Kristian Kuhn

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Basketball player
Kristian Kuhn
Player information
birthday August 26, 1987
place of birth Seeheim-Jugenheim, Germany
size 208 cm
position Center / Power Forward
college Northern Arizona
Club information
society ScanPlus Elchingen
league ProB
Jersey number 58
Clubs as active
2006–2007 TV 1862 Langen II 2007–2008 TVCC Cardinal (NJCAA) 2008 NAU Lumberjacks ( NCAA ) 2009 TV 1862 Langen 2009–2011 erdgas Ehingen / Urspring School 2011–2012 Cuxhaven BasCats 2012–2013 MLP Academics Heidelberg 2013–2014 Science City Jena 2014 –2015 Mitteldeutscher BC 2015–2016 MLP Academics Heidelberg Since 2016 ScanPlus ElchingenGermanyGermany
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Kristian Kuhn (born August 26, 1987 in Seeheim-Jugenheim ) is a German basketball player . After studying in the United States, Kuhn became a professional player and was particularly active for teams in the German 2nd basketball league . In the 2014/15 basketball Bundesliga , Kuhn also played in the top division for the first division club Mitteldeutscher BC. In the ProB 2016/17 Kuhn plays for the former first division team ScanPlus Elchingen.

Career

Similar to the four years older Johannes Herber and the two years younger Robin Benzing , who was also born in Seeheim-Jugenheim , who both later made it to national players and German championships for men, Kuhn moved from SC Bergstrasse to the former first division club TV Langen and played here in the 2006/07 season initially in the regional league reserve team. From here, Kuhn completed a study visit to the United States, analogous to Herber's career. However, Kuhn initially did not get a place at a renowned college of Division I of the NCAA , which is often a prerequisite for the career start of professional basketball players, but first had to earn the academic prerequisites at a junior college . At Trinity Valley Community College in Athens, Texas , better known for training American football professionals , Kuhn played for the Cardinal college team in the National Junior Collegiate Athletic Association (NJCAA). After Shawn Kemp and Nick Van Exel , the later Polish national center player Adam Hrycaniuk had tried two years earlier to recommend himself for a place in the NCAA. Kuhn also succeeded and in 2008 he received a scholarship from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff , where he played for the university team Lumberjacks in the Big Sky Conference . Here, however, he only had six short-minute assignments until the end of 2008 before he broke off his study stay and returned to Germany to TV Langen.

After Kuhn had two short appearances for the first team of TV Langen in the second division at the end of the ProA 2008/09 season , Kuhn moved one division deeper into the ProB 2009/10 to the syndicate of TSG Ehingen and the Urspring School for the following season . After finishing fourth in 2010, he and the team from Ehingen reached the 2011 championship of this division and promotion to the second-highest division ProA in the newly introduced play-offs . It beat Kuhn's former team, the Langener who had previously been relegated, in the quarter-finals. Kuhn himself did not stay in Ehingen, but moved to the new league competitor BasCats from Cuxhaven on the North Sea coast. The BasCats came in the ProA 2011/12 only to 13th place in the table behind promoted Ehingen. After an injury to his knee, Kuhn only made twelve appearances for the BasCats and he moved to Heidelberg to the old master USC, which as MLP Academics placed tenth ahead of the Ehingern, but also made it into the play-offs for the Missed the climb. In Heidelberg, Kuhn was very consistent in the ProA 2012/13 and in an average of 20 minutes per game he scored almost nine points and got six rebounds . Nevertheless, the team behind the Ehingern in ninth place again missed a win in the play-offs. Kuhn moved on and moved to Thuringia , where the former first division club Science City from Jena was represented in the ProA 2013/14 this time in the play-offs for promotion. Here they lost as fifth in the main round in the first round in just under five games of the play-off series against the former first division relegated Gießen 46ers .

For the 2014/15 season, Kuhn stayed in the region where his father was born, but moved one league higher to Central German BC in Weißenfels . In the top German league, however, in 25 season appearances, he only got an average of a good five minutes per game. He played his best game at the beginning of November 2014 against the future German champions Brose Baskets , where he scored ten points and seven rebounds in just under ten minutes. However, the best start to the season for MBC in the top German division was followed by a series of defeats that almost put the team in the risk of relegation, and the 2014/15 basketball Bundesliga was finally in twelfth place in the table. After decreasing working hours, Kuhn also tried to leave for private reasons and he switched back to the Neckar for the following season to the MLP Academics in the ProA 2015/16 . After the Heidelberg team missed another play-off position in tenth place in the final table , Kuhn moved one class lower to the ScanPlus Baskets Elchingen , which had already played first-class in the 1990s, for ProB 2016/17 .

In the 2017/18 season, Kuhn and the Elchers, who had already declared before the final that they had not applied for a ProA license, became champions of the 2nd Bundesliga ProB. He contributed to the success in 31 missions on average 11.3 points and 6.6 rebounds. With Elchingen, he became ProB-Süd champion of the 2019/20 season, which ended prematurely in mid-March 2020 due to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anna Blumtritt: MBC ends the squad planning with the engagement of Center Kristian Kuhn. (No longer available online.) Central German Basketball Club , July 16, 2014, formerly in the original ; Retrieved on October 4, 2015 (media info; source for place of birth).  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.mitteldeutscherbc.de  
  2. ^ Cardinals in the Pros. (No longer available online.) Trinity Valley Community College tvcc.edu, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on October 4, 2015 (English, overview of alumni who played in the NBA). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.tvcc.edu
  3. ↑ 2008-09 NAU Men's Basketball: # 50 Kristian Kuhn. (No longer available online.) Northern Arizona University , formerly original ; accessed on October 4, 2015 (English, individual seasonal statistics).  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / nauathletics.com  
  4. ↑ a b c d Beko BBL - Player Statistics - Kristian Kuhn. (No longer available online.) Basketball Bundesliga , archived from the original on October 6, 2015 ; accessed on October 4, 2015 (player profile on statistics pages). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / statistik.beko-bbl.de
  5. ↑ Sascha Burger: Most of them are doing really well. Südwest Presse , February 21, 2012, accessed October 4, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Birger Zentner: Kristian Kuhn is in a three-way battle at MBC. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung mz-web.de, December 26, 2014, accessed October 4, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Birger Zentner: Despite the break in play, MBC coach Silvano Poropat has his hands full. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung mz-web.de, May 6, 2015, accessed on October 4, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Kristian Kuhn returns to Heidelberg. 2. Basketball Bundesliga , May 26, 2015, accessed on October 4, 2015 (Medien-Info MLP Academics).
  9. ↑ https://scanplusbaskets.de/index.php/newsfeed-baskets/336-proa-ja-aber-nicht-in-diesem-jahr
  10. ↑ http://www.zweite-basketball-bundesliga.de/teams/kader/419/#tab-stats
  11. ↑ 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Coronavirus: Game operations in the ProA and ProB will be ended prematurely. Retrieved March 17, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kuhn, Kristian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Seeheim-Jugenheim , Germany