John Patrick (basketball coach)

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Basketball player
John Patrick
Player information
birthday February 29, 1968 (52 years and 184 days)
place of birth , United States
size 193 cm
position Point Guard /
Shooting Guard
college Stanford
Clubs as coaches
2003–2005 BG 74 Göttingen 2005–2006 Toyota Alvark 2006–2011 BG 74 Göttingen 2011–2012 s.Oliver Baskets Since 2013 MHP Riesen LudwigsburgGermanyGermany
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John Patrick (born February 29, 1968 ) is a former American basketball player and current coach of the MHP Giants Ludwigsburg . He is married and has five children.

Career

In his youth, visited Patrick as a secondary school, the DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville in the US state of Maryland . The school enjoys a nationwide reputation for its school sports . The long-time (1956 to 2002) coach of the basketball school team was Morgan Wootten , arguably the most renowned basketball coach at high school level and a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame since 2000. After high school, John Patrick studied at Stanford University in the town of the same name in California and was a player on the Cardinal University team from 1987 to 1991 . In his senior year 1991, the Cardinal won the National Invitation Tournament with Patrick as point guard and the later NBA player Adam Keefe , which was probably the greatest success of the college basketball team at the time after the long-ago successes as national champion of the NCAA 1942 and an AAWU conference - Championship 1963.

Despite a trial training session with the Golden State Warriors , Patrick never made the leap into the most highly endowed American professional league, the NBA, as a player. Instead, he earned his living from clubs in Germany and Japan . Due to injury-prone knees, he was already working as an assistant coach during his playing career . Because of his future wife, he came back from Japan to Göttingen and finally took over the coaching position in 2003 at the then second division BG 74. In the 2005/06 season he trained again for one season in Japan Toyota Alvark, with which he immediately won the championship. After that, he stayed in Germany from 2006 for family reasons.

During his time as head coach of the BG 74 he made a name for himself through an aggressive style of play with relatively small and fast players aimed at winning the ball . For financial reasons, too, he filled positions that normally require players over two meters tall in professional basketball with smaller, athletic players. In his squad with players who all had a similar playing structure, he was particularly variable in defense and the constant change of opponents was particularly pronounced. The playing style, which is physically demanding for the individual player and often associated with the risk of a high personal foul load , was supported by an above-average frequency of player changes in one's own team during a single game. On the offensive, too, the style of play mostly deviated from a traditional set play and was more intuitive and situation-related, which is why coaches of opposing teams called this style of play "organized chaos". Patrick himself described putting the opponent under pressure throughout the entire playing time during the build-up of the game as “full court 40 minutes hell ”.

In the first year of his return to Göttingen, he was promoted to the basketball league in 2007 . In the second season of the first division membership, the team reached the play-offs for the German championship as second in the main round in 2009 and Patrick himself was voted BBL coach of the year . In the following season, third in the main round succeeded again in the play-offs, but again ended prematurely with a renewed first round defeat. At the European level, it was only the third cup success of a German club team when they won the EuroChallenge 2010. Patrick was again named BBL coach of the year because of this success. In the following season , as the main round seventh, you had to cancel the sails again in the first play-off round and at the end of the season Patrick left the club also because of the comparatively low financial possibilities. Instead, he signed a contract with the s.Oliver Baskets in Würzburg , which ran until 2013 , and which had previously made it up from the Pro A , which replaced the 2nd BBL in 2007, to the basketball Bundesliga. After a successful season with participation in the playoff semifinals, this contract was terminated by mutual agreement after the 2011/2012 season and the cooperation between Patrick and the Baskets ended.

In January 2013 Patrick became the new head coach of Bundesliga club Neckar Riesen Ludwigsburg. There he followed the dismissed Steven Key and should lead the team to relegation. This did not happen and due to a defeat in the last game of the season against the Skyliners Frankfurt , Ludwigsburg was relegated from the basketball Bundesliga. By buying a wildcard , Ludwigsburg stayed in the league and so Patrick continued his coaching career in the Bundesliga. In the 2017/18 season, Patrick led Ludwigsburg into the semi-finals of the Champions League , a defeat against AS Monaco prevented the final. Patrick was named the best coach of the 2017/18 Champions League season. In the Bundesliga, Ludwigsburg reached the semi-finals under Patrick's leadership in the 2017/18 season and was eliminated from Berlin.

In the 2019/20 Bundesliga season, Patrick and Ludwigsburg were second in the table with 17 wins and four defeats when the game was suspended due to the spread of the COVID-19 disease . After a three-month break, he and his team took part in the Bundesliga final of the season, where they led Ludwigsburg to the Bundesliga final for the first time in the club's history. Marco Baldi , managing director of final opponent Alba Berlin, described the style of play that Patrick prescribed for the Ludwigsburg team and which became a recipe for success, with the words: “They destroy games, they are very good at that. (…) They have declared about their brand essence that they get on everyone's nerves with their special way of playing. Europe No team has ever had the experience of Ludwigsburg, wants to play against Ludwigsburg. "The two finals of the German championship against Berlin lost Patrick with his Ludwig burgers, had both legs but on Marcos Knight must renounce the was named the best player of the tournament.

Achievements & Awards

player

  • Won the NIT with the Stanford Cardinals (1991)

Trainer

  • Japanese champion with Toyota Alvark (2006)
  • Championship in the 2nd BBL Group North; Promotion to the basketball league with the BG 74 Göttingen (2007)
  • Winner of the EuroChallenge 2009/10 with the BG Göttingen (2010)
  • 2 × Coach of the Year of the Basketball Bundesliga (2009, 2010)
  • Champions League Coach of the Year (2018)

family

Patrick and his wife Alexandra have two daughters and three sons. All of his children have given names that begin with the letter J. In Ludwigsburg, his sons Johannes and Jacob were included in the Bundesliga squad during Patrick's tenure and made their debut in the top German division under their father as coach.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c FAZ.net: Planned Chaos , article by Jan Finken on the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung website of January 21, 2009, accessed on July 16, 2011
  2. ↑ SportsIllustrated.cnn.com: Best High School Athletic Programs , Sports Illustrated listing the best school sports programs on May 16, 2005, accessed July 16, 2011
  3. ↑ a b c DraftExpress.com: Gottingen: A German Cinderella Story (English), article by Joey Whelan on the Draft Express website of May 3, 2009
  4. ↑ Welt.de: How the dwarf Göttingen annoys the very big , article by Dietmar Wenck on the website of the daily newspaper Die Welt from January 23, 2009, accessed on July 16, 2011
  5. ↑ a b FIBAEurope.com: Triumph of a system (English), article by Johannes Baier on the FIBA Europa website from May 5, 2010, accessed on July 16, 2011
  6. ↑ taz.de: Hell in the hall , article by Martin Fünkele on the TAZ website from January 22, 2009, accessed on September 10, 2010
  7. ^ Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart, Germany: Defeat for Ludwigsburg basketball players: MHP giants miss the Champions League final . In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de . ( stuttgarter-zeitung.de [accessed on May 7, 2018]).
  8. ↑ Champions League: John Patrick is Coach of the Year «German Basketball Association. Retrieved May 7, 2018 .
  9. ↑ https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.mhp-riesen-ludwigsburg-scheitern-im-halbfinale-raus-mit-applaus-bei-alba-berlin.77d4ce6d-e471-4d34-9e67-bcd08e482d99.html
  10. ↑ Overall table. In: Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved June 26, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Basketball fever in Ludwigsburg before the final against Berlin. In: SWR. Retrieved June 26, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Berlin celebrates its first championship in twelve years. Ludwigsburg provides the tournament MVP with Marcos. Retrieved June 28, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung: Family saga at the MHP Giants Ludwigsburg: JP - the Patrick family's formula for success. Retrieved June 8, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Why there are "JP" six times. October 16, 2011, accessed June 8, 2020 .
  15. ↑ John Patrick's Giants Miss Playoffs. In: ludwigsburg24.com. Accessed June 8, 2020 (German).
  16. ↑ Battle victory at the beginning of the tournament | MHP RIESEN Ludwigsburg. Retrieved June 8, 2020 .


personal data
SURNAME Patrick, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 29, 1968