com, January 21, 2015, accessed June 27, 2020 (American English).
  15. ↑ Plantilla y fichajes Cajasol ACB 2009/10. Retrieved June 27, 2020 .
  16. ^ El ex campeón NBA Zan Tabak dirigirá al Girona. Marca.com, accessed June 27, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Zan Tabak: Del "master de Girona" al Maccabi Tel-Aviv. Diari de Girona, accessed June 27, 2020 (Catalan).
  18. ^ Trefl Sopot lands tobacco as new coach. Retrieved June 27, 2020 (English).
  19. ^ Caja Laboral finds new coach in tobacco. Retrieved June 27, 2020 (English).
  20. ↑ El Laboral Kutxa prescinde del técnico Zan tobacco. 20minutos, June 3, 2013, accessed June 27, 2020 (Spanish).
  21. ^ Zan Tabak revealed as Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv coach. In: TalkBasket.net. TalkBasket.net, November 16, 2015, accessed June 27, 2020 .
  22. ↑ Zan tobacco, nuevo del entrenador MONTAKIT Fuenlabrada. Fuenlabrada Noticias Redacción Fn, accessed June 27, 2020 (Spanish).
  23. ^ Zan Tabak abandona el Fuenlabrada para recalar en el Maccabi Tel Aviv. Fuenlabrada Noticias Redacción Fn, accessed June 27, 2020 (Spanish).
  24. ↑ Maccabi turn to tobacco. Retrieved June 27, 2020 (UK English).
  25. ↑ Tobacco, al Maccabi. El Fuenla recibirá 100,000 euros de compensation. November 16, 2015, accessed June 27, 2020 (Spanish).
  26. ^ Zan Tabak, técnico del nuevo Baloncesto Seville. lainformacion.com, July 28, 2016, accessed June 27, 2020 (Spanish).
  27. ^ Zan Tabak appointed head coach of Sevilla. July 28, 2016, accessed June 27, 2020 .
  28. ↑ OFICIAL: Zan Tabak, destituido en Sevilla. Retrieved June 27, 2020 (Spanish).
  29. ↑ Koszykarska legenda, mistrz NBA. Żan tobacco trenerem Stelmetu Enea BC Zielona Góra! "Jestem tutaj na dwa lata". In : zielonagora.wyborcza.pl. Retrieved June 27, 2020 .
  30. ↑ Víťaz NBA ŽAN TABAK: Slováci sú fyzicky výborní, takticky dobrí, no Problem je technika slovakbasket.sk, accessed June 27, 2020 (Slovak).
  31. ↑ El excajista tobacco, campeón en Polonia tras la temporada Cancelación de la. March 19, 2020, accessed June 27, 2020 (Spanish).
  32. ↑ eurobasket.com
  33. ↑ Le témoignage de la femme du coach Zan Tobacco victime du coronavirus: "Ces gens sont mes Anges, ils m'ont ramené d'entre les morts". In: Basket Europe. May 5, 2020, accessed on June 27, 2020 (Fri-FR).
personal data
SURNAME Tobacco, Žan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Croatian basketball player and basketball coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Split , Croatia