Donald Williams (basketball player)

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Donald Earl Williams (born February 24, 1973 ) is a retired American basketball player .

Life

Williams was in 1993 with the coached by coach Dean Smith team of the University of North Carolina champions of the NCAA . He scored five threes in the final against the University of Michigan and was named the best player of the final. Williams contributed an average of 11.3 points per game to winning the title in 37 games this season. Williams, who measured 1.90 meters, achieved his best season point value in the 1994/95 game year with 13.0 per match. In addition, in the same season, statistically speaking, he prepared 2.9 basket hits for his teammates per game.

With 221 hit three-point throws, Williams was after his four years as a member of the university team in this ranking on the first place of the best list of the University of North Carolina. From 1991 to 1993 Williams played at North Carolina on the side of the German Henrik Rödl . Unlike players like George Lynch , Eric Montross , Jerry Stackhouse , Rasheed Wallace or Hubert Davis , whose teammate Williams was at the University of North Carolina, he did not make it into the North American professional league NBA . In the run-up to the 1995/96 season, Williams trained with the Philadelphia 76ers  , but was removed from the squad in mid-October 1995.

Williams' career in paid basketball began in the 1995/96 season with the Austrian Bundesliga club UKJ St. Pölten , with whom he became national champion and cup winner. For the 1996/97 season he went to neighboring Germany and strengthened the Bundesliga club TuS Herten there . With 25.3 points per match, he was first on the Bundesliga basket shooter list this year. In the 1997/98 season Williams played first in Greece (Sporting Athens), then in Israel (Hapoel Zefat), then in his home country USA with Sioux Falls Skyforce in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA).

In 1998/99 he was initially under contract with Shell Turbo Chargers in the Philippines , at the beginning of December 1998 he returned to the German Bundesliga and from then on wore the colors of Brandt Hagen . He scored an average of 19.6 points per game for the team, his highest score in a game was 48 points against Trier in March 1999.

Williams continued his career in Cyprus  , he was under contract with AEL Limassol in 1999/2000 . In the 2000/01 season he played four league games for the French first division side Besançon BCD (16.5 points / game) before returning to the United States. There he played for the team Richmond Rhythm in the IBL league. This was followed by an engagement with the Harlem Globetrotters , with whom he traveled through his home country.

For the 2002/03 season he went back to France, strengthened the first division club Limoges CSP and scored an average of 16.1 points in 18 games. Williams was in the game year 2003/04 one of the main responsible for winning the Swedish championship title by the team Plannja Basket . He caused a stir in the first final game against Norrköping : Williams hit a throw fired from his own half of the game from the level of the free-throw line and brought Plannja the victory.

Williams went back to his home country, played 48 games for Idaho Stampede in the CBA in the 2004/05 season , he came to 16.5 points per use. In spring 2005 he played briefly for Espoon Honka in Finland . In the 2005 summer season he was in the service of the Cañeros de La Romana in the Dominican Republic . During the game year 2005/06 Williams played 16 missions for Club Melilla in the second division of Spain , he came to an average of 12.4 points per match. In January 2007 he was signed by the Swedish first division club Södertälje Kings , but already moved to Polpak Świecie in Poland in mid-February 2007 , which was his last club as a professional basketball player.

Williams started a coaching career in his home country. From 2008 he was in charge of the girls' team at Raleigh Charter High School. He became an assistant coach at Garner High School in Garner, North Carolina , for which he had once played himself. From 2014 to 2017 he was a trainer at Wakefield Middle School. In 2017, he became the girls' head coach at Wakefield High School in Raleigh .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/unc.sidearmsports.com/documents/2019/10/30/2019_19_UNC_Men_s_Basketball_Record_Book.pdf
  2. ↑ Donald Williams College Stats. Retrieved June 1, 2020 .
  3. ↑ 1992-93 UNC Tar Heels Roster and Stats. Retrieved June 1, 2020 .
  4. ↑ 1994-95 UNC Tar Heels Roster and Stats. Retrieved June 1, 2020 .
  5. ↑ 1991-92 UNC Tar Heels Roster and Stats. Retrieved June 1, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Basketball Transactions Search Results. Accessed June 1, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Austria's national champion . In: Manfred Schnurrer & Hanns Vanura (eds.): Austria's basketball history (s) . Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-200-06297-9 , pp. 460 .
  8. ↑ All top scorers. In: Basketball Bundesliga. Accessed June 1, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Donald Earl Williams | Korac Cup (1998) | FIBA Europe. Accessed June 1, 2020 .
  10. ↑ a b c Williams Donald | LNB.fr. Accessed June 1, 2020 .
  11. ↑ 1425 Donald WILLIAMS. In: Basketball Bundesliga. Accessed June 1, 2020 .
  12. ↑ TarHeelIllustrated - Donald Williams has a home with the Globetrotters. Accessed June 1, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Plannja mästare för femte gången. Retrieved June 1, 2020 (Swedish).
  14. ↑ DRÖMSKOTTET. Retrieved June 1, 2020 (Swedish).
  15. ↑ Donald Williams Statistics on StatsCrew.com. Retrieved June 1, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Pelaaja. Accessed June 1, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Cañeros sorprenden Panteras del Distrito. In: Hoy Digital. July 29, 2005, accessed June 1, 2020 (European Spanish).
  18. ^ Federación Española de Baloncesto - Competiciones FEB. Accessed June 1, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Donald Williams tillbaka i basketligan . In: Sveriges Radio . January 23, 2007 ( sverigesradio.se [accessed June 1, 2020]).
  20. ↑ psz: Donald Williams wzmocni Polpak. February 15, 2007, accessed June 1, 2020 (Polish).
  21. ^ Ex-UNC star Donald Williams Now Coaching in Raleigh - Tar Heel Times - 2/28/2008. Accessed June 1, 2020 .
  22. ↑ https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/community/garner-cleveland-record/gcr-sports/article14574845.html
  23. ↑ https://abc11.com/unc-basketball-womens/5160091/
personal data
SURNAME Williams, Donald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Williams, Donald Earl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1973