Gregory Echenique

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Basketball player
Gregory Echenique
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Player information
birthday November 23, 1990 (29 years 283 days)
place of birth Caracas, Venezuela
size 206 cm
position Power Forward / Center
college Creighton
Club information
society Guaros de Lara
league LPB de Venezuela
Clubs as active
2008–2009 Rutgers Scarlet Knights ( NCAA ) 2010–2013 Creighton Bluejays (NCAA) 2013 MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg 2014 Telenet Oostende Since 2015 Guaros de Lara United StatesUnited States
United StatesUnited States
00000 GermanyGermany
00000 BelgiumBelgium
0VenezuelaVenezuela
National team
Since 02009 Venezuela

Gregory Echenique (born November 23, 1990 in Caracas ) is a Venezuelan basketball player . After studying in the United States , Echenique began a professional career that he began in the 2013/14 basketball league for MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg. After another club station in Belgium , where he won the championship in 2014 with Telenet Oostende, he returned after a year and a half to his homeland, where he won the FIBA Liga de las Américas with the Guaros de Lara in 2016 . He has been a national player in the men's national team since 2009 , with which he won the South American Championship in 2016 and participated in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.

Career

Echenique came to study in the United States, where he played for the college team Scarlet Knights of Rutgers University from New Jersey in the Big East Conference of NCAA Division I from 2008 . In his freshman season, Echenique had a hopeful start to his career as a college basketball player with a good eight points and rebounds per game and only just missed a double-double on average. In the summer of 2009 he made his debut for the Venezuelan men's national team at the American Championship 2009 , in which Venezuela was eliminated early after only one victory in the preliminary round. At the beginning of the second season with the Scarlet Knights, who had won only two wins in 18 games within their strong conference in the preseason, Echenique suffered an eye injury that forced a game break until the end of the season. He used the game break to change university, which according to the NCAA regulations would otherwise have forced him to take a year off from championship games. With his new college team Bluejays at Creighton University , he won the championship tournament of the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) in 2012 and 2013 . In the nationwide NCAA finals , you suffered a second round defeat against renowned opponents, once against the Tar Heels of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and in 2013 against the Blue Devils of Duke University . However, after Echenique's individual stats had stagnated in his last two years of college, he was with little prospect of being considered in the NBA Draft of the highest- paying professional league.

With the Venezuelan national team, Echenique had achieved a starting place for the 2012 Olympic qualifying tournament with fifth place at the American Basketball Championship in 2011 . After Venezuela had to admit defeat to hosts Argentina only twice at the South American Championships in 2012 and won the silver medal, they also won the opening game at the Olympic qualifying tournament in front of their home crowd in Caracas against Nigeria with two points difference. A high defeat against Lithuania in the second group game meant the end after Lithuania spared themselves in the final group game against Nigeria. While Venezuela's opponents secured the right to start the actual 2012 Olympic tournament in London in the subsequent knockout games , host Venezuela was eliminated after the preliminary round. A year later, Venezuela hosted the 2013 American Championships again , but Echenique preferred to prepare for his first season as a professional and played in the NBA Summer League for the Toronto Raptors . The national team also had to do without their injured star player Greivis Vásquez from the Sacramento Kings and narrowly missed the qualification for the final round of the 2014 World Cup . Despite the waiver, Echenique failed to make the leap into the NBA and he finally signed a contract with the German first division club MHP Riesen from Ludwigsburg for the 2013/14 basketball Bundesliga . Already in mid-December Echenique left after a total of ten appearances in championship games, the club that signed Gary McGhee . Echenique got a new contract at the beginning of January 2014 with the Belgian champions BC Telenet from Ostend , with whom he also played in the European club competition Eurocup 2013/14 . After winning the double , however, Echenique left the club at the end of 2014 and returned to his Venezuelan homeland.

Since the beginning of 2015, Echenique played for the Guaros from the state of Lara , who won the runner-up behind record champion Marinos de Anzoátegui under the Venezuelan national coach Néstor García from Argentina . At the Pan American Games 2015 , Echenique reached seventh place out of nine participating national teams with the Venezuelan selection. At the American Championships in 2015, a month later, Echenique was without a stint when Venezuela surprisingly won the title in Mexico City for the first time and qualified for the Olympic Games for the second time since 1992 . With his club team Guaros, Echenique won the club's first international title win in the final of the FIBA Liga de las Américas against the Brazilian defending champion Associação Bauru in March 2016. In front of their own audience, the Venezuelan selection won the South American Championship 2016 in La Asunción against Argentina , so that Echenique celebrated his first title win with the national team. At the first Olympic Games on the South American continent , however, the Venezuelan selection in Rio 2016 could only win the game against the selection of the People's Republic of China out of five group games . Echenique averaged the most points per game and picked up the most rebounds of the Venezuelan selection.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brendan Prunty: Rutgers center Greg Echenique to transfer from Scarlet Knights program. New Jersey On-Line: NJ.com, January 8, 2010, accessed November 10, 2013 .
  2. ^ Adam Zagoria, Josh Newman: Gregory Echenique signs with a summer league team. (No longer available online.) SNY.tv: SNYrutgers.com, June 9, 2013, archived from the original on November 10, 2013 ; accessed on November 10, 2013 .
  3. ^ Johannes Beyer: Ludwigsburg brings Center Echenique. basketball.de, July 22, 2013, accessed on August 21, 2016 (based on media information from MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg).
  4. ↑ BBL - 28113 Gregory ECHENIQUE. Basketball Bundesliga , accessed on August 21, 2016 (player profile).
  5. ↑ Echenique: “Volvimos a demostrar que podemos lograr cosas importantes”. FIBA America , March 21, 2016, accessed August 21, 2016 (Spanish).
  6. ↑ Venezuela - Rio 2016 - Olympic Basketball Tournament (Men): Statistics. FIBA , accessed on August 21, 2016 (English, overview page).
personal data
SURNAME Echenique, Gregory
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Venezuelan basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Caracas , Venezuela