Kamil Novák

Kamil Novák
Player information
Nickname	salami
birthday	April 15, 1967
place of birth	Ostrava, ČSSR
size	206 cm
position	Center / Power Forward
Clubs as active
1986–1990 NHKG Ostrava 1990–1991 SKP Pardubice 1991–1992 FC Barreirense 1992–1993 FC Seixal 1993–1996 Rhöndorfer TV Tatami 1996–2000 BK Nová Huť Ostrava 2000–2001 UKJ St. Pölten 2001–2002 BBC Amicale Steinsel
National team
until 1993 1993-2001	Czechoslovakia Czech Republic

Kamil Novák (born April 15, 1967 in Ostrava , Moravia ) is a Czech basketball official and former national player . After his active career, Novák worked for the German first division club Skyliners from Frankfurt am Main in the basketball league , where from 2005 as sports director. In 2012 Novák moved to the post of General Secretary at the continental association FIBA Europe .

Player career (from 1993 to 2002)

In 1993 Novák moved to the German second division club Rhöndorfer TV, with whom he rose to the first division in 1995 after increasing the basketball league. In the 1995/96 season , the climber reached eleventh place in the table and relegation. Then Novák first returned to his homeland and played with the BK Nová Huť also internationally in the Korać Cup , with which he never got beyond the preliminary round. Also in the national championship it was enough with his home club to only four runner-up championships.

1999 Novák reached with the Czech national team for the first time since the separation from Slovakia the qualification for a final round of the European basketball championship . At the European Championship finals in 1999 they qualified early for the second round after two surprising opening wins, each with more than ten points difference against Lithuania and Greece , and lost the final group game against Germany . So you only took one win into the second round, in which there were clear defeats, only the final game against the Turkish national basketball team could be made bearable with a five-point defeat. Novák was the top scorer of his team in the second round defeat against Croatia with 13 points , which missed the finals for the medals.

For the 2000/01 season he moved to Austria again at the age of 33 to join the UKJ Süba in St. Pölten . With the six-time champions of the 1990s, however, he could not place in the front field. In the 2001/02 season he played one more season for the BBC Amicale from Steinsel in Luxembourg .

Sports management (2002 to 2012)

Novák's former teammate at Rhöndorf Gunnar Wöbke had built up a new first division club in Frankfurt am Main with the Rhöndorfer first division license in 1999, as the Rhöndorfer had difficulties putting together a competitive budget in view of the competition in the Rhineland at that time from record champions Bayer Giants Leverkusen and Telekom Baskets Bonn would have. The Opel Skyliners won the German Cup in their first season in 1999/2000 . While Novák played for the cooperation partner MTV Kronberg in the third-class regional league for another four years until 2006 , he helped set up the young club Skyliners Frankfurt and celebrated its first and so far only championship with it in 2004 . In 2005 he was appointed to the post of sports director. After a bad season in 2005/06 , in which Novák stepped in for individual games as an interim coach, placements for the play-offs for the German championship were always achieved in the following years , without being able to build on previous successes.

At the end of the 2009/10 season there was an internal conflict between management in the person of Gunnar Wöbke and the sporting direction in the person of trainer returnees Murat Didin , who was runner-up with the Skyliners in 2005 and returned to Frankfurt two years later. After the lost cup final in 2010 Didin was fired and replaced by his predecessor Gordon Herbert , who led the Skyliners to the championship in 2004. Herbert and his team reached the final series of the championship, in which they had to admit defeat in a new edition of the Brose Baskets cup from Bamberg. After the finals, the team's idol, national player Pascal Roller , ended his career and the main sponsor Deutsche Bank announced his withdrawal. In Frankfurt, too, there were problems with the acquisition of sponsors and increasing difficulties in putting together a competitive budget, so that foreign signings for the following season were only given short-term contracts. The successor for scooters in the position of playmaker , DaShaun Wood , who had previously been injured for a long time , hit the mark and so at the end of the 2010/11 season they could occupy a second place in the table after regular time. While Wood was elected MVP of the past season, they were eliminated from the semi-final series of the championship play-offs in five games against Alba Berlin . After the end of the season, the Berlin team hired trainer Gordon Herbert from Frankfurt, who also steered Wood to Berlin. Then Muli Katzurin , previously a trainer in Berlin, was hired as a trainer .

At the beginning of the 2011/12 season they had a new main sponsor in Fraport , but the previously successful tactic with short-term contracts for player commitments did not work this time because no adequate replacement was found for Woods. After a bad start to the season they played for the play-off spots at the end of regular time, but ultimately missed them for the first time since 2006. Then, Jimmy McKinney , another long-time player left the team. While the team missed the start of the season again at the beginning of the 2012/13 season, Novák was elected General Director of the continental association FIBA Europe in mid-October 2012 .

Web links

• Players - Kamil Novak (CZE). archive.fiba.com - Overview of participations in FIBA national team tournaments (English)
• Kamil Novak - Korac Cup 2002 - FIBA ​​Europe / Player History - Overview of participations in FIBA ​​European club competitions (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Novak Appointed Secretary General. FIBA Europe , October 22, 2012, accessed on October 22, 2012 (English, media information).  
2. ^ All-Time Leaders. (No longer available online.) Dragons Rhöndorf , formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 22, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
3. ^ ^{A b} Leonhard Kazda: Shadow man out of passion. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 14, 2009. Retrieved October 22, 2012 .  
4. ↑ Jörg Daniels: The dormant pole at the Skyliners. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 9, 2008, accessed on October 22, 2012 . 
5. ↑ The ups and downs of Kamil Novak. Die Welt , October 22, 2012, accessed on October 22, 2012 .