Darnell Hoskins

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Darnell Hoskins (born July 10,  1974 ) is a retired American basketball player .

career

Hoskins, a 1.85 meter tall, from Dayton (US state Ohio ) native player , played at the Chaminade Julienne High School and from 1993 for the University of Wisconsin . He was there teammate of the future NBA player Michael Finley . In December 1995, Hoskins announced his departure from the university for personal reasons, by then he had scored 9.4 points and 3.9 assists per match during the 1995/96 season. He went back home and joined the University of Dayton team in his senior year as a university athlete . For Dayton, Hoskins had an average of 14.1 points in the 96/97 season, and statistically he prepared 4.7 basket successes for his side men.

In 1998 he was with the Australian team North Melbourne Giants under contract and recorded 17 points per encounter. In the course of the 1998/99 season he came across the squad of the Polish  first division team Pekaes Pruszków, where he convinced as a strong attacking player, his season high was 39 points in a game. At BK Ventspils he contributed to winning the Latvian championship in the 1999/2000 season.

In the summer break of 2000, Hoskins, who "a quick start, feline suppleness, joy of playing, the ability to serve his teammates even in distress" and a good throw from distance were assigned strengths by the German Bundesliga club SSV Ratiopharm Ulm . There he became a teammate of Jarvis Walker . “This duo alone should guarantee that the Ulm team will not be in trouble again,” wrote the specialist magazine Basketball in its special issue for the 2000/01 season with a view to the Hoskins-Walker team and the difficult previous year, when the team competed the Bundesliga was relegated and had only kept in the "upper house" because of the waiver of the TuS Lichterfelde . Hoskins took the lead in the Ulm attack and, with 23.3 points per match, was second in the basketball league list behind John Best . His seven assists per game were league highs. After an injury in January 2001, the season for Hoskins was over.

In the summer of 2001, the American played with the Marinos de Oriente in Venezuela . After a short detour to the Greek first division club Iraklis Thessaloniki at the beginning of the 2001/02 game year, he was signed by SIG Strasbourg (France's first division), where he stayed until February 2002. Hoskins made five league appearances in the Strasbourg colors (9.6 points and 5 templates / game).

Hoskins was an assistant coach at Chaminade Julienne High School from 2004 to 2009, where he had attended school himself. In 2009 and 2010 he held the position of head coach there. He then worked as the main coach in charge of Springfield High School (also in his home state Ohio), then at Thurgood Marshall High School in Dayton. In 2016 he took up the coaching position at Middletown High School in the Dayton area. His son Darnell Hoskins Jr. was also a basketball player, after leaving school, he moved to Saginaw Valley State University .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Staff Writer Marc F. Pendleton: Hoskins eager for challenge at Middletown - a 'top-three job in the state'. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  2. 1994-95 Wisconsin Badgers Roster and Stats. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  3. ^ Hoskins Quits Wisconsin Basketball Team. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  4. a b Darnell Hoskins College Stats. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  5. ^ Darnell Hoskins - Player Statistics. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  6. SEZON 1998/1999. In: hoop.awardspace.info. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  7. a b c Darnell Hoskins Basketball Player Profile, SIG Strasbourg, Dayton, News, Jeep ELITE ProA stats, Career, Games Logs, Best, Awards - eurobasket. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  8. a b From Bourgain to Walker . In: Deutscher Basketball Bund eV (Hrsg.): Special issue s.Oliver BBL season 2000/2001 . DSV Deutscher Sportverlag GmbH, Cologne 2000, p. 40 .
  9. Player Statistics. In: Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  10. Pro A: Khalid El Amin à Strasbourg !!! - Basket Info. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  11. HOSKINS Darnell | LNB.fr. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  12. Staff Writer Michael Cooper: Hoskins leaving Springfield hoops for Thurgood Marshall. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .
  13. ^ Middletown coaching job finally settled. June 16, 2016, accessed May 24, 2020 .
  14. Darnell Hoskins Jr. In: Saginaw Valley State University. Retrieved May 24, 2020 .