Derrick Allen (basketball player)

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Basketball player
Derrick Allen
Player information
Full name Derrick Dewayne Allen
birthday July 17, 1980 (40 years and 45 days)
place of birth Gadsden , Alabama , United States
size 203 cm
position Power forward
college Mississippi
Clubs as active
1999–2001 SUSCC Bisons (NJCAA) 2001–2003 Ole Miss Rebels ( NCAA ) 2003–2004 Keflavík ÍF 2004–2006 BG Karlsruhe 2006–2007 Bayer Giants Leverkusen 2007–2010 Skyliners Frankfurt 2010–2012 ALBA Berlin 2012–2013 Spirou BC Charleroi 2013 –2014 Eisbären Bremerhaven 2014–2015 Basketball Löwen Braunschweig 2015–2017 SC Rasta Vechta 2017–2019 Science City JenaUnited StatesUnited States
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IcelandIceland
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BelgiumBelgium
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Clubs as coaches
since 2019 GermanyGermany SC Rasta Vechta ( Co )

Derrick Allen (born July 17, 1980 in Gadsden , Alabama ) is a retired American basketball player . After studying in his home country, Allen played eight seasons in the German basketball league for various clubs after a year in Iceland , before moving to Belgium in 2012 to be runner-up from Charleroi . In 2013 he returned to the German basketball league and after further positions he was under contract with Science City Jena . He played a total of 477 Bundesliga games.

Career

As a player

Allen moved from high school in his hometown to Southern Union State Community College in his home state. After two years he came in 2001 to the further University of Mississippi , where he worked for the college team Rebels in the Southeastern Conference of the NCAA played. In 2002, the Rebels made their last participation in the national finals of the NCAA in basketball , in which they were clearly defeated by the UCLA Bruins in the first round .

After completing his studies in 2003, Allen did not get the opportunity to play in a professional league in his home country, but initially preferred to move to Iceland for a year, where he helped defend the championship with defending champion Keflavik. He then got a contract in the German basketball league with BG Karlsruhe , with which, however, he missed the play-offs for the German championship in the two following seasons . For the 2006/07 season he moved to the record champions Bayer Giants Leverkusen . After the club had also previously missed the play-offs, this time it was possible to move into them; however, they were eliminated in the first round. For the following season 2007/08 he moved to the Skyliners Frankfurt , where he succeeded in moving into the play-offs after the club had missed them in the previous season. This time they just won the first round against their ex-club from Leverkusen, before they were eliminated in the semifinals after five games. After being eliminated in the first round in 2009 against the eventual German champions EWE Baskets Oldenburg , in 2010, after a surprising success against the ULEB Eurocup finalist Alba Berlin in the first round up to the final series against the Brose Baskets from Bamberg , in the you lost just after five games, after you had already lost the cup final against the same opponent with just one point.

In 2010, Allen moved from the new runner-up from Frankfurt to Alba Berlin, with whom he was victorious in the semi-final series of the championship in just under five games over his former club from Frankfurt. Then you lost the final series of the championship from Allen's point of view again just under five games against defending champion Bamberg. In the following season 2011/12 , however, they were disappointedly eliminated as runner-up in the first round against the promoted s.Oliver Baskets from Würzburg . This heralded a change of coach and a change in the squad, which also fell victim to Allen, who decided to move to the Basketball League Belgium to Belgian runner-up Spirou BC Charleroi for the 2012/13 season.

Allen returned to Germany for the 2013/14 season and joined the Eisbären Bremerhaven team. After a year Allen moved again within the league for the 2014/15 season and joined the Basketball Löwen Braunschweig . After one season, Allen switched to the second-rate ProA and joined SC Rasta Vechta , with whom he was promoted to the Bundesliga in 2016 .

On April 21, 2017, in the game against Science City Jena in Jena, he scored his 5439th point with a free throw in the sixth minute of the game, making it first in the digital eternal basketball list that has been running since 1998. He ended the 2016/17 Bundesliga season with Vechta on a relegation zone. He moved to Science City Jena in the 2017/18 season and played there until the end of the 2018/19 season , in which he missed relegation in the Bundesliga with the Thuringians. In August 2019, he announced the end of his competitive basketball career.

As a trainer

After the end of his playing career, Allen took part in a special course of the German Basketball Federation and obtained his B license as a coach. Afterwards he sat in with Pedro Calles at his former club Rasta Vechta . From September 2019 to the end of the 2019/20 season, he was permanently employed at Vechta as an assistant coach. Then the separation was initially announced, but Allen was reassigned to Vechta's coaching staff in the course of summer 2020.

Private

Allen is married to an Iranian translator and has two daughters.

Successes and Records

Club level

Awards

Bundesliga records

(As of August 15, 2019)

  • "Top scorer of the main round" of the Basketball Bundesliga: 2006/07 (17.03 points per game)
  • 477 games (7th place in the BBL leaderboard since 1998)
  • 6,173 points (7th place in the BBL best list since 1975)
  • 2,574 rebounds (3rd place in the BBL best list since 1998)
  • 45 double doubles (4th place in the BBL best list since 2004)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Allen et Scott au Spirou! Spirou BC Charleroi , August 15, 2012, archived from the original on July 15, 2014 ; Retrieved on August 15, 2012 (French, media info).
  2. ↑ https://www.easycredit-bbl.de/de/statistiken/player/portraits/p/2210-derrick-allen/
  3. ↑ Derrick Allen: A legend at Rasta Vechta . ( rasta-vechta.de [accessed on April 24, 2017]).
  4. ↑ baskets-jena.de
  5. ↑ https://www.rasta-vechta.de/home/einzelansicht/lebende-legende-derrick-allen-hospitiert-bei-rasta/
  6. ^ B-special course Steinbach: DBB welcomes 12 new B-licensees. In: basketball-bund.de. Deutscher Basketball Bund, June 29, 2019, accessed on September 25, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Ex-professional Derrick Allen becomes assistant trainer at Rasta Vechta. In: sueddeutsche.de. September 25, 2019, accessed September 25, 2019 .
  8. ↑ https://www.rasta-vechta.de/home/einzelansicht/andere-wege-trio-verlaesst-rasta-zapata-nach-hamburg/
  9. ↑ TWO NEW, ONE FAMOUS: RASTA'S RADIO CONTINUES TO GROW! Retrieved August 12, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Die Allen's: A basketball family in private. In: jenaer-nachrichten.de. March 12, 2018, accessed August 15, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Top Players. In: statistik.easycredit-bbl.de. Retrieved June 24, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Allen, Derrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th July 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Gadsden , Alabama , United States