Bar Timor

Bar Timor
Player information
birthday	March 2, 1992
place of birth	Haifa, Israel
size	191 cm
position	Point Guard / Shooting Guard
Club information
society	Hapoel Jerusalem
league	Ligat ha'Al
Jersey number	11
Clubs as active
2009–2010 Hapoel Haifa 2010–2011 Hapoel Kirjat Tiw'on 2011–2013 Hapoel Tel Aviv 2013–2014 Alba Berlin Since 2014 Hapoel Jerusalem 0
National team
Since 02015	Israel

Bar Timor ( Hebrew בר טימור; * March 2, 1992 in Haifa ) is an Israeli basketball player who also has German citizenship. Timor was named the Discovery of the Season or Best Newcomer of the Israeli League Ha'Al in 2013 , before playing for a year in Germany with Alba Berlin in the basketball league and becoming runner-up there. After his return he played at Hapoel Jerusalem , where he became a national player and with his team the Israeli champion.

Career

Timor began his career in his hometown with haPoel , whose team from Haifa was one of the better teams in Israel in the 1960s and was runner-up twice. As a newcomer from the third division Artzit , Hapoel Haifa reached fourth place in the second-rate division Leumit in the 2009/10 season . However, Hapoel Haifa was unable to maintain this level and withdrew into the lower divisions for the time being. Timor then moved to the previous league competitor and table runner-up Hapoel from Kirjat Tiw'on in Galilee . As table eight of the 2010/11 season Kirjat Tiw'on lost in the play-off quarter-final series against the first Hapoel from Tel Aviv , who lost the final series for promotion. Bar Timor was then committed by Hapoel Tel Aviv, whose best times were also in the 1960s with five championships, including one in 1965 against Hapoel Haifa as runner-up. Hapoel Tel Aviv was again first in the league Leumit in the 2011/12 season and this time also won the play-offs. Thus, the team reached for the club promotion and return to the top division. There they reached the play-offs as eighth in the 2012/13 season, in which they remained without a win in three games in the quarter-finals against local rivals and dominating Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv . Timor itself was named the best newcomer but was named “Discovery of the Season”.

For the basketball Bundesliga 2013/14 Timor was signed by the German first division team and multiple champions Alba Berlin, whereby his German nationality, inherited from his grandmother, who came from Germany, had a positive effect on the otherwise limited right to play in the German league. In Berlin , Timor first had to get used to the foreign culture and was given little time by coach Saša Obradović . After injuries and a necessary operation at the end of February, Timor lost touch for good. After only four appearances in the championship until the end of 2013, he had practically no part in winning the German Cup in 2014 or the runner-up in the final series against FC Bayern Munich and returned to his home country after just one season. Back in Israel he was signed by Hapoel Jerusalem, where he played with Yotam Halperin , who had also played a season in the German BBL but at Bayern Munich. Hapoel Jerusalem lost the State Cup in the final against the former Triple Crown winner Maccabi Tel Aviv, but won the championship unbeaten in the play-offs in the final series against Hapoel Eilat , after they had surprisingly defeated Maccabi Tel Aviv in five games in the semifinals had. In the summer of 2015, the former youth selection player made his first appearances in the men's selection and was in the squad at the European Championship finals in 2015 , when the national team lost significantly to Italy after three wins in five preliminary round games in the round of 16 and was eliminated.

After Bar Timor at Alba Berlin had only little playing time in the Eurocup 2013/14 and he and Hapoel Jerusalem had only finished bottom of the group in the preliminary round in the Eurocup 2014/15 , he reached the intermediate round of the best 32 teams with Hapoel in the Eurocup 2015/16 , in which, however, they remained without a win against, among others, the two later semi-finalists Strasbourg IG and Herbalife Gran Canaria . In the Israeli championship this time, Hapoel even reached first place after the regular season ahead of Maccabi Tel Aviv. After the Israeli league returned to the Final Four format, Hapoel's title defense failed in the final against the surprise winner Maccabi Rischon LeZion . Bar Timor received the award for best sixth man or best substitute in the Israeli league. In the following season, Hapoel Jerusalem played very successfully in the EuroCup 2016/17 and reached the elimination rounds as the group first in the intermediate round. After the success in the quarter-finals over Gran Canaria, the winner of this competition from 2004 lost in the semi-finals to the Valencia Basket Club , record winner with three title wins. Nationally, the season was initially less successful; after the lost state cup final against Maccabi Tel Aviv they were only third tied on points in the regular season before Maccabi. In the semi-finals of the Final Four, Hapoel Jerusalem was able to successfully take revenge against defending champion Rishon LeZion before winning the second championship in three years in the final against Maccabi Haifa . Timor, apparently also courted by Maccabi Tel Aviv, then extended his contract with Hapoel Jerusalem for a further three years. First, however, Timor tries with the Israeli national team at the 2017 European Championship finals to successfully survive the group stage in front of a home crowd in Tel Aviv , in which one meets the German selection .

Web links

Commons : Bar Timor  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Bar Timor - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)
• Bar Timor - player profile on the websites of the Super League (English / Hebrew )
• TIMOR, BAR - player profile on the website of the EuroCup (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alba Berlin signs German-Israeli Timor for three years. Berliner Morgenpost , June 8, 2013, accessed on September 3, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Berlin walk with Bar Timor. (No longer available online.) Alba Berlin , September 17, 2013, archived from the original on September 3, 2017 ; Retrieved on September 3, 2017 (media info; repro of a blog from alba-inside.org). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ 16918 Bar TIMOR. Basketball Bundesliga , accessed on September 3, 2017 (player profile with statistics). 
4. ^ Jan Buchholz: contract with Timor dissolved by mutual agreement. (No longer available online.) Alba Berlin , July 15, 2014, archived from the original on September 3, 2017 ; accessed on September 3, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Basketball professional Bar Timor is leaving ALBA Berlin. Die Welt , July 15, 2014, accessed September 3, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Hapoel Jerusalem renews Bar Timor. eurohoops.net, July 12, 2017, accessed September 3, 2017 .