Nuremberg Falcons BC

Nuremberg Falcons BC
Nickname	The hawks
Founded	2002 (as a Franconian witcher)
Hall	Event palace at the airport (1540 seats)
Homepage	n-bc.de
executive Director	Ralph boy
Trainer	Ralph boy
league	2nd Bundesliga ProA (II) men, Nuremberg Falcons BC 2018/19: ▲ 3rd place
	NBBL U 19, NBC
	JBBL U 16, NBC
Colours	White black
home Away
successes
Runner-up in the 2nd Bundesliga ProA 2019

Nuremberg Falcons BC is a pro - basketball team from the Franconian metropolis Nürnberg . Nürnberg Falcons BC GmbH is responsible for operation . The team plays in the 2nd basketball league ProA . It is the successor to rent4office Nuremberg . There was a cooperation with the Nuremberg Basketball Club (NBC) until the 2018/19 season. There has been a cooperation with the Tornados Franken since the 2019/20 season . At the NBC several lower-class teams are currently playing, as well as in cooperation with the Falcons junior teams in the NBBL and the JBBL .

history

Logo of the Franconian Witcher

Founding as a youth team

The Franken Hexer was founded in 2002 as a " joint project of several Middle Franconian clubs to promote young basketball talent ". The newly founded club started with a men's team in the lowest league (district class) and a male U16 and U18 team. The men's teams are also explicitly intended for young players.

Already in the second season, the male U16 achieved fourth place in the German championships a. a. with the players Sajmen Hauer and Bastian Doreth . Since then, the Witcher has been sending players to the junior national teams on a regular basis. This was followed by numerous promotions of the men's team up to the 2nd regional league in the coming seasons. In the 2006/2007 season, the club was also a founding member of the youth basketball league ( NBBL ), and in 2009 also in the JBBL .

Cooperation network Franken 1st

Since 2007/2008, the Witcher has been cooperating with DIMPLEX Falke Nürnberg within the Franken 1st group , an integrated concept for young talent under the leadership of Brose Baskets . The Witcher sent several double licensed players and others to the ProA team at the time . a. Stefan Schmidt and Bastian Doreth.

Takeover of Falke Nürnberg

→ Main article : Falke Nuremberg

After Falkes relegated to the ProB, the Witcher took over their team for the 2008/2009 season as well as the second division license, which in the meantime had ended up with Franken 1st Nürnberg Basketballgesellschaft mbH . The second division team ran under the name Franken Witcher . The team ended the season on a relegation zone, but the withdrawal of Telemotive Munich made it possible to keep the class.

Impending bankruptcy

As the financial commitment of Brose Baskets Bamberg for the ProB team from Nuremberg was not considered sufficient, the Nuremberg professional basketball was about to end during the summer break of 2009. A model for the rescue by the city of Nuremberg failed. Only after a main sponsor had been found shortly before the start of the season in the form of the printing and copying specialist Igeko, the restart in the ProB was certain. The points of contact with the Brose Baskets were limited to the use of the double licensed player Bastian Doreth in the basketball Bundesliga .

Independent association

Detachment of the professional team

As a result, the professional team was transferred to the NBC basketball club in Nuremberg . All other teams started as Franconian witchers in close cooperation with the NBC.

At the beginning of the 2009/2010 season, the co-founder of the witcher Alexander Krüger was replaced by Derrick Taylor as head coach of the first team.

Advance by wildcard

The NBC wanted to use the 2010/2011 season to rise again to the ProA . But the club failed in the play-offs and could not achieve a sporting promotion. At the end of June 2011, the association was finally able to plan for the ProA. Due to the withdrawal of the Dragons Rhöndorf from the ProA to the ProB , the NBC received a wildcard and will start in the ProA from the 2011/2012 season. The first season in the ProA ended the NBC in 12th place in the table with 11 wins and 17 losses.

Establishment in the Pro A

For the 2012/2013 season, the club's management decided not to extend the contract with head coach Derrick Taylor . His successor was the former player Martin Ides . Under Ides the team was able to stabilize after a weak start to the season and finished the main round 12/13 in 6th place in the table. This qualified the NBC for the subsequent play-offs. There, however, the team was eliminated in the first round against the Düsseldorf Baskets .

The 2013/2014 season was again tackled with ambition. At least the play-offs were given as the goal. However, the start of the season was very changeable. After only 4 of the first 9 games could be won, coach Martin was released from his duties. Benjamin Travnizek initially took over as interim trainer. Under Travnizek, the team improved again and moved into the ProA play-offs . There the NBC was eliminated in the semifinals against the Crailsheim Merlins .

With Ralph Junge , a new head coach and sports director was presented for the 2014/2015 season. Junge previously worked for Erdgas Ehingen / Urspring School and formed the youth department there. The NBC also entered into a cooperation with Ehingen in order to strengthen the two locations and to be able to offer a consistent perspective for youth players. A return to the basketball league was also sought under Junge .

Another aversion to bankruptcy

On June 4, 2016, the club announced that it would stop playing at the end of the same month. The sole partner Alexander Lolis withdrew. The reason given was financial aspects that were therefore related to the marketing of the Nuremberg amusement arcade (hall of the vocational training center, BBZ for short). Contrary to initial reports, it was decided at the beginning of July to continue the team under the name Nürnberg Falcons BC from the 2016/17 season after the financing was secured within a short time through sponsors and donations. Junge became managing director of Nürnberg Falcons BC GmbH, newly founded in July 2016, which took over the license from Nürnberg Basketball Club GmbH. The 2016/17 season ended in twelfth place in the table.

Season 2018/19

Change of hall

As construction defects were discovered on the wall cladding of the hall at Berliner Platz and the home ground of the Nuremberg club was therefore closed until further notice shortly before the start of the 2018/19 season, the season opener had to be postponed on September 22, 2018. About a week later, the Nuremberg city council approved the purchase of a lightweight hall to build on a plot of land at Nuremberg Airport. This hall was to become the team's temporary home ground. In the end, the space on the airport grounds that we were looking at was not an option as a hall location, as it became known in mid-October 2018, as the sand lizards living there should not be disturbed. However, a different solution arose at the airport: The Nuremberg basketball players took over an event hall that was used, among other things, for celebrations to play their home games there from November 18, 2018.

The course of the season and the struggle for the Bundesliga license

The team finished the points round of the 2018/2019 season in third place in the table in the 2nd Bundesliga Pro A. In the championship round, the Nürnberger first prevailed in the quarter-finals against Gladiators Trier and in the semifinals against MLP Academics Heidelberg and achieved promotion to the basketball league as a finalist . Between the beginning of February 2019 and the end of April 2019, the Franks had won 14 games in a row. In the first final against Hamburg Towers , the young team prevailed in their own hall with 90:87, but lost the second leg in Hamburg with 94:99 and thus ended the season as runner-up. On May 9th, the Basketball Bundesliga announced that the Nürnbergers had been refused a license for the highest German division due to the lack of economic performance and a venue that did not meet the league requirements. Trainer and managing director Junge then announced that he would go to the arbitration court of the Bundesliga. In a second examination of the application and after written commitments from the city of Nuremberg, the license was not granted. According to the team management, the points that led to the rejection were questions about the “completion of the hall construction and the associated calculation of the audience income”. The people of Nuremberg appealed the decision to the arbitration tribunal and knew the city was on their side. At the beginning of July 2019, the arbitral tribunal finally confirmed the license refusal. Junge then accused the Bundesliga leadership of not wanting his team in the league and of having made this clear in the course of the proceedings. According to Junge, the people of Nuremberg felt "both athletically, morally and actually also legally in the right".

Season 2019/20

At the beginning of the season the Nürnberg Falcons and the Tornados Franken announced a cooperation in the youth area of ​​the clubs. They want "[...] to promote the talents in the region even better and to offer them real prospects [...]", says Managing Director Junge. It is important for the Falcons to have "a strong base".

At the beginning of September 2019, the coach Junge handed over the office to his previous assistant, the Lithuanian Vytautas Buzas , in order to focus more on his duties as managing director, while he remained in office as the sporting director and worked as Buzas co-trainer. The Lithuanian returned to his home country for family reasons at the beginning of December 2019, and Junge took over the coaching position again for the time being. Under Buzas, the Franks had eight wins and lost three games since the start of the 2019/20 season. At the beginning of January 2020, the league management announced a deduction of four positive rating points due to a "significant violation of conditions" by the Nuremberg team.

Squad

Squad of the Nürnberg Falcons in the 2019/2020 season
Attention: The squad information is out of date! (current season: 2020/2021)
player No. Nat. Surname birth size info Last club Guards ( PG , SG ) 1 Duane Wilson 1994 1.90 m Texas A&M University (USA) 3 Marcell Pongó 1997 1.94 m OrangeAcademy 5 Manuel fire arrow 2000 1.85 m Regnitz Valley Baskets 11 Jan Friedrich Eismann 2000 1.92 m own youth 12 Matthew Meredith 2000 1.94 m own youth 14th Sebastian Schröder 1988 1.92 m own youth 17th Christenvie Kwilu 2000 1.96 m own youth Forwards ( SF , PF ) 7th William Lee 1995 2.03 m Iowa Wolves (USA) 18th Emmanuel Lusakivana Ngan 2001 1.92 m Medi Bayreuth 25th Phillip Daubner 1994 2.04 m Kirchheim Knights 35 Stephan Haukohl 1993 2.05 m BG Göttingen Center ( C ) 4th Moritz Sanders 1998 2.10 m Baunach Young Pikes 13 Jonathan Maier 1992 2.11 m VfL Kirchheim Knights	Trainer Nat. Surname position Ralph boy Head coach Assistant coach Legend Abbr. meaning swell Team homepage League homepage Status: October 13, 2019

Well-known former players

• Julius Jenkins
• Eric Washington
• Sajmen Hauer
• Michael Lake
• Heiko Schaffartzik
• Tim Nees
• Corey Rouse
• Braydon Hobbs
• Diante Watkins
• Robert Oehle
• Ishmail Wainright

Coach chronicle

Term of office	Surname
-2006	Alexander May
2006-2009	Alexander Kruger
2009–2012	Derrick Taylor
2012–11 / 2013	Martin Ides
11/2013-2014	Benjamin Travnizek
2014-2019	Ralph boy
09/2019–12/2019	Vytautas Buzas
since 12/2019	Ralph boy

Youth teams

• mU19: Junior Basketball League (NBBL) - Main Round A (South)
• mU16: Youth Basketball League (JBBL) (as Tornados Franken)

successes

• Sporting promotion to the 1st basketball Bundesliga : 2019

Venues

Hall on Berliner Platz

Until the 2018/19 season , the Nuremberg basketball players (before the NBC also the Franken Hexer and Falke Nürnberg ) played their home games in the hall on Berliner Platz. The hall offers space for up to 2140 spectators. There are grandstands on all four sides of the hall. Due to construction defects, the owner, the city of Nuremberg, closed the building immediately in September 2018.

Event palace at the airport

As an alternative to the hall on Berliner Platz, a 2000 square meter event hall at Nuremberg Airport was converted into a sports hall and temporarily made available to basketball players in the 2018/19 season . The converted hall offers 1540 spectators for home games.

Hall at Tillypark

From January 2021, the Nuremberg Falcons will play their games in the newly completed hall at Tillypark with 4,000 seats.

literature

• Franken Hexer: History , accessed on December 4, 2009

Web links

• Website of the Nuremberg Basketball Club

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vier Falken für Deutschland on 2basketballbundesliga.de, June 16, 2017, accessed on April 2, 2019.
2. ↑ ^{a b} nbc.admin: Nürnberg Falcons and TORNADOS FRANKEN decide on cooperation. In: Nuremberg Falcons BC. April 4, 2019, accessed on January 12, 2020 (German). 
3. ↑ Homepage Franken 1st, Franken 1st: Franken Hexer , accessed on December 4, 2009.
4. ↑ Homepage Franken 1st, Franken 1st: The Concept , accessed on December 4, 2009.
5. ↑ Franken Witcher Nuremberg: Continue in the ProB ( Memento from May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Nürnberger Zeitung, Die Hexer must continue to tremble  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Nürnberger Zeitung, witchers conjure rescue from the hat  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Mittelfränkisches Sportjournal, New Name for the Nuremberg Basketball Club ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 4th 
9. ↑ Schönen Dunk basketball portal, Derrick Taylor succeeds Alex Krüger as head coach
10. ↑ Karin Goeckel, Bayerischer Rundfunk: Basketball Bundesliga: Rent4office Nuremberg is about to end | BR.de. In: www.br.de. June 4, 2016, accessed August 22, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Sad certainty: rent4office Nürnberg will cease gaming operations - My websiteMy website. (No longer available online.) In: www.dein-team.net. Archived from the original on June 6, 2016 ; accessed on June 6, 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.  
12. ^ Joscha Klüppel: New name: Nürnberger Falcons BC. In: basketball.de. July 6, 2016. Retrieved July 12, 2016 . 
13. ↑ The license to play basketball: NBC rescue is official - Sport - nordbayern.de. In: www.nordbayern.de. Retrieved July 14, 2016 . 
14. ↑ commercial register Nuremberg Falcons BC GmbH (HRB 33112). Retrieved April 1, 2017 . 
15. ↑ The sports hall on Berliner Platz is closed: What happens next with the Falcons? Retrieved October 10, 2018 . 
16. ↑ BARMER 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Nürnberg Falcons: Postponement of the first home games. Retrieved October 10, 2018 . 
17. ↑ Mobile Halle is coming: Nuremberg Falcons can breathe easy . In: Nuremberg Falcons BC . September 20, 2018 ( n-bc.de [accessed October 10, 2018]).
18. ↑ nordbayern.de, Nuremberg, Germany: plans burst: But no sports hall at the airport . ( nordbayern.de [accessed on October 10, 2018]).
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20. ↑ 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Table ProA. Retrieved March 30, 2019 . 
21. ↑ Exciting battle in Nuremberg! Falcons are promoted to the Bundesliga on nordbayern.de, April 29, 2019, accessed on April 29, 2019.
22. ↑ 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Schedule | Nuremberg Falcons BC - ProA - 2018/2019. Retrieved April 30, 2019 . 
23. ↑ Nürnberg Falcons present - win 1st final with 90:87. In: Nuremberg Falcons BC. May 3, 2019, accessed May 4, 2019 . 
24. ↑ live.2basketballbundesliga.de
25. ↑ Licensing easyCredit BBL 2019–2010: 17 clubs receive a license. Retrieved May 9, 2019 . 
26. ↑ Hall problems: For the time being no BBL license for newcomers Nuremberg. In: Bayerischer Rundfunk. May 9, 2019, accessed May 10, 2019 . 
27. ↑ BBL refuses Nuremberg the license again | Basketball. Retrieved June 19, 2019 . 
28. ↑ Last Hope Arbitration: The city helps the Falcons. Retrieved July 6, 2019 . 
29. ↑ easyCredit - Court of Arbitration: Definitely no license granted for the Nürnberg Falcons. Retrieved July 6, 2019 . 
30. ↑ Falcons-Trainer Junge - "The BBL didn't want Nuremberg". July 11, 2019, accessed July 12, 2019 . 
31. ↑ n-bc.de
32. ↑ n-bc.de
33. ↑ 2basketballbundesliga.de
34. ↑ BARMER 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Point deduction for the Nürnberg Falcons BC. Retrieved January 8, 2020 (German). 
35. ↑ Closed due to construction defects: Falcons are without a hall on nordbayern.de, from September 11, 2018, accessed on May 1, 2019.
36. ↑ New venue: Eventpalast becomes a sports hall on frankenfernsehen.tv, October 22, 2018, accessed on May 1, 2019.
37. ↑ New sports hall on Tillypark in Nuremberg. Retrieved July 3, 2020 .