David sheet

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Basketball player
David Michael sheet
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Player information
birthday 22nd May 1959 (age 61)
place of birth Louisville , Kentucky , United States
position Point guard
college Princeton
Clubs as active
1977–1981 Princeton Tigers ( NCAA ) 1981–1984 Maccabi Haifa 1986–1987 Hapoel Jerusalem 1987–1988 Maccabi Netanja 1988–1989 Elitzur Netanja 1989–1990 Hapoel Galil Elyon 1990–1991 Hapoel Jerusalem 1991–1992 Ironi Naharija 1992–1993 Maccabi HaderaUnited StatesUnited States
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1993–1995 Hapoel Galil Elyon (assistant coach) 1995–1999 Hapoel Galil Elyon 1999–2001 Maccabi Tel Aviv (assistant coach) 2001–2003 Maccabi Tel Aviv 2003–2004 Maccabi Tel Aviv (assistant coach) 2004–2005 BK Dynamo Saint Petersburg 2005–2007 Benetton Treviso 2007–2008 Efes Pilsen 2008–2009 Dynamo Moscow 2010 Aris Thessaloniki 2010–2014 Maccabi Tel Aviv 2014–2016 Cleveland Cavaliers 2016–2018 Darüşşafaka SK Doğuş 2018–2019 Olympiacos PiraeusIsraelIsrael
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1996–1997 Israel (U22) 1997–2001 Israel (assistant coach) 2004–2005 Israel 2006–2012 RussiaIsraelIsrael
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David Michael Blatt ( Hebrew דייוויד בלאט Russian Дэ́вид Блатт ; Born May 22, 1959 in Louisville , Kentucky ) is an American - Israeli basketball coach and former player.

He is one of the most successful coaches in European basketball history. Blatt's greatest successes as a coach include winning the 2007 European basketball championship and winning the bronze medal at the 2012 Olympic Games with the Russian national team .

As a club coach, Blatt won numerous national titles in Israel, especially with Maccabi Tel Aviv , before he became head coach of the NBA after winning a triple crown from a national double and winning the highest-ranking European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2013/14 . This makes him one of the first coaches to become head coach in the most highly endowed professional league, the NBA, without having previously gained experience as a player or assistant coach .

Career as a player

Blatt played as point guard at Princeton University for their college team Tigers between 1977 and 1981, with whom he won the Ivy League championship as a team captain in the senior year against the Quakers of the University of Pennsylvania , against whom one in the previous year Had lost one point in the final. At the national finals in 1981 of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) you were eliminated in the first round against the Cougars of Brigham Young University .

As a member of the US team he participated in the Maccabiah part 1981, which was won by the US selection. He then stayed in Israel and played for various Israeli clubs. After tearing his Achilles tendon ten years later, he began to focus on coaching.

Career as a coach

Blatt began coaching while he was still active. He took his first steps as a coach in the youth departments of the clubs where he was under contract. After the end of his playing career, he became a coaching assistant at Hapoel Galil Elyon from the Galilean Kfar Blum , which in 1993 won the championship from Maccabi Tel Aviv for the first time in 23 years. The new coach was fired during the 1993/94 season and Leaf stepped in as an interim coach before master coach Pini Gershon returned to Hapoel the following season.

In the 1995/96 season, sheet was then head coach and was named coach of the year in the Israeli League. He then took on additional responsibility for the Israeli junior national team before becoming an assistant to the Israeli men's national team in 1997 .

Sheet sitting to the right of Pini Gershon (2003)

In 1999 Gershon became head coach of the dominant Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv and Blatt was his assistant at Hapoel Galil as in the 1994/95 season. After winning the FIBA Suproleague in 2001, Blatt gave up his job at the Israeli Association for the time being and became Maccabi's head coach. When there were no further international successes, Gershon moved back to the sidelines and was again head coach, while sheet moved as an assistant in the second tier.

After winning the ULEB Euroleague in 2003/04 , Leaf left Maccabi and became the head coach of the Israeli national team. At the same time, he moved to Russia as a club coach and became head coach of the newly founded Dynamo club in Saint Petersburg . With this team, which had taken over the license from Avtodor Saratov , they were allowed to start internationally and won the FIBA Europe League 2005 unbeaten . Because of disputes over his coaching license, he finally resigned as the Israeli national team coach.

In the 2005/06 season sheet coached the team from Benetton Treviso in the Italian Serie A and led them to the national double . Then sheet was appointed head coach of the Russian national team, which he surprisingly led to the title at the 2007 European Championships after a final victory against the favored hosts Spain . This was the first title after the collapse of the Soviet Union , whose national basketball team of the USSR is the record holder of the European championships. He was less successful with his Italian club. The defending champion was deducted twelve points in the championship, so that he ended up in eleventh place instead of fifth and missed the play-offs for the championship.

Sheet as Russian national coach (2011)

After a year with the Turkish club Efes Pilsen in Istanbul and the unsuccessful 2008 Olympic Games with the Russian national team, Blatt trained a Russian team with Dynamo Moscow and reached the national cup final in 2009. After a six-month commitment at the Greek club Aris Thessaloniki 2010, Blatt returned to Maccabi Tel Aviv. After the 2010 World Cup , Blatt wanted to give up his job as Russian national coach, but at the insistence of the association officials he stayed and achieved third place with the Russian team at the 2011 European Championships and the 2012 Olympic Games .

As coach of Maccabi Tel Aviv, Blatt won the Israeli double in 2011 and 2012 as well as the Adriatic League in 2012. After missing the Israeli championship title in 2013, they not only won both national titles again in the 2013/14 season, but also surprised in the Final Four tournament the ULEB Euroleague 2013/14 , when the title was won against the favored teams of CSKA Moscow and Real Madrid . After winning a triple crown in 2004 as an assistant to Pini Gershon , this was his first title win in all major club competitions in a season as a responsible coach ten years later.

After the end of the season, Blatt announced his departure as coach of Maccabi and was introduced as the new coach of the NBA club Cleveland Cavaliers in June 2014 . Although he was born in the United States himself, he is considered to be the first coach who was able to immediately take over an NBA club as head coach just because of his coaching experience in Europe and as a national coach. Colleagues like Mike D'Antoni or the Italian Ettore Messina , who also acted as future NBA head coach, had already worked in the coaching staff of an NBA club before they became head coach of an NBA club. Leaf led Cleveland in the 2015 NBA playoff series, where his team lost to the Golden State Warriors with 1: 4 wins.

On January 22, 2016 sheet was sacked by the Cleveland Cavaliers , then the team won the NBA championship under his successor Tyronn Lue in the same season . Cleveland then sent Blatt a master's ring in recognition of his work. As an NBA coach, he achieved a total of 83 wins (with 40 defeats). In Cleveland, in particular, his difficult relationship with LeBron James , who was more important for the club than he was as a coach, was his fate. From the 2016/17 season he coached the Turkish club Darüşşafaka SK Istanbul . Under his leadership, the team won the EuroCup in the 2017/18 season. Leaf became the first coach to win the European Championship, the Euroleague and the EuroCup.

In June 2018, Blatt signed a two-year contract as head coach of the Greek team Olympiacos Piraeus . On August 19, 2019, he announced that he had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis , but emphasized that he wanted to continue working as a trainer. Two months later, he separated from Olympiacos. It is in the interests of both sides to separate, said Blatt in a statement.

In December 2019, he became a consultant at the New York Knicks , where his former Princeton teammate Steve Mills holds the presidency, and at the same time announced the end of his coaching career. His work as a consultant for the New York team ended in April 2020. At the end of May 2020, Blatt, as a co-owner of a group of companies, became a shareholder in the Czech first division club Basket Brno.

Successes and awards as a trainer

As an assistant trainer

  • Winner FIBA ​​Suproleague 2001
  • Winner ULEB-Euroleague 2004

As head trainer

Web links

Commons : David Blatt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pete Thamel: Uncommon Path Led Russia's Coach All Over the World. New York Times , September 5, 2010, accessed May 15, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Ioannis Giagkinis: 'I don't think in terms of fear': basketball coach sheet on MS battle. August 29, 2019, accessed December 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Tim Warren: Globetrotter - David Blatt '81 finds his niche at the top of basketball's European circuit. Princeton University , May 9, 2007, accessed May 15, 2012 (article from Princeton Alumni Weekly - June 2007).
  4. ↑ Caso Lorbek, 4 nei guai Chiesto il rinvio a giudizio. Gazzetta dello Sport , January 31, 2008, accessed May 15, 2012 (Italian).
  5. ^ Igor Petrinović: Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv is the new king of Europe! ULEB , May 18, 2014, accessed June 12, 2014 (English, match report).
  6. ↑ David Blatt accepts Cavs job. ESPN , June 21, 2014, accessed June 21, 2014 .
  7. ↑ a b c From NBA Twitter and media reports: Knicks hire ex-Cavs coach David Blatt at basketball consultant. Retrieved December 19, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Cleveland Cavaliers led by LeBron James separate from David Blatt. Sport1 , January 22, 2016, accessed January 22, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Chris Chavez: David Blatt Hired by Knicks as Basketball Operations Consultant. Retrieved December 19, 2019 (American English).
  10. ↑ foxsports Jun 16, 2016 at 3: 08p ET: David Blatt opens up about his firing: 'LeBron was more important'. June 16, 2016. Retrieved December 19, 2019 (American English).
  11. ↑ Darussafaka names former Euroleague champ sheet new head coach. ULEB Euroleague , June 1, 2016, accessed June 19, 2016 .
  12. ↑ coach David Blatt, Darussafaka: 'We made a commitment to excellence from Day One'. Retrieved December 19, 2019 .
  13. ^ David Blatt signed with Olympiacos. June 25, 2018, accessed December 19, 2019 .
  14. ^ Tyler Conway: Former Cavs HC David Blatt Resigns from Olympiacos After MS Diagnosis. Retrieved December 19, 2019 .
  15. ^ David Blatt, Olympiacos mutually agree to part ways two months after coach's multiple sclerosis diagnosis. Retrieved December 19, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Marc Berman: David Blatt to be let go in Knicks' transition to Leon Rose. In: New York Post. April 15, 2020, accessed on April 16, 2020 .
  17. ↑ David Blatt se stal Novym spolumajitelem našeho klubu - basketbrno.cz. Retrieved May 28, 2020 (cZ).
personal data
SURNAME Blatt, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blatt, David Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Israeli basketball coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Louisville (Kentucky) , Kentucky , USA