Douglas Spradley

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Basketball player
Douglas Spradley
Player information
Nickname Doug
birthday September 14, 1966
place of birth Tacoma , United States
size 193 cm
position Shooting Guard
college Gonzaga University
Clubs as active
1986–1989 Gonzaga Bulldogs ( NCAA ) 1989–1992 Amsterdam Canadians 1992–1996 Paderborn Baskets 1996–1998 SG Braunschweig 1998–2000 SSV hagebau Weißenfels 2000–2001 Paderborn BasketsUnited StatesUnited States
NetherlandsNetherlands
GermanyGermany
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Clubs as coaches
2001–2009 Paderborn Baskets 2009–2013 Eisbären Bremerhaven 2014–2016 s.Oliver Baskets 2017–2018 SC Rasta Vechta 2019–2020 Tigers TübingenGermanyGermany
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Douglas "Doug" Spradley (* 14. September 1966 in Tacoma , Washington ) is a from the United States originating basketball player , who for several clubs of the German Basketball League played has and there now as a coach works. The father of two, who was previously married to a German, has had German citizenship since 1998 .

Career as a player

Spradley played during college at Gonzaga University, which in 1984 drafted the NBA's best assists and a member of the original dream team, John Stockton . While in college, he was nominated for his NCAA conference selection and was named 1989 University Athlete of the Year. He scored a total of 1,427 points during his four years at Gonzaga University.

After college, Spradley went to Europe and initially played in Holland . The Belgian coach Werner Rotsaert brought Spradley 1992 to Germany in the 2nd basketball league for the Paderborn Baskets. In 1994, the two played a major role in the first ascent of the club, then trading as forbo Paderborn, into the first national basketball division . After a mixed main round with nine wins in 32 games, the club had to compete in a relegation round against the best second division clubs. Since the second division clubs only had one foreign player eligible to play in their squad, the first division clubs were also only allowed to use one of their two foreign players for this relegation round. In order not to weaken the position under the basket, Spradley was "relegated" to the stands as the previous top scorer in favor of the Estonian center Metstak near Paderborn. The team couldn't cope with this weakness and lost almost all of their games. Among other things, disappointed by the appearance of his team and the misjudgment regarding the position of foreigners, coach Rotsaert left the club prematurely, so that Spradley even acted as coach for some games, but could not prevent relegation to the second division.

In 1996 Spradley returned to the first division, where he moved to Braunschweig. When he moved to Weißenfels in 1998, he first played again in the second division, before Weißenfels moved up to the first division a year later, as SV Oberelchingen returned its license. At the end of his career Spradley returned to Paderborn after another year in the first division with Weißenfels.

Career as a coach

In his first coaching position, Spradley took over the Paderborn Baskets in 2001 in the second Bundesliga, for which he had been a player for many years. In the following years he was able to work together with sports director Dr. Nima Mehrdadi, who had already gained experience as a young assistant to Rotsaert, put together a team that had ambitions for a renewed promotion. In the 2004/05 season they received their second and last defeat on the 10th match day and won all remaining games including a second round victory against self-declared promotion favorites Eisbären Bremerhaven , but had to give Bremerhaven priority because of the lost direct comparison. In the following season 2005/06 they finally won all the games, so that Spradley after 50 consecutive victories across the seasons was able to rise again and for the first time as a coach in the first basketball league. Contrary to the concerns of some outside experts, the club relied on the core of its successful team as the core of the first division team. Spradley was able to place the team twice in the following two years, each with 16 wins from 34 games in the middle of the table. In the third year of the renewed membership in the first division, the leap into the play-offs for the championship succeeded after a moderate start and despite massive financial problems . There you were defeated in the round of 16 to the former champions and main round first Alba Berlin only in the playoff of the series. After Spradley wanted to move to Oldenburg two years earlier , after this season he took over the coaching of the relegated Eisbären Bremerhaven, who could only secure his further membership in the first division with a wildcard.

In addition to his assistant coach Stephan Völkel , Steven Esterkamp , who was later injured for the whole season, also accompanied Spradley to Bremerhaven. In addition, Spradley brought back Louis Campbell , whom he had also coached in Paderborn, back from Japan, who together with the BBL top rebounder Jeff Gibbs , who came from ratiopharm Ulm , acted as the top performer of the team, which finished sixth in the main round for the Play- qualified offs of the 2009-10 season. In the quarter-finals they surprisingly beat the newly crowned EuroChallenge champion BG 74 Göttingen in the decisive game with a game and series-deciding buzzer beater from Andrew Drevo . In the decisive fifth game of the semifinals they had a home game this time , but lost to the Skyliners Frankfurt in extra time .

Spradley was active in sports for the Eisbären Bremerhaven until April 2013 . After the end of the 2012/2013 season, his contract was not extended by the club. Under his leadership, the polar bears moved into the play-offs of the basketball Bundesliga twice. Last season the team finished eleventh in the table.

On May 15, 2014 it was announced that Doug Spradley will be the new head coach of the s.Oliver Baskets from Würzburg . Spradley switched to the former Bundesliga club , who competed in the 2nd basketball division ProA in the 2014/2015 season, and signed a two-year contract. He led Würzburg back to the Bundesliga, under his direction the team reached the championship round in the 2015/16 season as a promoted team and was eliminated in the quarter-finals against the eventual title winner Bamberg. On December 30, 2016 Spradley was released from the s.Oliver Baskets. The reason given by the club's management was the "sporting development of the last few weeks and months". At the time of the separation, Würzburg was in 14th place in the BBL table, seven of the previous ten Bundesliga games had been lost.

On February 8, 2017, he was signed by the relegation-threatened Bundesliga club SC Rasta Vechta as the new head coach, but missed relegation with the Lower Saxony, which was determined after a 57: 101 defeat against FC Bayern Munich on Easter Sunday 2017. In the 2017/18 season, he led Vechta to the playoffs as first in the points round.

On April 10, 2018, Rasta Vechta announced in a press release that the collaboration with Doug Spradley would end at the end of the season. Spradley cited the “different ideas of future work” as the reason. He then led Lower Saxony as champions of the 2nd Bundesliga ProA to return to the Bundesliga.

For the 2019/20 season Spradley became head coach of the 2nd ProA basketball division at the Tigers Tübingen . On January 1, 2020, the club announced the separation from Spradley because the sporting situation did not meet the expectations. In the previous season, Tübingen had won eight of its 16 league games under his leadership.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Doug Spradley. In: Basketball Summer Camp Mario Bennes. Petra Bennes, December 6, 2009, archived from the original on October 31, 2007 ; Retrieved October 6, 2014 (English, black letters on black background).
  2. ↑ Douglas Spradley leaves Paderborn. In: beko BBL . BBL GmbH Gesellschaft der Basketball-Bundesliga, May 5, 2009, archived from the original on July 29, 2012 ; accessed on December 6, 2009 (press release by Paderborn Baskets on the end of Spradley's contract).
  3. ↑ Gonzaga Athletics: Gonzaga University Men's Basketball (PDF, 980 KB, English), overview of the university's selection players. (PDF) Retrieved April 1, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Gonzaga Athletics: Overview of the University's Athlete of the Year (English).
  5. ↑ 2016-17 GONZAGA MEN'S BASKETBALL RECORD BOOK. Gonzaga University, accessed February 14, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Player profile Spradley in the squad of Weißenfels, 1999 ( Memento from July 26, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  7. ↑ s.Oliver Würzburg separates from trainer Doug Spradley. (No longer available online.) In: Experience Würzburg. Archived from the original on December 30, 2016 ; accessed on December 30, 2016 . 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.wuerzburgerleben.de
  8. ↑ s.Oliver Würzburg and head coach Doug Spradley go their separate ways: soliver-wuerzburg.de. (No longer available online.) In: www.soliver-wuerzburg.de. Archived from the original on December 30, 2016 ; accessed on December 30, 2016 . 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.soliver-wuerzburg.de
  9. ↑ Doug Spradley is RASTA's new head coach . ( rasta-vechta.de [accessed on February 8, 2017]).
  10. ↑ RASTA'S DESCENT THROUGH BAVARIA'S OVER POWER SEALED . ( rasta-vechta.de [accessed on April 17, 2017]).
  11. ↑ https://www.rasta-vechta.de/home/einzelansicht/rekordsieg-rasta-als-spitzenreiter-in-playoffs/
  12. ↑ New season: Rasta and Spradley go their separate ways . ( rasta-vechta.de [accessed on April 10, 2018]).
  13. ↑ NDR: Rasta Vechta separates from Coach Spradley. Retrieved May 6, 2018 .
  14. ↑ 2. Basketball Bundesliga | RASTA Vechta is ProA Champion 17/18 - new external appearance of the 2nd division from July 2018. Accessed on May 6, 2018 .
  15. ↑ 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Promotion for Vechta & Crailsheim. Retrieved May 6, 2018 .
  16. ↑ https://www.zak.de/Nachrichten/Trainersuche-beendet-Douglas-Spradley-uebernehmen-die-Zweitliga-Basketballer-aus-Tuebingen-128342.html
  17. ↑ https://tigers-tuebingen.de/doug-spradley-nicht-mehr-trainer-der-tigers-tuebingen/
  18. ↑ https://www.2basketballbundesliga.de/tabelle-proa/
personal data
SURNAME Spradley, Douglas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spradley, Doug
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Tacoma , United States