Jonathan Malu

Jonathan Malu
Player information
Full name	Jonathan Malu Mande
birthday	March 19, 1993
place of birth	Wiesbaden, Germany
size	200 cm
position	Power Forward / Center
Clubs as active
2008–2009 Cologne 99ers ( NBBL ) 2009–2010 Dragons Rhöndorf (NBBL) 2010–2013 Eisbären Bremerhaven 2014–2015 Gießen 46ers 2014–2015 → Licher BasketBären 2015–2016 RheinStars Cologne 2016–2017 Alba Berlin 2017–2018 Ehingen / Urspring 2018– 2019 Artland Dragons

Jonathan Malu Mande (born March 19, 1993 in Wiesbaden ) is a German - Congolese basketball player . He was most recently under contract with the second division Artland Dragons .

Malu grew up in the Rhineland and in 2010 moved to the junior team of the first division club Eisbären Bremerhaven. Although it was enough for Malu in the jersey of the polar bears for an invitation to the all-star game of the junior basketball league (NBBL) 2012 and a runner-up in this junior division, but in the professional team of polar bears in the top German division of Except for a few short assignments, Herren did not get a chance. In January 2014, Malu moved to the old master Gießen 46ers in the second highest division ProA , where he received the award as Youngster of the Month for March 2014 . By means of a double license , Malu was also entitled to play for the Licher BasketBears in the third-highest division ProB .

Career

At the end of the 2008/09 season, Malu had three appearances in the junior team of the first division club Cologne 99ers in the youth basketball league (NBBL). After the bankruptcy of the Cologne first division team, Malu moved to the syndicate of the first division Telekom Baskets Bonn and the second division Dragons from Rhöndorf . However, the team, which had already participated in the NBBL Top Four twice in the early history of the NBBL , missed a top position in 2010. At the renowned Albert Schweitzer tournament in 2010, Malu was also represented in the squad of the German U17 selection, the one achieved an outstanding third place in the U18 tournament; but he missed a nomination for the 2010 U17 World Cup in Germany, as did for later junior finals. Finally, in 2010, Malu was lured into the junior team of the first division club on the North Sea coast by Hamed Attarbashi , who had switched to the Eisbären Bremerhaven as a junior coach. After Malu had already received a nomination for the All-Star Game of the NBBL 2012 in the framework program of the BBL All-Star Games , he reached the final in the NBBL Top Four 2012 with the Junior Eisbären, which was lost to TSV Tröster Breitengüßbach , the offspring of the then German champion Brose Baskets .

His first appearance in the top German men 's division was in the 2011/12 basketball league for the polar bears in December 2011. After another brief assignment was added in the following season 2012/13 , Malu, who was otherwise active in the regional league for the parent club BSG Bremerhaven, initially only made two more brief assignments in the 2013/14 season before he became the old master in January 2014 46ers from Gießen moved to the second highest division ProA . With the Giessen, who were in the process of rebuilding after an impending bankruptcy and relegation from the top division for the first time with a large number of young German players, Malu was able to secure game shares and received the award as Youngster of the Month in March 2014 for his performance . The 46ers reached the fourth main round place and lost the play-off semi-final series, which was decisive for the promotion, against the main round first and later play-off winner BG Göttingen . In the following season, as a junior player with a double license , Malu also had four appearances for the cooperation team BasketBären from Lich in the third-highest division ProB . As a rotation player, he stood on the field for almost 20 minutes per game and marched back to the BBL with his team, unbeaten through the playoffs.

In the 2015/16 season Malu played for RheinStars Cologne in the ProA. In 27 season appearances, he posted an average of six points and 4.5 rebounds per encounter for the newcomer to the league. He left Cologne after the season and was given a one-year contract by Bundesliga club Alba Berlin at the end of July 2016 . His playing times in the capital city team were short: in the course of the 2016/17 season he played ten Bundesliga games for the Berlin team and scored a total of four points over the course of the season. In mid-August 2017, Malu moved to the second division club Ehingen / Urspring . For Ehingen he achieved an average of 7.7 points and 6.4 rebounds per match during the 2017/18 season, but missed relegation with the team in the 2nd Bundesliga ProA. Due to Cologne's withdrawal, Ehingen subsequently held the class, Malu switched to the Artland Dragons in Quakenbrück during the summer break of 2018 . In October 2019, Quakenbrück and Malu separated.

In November 2017 he was appointed to the national team of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and took part in qualifying for the 2019 World Cup.

Web links

• Jonathan Malu - player profile on the website of the BARMER 2. Basketball Bundesliga ( ProA and ProB )
• easyCredit BBL - Jonathan Malu - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ U17 boys win bronze after a sensational tournament. German Basketball Federation , April 10, 2010, accessed on January 24, 2015 (German / English, media information and game report). 
2. ↑ Flo Holnburger: Jonathan Malu - Here's Jonni. Yabazz.com, February 20, 2012, archived from the original on January 28, 2015 ; accessed on January 24, 2015 . 
3. ↑ NBBL ALLSTAR Game 2012. (No longer available online.) Junior Basketball League , 2012, archived from the original on January 11, 2015 ; accessed on January 24, 2015 (match report / media information from the Beko Basketball Bundesliga). 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.  
4. ↑ Jörg Bähre: NBBL TOP4 2012: Güßbach's title luck in the fifth attempt. (No longer available online.) Junior Basketball League , 2012, archived from the original on January 18, 2015 ; accessed on January 24, 2015 (match report). 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.  
5. Jump up ↑ Player Statistics - Jonathan Malu. Basketball Bundesliga , accessed on January 24, 2015 (profile on statistics pages). 
6. ↑ 46ers commit Jonathan Malu from Eisbären Bremerhaven. Giessen 46ers , January 2014, accessed on January 24, 2015 (Medien-Info). 
7. ↑ Jonathan Malu is ProA Youngster of the Month March 2014. Gießen 46ers , April 10, 2014, accessed on January 24, 2015 (media info). 
8. ^ Alba Berlin: future planning: contracts for German junior staff. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 18, 2017 ; accessed on August 1, 2016 . 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.  
9. ↑ https://de-de.facebook.com/TeamEhingenUrspring/posts/1760818637281172
10. ↑ http://www.zweite-basketball-bundesliga.de/topperformer/proa/#tab-schnitt
11. ↑ https://www.swp.de/sport/basketball/ehingen-steig-in-die-prob-ab-25089912.html
12. ↑ https://www.artland-dragons.de/saison/news/news-detail/article/kongolesischer-nationalcenter-verstaeckt-den-frontcourt.html
13. ↑ https://www.artland-dragons.de/saison/news/news-detail/article/enuoma-ebinum-nnahm-kaderplatz-von-jonathan-malu-ein.html
14. ↑ http://www.swp.de/ehingen/sport/basketball/regional/jonathan-malu-mit-kongo-team-unterwegs-24131094.html
15. ↑ http://times.cd/2017/11/23/basket-elimmondial-chine-2019-leopards-decides-decrire-nouvelle-page-dhistoire/