George Fisher (basketball coach)

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George Fisher is a retired American basketball player and coach.

career

Fisher played basketball and baseball at Alhambra High School in the US state of California until 1962 . From 1963 to 1966 he was a member of the University of Utah basketball team . In 79 games for the university team, he achieved an average of 14.4 points. In the 1965/66 season, Fisher suffered a broken leg. The New York Knicks acquired the rights to the two-meter winger in the sixth selection round in the NBA draft . To heal his leg injury, he initially stayed at the University of Utah and was a member of the coaching staff. He never played for the New York Knicks, and the interest of another NBA team, the San Diego Rockets , did not lead to a contract.

Fisher accepted an offer from the Italian Milan on, later he played in France with the team Jœuf Homécourt Basket. He stayed there for eight years and sometimes worked as a trainer.

1979 Fisher was coach of the French first division club Elan béarnais Orthez . He led the team to win the European club competition Korać Cup in 1984 , the top performers of his teams at the time included his compatriots John McCullough and Paul Henderson and the French Frédéric Hufnagel and Benkaly Kaba . In the 1985/86 season Orthez became French champions under Fisher's direction. Fisher had formed a championship team that included two other Americans, Howard Carter and Kirk Richards, the now naturalized Henderson , and Kaba and Hufnagel were also still on the squad. In the 1986/87 season, winning the championship title was repeated, as in the previous year, Carter Fisher was the best scorer. In the European Cup , Fisher missed with his team in the 1986/87 season as third in the semi-finals just about the jump into the final. 1989 Orthez was French runner-up under Fisher, thus ending his tenure with the club. According to his own account, he received offers from Maccabi Tel-Aviv and Real Madrid , but switched to the coaching office of Orthez's league rival Racing Paris Basket for the 1989/90 season . Fisher and Paris split up during the 1989/90 season.

In the 1991/92 season Fisher coached Aris Thessaloniki in Greece, where Nikos Galis was one of his players.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alhambra High School Hall of Fame - George Fisher - 1962. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/utahutes.com/documents/2019/11/8/2019_20_MBB_Media_Guide.pdf
  3. ^ A b c Todd Spehr: The Mozart of Basketball: The Remarkable Life and Legacy of Dražen Petrović . Sports Publishing, 2016, ISBN 978-1-61321-917-1 .
  4. ^ NBA Draft Choices. In: University of Utah Athletics. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
  5. ^ The Draft Review. Retrieved August 3, 2020 (American English).
  6. ^ Historique de Votre organization. Retrieved August 3, 2020 (French).
  7. ↑ a b La semaine du decisive basket-ball français Fisher la Science . In: Le Monde.fr . February 18, 1987 ( online [accessed August 3, 2020]).
  8. ↑ Basket-ball - Elan Chalon. Portrait de Dominique Juillot: see carrière de sportif [long format, 2/3]. Retrieved August 3, 2020 (French).
  9. ^ Korac Cup 1983-84. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
  10. ↑ L'Elan champion de France. In: larepubliquedespyrenees.fr. Retrieved August 3, 2020 (French).
  11. ↑ CHAMPIONNAT DE FRANCE DE BASKET NATIONALE 1 - SEASON 1985-1986. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
  12. ^ Bilan season 1986-1987. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Champions Cup 1986-87. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Bilan season 1988-1989. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
  15. ↑ BASKET-BALL: début du championnat de France Une SOS pour sauver le Racing Paris . In: Le Monde.fr . September 16, 1989 ( online [accessed August 3, 2020]).
  16. ↑ BasketNews 581. Retrieved on August 3, 2020 (English).
  17. ↑ http://hemeroteca-paginas.mundodeportivo.com/EMD01/HEM/1991/10/27/MD19911027-040.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Fisher, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century