Brad Dean

Brad Dean
Player information
Full name	Bradley Scott Dean
birthday	January 12, 1953 (67 years and 233 days)
place of birth	, UNITED STATES
college	Loyola Marymount
Clubs as coaches
1977–1982 Södertälje BBK 1983–1984 Hageby BK 1984–1986 Alviks BK 1986–1989 Södertälje BBK 1989–1990 Sunair Oostende 1990–1996 SSV ratiopharm Ulm 1996–1999 Plannja Basket Luleå 1999–2000 Okapi Aalst 2000 metabox Braunschweig 2001–2003 Brandt Hagen 2003–2005 Okapi Aalstar 2007–2016 Okapi Aalstar 00000
National team as coach
2010–2013 Sweden

Bradley Scott "Brad" Dean (born January 12, 1953 ) is an American basketball coach who works almost exclusively in Europe. Starting from Sweden , Dean worked for a long time in Germany and Belgium . Between 2007 and 2016 he was the coach of the Belgian first division team Okapi Aalstar and between 2010 and 2013 he was also the coach of the Swedish men's national team .

Career

Dean studied at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Los Angeles , where he played basketball for the Lions college team from 1972 to 1975 in the West Coast Conference (WCC) of the NCAA . In his last season he was chosen among the ten best players of the WCC in the “All-Second-Team” of the Conference. However, unlike his better-known colleague Rick Adelman , who studied at LMU a few years before Dean and later also had a successful career as a coach in the NBA, Dean did not get a contract as a player in the well-known professional league NBA .

Dean finally began a career as a coach when he took over the basketball team from Södertälje in Sweden in 1977 . In 1978 the club celebrated its first national championship and was able to knock serial champion Alvik BK from the throne after five titles in a row. In 1982 he went back home for a year and coached a high school team in Hawaii . After a year he went back to Sweden and trained the club Hageby BK from Norrköping . After a year he went to the club from Alvik in the capital Stockholm in 1984 , which had previously lost the championship title after another three consecutive titles between 1981 and 1983 to Solna IF . After Solna was able to defend its title in 1985, Alvik BK took the title back in 1986. In the following season, Dean trained the team from Södertälje again, which immediately secured the second championship under his direction and defended it the following year. In the 1988/89 season it was enough for the defending champion to finish third.

For the 1989/90 season, Dean went to Belgium to the club from Ostend , which had won the national championship seven times in the 1980s. At the end of the season, however, it was only enough for third place and Dean then went to neighboring Germany to SSV Ulm in the basketball Bundesliga , which he took over after the tenth game day in the 1990/91 season. In the basketball Bundesliga 1991/92 , four years after the club's promotion to the first division, they qualified for the play-offs of the eight best teams for the championship for the first time . In the first round they were eliminated from the dominating series champions Bayer Leverkusen . A year later they moved into the semi-finals of the best four teams, in which they failed again at Leverkusen. In the following year, however, they were eliminated in the first play-off round against ALBA Berlin , instead they reached the final in the German Cup for the first time, which was lost to Brandt Hagen. Against the same opponent they lost in the first play-off round of the 1994/95 season. As in the previous year, they moved into the cup final again, but lost by just one point against series champions Bayer Leverkusen. For the 1995/96 season, Dean reactivated the little Bo Dukes , who had already worked in Sweden at Hageby BK and Södertälje under Dean and had won a Swedish championship as well as a German championship with Steiner Bayreuth , and put him on the side of his star player Jarvis Walker . While they failed again in the first play-off round in the championship, they were able to return the favor in the third cup final in a row for the narrow defeat of the previous year and won against champions and defending champions Leverkusen with one point difference. This was the club's first national title win and Dean's first title in Germany.

Dean then left the Ulm club after six years and went back to Sweden, where he took over the team from Plannja Basket in Luleå and led to the first championship in 1997. After losing the final series in 1998 against Dean's former team from Norrköping as defending champion, they won the basketball league championship a second time in 1999 . Then he went back to Belgium in the Ethias League , where he took over the team Okapi from Aalst . However, the main round first was robbed of two wins due to financial violations and Dean took over the German first division metabox from Braunschweig at the beginning of the 2000/01 Basketball Bundesliga . But even this club got into a falter after the main sponsor was unable to pay. At the turn of the year, the then German national coach Henrik Dettmann took over the post of Dean on an interim basis , who took over the league competitor Brandt Hagen in March 2001 as the successor to Dirk Bauermann , where his compatriot Darren Engellant was already active as a player, who had already played under him in Aalst. Hagen just managed to stay up and lost the cup final against HERZOGTel Trier . In the basketball Bundesliga 2001/02 they managed just eighth in the main round again to make it into the play-offs for the championship, in which, however, they were eliminated in the first round. One season later, in ninth place, they missed out on another win. Dean went back to Belgium to the successor club Okapi Aalstar, which he coached the following two seasons until 2005. For the 2007/08 season he returned as the responsible coach and was able to place the team in the top half of the table in the closed league, among other things with the support of former Bundesliga players Brian Greene and Bingo Merriex . In 2011 they became runner-up with the later Bundesliga players Stanley Burrell and Anthony Hilliard and only had to admit defeat to series champion Spirou BC Charleroi in the final series . In 2012 they celebrated the first title success for the club and for Dean in Belgium with the cup victory. The former Trier Bundesliga player Chris Copeland , who was instrumental in the success of the past two seasons, then got a contract with the NBA. In 2014 and 2016, Dean Okapi again led to the final series of the Belgian league, but had to make do with silver. After the 2015/16 season, Dean Okapi left Aalstar to return to the United States with his family.

National coach

In March 2010 Dean was appointed as the successor to the Greek Kostas Flevarakis as the national coach of his second home Sweden. He took on this position in addition to his work as a club trainer in Aalst. The Swedish national team was able to qualify for the finals of the EM 2013 for the first time in 18 years. In qualifying you only had to let the undefeated German national team go first. Dean was able to count on the support of the first two NBA players in the history of the Swedish national team in the national team with Jonas Jerebko and Jeffery Taylor .

Individual evidence

1. ^ NN: Bradley Scott Dean (Sweden). ( Memento of September 3, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Archived from FIBA ​​Europe website; Munich, undated in 2013. Accessed February 11, 2019 (in English).
2. ↑ LMU Men's Basketball History: All-Time Player-by-Player Career Stats. (PDF (191 KB)) Loyola Marymount University , April 2, 2012, p. 12 , accessed on September 2, 2013 (English, alphabetically sorted list with individual statistics). 
3. ^ NN: Men's Basketball All-Time Honors. On: Loyola Marymount Athletics website; Los Angeles, CA, September 25, 2014. Retrieved February 11, 2019.
4. ↑ To what extent Dean himself was still active as a player on the field and he was the coach with the main responsibility is not clear from the available sources. Presumably he only became the responsible coach of the team in 1979, compare: Magnus Stråhle: Extra: Ta del av Brad Deans tankar. Svenska BasketBoll Förbundet , January 25, 2011, accessed on September 2, 2013 (Swedish / English). 
5. ↑ NN: Magic Moments: Gary van Waaden - The throw, the tears and the Ulm Cup victory in 1996. ( Memento from September 3, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Archived by Beko Basketball Bundesliga website; Cologne, March 6, 2013. Accessed February 11, 2019.
6. ↑ dpa : Metabox Braunschweig brings Brad Dean. Netzeitung , October 19, 2000, archived from the original on September 8, 2013 ; Retrieved September 8, 2013 . 
7. ↑ Andreas Wagner, Dino Reisner: Braunschweig's most chaotic season of all time. Die Welt , May 11, 2001, accessed September 8, 2013 . 
8. ↑ http://www.basketinbelgium.be/scoooreleague-derniere-saison-pour-Brad-Dean-Okapi-Aalstar-video-basketbelgium-basketbelgie_a5397.html
9. ^ Brad Dean is new Sweden coach. WorldOfBasketball.org, March 12, 2010, accessed September 2, 2013 .