Josh Young

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Basketball player
Josh Young
Player information
Full name Joshua Adam Young
Nickname JY
birthday April 26, 1988
place of birth Lawton , Oklahoma , USA
size 185 cm
position Point Guard / Shooting Guard
college Drake University
Club information
society Rasta Vechta
league ProA
Jersey number 8th
Clubs as active
2010–2011 Bayer Giants Leverkusen 2011–2014 Walter Tigers Tübingen 2014–2015 rent4office Nuremberg 2015–2016 Rasta Vechta 2016–2017 Nuremberg Falcons BC since 2017 Rasta VechtaGermanyGermany
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Joshua Adam Young (born April 26, 1988 in Lawton , Oklahoma ) is an American basketball player . The Combo Guard has been playing in Germany since 2010 and is currently hunting for basketball for SC Rasta Vechta in the Bundesliga .

Career

High school and college

Young began his basketball career at Lawton Christian High School. He then decided to move to Drake University (US state Iowa ). There Young became one of the top performers in his team. In all of his four years in the NCAA , he scored double digits. By the end of college, Young had broken innumerable internal university records. Until February 2018, when he was overtaken by Reed Timmer , he headed the university's "eternal basket hunter list". One of his team-mates was also former Bundesliga player Jonathan Cox ( Giants Düsseldorf and BG Karlsruhe ). He also got a Bachelor of Management and Marketing from Drake .

Professional career

After four years at college, Young tried to get into the NBA , but (after a trial with the Oklahoma City Thunder ) without resounding success. He was then drawn in the draft of the NBA Development League by the Austin Toros in the third round, but they released him already in training camp. Young was now looking for opportunities to find a club abroad, but an involvement with ASS de Sale in Morocco failed.

In December 2010 the Bayer Giants Leverkusen reacted after a prolonged slide in the ProB and signed Young as the new “savior” of the record champions. After less than 24 hours in Leverkusen, he scored 20 points against the Hertener Löwen . It was Young who brought the Giants back on track: In the ten games with him, the Leverkusen won six and thus just barely reached the newly created ProB playoffs. He set a highlight on January 12, 2011 in the home game against BSV Wulfen , when he alone scored 43 points (seven of them three-pointers). This was the season's best in the “Points in a Game” category. With an average of 26.7 points per game, he was the best scorer in the league. The Bayer Giants Leverkusen then retired against Erdgas Ehingen / Urspringschule .

In May 2011, the Bundesliga club Walter Tigers Tübingen announced the commitment of Young. He received a two-year contract. Behind Louis Campbell and Vaughn Duggins he was a replacement on the build-up positions and scored just over ten points per game. His contract was extended for another year in March 2012. In addition, after Campbell's departure for the 2012/13 season, he was appointed team captain of the Walter Tigers by head coach Igor Perović . Young played all 34 games and started in most of the games, but he could not quite build on the performance of the previous season.

In September 2015 he switched to Rasta Vechta in the 2nd Bundesliga Pro A and only came to six missions due to injury. In the 2016/17 season he played for the Nürnberg Falcons BC (also ProA) before returning to Vechta in the summer of 2017. To win the 2017/18 championship in the 2nd Bundesliga ProA, Young contributed an average of 9.2 points in 38 games over the course of the 2017/18 season and also played in Vechta after the Bundesliga return. He surprisingly reached the Bundesliga semi-finals with Rasta in the 2018/19 game year and contributed averages of 12.2 points, 2.8 assists and 2.3 rebounds per match over the course of the season.

Personal

Josh Young has four sisters and one brother.

successes

  • Reaching the ProB playoffs in 2011
  • ProB: Team of the Year 2011 (named by eurobasket.com )
  • ProB: Selection of the best foreign players 2011 (named by eurobasket.com )
  • ProA master with Vechta 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Todd Hefferman: MVC Notebook: Timmer Becomes Drake's all-time leading scorer. Retrieved December 11, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Josh Young , WALTER-Tigers.com. Retrieved August 21, 2013.
  3. ↑ Josh Young changes to the Walter Tigers Tübingen ( Memento from August 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Bayer-Basketball.de.
  4. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Beko BBL - player statistics - Joshua Adam Young - Walter Tigers Tübingen , Beko-BBL.de. Retrieved August 21, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.beko-bbl.de
  5. ↑ Fischer, Tobias: "Heart and soul of the team" extended by two years , Schoenen-Dunk.de. Retrieved August 21, 2013.
  6. ↑ AUDIENCE FAVORITE JOSH YOUNG BACK IN VECHTA. Retrieved December 11, 2018 .
  7. ↑ CHAMPIONSHIP: RASTA CROWNS HIS CHAMPION. Retrieved December 11, 2018 .
  8. ↑ BARMER 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Squad. Retrieved December 11, 2018 .
  9. ↑ BBL RETURN: JOSH YOUNG GOES UP WITH RASTA. Retrieved December 11, 2018 .
  10. ↑ easyCredit - 541 VEC. Retrieved June 9, 2019 .
  11. ↑ a b PROB_2010-2011 Basketball League GERMANY - eurobasket. Retrieved December 11, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Young, Josh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Young, Joshua Adam (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Lawton , Oklahoma