Guido Grünheid

Guido Grünheid
Player information
birthday	October 25, 1982
place of birth	Jena, Germany
size	208 cm
position	Power forward
Club information
society	Science City Jena
league	ProA
Clubs as active
1997–2000 TuS Jena 2000–2005 Alba Berlin 2000–2004 → TuS Lichterfelde 2005–2007 RheinEnergie Cologne 2007–2008 Hanzevast Capitals 2008 Cologne 99ers 2008–2009 Egaleo AO Athens 2009–2011 Central German BC 2011–2015 Artland Dragons 2015–2016 Science City Jena 00000
National team 1
2006-2008	Germany	38 games
1 As of October 5, 2009

Guido Grünheid (born October 25, 1982 in Jena ) is a former German basketball player . Grünheid and his various teams became German champions and cup winners three times . As a German national player , he took part in the 2006 World Cup in Japan and the 2007 European Championship finals in Spain .

Career

Grünheid's basketball career began in his hometown in the youth teams at USV Jena and a short time later at TuS Jena. In 1998 he was appointed to the U18 national youth team. Later he also played in the U20 junior team.

In the 2000/2001 season, the youth international moved to the German championship Alba Berlin, who initially only used him with his cooperation partner TuS Lichterfelde, who had previously renounced promotion to the top division. In the first two years Grünheid played almost exclusively in the second division for Lichterfelde. In the basketball Bundesliga 2001/02 he had his first short stint of two minutes in the top division under coach Emir Mutapčić , who had coached the Lichterfelder “ farm team ” until 2000 , in the game against StadtSport Braunschweig with a double license . In the following season 2002/2003 Grünheid belonged in 24 missions with more than five minutes playing time per game to the fixed rotation of the players used by the defending champion, who was able to defend his double again.

At the 2003 Summer Universiade in Daegu ( South Korea ), Grünheid tore a cruciate ligament in his left knee and was out for almost a year as a result. After only two season appearances in the 2003/04 season , he came back in the 2004/05 season to his earlier operating times from the 2002/03 season. The former series champion Alba, however, was eliminated as the main round first in the play-off semifinals and since one also stagnated internationally, coach Mutapčić left the club at the end of the season. During the following change in personnel, Grünheid also switched to rival and cup winner RheinEnergie from Cologne in the summer of 2005 , where the former Serbian world champion and former Alba player Saša Obradović, who also came from the former Yugoslavia , had taken on his first coaching position. In Cologne, Grünheid was able to triple his playing time per game and was involved in the Domstädter's first championship title since their promotion in 2001, when they surprisingly beat the main round first Alba from the capital as third in the main round in the play-off final series. While the Cologne international were eliminated early in the ULEB Euroleague 2006/07 after only two wins in 14 preliminary round games, it was enough for the club's second cup victory after 2005 in spring 2007. As defending champions of the championship, however, they lost somewhat surprisingly in the play-off semi-finals at the main round of Artland Dragons.

As a result of his improved performance, Grünheid was also appointed to the men's senior national team from 2006, with which he took part in the 2006 World Cup in Japan under national coach Dirk Bauermann . Grünheid, who played in the same position as the German NBA "star" Dirk Nowitzki , who had barely missed his first championship in the highest endowed professional league, was used in six of nine games (56 minutes in total) and made in the tournament a total of twelve points. At the World Cup, Germany only lost to eventual tournament winner Spain in the preliminary round and reached the quarter-finals after narrowly winning the last 16 over Nigeria . There they lost against the selection of NBA professionals from the United States and finished the tournament with two defeats in placement games in eighth place. At the following European Championship finals in 2007 in the country of the new world champion Spain, Grünheid was again represented in the squad when Germany lost three times after two opening wins and was only able to secure a place in the quarter-finals in the last intermediate round match with a victory over Italy . After a clear defeat against the world champion and host, it was enough this time with two victories in the placement games to fifth place, which entitles them to participate in another qualifying tournament for the 2008 Olympic basketball tournament . However, Grünheid hardly got a chance and was only used in four games of the European Championship finals; He only got longer working time in the game against Slovenia , when the regular team disappointed the selection across the board and the team suffered a defeat with 30 points difference. At the Basketball Supercup 2008 Grünheid made his last appearances in the national team and was no longer called up for the Olympic qualification, so that he finally missed the actual participation in the Olympic Games.

Even before the European Championship finals, Grünheid had signed a contract with Hanzevast Capitals from Groningen in the summer of 2007 . In addition to the champions EiffelTowers Den Bosch , the club was the only other Dutch team to take part in the second most important European club competition ULEB Cup 2007/08 . After only two wins in ten preliminary round games, in which Grünheid was one of the top performers with an average of double-digit points, they were eliminated from the competition just as prematurely as the champions. In the championship, the team was eliminated again in the play-off quarter-finals, whereupon Grünheid returned to the Rhineland after the summer of 2008 to the now 99ers from Cologne, who were illiquid and almost insolvent at the beginning of the year. After 13 appearances in the 2008/09 season , Grünheid moved abroad again before the turn of the year and played for Egaleo AO in the A1 Ethniki in the Greek capital, Athens, given the unclear financial situation of the Cologne team, who ultimately went bankrupt the following summer . After three seasons in the highest Greek league but the team missed the end of season 2009 the new league than you in direct comparison climber Trikala was inferior, and the club was relegated. In the following two years Grünheid played near his hometown in Weißenfels with Mitteldeutscher BC, who had returned to the top German league as a climber in 2009. After a very good tenth place with a positive season record in the 2009/10 season under coach Björn Harmsen , it was only enough to win eight of the season in the following 2010/11 season, so that they were relegated as the penultimate again. Grünheid, who had been one of the pillars of the team with a deployment time of more than 20 minutes per game, changed clubs again after relegation.

From 2011 to 2015 Grünheid played with the Dragons from the Artland community . The Dragons were in themselves permanent play-off participants in these years, i.e. placed among the best eight teams after the main round, as well as participants in the ULEB Eurocup , in which they were always eliminated early. Only in the first season were they only qualified for the EuroChallenge 2011/12 , in which they moved into the knockout system in the quarterfinals with a strong record of ten wins in twelve group games . In the quarterfinals, however, they lost twice to the eventual title winner and Turkish triple winner Beşiktaş Milangaz . In the national championship, the best placement was a fourth main round place in the 2011/12 season and two play-off semi-finals in 2012 and 2014. After defending champion Brose Baskets in the play-offs of the 2013/14 season , who had previously won the championship four times had won in a row, had been dethroned, but it was enough in the semifinals only to win in four games against cup winner Alba Berlin. Although the team remained largely together for the following season 2014/15 , it turned into a disappointment when under coach Tyron McCoy in eleventh place they missed the play-offs for the first time in five years. After the patron Günter Kollmann withdrew, the professional game operation of the Dragons was almost stopped and only continued under changed organization in the third highest division ProB .

For the 2015/16 season, Grünheid therefore returned to his hometown Jena, where the professional team operating under the name Science City will again be trained by Björn Harmsen in the second-highest division ProA . Harmsen trained the Jena already in the first division 2007/08 season , played as Grünheid in the Netherlands, and was also coach of Grünheid at MBC between 2009 and 2011. Together with Grünheids former Cologne teammates Immanuel McElroy is desired the return of Thuringia in the highest German league and achieved this goal as a master of the ProA. Just two weeks after the end of the 2015/16 season, Grünheid announced the end of his playing career.

Awards and Achievements

• 2002: German champion and cup winner with Alba Berlin
• 2003: German champion and cup winner with Alba Berlin
• 2006: German champion with RheinEnergie Cologne
• 2007: German cup winner with RheinEnergie Cologne
• 2016: Champion of the 2nd Bundesliga ProA with Science City Jena

Web links

• easyCredit BBL - Guido Gruenheid - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
• GRUNHEID, GUIDO - player profile on the ULEB website ( English )
• Guido Grünheid - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)
• Games by Guido Grünheid (38) - appearances in the men's senior national team on statistics pages

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Beko BBL - Player Statistics - Guido Grünheid / Saison 2001/2002. (No longer available online.) Basketball Bundesliga , archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on September 5, 2015 (season overview on statistics pages). 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.  
2. ↑ Guido Grünheid's profile / 2006 FIBA ​​World Championship. FIBA , accessed on September 5, 2015 (English, tournament statistics in the archive). 
3. ↑ Guido Grünheid's profile / 2007 EuroBasket. FIBA , accessed on September 5, 2015 (English, tournament statistics in the archive). 
4. ↑ Once Jenenser, always Jenenser. Science City Jena , September 3, 2015, accessed on September 5, 2015 (media info). 
5. ↑ 2. Basketball Bundesliga | ProA Champion 2015/16: Science City Jena. In: www.zweite-basketball-bundesliga.de. Retrieved May 20, 2016 . 
6. ↑ The end of a glorious basketball career. In: baskets-jena.de. Retrieved May 20, 2016 . 
7. ↑ This is also where appearances are noted in which Grünheid was only noted on the score sheet and was not always given playing time on the field as a player.