Jonas Grof

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Jonas Grof
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Jonas Grof (jersey no.9, Oettinger Rockets, 2017)
Player information
Full name Jonas Georg Grof
birthday May 3, 1996
place of birth Herdecke, Germany
size 201 cm
position Point Guard /
Shooting Guard
Club information
society Gladiators Trier
league 2nd Bundesliga ProA
Jersey number 22nd
Clubs as active
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Jonas Georg Grof (born May 3, 1996 in Herdecke ) is a German basketball player . He is under contract with the Gladiators Trier .

Grof was trained in the youth teams of Phoenix Hagen and later played for the men's team in the top German basketball division .

Career

Jonas Grof is the son of Elmar Grof , who, during his active time as a former German national basketball player, played for SSV Hagen in the top German division as well as for the second division teams TV Salzkotten and TuS Iserlohn. Earlier in his career was Jonas Grof as a 16-year-old student in 2012 even with his father on the field in the men's team of the parent association of Boele cable in the basketball league, which in WBV sixth-highest division in the men. Together with his Boeler teammate Marcel Keßen , the youth selection player also played in the junior teams of the first division club Phoenix Hagen, where he was trained by the former Phoenix team captain Matthias Grothe and his father. After Hagen missed out on the Top Four tournament in their own hall against the eventual title winner and Westphalian competitor Paderborn Baskets around Lars Kamp and Niklas Kiel in the youth basketball league (JBBL) in 2012 , Grof achieved together with his two competitors in the youth national team a historically very good fifth place at the U16 European Championship finals in the Baltic States .

In the next age class in the junior basketball league (NBBL) 2013 succeeded now the way into the Top Four , but as last year in its own hall NBBL crew of Phoenix difference this time in Bamberg against the defending champion and host TSV Tröster Breitengüßbach from . Then Grof spent a year at the "Prep School" Lee Academy in Maine in the United States after graduating from high school . However, he decided not to study at a college in the United States and returned to his homeland, where he again made it into the top four with the NBBL team in 2015. For the third time in four years they lost the semi-finals, this time again as in 2012 in their own hall, but only after two extensions against the offspring from Eintracht Frankfurt, to which and his cooperation partner Skyliners Frankfurt from the top men's division, including his competitor Niklas Kiel was changed. In the summer of 2015, Grof was already active for the DBB's junior selection , which, however, missed a top position in eleventh place in the U20 European Championship finals.

During Grof's year abroad, NOMA Kangaroos, based in TuS Iserlohn, managed to return to the 2nd basketball league under coach Matthias Grothe , where they initially competed in the ProB 2014/15 in the south group of the third-highest German men's division. After his return, Grof now also competed under his former youth coach with the men by means of a double license in the ProB, where the promoted team reached first place after the main round. Grof averaged a good nine points, four rebounds and almost three assists per game in 26 ProB games . In the play-offs for promotion, Grof was the “match winner” with his best scoring of the season in a game with 28 points in the away win in the quarter-finals against the Dresden Titans . In the following semifinal series, however, they lost against the north third SC Rist Wedel and then renounced the promotion that was still possible. Grof had also trained in the first division team in Phoenix and was finally used in another five games at the end of the season after the first division debut in the away win at MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg in November 2014, so that he finally had an average playing time of over ten in the six appearances Minutes per game came up. In the 2015/16 season, thanks to the double license, Grof was still entitled to play in the ProB with the NOMA Kangaroos and played twelve season games for the Iserlohner, but played primarily in the top division at Phoenix (33 season appearances with average values ​​of 3.5 points and 2 , 3 rebounds per game).

At the U20 Euro 2016 in Finland, Grof reached fourth place with the German team.

In the 2016/17 season he made ten appearances at Hagen in the Bundesliga before the team was withdrawn from play due to insolvency at the end of November 2016. On January 2, 2017, Grof was announced as a new addition by the Oettinger Rockets Gotha from the 2nd Bundesliga ProA . In spring 2017, he celebrated promotion to the Bundesliga with the Thuringians as runner-up. He contributed to this success with averages of 2.9 points and 1.9 rebounds (in 25 missions).

In the summer of 2017 he was appointed to the German A2 national team for the first time. For the 2017/18 season he returned to Phoenix Hagen (now in the ProA). In August 2017 he was part of the German student national team for the Summer Universiade 2017 in Taipei , in September 2018 he made his debut in the senior national team in the international match against Turkey at the Supercup in Hamburg . In the second division season 2018/19, Grof was the best basket preparer for Hagen (5.1 per match), and he also scored an average of 11.2 points per game. At the Summer Universiade 2019 in Naples , he came fifth with the German selection.

At the end of May 2020, Hagen's second division competitor Gladiators Trier announced Grof's commitment.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ archive.fiba.com: Players - Elmar Grof (GER). FIBA , accessed on October 3, 2015 (English, profile in the statistics archive).
  2. ↑ Archive for the category “1. Men ": 1. Men have the upper hand in the derby. Basketball Boele-Kabel, 7 May 2012, accessed on 3 October 2015 (match report with squad).
  3. ↑ Markus Wassmuth: Carefree, determined and successful. DerWesten.de , October 14, 2014, accessed on October 3, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Phoenix Hagen Juniors: Chance of a "home title"? Junior Basketball League , May 15, 2015, accessed on October 3, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Player: Jonas Grof. 2. Basketball Bundesliga , accessed on October 3, 2015 (player profile; applicable statistics for the 2014/15 season must be selected accordingly).
  6. ↑ Markus Wassmuth: Even after the game of his life, modesty is the trump card. DerWesten.de , April 6, 2015, accessed on October 3, 2015 .
  7. ↑ U20 men miss the European Championship medal. In: www.basketball-bund.de. German Basketball Association, accessed on August 10, 2016 .
  8. ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: Insolvent basketball club: Phoenix Hagen stops gaming - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Sport. In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved January 2, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Rocket growth for the New Year: Jonas Grof comes from Hagen ⋆ Oettinger Rockets . In: Oettinger Rockets . January 2, 2017 ( oettinger-rockets.de [accessed January 2, 2017]). Rocket growth for the New Year: Jonas Grof comes from Hagen ⋆ Oettinger Rockets ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2017 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oettinger-rockets.de
  10. ↑ Axel Gaiser: First division promotion crowns Jonas Grof's difficult season. Retrieved May 9, 2017 .
  11. ↑ A2 men nominated. German Basketball Association, accessed on May 24, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated June 6, 2017 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / phoenix-hagen.de
  13. ↑ http://www.basketball-bund.de/news/teams/a2-herren/universiadeteam-verpasst-halbfinale-177807
  14. ↑ https://www.basketball-bund.de/news/teams/a-herren/vtg-supercup-dbb-team-unterhaben-tuerkei-191445
  15. ↑ 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Squad. Accessed March 31, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Universiade: A2 men in fifth place. German Basketball Association, accessed on July 13, 2019 .
  17. ↑ https: //römerstrom-gladiators.de/2020/05/28/neuer-aufbauspieler-fuer-die-roemerstrom-gladiators-jonas-grof-wechselelt-nach-trier/
personal data
SURNAME Great, Jonas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grof, Jonas Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Herdecke , Germany