Darryl Thomas

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Basketball player
Darryl Thomas
Darryl Thomas.jpg

Stargard, 1997
Player information
birthday May 25, 1965
place of birth Chicago , Illinois , United States
date of death March 28, 2018
Place of death Chicago , Illinois , United States
size 202 cm
position Power forward
college Indiana
NBA draft 1987 , 120. Pick Sacramento Kings
Clubs as active
1983–1987 Indiana Hoosiers ( NCAA ) 1987–1989 Hemel & Watford Royals … 1994–1997 Polonia Przemyśl 1997 Capitanes de la Bahia 1997–1998 Stal Stalowa WolaUnited StatesUnited States
United KingdomUnited Kingdom

PolandPoland
00000Dominican RepublicDominican Republic
PolandPoland

Darryl Thomas (born May 25, 1965 in Chicago , Illinois , † March 28, 2018 there ) was an American basketball player . After a promising career as a basketball player in college, where he with the Hoosiers of Indiana University , the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship won in 1987, Thomas did not make the leap into a squad of US professional league National Basketball Association . Instead, Thomas was initially professional in the British Basketball League (BBL), in which he as a rookie for Most Valuable Player was appointed (MVP) of the BBL season 1987/88. Thomas later played for various clubs in the Polska Liga Koszykówki before ending his career as a player in 1998. Back in his home country, Thomas worked as a junior coach near his place of birth, which he said he had already planned as a student.

Career

Even in high school , Thomas made a name for himself as a basketball player when he played at St. Joseph's High School in Westchester, Illinois under coach Gene Pingatore, who had trained Isiah Thomas , who is not related to Darryl. Like four years before his namesake Isiah, Darryl Thomas was invited to the "McDonald's All-American Game" of the best high school basketball players in the country and then went to Indiana University, for which Isiah Thomas played during his college career and the 1981 NCAA championship had won. Here Darryl Thomas played for the college team Hoosiers in the Big Ten Conference of the NCAA under coach Bobby Knight . Knight, later inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame for his success as a basketball coach in the NCAA , was known for his military-style drill and unbridled temper that resulted in controversial motivational methods that Thomas personally suffered from. In the " freshman " season of Thomas they eliminated in 1984 in the national finals in the quarterfinals Elite Eight against the Cavaliers of the University of Virginia . In the following season, the " postseason " reached the final of the National Invitation Tournament , which was lost to the UCLA Bruins by three points . John Feinstein, who had accompanied the team and coach Knight for one year in the 1985/86 season, wrote a report "A Season on the Brink", which became a bestseller in the United States as a book and of which a television film was produced in 2002.

After a first round defeat in the NCAA finals in 1986 Darryl Thomas was team-internal " top scorer " Steve Alford and another teammate team captain of the Hoosiers, who won the 1987 Big Ten championship. In the national NCAA finals, you moved into the final against the Orangemen of Syracuse University . In practically the last remaining attack of the game, when the Hoosiers were one point behind at this point, Thomas got the ball nine seconds before the end at the "low post", the area of ​​the zone boundary closest to the basket, but was able to get his Opponent Derrick Coleman , later NBA All-Star , did not dup with a throwing deception and passed the ball out on the edge of the field to his teammate Keith Smart , who was able to sink the ball into the basket with the winning throw. During the successful shot for smart in basketball crazy Indiana was soon known only as "The Shot", according to legend coach Knight to a photo of the assists have hung instead of the successful litter in his house. Alford, Thomas and Most Outstanding Player Smart scored 64 of Indiana’s 74 points in the final win.

The 1987 NCAA final victory also marked the end of Thomas' four-year college career. In the NBA Draft , he was only selected in the sixth round in 120th position by the Sacramento Kings. Subsequently, Thomas could not recommend himself for the Kings season squad and finally began a professional career in the newly formed professional league British Basketball League (BBL) in the United Kingdom . For the premiere season 1987/88 Thomas was taken by the Hemel & Watford Royals from Hertfordshire under contract, which won not even a third of their season games and the play-offs of the best teams clearly missed in eleventh place. Even so, Thomas was voted MVP of the BBL season 1987/88 in his first professional season. In the following 1988/89 season, the Royals reached the play-offs in seventh place with an almost balanced season balance, in which they were eliminated in the first round against defending champion MIM Livingston . However, like many other teams in the closed professional league, which shrank from 15 to eight teams within two years of its start, the Royals were economically attacked and left the league after the end of the season. Thomas, who had only made 14 appearances for the Royals in the second season, did not return to the BBL.

From the mid-1990s Thomas played in Poland and was able to win the runner-up in the Polska Liga Koszykówki with Polonia MKS from Przemyśl in 1995 . After a third place in 1996, Thomas changed club again for the 1997/98 season after playing in the Dominican Republic in the summer of 1997 . With Przemyśl's league rivals Stal from Stalowa Wola , which is also located in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship in southeast Poland, he could no longer achieve a front placement. Subsequently, Thomas was no longer active in any notable professional leagues and finally ended his active career on the field after 13 professional years as a player. He returned to his homeland and settled in Bolingbrook , where he worked as a junior coach at St. Joseph's High School, where he went to school, and later at the junior academy of the professional teams Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls worked.

Thomas died of a heart attack in 2018 .

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas first name Darryl with often only an 'r' written. The spelling used here follows the spelling at BBL.org.uk , Basketball-Reference.com , Eurobasket.com and the Annals of the Indiana Hoosiers.
  2. ^ Daryl Thomas / Korac Cup 1997. FIBA Europe , accessed on July 13, 2013 (English, player profile).
  3. ^ A b Alex Soulier: Indiana basketball legend settles in Bolingbrook, finds calling coaching youth. MySuburbanLife.com, January 30, 2013, accessed July 13, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Boy's Alumni. (PDF (280 kB)) McDonaldsAllAmerican.com, February 11, 2013, accessed on July 13, 2013 (English, alphabetically sorted list of players ever used).
  5. ↑ John Feinstein: 'You Love Him And You Hate Him'. Sports Illustrated , November 19, 1986; Archived from the original on May 25, 2014 ; accessed on July 13, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Season on the Brink / Book by John Feinstein. Simon & Schuster , accessed on July 13, 2013 (entry from the publisher with advertising text).
  7. ^ A Season on the Brink (TV Movie 2002). IMDb , accessed on July 13, 2013 (English, summary in online database).
  8. ↑ Keith Smart 1987 "The Shot". YouTube , October 16, 2006, accessed on July 13, 2013 (English, video upload by user jbrumundsmith).
  9. ^ David Haugh: NCAA tournament passes to greatness. Chicago Tribune , April 3, 2009, accessed July 13, 2013 .
  10. ↑ 2012–13 Indiana Men's Basketball Record Book: 1987 NCAA Champions. (PDF (24.2 MB)) Indiana University , November 7, 2012, p. 165 , accessed on July 13, 2013 .
  11. ↑ 1987 NBA Draft. Sports Reference LLC: Basketball-Reference.com, accessed July 13, 2013 (list of selected players).
  12. ↑ 1987-88 BBL Championship & Playoffs. British Basketball League , accessed July 13, 2013 (season summary).
  13. ^ Molten BBL Player of the Season Winners. British Basketball League , accessed July 13, 2013 (English, chronological list of excellent players).
  14. ↑ Historical Stats: 1988–1989 BBL Stats. (PDF (29 kB)) (No longer available online.) British Basketball League , January 25, 2013, archived from the original on May 25, 2014 ; accessed on July 13, 2013 (English, individual seasonal 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bbl.org.uk
  15. ↑ Tom Hundley: Strangers In A Basketball Time Warp. Chicago Tribune , April 9, 1995, accessed July 13, 2013 .
  16. ↑ Michael O'Brien: Montini coach Daryl Thomas, a St. Joseph legend, dies. On: Chicago Sun-Times website; Chicago, IL, March 28, 2018. Retrieved April 21, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Thomas, Darryl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois, USA
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 2018
Place of death Chicago , Illinois, USA