Hansi grace

Hansi grace
Hansi Gnad (2019)
Player information
Full name	Hans-Jürgen Gnad
birthday	4th June 1963 (age 57)
place of birth	Darmstadt , Germany
size	208 cm
position	center
college	Alaska anchorage
NBA draft	1987 , 56. Pick, Philadelphia 76ers
Clubs as active
1987–1989 BSC Saturn Cologne 1989–1990 BG Steiner Bayreuth 1990–1993 Billy Desio 1993–1994 Alba Berlin 1994–1995 Brandt Hagen 1995–1997 Bayer Leverkusen 1997–1999 Mash / Müller Verona 1999 Real Madrid 1999–2001 Bayer Leverkusen 2001–2003 Brandt Hagen 00000
National team
1986-1998	BR Germany	181 games
Clubs as coaches
2003–2008 Bayer Giants Leverkusen ( AC ) 2008 Germany (AC) 2009–2010 Giants Düsseldorf (AC) 2011 Germany (AC) 2015–2018 Bayer Giants Leverkusen (AC) Since 2018 Bayer Giants Leverkusen 00000 00000 00

Hansi Gnad medal table
Basketball (men)
Germany
European Championship
gold	1993 Germany	Germany

Grace at the charity soccer game “Champions for Charity 2019” in Leverkusen

Hans-Jürgen Gnad (born June 4, 1963 in Darmstadt ) is a former German basketball player . After studying in the United States , Gnad became a professional and with various German clubs German champions as well as with Mash Verona winner of the Korać Cup 1998. As a national player Gnad took part in the 1992 Olympic Games and in 1993 became European champion .

Career

player

Gnad didn't start playing basketball until he was 15. Before that, he was in the SG Darmstadt swimming relay , with which he won several national titles and year championships.

On the mediation of the then national player for TV Langen Rainer Greunke , Gnad received a scholarship at the University of Alaska , for which he even broke off his professional training. But it should pay off. In 1986 he was voted "Conference Player of the Year". In the same year national coach Klein brought Hessen into the national team for the 1986 World Cup in Spain .

At the time of his departure from the University of Alaska, Gnad had 14 records in the annals of the college basketball team. His jersey number 33 is no longer awarded by his college. He was the top scorer and rebounder of his university in 1986/87 , which he recommended to the talent scouts of the NBA . In the 1987 NBA Draft , he was selected in the third round (56th overall pick) by the Philadelphia 76ers .

In 1987 he began his professional career in the basketball league at BSC Saturn Cologne , with which he was able to win the German championship in 1987 after he had only joined the team for the play-offs. He came to the selection camp of the 76ers to get one of the 12 squad places. Last but not least, Gnad was removed from the Sixers' squad by coach Matt Guokas in mid-November. Then he went back to BSC Saturn Cologne, which was able to defend the national title in 1988.

In July 1988 Gnad was given another chance to get involved in the NBA. The newly founded Miami Heat had meanwhile secured the rights to Gnad in the so-called expansion draft. Again he tried his luck in trial training, but this time he was the last to be removed from the squad. After the 1988/89 season he was named basketball player of the year . He then moved to the German champions Steiner Bayreuth for one season, but they could not defend their title.

In the summer of 1990, Gnad went to the Italian second division side Billy Desio, for whom he played for three years. 1990/91 he had his best season. He averaged 19.6 points per game. In 1993 he returned to the Bundesliga. He played for one season with Alba Berlin and one year with Brandt Hagen before moving to Bayer Leverkusen . In 1996 he was able to win his last championship title for the time being.

After the foreigner restrictions were lifted as a result of the Bosman decision , Gnad went to Italy again in 1997 and this time played in the top division Serie A for Mash Verona. The former semi-finalist for the Italian championship lost twice in the first play-off round. While it was enough at European level in 1998 to win the Korać Cup, where they defeated KK Red Star Belgrade in the finals , they were only third from bottom at national level in the following season. At the beginning of the following season he therefore went to the Spanish top club Real Madrid , where he scored an average of just 1.6 points as a supplementary player from the bench in twelve games in just under nine minutes per game.

In December 1999, Gnad left Real Madrid again and went back to Bayer Leverkusen, which, however, could no longer build on its successes at the beginning of the 1990s. After almost two seasons, he moved again to Brandt Hagen in 2001, before ending his playing career in 2003 at the age of almost 40.

The total number of points scored by him in the Bundesliga is 3475. Gnad, who was nicknamed “The King” in basketball circles, made a physical play, determination and leadership qualities.

Trainer

After his playing career, Gnad worked as a coach and, after initially working as a coaching assistant at his former club from Leverkusen for several years (from 2003 to 2008), he was also the coaching assistant of the German national team during the 2008 Olympic qualification. In 2011 he again worked as an assistant coach for the national team. After working as a coach in the youth division of BTV Ronsdorf-Graben and in the Leverkusen youth division, he took over the position of assistant coach in Bayer's men's team again in the summer of 2015 and looked after the U19 team. In summer 2018, he rose from assistant to head coach in Leverkusen, replacing Achim Kuczmann as the team's coach in the 2nd Bundesliga ProB . Gnad led Leverkusen in the points round of the 2018/19 game year to 21 wins in 22 games and thus posted the best record of a ProB division since the introduction of the league. Then the Rhinelander won the ProB championship under his leadership.

National team

Gnad was based on the number of international matches with 181 appearances in the senior national team record national player until the end of August 2007, before he was overtaken by Patrick Femerling in the number of appearances. He was in the starting line-up in all 181 games. He scored a total of 2123 points (an average of 11.7 per game). With him, the team won 96 times (85 defeats).

Gnad played his first game on May 23, 1986 in Vevey against Switzerland . He scored 19 points and Germany won the friendly game 106-91. His most successful game in terms of personal points yield had Gnad with 30 points on November 29, 1989 in the European Championship qualifier against England , which could be won with 110: 87.

His first participation in the finals with the senior national team had Gnad at the 1986 World Cup in Spain, where they were eliminated early after two wins in five preliminary round games because of the poorer direct comparison . At the following EM 1987 they lost the quarter-finals against Spain clearly and finished in sixth place. In the pre-Olympic qualification tournament in 1988 you had no chance in the final round and missed an Olympic participation. The Germans could not qualify for the following two European Championship finals with the best eight national teams.

In 1989 he won bronze with the German selection at the World Student Games ("Universiade") in Duisburg and was the best German basket scorer in the course of the tournament.

In the qualifying tournament for the 1992 Olympic Games , the national team received support from NBA professional Detlef Schrempf . So it was enough to qualify for the games, among others, before Vice-European Champions Italy and ex-European Champions Greece . At the Olympic tournament, the national team played after two opening wins, including over the host and third place in the European Championship, Spain against the so-called " Dream Team ", a selection of the best US NBA professionals who were wearing the US jersey for the first time at an Olympic tournament competed, which had previously only been formed by college players. This game was also a special experience for the seasoned professional Gnad. After the 68: 111 defeat against the USA they also lost the remaining two preliminary round matches and the quarter-finals against the team of the United Team from the successor states of the Soviet Union and ended up in seventh place. In eight Olympic missions, Gnad scored an average of 8.5 points. At the Olympic Games in Barcelona , Gnad also met his future wife Silke , who played for the national handball team . He has two sons together with Silke Gnad.

As an Olympic participant and host, you were automatically qualified for the following European Championship finals in 1993 . This became the biggest triumph for the selection of the German Basketball Federation . Since 1955, the teams of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia had dominated these championships and divided all titles among themselves except for twice. Until then, a German selection had never won a medal; the best placement was a fifth place in the 1985 European Championship finals in their own country. After the breakup of the two leading European basketball nations, the German selection under national coach Svetislav Pešić was able to use the home advantage in a balanced field of participants and sensationally won the title in a dramatic final against Russia . At the end of the day, team captain Gnad was able to raise the trophy and cut the basket net as a trophy.

At the World Cup finals in 1994 , however, they only finished twelfth and when Gnad took part in the final round of the 1995 European Championship , defending champion Germany was eliminated in the preliminary round after just one win in six games. The last game in the jersey of the German national team had Gnad on November 28, 1998 in the European Championship qualifier against Slovenia in Bonn . Germany lost 76:91 and Gnad only scored two points.

Web links

• http://statistik.basketball-bundesliga.de/bbl/stats/player/index.php?team=417&pos=C&player_id=1612&saison=2002 (link not available)
• archive.fiba.com: Players - Hans-Jürgen GNAD (GER) - Overview of participation in FIBA tournaments ( English )
• Legabasket: Hansi Gnad - Profile on the statistics pages of Serie A ( Italian )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "These are our 12 giants", Sport-Bild from June 23, 1993, p. 32 f.
2. ^ All-Time Seawolf Records. (PDF (31 kB)) University of Alaska Anchorage , June 18, 2008, accessed April 20, 2013 . 
3. ↑ ACB.COM: Hansi Gnad. (No longer available online.) ACB League , archived from the original on December 26, 2017 ; accessed on April 20, 2013 (Spanish, player profile). 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.  
4. ↑ 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 .
5. ↑ Sebastian Gehrmann: Golden Boys. The king . In: Basketball Bundesliga GmbH (Ed.): 50 Years of the Basketball Bundesliga . Cologne, ISBN 978-3-7307-0242-0 , pp. 146 .
6. ↑ http://www.zweite-basketball-bundesliga.de/hansi-gnad-neuer-co-trainer-der-bayer-giants-leverkusen/
7. ↑ https://www.basketball-bund.de/news/teams/a-herren/hansi-gnad-neuer-co-trainer-dbb-herren-11581
8. ↑ https://www.basketball-bund.de/news/teams/a-herren/dbb-herren-fuer-trainingslager-laenderspiel-hagen-nominiert-13515
9. ↑ http://www.wz.de/lokales/wuppertal/sport/basketball-ex-rekordnationalpieler-hansi-gnad-trainiert-ronsdorfer-jugend-1.822683
10. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated May 2, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
11. ↑ "Riesen vom Rhein" celebrate victory at the main round | State Press Service. Retrieved February 26, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Thomas Austermann, Alexander Heflik: No chance in Leverkusen - and yet the WWU Baskets are proud of the runner-up title. Retrieved May 4, 2019 . 
13. ^ Games by Hans-Juergen Gnad (181). Mahr.SB-Vision.de, accessed on April 20, 2013 ( private statistics database recognized by DBB ). 
14. ↑ Christoph Büker: Once upon a time ... bronze 25 years ago . In: Deutscher Basketball Bund (Ed.): DBB Journal . No. 41 , October 2014, p. 36, 37 .
15. ^ DBB captain Hansi Gnad on the game against the DreamTeam. Soundcloud.com, July 2012, accessed April 20, 2013 (audio interview with Gnad). 
16. ↑ Hansi Gnad Bio, Stats, and Results. Sports-Reference.com, accessed April 20, 2013 (English, Olympic statistics). 
17. ↑ 1993 - German giants on the throne. www.sporthelden.de, accessed on April 20, 2013 .