Gregory Wendt

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Basketball player
Greg Wendt
Player information
Full name Gregory Wendt
birthday January 30, 1963
place of birth Detroit (MI), USA
size 198 cm
position Shooting Guard /
Small Forward
college Detroit Mercy
NBA draft 1986 , 139. Pick, Boston Celtics
Clubs as active
1981–1983 Duke Blue Devils ( NCAA ) 1984–1986 Mercy Titans (NCAA) 1986 Gold Coast Stingrays ( USBL ) ... 1989–1994 TuS / BG BramscheUnited StatesUnited States
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Gregory Wendt (born January 30, 1963 in Detroit , Michigan ) is a retired American basketball player . He played in the German basketball league for TuS Bramsche near Osnabrück . Wendt was the top scorer in the top German league in the 1990/91 , 1991/92 and 1992/93 Basketball Bundesliga .

Life

Wendt, whose father was a baseball player and whose brother played American football at Eastern Michigan University , moved to the Detroit Catholic Central High School after graduating in 1981 (which he had left as the best scorer in the history of the school team) to study at the Duke University . There he played under Mike Krzyzewski , who had started as a coach a year earlier. Wendt got 3.6 points per game in the 1981/82 season. In 1982/83, his playing time fell from around twelve to four minutes per encounter, also because Duke had won highly talented players such as Johnny Dawkins , Mark Alarie , Jay Bilas and David Henderson , who formed the framework of the team that started in 1986 NCAA final prevailed. Wendt wanted more working time and decided to switch. He went back to his hometown and continued his studies at the University of Detroit Mercy , whose basketball team Titans also plays in the first NCAA division. According to the rules of the NCAA after the university change for a year of championship games suspended, he then played with Keith Gray for a year. At the University of Detroit Mercy, Wendt was a top performer in his two playing years and scored double-digit points in each case. According to statistics, 1984/85 was his best NCAA season, when Wendt scored an average of 15.8 points per encounter, won 7.4 rebounds and prepared 3.2 basket successes for his teammates.

Like Gray a year earlier, Wendt was then selected in 1986 as one of the few players in the history of the Titans in the NBA draft process , which in the 1980s still comprised seven rounds. After completing his studies, he still played in the summer league United States Basketball League with the Gold Coast Stingrays and was recognized in 1986 as one of the best newcomers to the league and one of the ten best players ("all second team"). A professional contract in the NBA did not materialize because the Boston Celtics, who owned the rights to Wendt through the draft, waived a further commitment.

In 1989, like Gray before, Wendt moved to Germany and went to TuS Bramsche , promoted to the 2. Basketball Bundesliga Group North. After the first ascent in 1987 and the immediate relegation, the club initially only set the goal of establishing itself in this division. But the ambitious Wendt had set himself higher goals and, as a tireless scorer, drove his team to advance to the top German league. Here, too, Wendt proved to be the most successful points collector of all Bundesliga players in the following two seasons and thus helped not only to keep the club in the Bundesliga, but also to move into the championship round three times. He led the basket hunter list of the Bundesliga season 1990/91 with an average of 36.3 points, which meant the highest mean value of a player in the history of the Bundesliga. In 1991/92 he scored 30.6 and 1992/93 25.6 points per encounter, which also put him in first place on the basket hunter list. He scored a total of 3416 points in the Bundesliga. Wendt reached his highest score in a Bundesliga game with 56 points on the third day of the 1990/91 season. Because of his points and his outstanding sporting position within the Bramsch team, it was jokingly referred to as TuS Wendt . Wendt's strengths included his jump shot with unusual technique: Since he held the ball far behind his head when throwing, it was difficult for opponents to block Wendt's throws. Furthermore, he was very successful in pursuing his own and other people's miscarriages in order to get more throwing opportunities by securing the bouncing ball. In 1994 the contract ended and Wendt returned to his home country.

Wendt started his own business in the plastics industry, he settled in Novi in his home state Michigan. He has two sons with his wife. In 2017, Wendt was inducted into the Detroit Catholic Central High School's Sports Hall of Fame . He had played baseball as well as basketball at school.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Bob Hill, Staff Writer: WENDT PLEASANT SURPRISE FOR STINGRAYS. Retrieved June 1, 2020 (American English).
  2. ↑ a b Brad Emons: CC Hall of Famers savor the moment. Retrieved June 1, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Timothy Bella: Mike Krzyzewski's Humble Beginnings as Duke's Basketball Coach. November 16, 2011, Retrieved June 1, 2020 (American English).
  4. ^ Duke Alumni - Greg Wendt. DukeUpdate.com, accessed June 12, 2010 (English, playing time statistics for the Blue Devils ).
  5. ↑ Detroit Titans Athletics - 1984-85 Team to be Honored Saturday. University of Detroit Mercy , November 30, 2010, accessed February 25, 2013 .
  6. ^ Greg Wendt College Stats. Retrieved June 1, 2020 .
  7. ↑ STEVE HUMMER, Staff Columnist: THE CELTICS BECKONED-- THUS, GREG WENDT. Retrieved June 1, 2020 (American English).
  8. ^ History of the United States Basketball League. APBR.org, accessed June 12, 2010 .
  9. ↑ Heiner Beinke: 20 years of BBW: Bundesliga village in the concert of the great. (No longer available online.) Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , April 17, 2010, formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 12, 2010 .  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.neue-oz.de  
  10. ↑ 20 years of BBW: What actually does. . . Greg Wendt? Bramsche-Basketball.de, accessed on June 12, 2010 (Repro from Bramscher Nachrichten ). Note: According to this source, he was the league's top scorer in all seasons .
  11. ^ A b c Winfried Beckmann: Mister Nobody . In: Basketball Bundesliga GmbH (Ed.): 50 Years of the Basketball Bundesliga . Cologne, ISBN 978-3-7307-0242-0 , pp. 148 .
  12. ↑ All top scorers. In: Basketball Bundesliga. Accessed June 1, 2020 .
  13. ↑ The 200 best basket hunters in the Bundesliga since 1975 . In: Basketball Bundesliga GmbH (Ed.): 50 Years of the Basketball Bundesliga . Cologne, ISBN 978-3-7307-0242-0 , pp. 212 .
  14. ↑ ALUMINATOR - Winter 2017. Accessed June 1, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Wendt, Gregory
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit , Michigan, USA