Kevin Cadle

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Basketball player
Kevin Cadle
Player information
birthday March 17, 1955
place of birth Buffalo, New York, USA
date of death 16th October 2017
college Texas A&I University-Kingsville
Clubs as coaches
Clubs:
1978–1979 Texas A&I Javelinas ( NCAA Div II; AC ) 1979–1983 Angelo State Rams (NCAA Div II; AC) 1983–1985 Falkirk BC 1985–1986 Manchester Giants 1986–1994 Kingston Kings / Glasgow Rangers 1994–1998 London TowersUnited StatesUnited States
United StatesUnited States
ScotlandScotland
EnglandEngland
United KingdomUnited Kingdom
United KingdomUnited Kingdom

National teams:
1984–1985 Scotland 1988–1990 Scotland 1991–1993 Great Britain / EnglandScotlandScotland
ScotlandScotland
United KingdomUnited Kingdom
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Kevin Cadle (born March 17, 1955 in Buffalo , New York - † October 16, 2017 ) was an American sports journalist, television presenter and former basketball coach working in the United Kingdom . Cadle won numerous championships at club level as a basketball coach in Great Britain and was national coach of the Scottish and English national teams as well as the British Olympic selection in 1992, which, however, could not qualify for the 1992 Olympic tournament. He was considered the most successful coach in British basketball history, especially since the Kingston Kings he coached achieved what is probably the greatest international success of a British club team when they entered the round of the best eight teams in the 1990/91 European Cup . After his coaching career, Cadle worked as a sports presenter with a focus on the NFL in American football and the NBA in basketball for private British television networks. Cadle also offered his services as a motivational speaker .

Career

Cadle first studied at Pennsylvania State University , where he was a player in the 1974/75 season of the basketball team of the Nittany Lions in Division I of the NCAA . He then continued his studies at what was then Texas A&I University in Kingsville (Texas) , whose sports teams belong to the "Lone Star Conference" of Division II of the NCAA. After his four-year playing career in the NCAA, he was assistant coach of the team and moved after a year in 1979 in the same position at Angelo State University , whose teams belong to the same conference. In 1983 he got the offer to go to Scotland , where he was the head coach in charge at the club from Falkirk . After two years he moved to England , where he took third place in the English National Basketball League (NBL) in 1984/85 Manchester Giants. The Giants, however, were bought by the owners of local competitor Manchester United and his compatriot Joe Whelton , United coach, ousted Cadle as manager of the merger club. While United were the first to complete the 1985/86 NBL regular season, the Kingston Kings won the NBL play-offs .

For the 1986/87 season Cadle was coach of the play-off winner Kings from Kingston upon Thames . The team finished the regular season second in the NBL behind Portsmouth FC and ahead of Manchester United and also lost the final of the play-offs against local rivals Crystal Palace . For the following season, the British Basketball League (BBL) was introduced as a closed professional league , in which the Scottish series champion MIM Livingston was accepted in addition to the best English teams of the NBL . The Kings finished in the first season 1987/88 in the regular season behind Portsmouth FC again in second place and lost in the semi-finals of the play-offs against the eventual title winners from Livingston (West Lothian) . David E. Murray , owner of MIM Livingston, became president of the Glasgow Rangers football club and bought the Kingston Kings, which then moved to Scotland as the Glasgow Rangers basketball team. After Portsmouth FC withdrew and the Manchester United team was sold, the Rangers won the regular season of the BBL after only two defeats and were able to defeat defending champion Livingston in the play-off final in a duel between the only two Scottish teams of the BBL.

For the 1989/90 season Murray also retired from basketball and the former Rangers returned as Kings in southeast London. Cadles compatriot could Alton Byrd as a point guard commit the previously many years had played for MIM Livingston, and possessed a team with the English national team Alan Cunningham and Colin Irish a barely beating teams in the BBL. In the following three seasons one won all titles of the BBL except for the cup competition "National Cup" 1991, which was won by the Sunderland Saints . In BBL championship games they lost only seven games in these three years and remained undefeated in the play-offs. After Alan Cunningham had already become " Most Valuable Player " (MVP) of the BBL for the Rangers in 1989 , Alton Byrd won this award twice in 1991 and 1992. In the 1990/91 European Cup, a 16-point Defend the lead and only lost two points to the Russian title holder CSKA Moscow . This reached the group stage of the eight best teams in this competition. Here, after four wins in 14 group games, they finished seventh, the best placement of a British team in the highest European club competition. After Cadle had previously worked as the national coach of Scotland, he was selected in 1991 as the coach of the Olympic selection of Great Britain , in which the selection players of England, Scotland and Wales' were brought together. His compatriot Joe Whelton had done this job four years earlier. In qualifying for the 1992 Olympic tournament, however, the selection team was unsuccessful. Even in personal union as coach of the English national team, Cadle could not qualify this selection for any final tournament. In 1992 the Kings moved to a hall in Guildford and could no longer build on their earlier successes, although the title in the 1993 National Cup was defended. In the semi-finals of the play-offs they lost to the main round first Worthing Bears , who had committed Colin Irish, MVP that season. In the play-offs of the following season they won in the first round against the London Towers and moved into the play-off final, where they were again defeated by defending champion Worthing Bears and remained untitled in the BBL in that season.

For the following season 1994/95 Cadle went back to the British capital London and was coach of the Towers. The Towers improved to third place on the main round table and were only one defeat worse than the main round winner Sheffield Sharks . In the play-off semifinals, however, they lost after extra time against Cadle's former club Manchester Giants, which was reactivated after United's exit six years earlier. In the 1995/96 season, the Towers seemed to be able to build on the former dominance of the Kingston Kings and initially won all competitions of the BBL including the regular season. In the final of the play-offs, however, they lost against the Birmingham Bullets to BBL MVP Tony Dorsey . In the following season 1996/97 they defended the title in the League Cup BBL Trophy, but had to give way to the local rival Leopards in the National Cup and the main round of the championship . The two London clubs met in the 1997 play-off final. The Towers just got the upper hand with one point difference and won the play-offs for the first time. In the following 1997/98 season, despite 23 wins in 36 games, they were only sixth in the regular season in the play-offs. In the first round you could narrowly defeat the third Newcastle Eagles , but then lost in the semifinals against the Thames Valley Tigers . The team ended the season without a title and Cadle looked again for change after a change in the club's management. But he felt burned out as a coach and preferred to switch to television. So he ended his career as a coach with five play-off titles, main round championships and five titles in the league cup BBL Trophy. He won the National Cup six times. As a BBL trainer, with a rate of 80%, he is considered - in relative terms - the most successful trainer in BBL history.

In his second career as a sports journalist and television presenter, Cadle specialized in the most successful professional basketball league NBA from the United States and its counterpart NFL in American football, where he openly showed himself to be a big fan of the Buffalo Bills from his hometown. Cadle presented and moderated the broadcasts on British Sky Broadcasting . Cadle also acted as a paid motivational speaker. Cadle died unexpectedly on October 16, 2017 at the age of 62.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ basketball. In: The Glasgow Herald . News.Google.com, June 14, 1986, accessed June 28, 2013 (English, repro of the newspaper).
  2. ↑ Senior Men - Playoff. (No longer available online.) England Basketball . Archived from the original on August 13, 2013 ; accessed on June 28, 2013 (English, overview of final results).
  3. ↑ Senior Men - League. (No longer available online.) England Basketball . Archived from the original on April 2, 2013 ; accessed on June 28, 2013 (English, overview of seasons).
  4. ↑ 1987-88 BBL Championship & Playoffs. British Basketball League , accessed June 28, 2013 (season summary).
  5. ^ Javier Gancedo: From YMCA to the Towers: London clubs in European competitions. ULEB , February 12, 2013, accessed June 28, 2013 .
  6. ↑ 1992 European Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Men - Great Britain. FIBA , accessed on June 28, 2013 .
  7. ^ Q&A: Kevin Cadle. Mark Woods: Britball.com, accessed June 28, 2013 (interview).
  8. ^ Games Won. British Basketball League , accessed June 28, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Kevin Cadle Exclusive. (No longer available online.) Fight for the Yard blog, March 6, 2012, archived from the original on December 22, 2015 ; accessed on June 28, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Kevin Cadle: 'Don't become a member of the woulda, coulda, shoulda gang'. UKSport.Gov.UK, November 16, 2011, accessed June 28, 2013 .
  11. ↑ Former Sky Sports presenter Kevin Cadle dies, aged 62 , accessed October 16, 2017


personal data
SURNAME Cadle, Kevin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball coach and sports reporter
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Buffalo , New York, United States
DATE OF DEATH 16th October 2017