Carl Krauser

Carl Krauser
Player information
Full name	Carl Isaac Krauser
birthday	13th May 1981 (age 39)
place of birth	Bronx , New York , United States
size	185 cm
position	Point guard
college	Pittsburgh
Clubs as active
2002–2006 Pittsburgh Panthers ( NCAA ) 2006–2007 EWE Baskets Oldenburg 2007–2008 Pittsburgh Xplosion ( CBA ) 2008 Gigantes de Guayana 2009 CSU Asesoft Ploiești 2009–2010 Gaiteros del Zulia 2010 Waikato Pistons 2010–2011 Panteras de Miranda 2012 Kebs de Laval 00000 00000 00000 00000
National team
00000 2007	American Virgin Islands

Carl Isaac Krauser (born May 13, 1981 in New York City , New York ) is a former American basketball player who was descended from the US Virgin Islands and played for this US American territory as a national player in international games. After studying in the US “motherland”, Krauser became a professional in 2006, initially in the German basketball league with EWE Baskets Oldenburg. Krauser later won the double in Romania with CSU Asesoft in 2009 and also played in Venezuela , New Zealand and Canada . He was last professionally active in 2012 before being charged with various offenses in May 2012.

Career

Growing up in the Bronx , Krauser was one of the better-known players in the Rucker Park Summer League in streetball because of his tricky ball skills . In addition, Krauser tried his hand at boxing in two official amateur fights. After he finally successful in a "Prep School" his high school Accounts had reached, he got in 2001 a basketball scholarship to the University of Pittsburgh . However, his coach preferred to report him only with the 2002/03 season for championship games of the university team Panthers in the then Big East Conference of the NCAA Division I. After his freshman season as a substitute with almost 20 minutes playing time, Krauser was one of the determining players in the starting five of the Panthers in the following three years with over 30 minutes playing time per game and was one of the "all-time top 12" in 2014 Panthers with points scored (1,642) and successful basket assists (568). In Krauser's first year of play, the Panthers and Senior Brandin Knight were able to retaliate for the final defeat at the Big East championship tournament against the huskies of the University of Connecticut from the previous year and dethrone the defending champion in the 2003 Big East final. Under the new coach Jamie Dixon, Krauser was the successor to Knight, who finished his studies, and the Panthers , in which the later Bundesliga professional Chevon Troutman was one of Krauser's teammates until 2005 , reached the final game for the fourth time in a row in 2004 the Big East, which went back to the Connecticut team for the third consecutive edition against the Huskies. In the following national NCAA finals you reached the last sixteen Sweet Sixteen , as in the previous year , in which you were inferior to the Cowboys of Oklahoma State University . After only one first round defeat in the NCAA finals in 2005, they surprisingly lost as a Big East finalist in Krauser's last college year 2006 in the second round against the surprise team Braves from Bradley University . After he was named the “Most Improved Player” of the Big East as a sophomore and received an “Honorable Mention” in the selection of the All-American basketball players in 2004, his achievements were no longer rated as highly in the following two seasons he was not considered after the end of his studies in the NBA draft 2006 by clubs of the highest endowed professional league NBA .

Krauser therefore signed his first professional contract in 2006 with the German first division club EWE Baskets from Oldenburg . In the basketball Bundesliga 2006/07 , Krauser, as a professional newcomer, could not cope with the switch to European professional basketball, which was also reflected in his poor throwing rates for a professional and a modest " assist - turnover ratio" for a point guard . The team missed the return to the play-offs for the championship in ninth place in the final table . Nevertheless, Krauser was represented for the first time in a final squad of the national basketball team of the American Virgin Islands at the subsequent American Championship in 2007 . At the beginning of the tournament in Las Vegas, they suffered a disastrous 59: 123 defeat, in which they even won the second quarter, against the so-called "Redeem" team ( German reparation ), like the selection of the host and motherland in preparation for the Olympic Games 2008 was designated. Interestingly enough, this designation was due to the fact that three years earlier the American selection had suffered three disgraceful tournament defeats at the 2004 Olympic Games with former team captain Tim Duncan , who was born in the US Virgin Islands and who was no longer part of the US national team and had only won the bronze medal. At the following games of the American Championship in 2007, the selection of the Virgin Islands was able to partially rehabilitate itself with narrow defeats, but remained without a win and clearly missed a qualification for the Olympic Games in last and tenth place. Krauser received only eleven minutes of playing time in the defeat against Brazil and was finally no longer used in the last tournament game against Venezuela .  

Krauser then returned to the United States, where he played for the Xplosion from his Pittsburgh university in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA). At the end of the 2007/08 season, the Xplosion stopped playing in the financially stricken " Minor League " CBA. After Krauser was still active in the Venezuelan league in 2008 for the newcomer Gigantes from Ciudad Guayana , he got another chance in Europe in January 2009 and played for the Romanian double winner CSU Asesoft from Ploieşti . The team was able to defend their two national titles in 2009. In the 2009/10 season Krauser was again active in Venezuela for the Gaiteros del Zulia from Maracaibo . In the northern hemisphere summer 2010 Krauser was active for five missions in New Zealand's NBL for the Waikato Pistons from Hamilton , who lost the final series against the Wellington Saints as defending champions at the end of the season . In the 2010/11 season was again the LPB Venezuela's Krausers target, where he ran up for the Panteras from the coastal province of Miranda . In January 2012 Krauser finally had a contract with the Kebs from Laval in the NBL of Canada . In the premier season of the league you reached the play-off semi-final series, which was lost to the Halifax Rainmen. Two months later, Krauser was picked up by the police in May 2012 when he tried to evade a traffic control and charged with various offenses. Afterwards Krauser was no longer professionally active as a basketball player. In September 2012, Krauser agreed to participate as a first-time offender in a special two-year probation program in the US state of Pennsylvania .

Web links

• Carl Isaac KRAUSER (ISV) - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments (English)
• Carl Krauser Stats - Pittsburgh Panthers - College playtime stats on statsheet.com
• Carl Krauser Bio - player profile on the sports websites of the University of Pittsburgh

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Former Pitt basketball star Carl Krauser arrested. WTAE.com, May 22, 2012, accessed May 1, 2014 .  
2. ^ ISSUU - 2013-14 Pitt Men's Basketball Media Guide and Fact Book: Records. (flash animated) issuu.com: University of Pittsburgh , November 2013, pp. 116, 126 , accessed on May 1, 2014 (English). 
3. ^ Chuck Finder: The journey of Carl Krauser. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , March 25, 2004, accessed May 1, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Beko-BBL - Player Statistics - Carl Krauser - EWE Baskets Oldenburg: Season 2006/07. (No longer available online.) Basketball Bundesliga , archived from the original on May 2, 2014 ; accessed on May 1, 2014 (player profile with statistics). 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. ↑ archive.fiba.com: 2007 FIBA ​​Americas Championship - Box score: VIRGIN ISLANDS vs USA. FIBA , accessed on May 1, 2014 (English, game statistics). 
6. ^ Former Pitt star Krauser gets ARD in weapons case. WPXI.com, October 1, 2012, accessed May 1, 2014 .