John Griffin (basketball player)

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.John Griffin (born November 16, 1966 in Long Beach ) is an American basketball coach and former player.

career

The 1.95 meter tall winger played from 1984 to 1986 at Long Beach City College, California, and from 1986 to 1988 at Biola University . In the 1986/87 season he led Biola's basketball team with a points average of 19.7 per game and also scored an average of 7.2 rebounds per encounter. In the game year 1987/88 he was also Biola's best in these two statistical categories with 21.1 points and 7.7 rebounds per game.

Griffin began his career as a professional basketball player in Argentina , and in 1990 he moved to TV Aflenz in Austria, the predecessor club of the Kapfenberg Bulls . In the 1990/91 season he was promoted to the Bundesliga , after two years in Aflenz, the winger joined the league competitor Union Gmunden , for whom he ran up in the 1992/93 season.

In 1993 he returned to Aflenz, he stayed for five years, during which time the team joined the Kapfenberg Sports Association . In 1998 Griffin moved to the German second division TSV Quakenbrück for two years , from 2000 to 2002 he played for the Wörthersee Piraten in the Bundesliga and in 2002/03 for the Fürstenfeld Panthers .

From 2003 Griffin was employed by Bundesliga club WBC Wels as an assistant coach and youth coach, in February 2005 he temporarily took over as head coach and returned to the post of assistant coach for the 2005/06 season. In 2007 Griffin left Wels and became head coach at the Luxembourg club BBC US Heffingen, in 2008/09 he also coached Amicale Steinsel in Luxembourg and in 2009/10 in Etzella Ettelbrück . During his three stations in the Grand Duchy, he was also active as a coach in the youth field.

From 2011 to 2013 Griffin worked again as a coach assistant at WBC Wels in the Bundesliga, between 2013 and 2015 he was employed by the Danish club Haderslev Basketball Klub Corpia as a coach of the men's team and as a youth coach.

He returned to Kapfenberg in 2015 and in the 2015/16 season, together with Michael Stepwieser, formed a coaching duo for the Bundesliga team, and was also active in the youth field. In the 2016/17 season, Griffin was the main coach of the Bundesliga club BC Hallmann Vienna , and in the summer of 2017 he took over the coaching position for the Luxembourg second division club BC Mess. He returned to Austria during the summer break of 2019 and was announced as the new coach of BSC Raiffeisen Fürstenfeld . However, after the team had been refused the license for the top division in the run-up to the 2019/20 season, the cooperation did not materialize, Griffin then moved as assistant coach to the newly promoted Bundesliga SKN St. Pölten .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://athletics.biola.edu/documents/2018/3/22/recordbookMBB.pdf
  2. ↑ procampgraz2018 | JOHNNY GRIFFIN. Retrieved September 27, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Coach Profile . In: www.eurobasket.com . ( eurobasket.com [accessed September 27, 2018]).
  4. ↑ http://www.amicale.lu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Amicale-Auslännesch-Spiller-AMICALE.pdf
  5. ↑ A new challenge . In: mywort.lu . September 29, 2010 ( wort.lu [accessed September 27, 2018]).
  6. ↑ a b LinkedIn: johnny griffin. In: LinkedIn. Retrieved September 27, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Basketball: Kapfenberg with a strong group in the new European Cup . In: www.kleinezeitung.at . ( kleinezeitung.at [accessed on September 27, 2018]).
  8. ↑ John Griffin new BC Vienna trainer | Sky Sport Austria . In: Sky Sport Austria . ( skysportaustria.at [accessed on September 27, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Johnny GRIFFIN. Retrieved September 27, 2018 (fr-fr).
  10. ↑ Bundesliga / Panthers Fürstenfeld | BSC Raiffeisen Fürstenfeld. Retrieved August 2, 2019 .
  11. ↑ ORF at / Agencies red: New super league in the coming season without Fürstenfeld. August 6, 2019, accessed August 6, 2019 .
  12. ↑ SKN commits Serbian center. Retrieved September 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Griffin, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Griffin, Johnny (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball coach and former player
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Long Beach (California)