Brian Randle

Brian Randle
Player information
birthday	February 8, 1985 (35 years and 206 days)
place of birth	Peoria (IL), USA
size	203 cm
position	Power Forward / Small Forward
college	Illinois (UC)
Club information
society	Maccabi Tel Aviv
league	Ligat ha'Al
Clubs as active
2003–2008 UIUC Fighting Illinois ( NCAA ) 2008–2010 Hapoel Gilboa Galil 2010–2012 Hapoel Jerusalem 2012 Alba Berlin 2013 Hapoel Tel Aviv 2013–2014 Maccabi Haifa Since 2014 Maccabi Tel Aviv 00000 00000 0

Brian Randle (born February 8, 1985 in Peoria , Illinois ) is an American basketball player . After completing his studies, Randle played as a professional player from 2008 up to two games in the ULEB Euroleague 2012/13 for Alba Berlin, exclusively in the Israeli Ligat ha'Al and there for almost all clubs that have won a title in the last ten years. Randle himself won the Israeli championship in 2010 with Hapoel Galil Elyon. Randle has been playing for record champions Maccabi Tel Aviv, who won a triple crown last year, since 2014 .

Career

After graduating from high school in his hometown, Randle got a place at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , where he played from 2003 for the college team Fighting Illinois in the Big Ten Conference of the NCAA . In 2004, the team lost the final in the Big Ten championship tournament against the Badgers of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and in the national NCAA finals tournament in the round of 16 in the round of 16 Sweet Sixteen against the top seeded Blue Devils of Duke University . After a hand injury, Randle sat the following year as "redshirted", in which the Fighting Illinois won the Big Ten tournament again with the later NBA All-Star and Olympic champion Deron Williams and only in the final of the "March Madness" called NCAA - Final round against the Tar Heels of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . After Williams went to the highest endowed professional league NBA , they were eliminated in the 2006 NCAA finals in the second round. Then Dee Brown and James Augustine left the team to start a professional career. In 2007 it was enough to take part in the final tournament, which was eliminated in the first round. A year later, the Fighting Illinois in Randle's senior year of college were no longer qualified after eight consecutive finals, although at the end of the season they reached the final in the Big Ten championship tournament, which was lost again to the Wisconsin Badgers.

After Randle was not selected by any NBA club in the 2008 NBA Draft , he started a professional career at the Hapoel fusion club from Gan Ner in the northern district of Israel . In the Ligat ha'Al they defeated defending champion Hapoel Holon in five games as fifth in the main round in the play-off quarter-finals in a dramatic best-of-five series with two extra games. In the Final Four tournament for the title, they lost just two points in the semifinals with a difference of 70:72 to the high favorites and record champions Maccabi Tel Aviv, who with Randle's former teammate Dee Brown won the title back in the final. The later Bundesliga players Brian Roberts and Bradley Buckman left the club, but with Jeremy Pargo and Isaiah Swann Gilboa Galil remained undefeated in the play-offs of the following season and was able to surprise defending champion Maccabi Tel Aviv in the final of the Final Four tournament, who previously played in the regular season had only lost one game against an Israeli team. After teammate Elishay Kadir had already been named “Player of the Season”, Randle won the award as MVP of the final tournament. Except for Gal Mekel , however, all important players left the new master; while Pargo and Kadir went to the loser Maccabi Tel Aviv, Randle moved to Hapoel from Jerusalem . However, together with Yogev Ohayon , who then moved to Maccabi Tel Aviv, Jerusalem lost the semi-finals in 2011 against defending champion Gilboa Galil. As a year before, Hapoel Jerusalem was eliminated after the preliminary round in the 2011/12 Eurocup and fourth in the main round in the national play-off quarter-finals in 2012 against Hapoel Holon.

After Randle was initially without a contract at the beginning of the 2012/13 season, he got a contract with the German first division club Alba Berlin in mid-October 2012 to replace his injured compatriot Nathan Peavy . Randle, who was initially only used in two games of the ULEB Euroleague 2012/13 , injured himself and left the club without further appearances, especially in the basketball Bundesliga in February 2013, when he came to Hapoel from Tel Aviv changed. The first division returnee Hapoel Tel Aviv lost eighth in the main round at the end of the season in the play-offs against local rivals and defending champions Maccabi Tel Aviv. The following season, Randle moved to the surprise champion Maccabi from Haifa , who, like Galil Gilboa , had lost important players three years earlier with Gal Mekel, who had moved to the NBA, and Pat Calathes . In the Eurocup 2013/14 the team missed the qualification for the round of 16 on the last matchday of the second round due to a high home defeat against the already qualified BK Chimki , who then failed with Randle's fellow students James Augustine in the following round at the later title winner Valencia BC . In the national championship Maccabi Haifa was able to defeat the former team Hapoel Jerusalem as third in the main round in the semi-final series. This resulted in a new edition of the previous year's final between defending champion Maccabi Haifa and the new ULEB Euroleague champion Maccabi Tel Aviv, which for the first time was not played as a single game. After a defeat by four points in the first leg, defending champion Haifa was able to make up the difference in the second leg in Tel Aviv after regular time, but a shot block by Alex Tyus in the last attack of the first extra time prevented further extra time and secured Maccabi Tel Aviv the Triple Crown and the Revenge for the final defeat a year earlier. Then Randle moved to the Israeli champions, who had also initiated a personnel change after the change from coach David Blatt to the NBA. Randle signed a two-year contract with Maccabi Tel Aviv and played again with Yogev Ohayon and returnees Jeremy Pargo.

Web links

• Brian Randle - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB ( English )
• Brian Randle Bio - Profile on the UIUC sports website

Individual evidence

1. ^ NN: Israeli League Playoffs, Quarterfinals, Game 5: May 14, 2009. ( Memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Archived from EuroLeague website; Barcelona, ​​May 14, 2009. Retrieved February 11, 2019.
2. ↑ Yarone Abel: Israeli League final: May 27, 2010. ( Memento of 19 August 2014 Internet Archive ) Archived from Euro League website; Barcelona, ​​May 27, 2010. Retrieved February 11, 2019.
3. ↑ כדורסל ישראלי / עונת 2009-10 . Ligat ha'Al , accessed August 16, 2014 (Hebrew, 2009-10 season individual awards). 
4. ↑ Lars Spannagel: Alba Berlin signs Brian Randle. Der Tagesspiegel , October 10, 2012, accessed on August 16, 2014 . 
5. ↑ S. Kayzer, Jessica Pillatzki: Brian Randle: Lightning move to Israel. Sport Bild , February 13, 2013, accessed August 16, 2014 . 
6. ↑ Maccabi Tel Aviv : Highlights: Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv - Maccabi Haifa 82:84. YouTube , June 11, 2014, accessed August 16, 2014 (Hebrew, Second Final Game Highlights). 
7. ^ Maccabi signs forward Randle for two years. ULEB , July 25, 2014, accessed August 16, 2014 .