Jermaine Thomas

Jermaine Thomas
Player information
Full name	Jermaine Dontay Thomas
birthday	January 12, 1984
place of birth	Frederick (MD), USA
size	188 cm
position	Point Guard / Shooting Guard
college	La Salle
Clubs as active
2002–2006 La Salle Explorers ( NCAA ) 2006–2007 Dombóvár KC 2007 Műegyetemi AFC 2008 BC Körmend 2008–2009 UBC Güssing Knights 2009–2010 BC Körmend 2010–2011 Eisbären Bremerhaven 2011 WBC Raiffeisen Wels 2011–2015 Soproni KC 2015–2016 ICL Manresa 2016 Falco KC Szombathely 2016–2017 KK Sutjeska Nikšić 00000 00000 00000 00000
National team
000002014	Hungary

Jermaine Dontay Thomas (born January 12, 1984 in Frederick , Maryland ) is an American - Hungarian basketball player . After studying in his home country, Thomas started a professional career in Hungary in 2006 . He then played in the meantime in the Austrian basketball league and briefly in the German basketball league for the Eisbären Bremerhaven. After returning to Hungary, he received citizenship there and was also a national player there in 2014 . At the end of his career, Thomas played again in other European countries for Manresa in the Spanish ACB league and in Montenegro for Sutjeska Nikšić in the Balkan League .

Career

After graduating from Governor Thomas Johnson High School in his hometown, Thomas went to Philadelphia , Pennsylvania to study at La Salle University , where he spent four years with the Explorers University team in the Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10) from 2002 NCAA played. The national final round participation of the Explorers was more than ten years ago and nothing changed during Thomas' active time, as they did not get beyond the quarter-finals in the championship tournament of the A-10 within the conference. Thomas' teammates included Gary Neal and Steven Smith , who was twice named A-10 Player of the Year . At least in the senior year of Thomas, who was a starter in 108 of his 113 NCAA players , as "Senior" for the first time in 13 years, the Explorers still did not qualify for a nationwide postseason tournament.

Thomas finally began a professional career in 2006 in Hungary, where he played for the Kosárlabda Csapat from Dombóvár in the top division. Despite a win of the season, he again reached twelfth place of the previous season at the end of the season. For the following season, Thomas moved to the first division returnee Műegyetemi AFC from the capital Budapest , which, however, was relegated again at the end of the season. Thomas was already playing for the competitor and former runner-up from Körmend near the Austrian border, to which he had switched at the turn of the year. This team reached in seventh place again the play-offs for the championship, in which they defeated Thomas' former team from Dombóvár in the first round in the quarter-finals and again advanced into the final series, in which they were defeated by the Falco KC from Szombathely . For the following season, Thomas will move across the border into Burgenland, Austria , to the UBC Knights from Güssing . In the Admiral Basketball Bundesliga 2008/09 , they just missed the play-offs in ninth place as in the previous season. For the 2009/10 season Thomas returned to Körmend, where he led the team back to the play-offs, in which they were inferior to the Atomerőmű SE in five games as third in the main round in the play-off semi-final series .

From Körmend, Thomas went back to German-speaking countries, but moved to the 2010/11 basketball Bundesliga on the North Sea coast to the German first division club Eisbären from Bremerhaven . In the team, which had returned to the play-offs in the preseason under the new coach Douglas Spradley , he could not replace Louis Campbell and was even replaced after 14 missions in January 2011 by Tyrone Brazelton . Then Thomas went back to Austria, where he played the season at WBC Raiffeisen from Wels to the end. With this club, which was still champion in Thomas' first Austrian season with Güssing in 2009, he reached the play-offs in the 2010/11 season in seventh place, but in these they were eliminated in the quarter-finals against the eventual title winner Oberwart Gunners out. Then Thomas moved back to the Austrian-Hungarian border and played in the border town of Sopron for the local Kosárlabda Csapat again in Hungary. With this team, he improved from ninth place in the preseason to eighth place in 2011/12 and lost in the play-offs only just under five games against the main round first Falco KC Szombathely. After Soproni KC had missed in the 2012/13 season the play-offs in ninth place again scarce, they reached the final of the national cup competition the following season, which just two points difference to the eventual double winner Szolnoki Olaj KK lost . After third place in the championship round of the 2013/14 season they had home rights in the first play-off round and defeated Alba Fehérvár , before they remained without a win in the play-off semifinals against Atomerőmű SE and were eliminated.

Thomas had already received Hungarian citizenship in December 2013 and was nominated for the European Championship qualification of the Hungarian selection in the summer of 2014 after his compatriot Obie Trotter , who was also naturalized for a longer period of time, was canceled . Here the Hungarian selection missed qualifying for a European Championship finals for the eighth time in a row after a heavy away defeat against the Georgian selection in the penultimate group game only because of the poorer direct comparison . Back at Soproni KC, he reached the play-off semifinals again after finishing fifth in the championship round of the 2014/15 season, in which they remained without a win against defending champion Szolnoki Olaj KK. After Thomas had been loyal to a club for more than a season in Sopron for the first time and stayed four seasons in a row, he moved again within Europe with his Hungarian passport and initially played for ICL Bàsquet from Manresa in the 2015/16 season . His Hungarian compatriots Márton Báder , Péter Lóránt and Ádám Hanga had previously been active at the club from Catalonia . The third last of the preseason in the ACB league was stuck in the table cellar again and finally parted ways with Thomas at the end of February 2016, who had fallen short of expectations in 13 appearances. He then returned to the Austro-Hungarian border region and joined the Falco KC in Szombathely until the end of the season. However, the Falco KC missed the play-offs because of the poorer direct comparison in ninth place.

For the following season 2016/17 Thomas moved to the Montenegrin Nikšić to KK Sutjeska, with whom he competed in the Balkan League in an international club competition. In the Balkan League, the direct comparison was again the reason why Sutjeska did not get beyond the second group stage of the top eight teams. In the Montenegrin championship of the Prva A liga Sutjeska was eliminated without a win in the play-offs in the first round for the title.

Web links

• MKOSZ: Férfi NB I. A csoport - 2015/2016: THOMAS Jermaine - Profile and statistics on the websites of the Hungarian Association ( Hungarian )
• Jermaine Dontay Thomas - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)
• Jermaine Thomas College Stats - Profile and NCAA stats at sports-reference.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Basketball Bundesliga - 18098 Jermaine Thomas. (No longer available online.) Basketball Bundesliga , formerly the original ; accessed on June 5, 2017 (profile with statistics).  ( 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.    
2. ↑ Change to the playmaker position. Schoenen-Dunk.de, January 28, 2011, accessed on June 5, 2017 (Medien-Info Eisbären Bremerhaven). 
3. ↑ Samara Sign Pecherov, Trotter Returns. FIBA Europa , January 23, 2014, accessed June 5, 2017 . 
4. ^ John Cannon: Thomas getting his fill of hoops in Hungary. FrederickNewsPost.com, June 15, 2014, accessed June 5, 2017 (article in the news archive). 
5. ↑ El ICL Manresa ficha al base Jermaine Thomas. Liga ACB , July 22, 2015, accessed on June 5, 2017 (Spanish, media info ICL Manresa). 
6. ↑ Jermaine Thomas se desvincula del ICL Manresa. Liga ACB , February 23, 2016, accessed on June 5, 2017 (Spanish, media info ICL Manresa). 
7. ↑ ACB.COM: Jermaine Thomas. (No longer available online.) ACB League , archived from the original on April 22, 2016 ; accessed on June 5, 2017 (Spanish, profile with statistics and history). 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.