Jan Lipke

Jan Lipke
Player information
birthday	July 24, 1983 (37 years and 38 days)
place of birth	Hamburg, Germany
size	193 cm
position	Shooting Guard
Clubs as active
2000–2001 EWE Baskets Oldenburg 2001–2006 TXU / BS Energie Braunschweig 2006–2007 Spotter Löwen 2007–2011 Eisbären Bremerhaven 2011–2012 TOPSTAR Kangaroos 2012–2013 Oettinger Rockets Gotha
Clubs as coaches
2014-2016 Polar Bears Bremerhaven ( NBBL )

Jan Lipke (born July 24, 1983 in Hamburg ) is a former German basketball player. After Lipke had played for the first division clubs from Phantoms Braunschweig and Eisbären Bremerhaven for almost ten years in addition to a foreign station in Belgium , Lipke had to end his career in the 2nd Bundesliga in 2013 after suffering knee problems after two years . In 2014 he returned to the polar bears and became the youth coach of the team in the youth basketball league (NBBL).

Career

Lipke came for the 2001/02 season from the Baskets from Oldenburg , for which he had had his first four appearances in the top German division of men after being promoted again, to the first division competitor from Braunschweig , who had barely escaped bankruptcy in the previous season . Here he played next to the first division squad primarily for the reserve team at the parent club SG Braunschweig in the 2nd basketball league , but thanks to a double license he also played in the top German division. In the basketball Bundesliga 2002/03 , the Braunschweig first division team reached the third main round place as TXU Energie , but was eliminated in the first play-off round for the championship against defending champion Alba Berlin . After Lipke had only nine short appearances in the top division in the basketball Bundesliga 2003/04 , he was regularly used again in the 2004/05 season in the first division team, which, however, missed the play-offs for the second time in a row was able to increase his playing time to over ten minutes per game. In the basketball Bundesliga 2005/06 , Lipke was one of the top performers of the team with an average of over 20 minutes and almost nine points per game, but the team was last in the table with just seven wins this season. Although the Braunschweiger prevented relegation after increasing the league, Lipke moved abroad and played a season in the Belgian Löwen for the Spotter Baskets in the Ethias League , which also only came to the bottom of the table in the closed league.

For the 2007/08 basketball Bundesliga , Lipke returned to Germany and played for the Eisbären from Bremerhaven . With the polar bears, he failed as eighth in the first play-off round at the eventual champions Alba Berlin. In the following season, Lipke was able to increase his share of the game and was individually with eight points per game in a good 15 minutes of play as effective as three years earlier in Braunschweig, but in the end his team again finished last in the table. Thanks to a wildcard , the polar bears were able to make it to the top division. In the following two seasons, Lipkes' shares of the game decreased again to less than ten minutes playing time per game, but the polar bears made it into the play-offs for the championship of the best eight teams again twice. In 2010 , in the semifinal series against the Skyliners Frankfurt, in the decisive fifth game, they just barely missed entry into the final series. Lipkes' contract, which was injured when his contract expired in March 2011, was no longer extended and he moved to southern Germany for the first time and finally played from December 2011 for the relegation-threatened second division promoted "TOPSTAR Kangaroos" in the ProA , in which he was already his brother Tom Lipke , who was three years his junior , had been active for five seasons. Despite an increase in performance of the Kangaroos, relegation was narrowly missed and Lipke switched for the following season to ProA promoted Oettinger Rockets from Gotha , with whom he just reached relegation in the ProA 2012/13 . After 13 appearances in the ProA 2013/14 , Lipke suffered a serious knee injury shortly before Christmas 2013, which not only meant the end of the season, but ultimately also the end of his career, as Lipke decided not to return as an active player.

After the end of his active career, Lipke returned to the Eisbären Bremerhaven in 2014 and was the coach of the junior team in the youth basketball league (NBBL) until 2016 . He then took on other tasks in Bremerhaven's youth work.

Web links

• easyCredit BBL - Jan Lipke - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
• Jan Lipke - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Player Statistics - Jan Lipke. (No longer available online.) Basketball Bundesliga , archived from the original on January 28, 2015 ; accessed on January 24, 2015 (profile 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. ↑ ^{a b c} Jan Finken: Jan Lipke: “Sunday evening the fridge has to be full!” (No longer available online.) Junior Basketball League , 2014, formerly in the original ; accessed on January 24, 2015 .  ( 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.    
3. ↑ With new addition to the Braves. (No longer available online.) DieJungeLiga.de, December 14, 2011, formerly in the original ; accessed on January 29, 2012 (press release BG Topstar Leitershofen).  ( 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.    
4. ↑ NN: Five loyal and four new Rockets. On: Oscar on Friday website; Gotha, June 7, 2012. Accessed February 2, 2019.
5. ↑ Eisbären Bremerhaven: Enrico Kufuor is the new NBBL trainer . In: Eisbären Bremerhaven . ( dieeisbaeren.de [accessed on February 5, 2017]).