Jonathan taboo

Jonathan taboo
Player information
Full name	Beye taboo Eboma
Nickname	Jonathan
birthday	October 7, 1985
place of birth	Kinshasa, Zaire
size	190 cm
position	Point Guard / Shooting Guard
Club information
society	Dominion Bilbao
league	League ACB
Clubs as active
2003–2005 Spirou Gilly 2004–2010 Spirou BC Charleroi 2010–2013 Pallacanestro Cantù 2011–2012 → Vanoli-Braga Cremona 2013–2014 CAI Saragossa 2014–2015 Alba Berlin 2015 EA7 Armani Milan 2015–2016 Montakit Fuenlabrada Since 2016 Dominion Bilbao Basket 00000 0
National team
Since 02008	Belgium

Beye Tabu Eboma , called Jonathan Tabu , (born October 7, 1985 in Kinshasa , Zaire ) is a Belgian basketball player . With Spirou Charleroi, Tabu won the Belgian championship three times and the national cup competition once. From 2010, the Belgian international and three-time participant in the finals of the European basketball championship first played in Italy and then for one season in the Spanish ACB league . During the 2014/15 basketball Bundesliga , Tabu played for the German runner-up and cup winner Alba Berlin before he returned to Italy and Spain, where he played for Dominion Bilbao Basket in the 2016/17 season.

Career

Similar to his future national team colleagues Didier Ilunga-Mbenga and Guy Moya , Tabu came with his family from the former Zaire to the former colonial motherland Belgium , where he learned to play basketball in the youth teams of Spirou BC from Charleroi . From 2003 he was used in the men's area in the reserve team Spirou Gilly of the club below the closed professional Ethias League . From 2005 he finally moved up to the squad of the professional team in the top Belgian division, which had last won the championship title in 2003 and 2004. After the Flemish teams Euphony Bree and Telindus Oostende had won the title three times in a row , Spirou was able to bring the title back to Wallonia in 2008 . In the following Eurocup 2008/09 , in whose previous events Tabu and Spirou had participated rather less successfully, they narrowly missed the Final Eight tournament, after the German teams Brose Baskets and Artland Dragons in the group games of the preliminary and intermediate rounds left behind. After winning the title in the national cup competition in 2009, they successfully defended the championship. After Spirou had no win in the Eurocup 2009/10 and was unable to defend the cup title, it was enough to defend the championship.

In the summer of 2010, the Belgian national team successfully qualified for the 2011 European Championship finals with Tabu , the first participation for the team known as the “Lions” in 18 years. While his same age teammate in the national team Sam Van Rossom , had played with the taboo already in the junior national team, then moved from Italy to Spain, it attracted taboo in the highest Italian league Lega Basket Serie A , where he at the traditional club from Cantu under Coach Andrea Trinchieri signed a contract. With this team he lost the final in the national cup competition "Coppa Italia" against the defending champion Montepaschi Siena and in the play-off final series you could only achieve one win in five games against the renewed double winner from Tuscany . At the 2011 European Championship finals, the Belgian selection lost all five preliminary round matches on their return to the top European national teams and was eliminated early. After Tabu had not received excessive game shares at Cantù, he was loaned for the 2011/12 season within Lombardy to the league rivals Vanoli-Braga from Cremona . In this team, Tabu's playing time doubled to an average of almost 30 minutes per game and at the end of the season the team reached tenth place in the table, the best position since promotion three years earlier.

For the 2012/13 season Tabu returned to Cantù, who were able to successfully secure participation in the competition in front of their own audience in the qualifying round for the highest-ranking European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2012/13 . In addition, they won the Supercoppa against series champion Siena at the beginning of the season . But in the preliminary round in the Euroleague only three wins in ten games, so that one was eliminated from this competition early, and also in the Italian championship, in which taboo playing times in Cantù fell back to a good 20 minutes per game, one only achieved as Table seventh, the play-offs for the title. In the first round, the team was able to hold down the main round second Banco di Sardegna Sassari in a series of seven games after two wins in the last two games , but in the same number of games they lost the last two games against Acea Rome and thus the semi-final series for the title. At the 2013 European Championship finals , Belgium lost the opening game to Ukraine by just one point without their new international Matt Lojeski , who had to pass due to injury . But with an extra win against Germany and another success against Great Britain , Belgium was able to secure participation in the intermediate round, in which only one more success was achieved when Latvia messed up participation in the quarter-finals in the last group game .

After Sam Van Rossom moved from Saragossa to the Valencia Basket Club for the 2013/14 season , Tabu became his successor at CAI Saragossa in 2002 in the Spanish ACB league . In the Eurocup 2013/14 they reached the intermediate round of the best 32 teams behind the German representative Alba Berlin and before the Telekom Baskets Bonn , in which the team won only two of six group games and were eliminated after two home defeats. In the ACB League, Saragossa reached eighth place in the table to participate again in the play-offs, in which they remained without a win in the first round against the main round first and defending champion Real Madrid . After his brother Veron Tabu, who was three years older than him, had already played basketball in Germany in the 2nd Bundesliga 2006/07 for the then second division club ASC Theresianum Mainz , Jonathan has now also signed a contract in Germany. But after he returned to the squad in February due to a prolonged injury caused by a ruptured chest muscle and the club extended his injury-related substitute for Alex Renfroe , Tabu did not get the intended shares at the club from the German capital, which had a comparatively successful intermediate round of the 16 best Teams played in the Euroleague, and in addition to stakes in the Euroleague only to four stakes in the top German league, which is restricted to foreigners. After receiving a new offer from the Italian champion Olimpia Armani from Milan , he agreed with the German club to terminate his contract and moved to Italy.

The play-offs of the 2014/15 season did not go as desired for the Italian defending champion and record champions from Milan and they were eliminated in seven hard-fought games in the semi-final series against the later title holder Banco di Sardegna Sassari . At the 2015 European Championship finals , Belgium reached the first-ever round of sixteen after three prelim-round victories in five games, which they lost to Greece quite clearly with 54:75. The following season, Tabu moved back to the Spanish ACB league, but instead of returning to CAI Saragossa, he played for Montakit from Fuenlabrada in the 2015/16 season .

Web links

Commons : Jonathan Tabu  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• TABU, JONATHAN - player profile on the websites of the Euroleague ( English )
• Jonathan Tabu - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)
• ACB.COM: Jonathan Tabu - player profile on the websites of the League ACB ( Spanish )
• Legabasket: Jonathan Tabu - player profile on the websites of the Serie A ( Italian )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jonathan Tabu / EuroBasket 2011. FIBA Europe , accessed on August 7, 2014 (English, player profile). 
2. ↑ CANTU tabs Tabu at guard. Eurocup , July 3, 2010, archived from the original on August 8, 2014 ; accessed on August 7, 2014 . 
3. ↑ El CAI Zaragoza ficha a Jonathan Tabu. Basket Saragossa 2002 , July 13, 2013, accessed on July 31, 2016 (Spanish, media info). 
4. ↑ Veron Tabu Bin Eboma (ASC Theresianum Mainz). 2. Basketball Bundesliga , archived from the original on April 12, 2013 ; accessed on August 7, 2014 (player profile on statistics pages). 
5. ↑ Conrad Ziesch: Belgian National Guard Jonathan Tabu strengthens ALBA. (No longer available online.) Alba Berlin , August 4, 2014, archived from the original on August 7, 2014 ; accessed on August 7, 2014 (media info). 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.  
6. ↑ Beko BBL - 31693 Jonathan Tabu. Basketball Bundesliga , accessed on October 13, 2015 (player profile). 
7. ↑ Tabu joins Milan. Sport1 , April 28, 2015, accessed October 13, 2015 . 
8. ↑ El CAI renuncia al tanteo por Tabu, que jugará en el Montakit Fuenlabrada. Liga ACB , July 28, 2015, accessed October 13, 2015 (Spanish, media info).