Eric Dennis

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Eric Dennis is an American basketball coach .

Life

Dennis played basketball at the University of Southern Indiana until 1983 . Between 1984 and 1987 he was assistant coach at the University of Central Florida .

From 1987 to 1990 he worked as a player observer for the NBA club Orlando Magic  . He also coached teams in the National Basketball League (Montreal Dragons), World Basketball League (Jacksonville Stingrays) and United States Basketball League (Miami Tropics). He also worked as a trainer in Hong Kong .

Dennis, who also worked as a scout for the Minnesota Timberwolves , took up the post of head coach of the German Bundesliga club Steiner Bayreuth in 1991 . In 14 competitive games, the team under Dennis' leadership only achieved three wins. In Bayreuth he made people sit up and take notice with an unusual training method when he played radio noises over loudspeakers during a training session in order to imitate the noise of spectators during a game. When Bayreuth slipped to the bottom of the Bundesliga southern season, the American was dismissed after a three-month term. He then spent four years as a talent scout with the Detroit Pistons  (NBA).

He worked as an assistant coach at Indiana State University and headed the competitive sports department at Robert Morris College from the fall of 1995, and in 1998 he took up the same post at Hood College.

Footnotes

  1. ^ A b c d Stan Goldberg Sports Editor: Hood's athletic director has wealth of experience. Accessed April 27, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Norbayerischer Kurier: 111 reasons to love Medi: Book presentation turns into a humorous review - Nordbayerischer Kurier. Retrieved April 27, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Peter-Michael Habermann: 25 years ago: Hapless Eric Dennis. Medi Bayreuth, accessed April 27, 2019 .
  4. ↑ PLAYER HIT IT BIG BEFORE HE COULD HIT BOOKS . In: Chicago Tribune . October 6, 1995.
personal data
SURNAME Dennis, Eric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball coach
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century