Leon scratches

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Basketball player
Leon scratches
Player information
birthday February 4, 1997
place of birth Bayreuth, Germany
size 212 cm
position center
Club information
society Telekom Baskets Bonn
league Basketball Bundesliga
Jersey number 12
Clubs as active
Until 002011 BBC Bayreuth 2011–2016 TSV Tröster B'güßbach ( JBBL / NBBL ) 2013–2015 BCM Baunach 2015–2017 Brose Bamberg 2015–2017 → Baunach Young Pikes 2017–2018 see Oliver Würzburg 2018 Brose Bamberg 2018–2020 Skyliners Frankfurt since 2020 Telekom Baskets BonnGermanyGermany
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Leon Kratzer (born February 4, 1997 in Bayreuth ) is a German basketball player . He is the son of the former national player Marc Suhr .

In his youth, Kratzer switched to the junior teams of the then German men's champions Brose Baskets in Upper Franconia , whose best junior players are organized in TSV Tröster Breitengüßbach. In 2013, the former youth selection player also became active with the men of BCM Baunach in the second-highest German division ProA . For the 2015/16 season, Kratzer received a professional contract with Brose Baskets, but was also used with TSV Tröster in the youth basketball league (NBBL) and with the Baunachers in the 2nd Bundesliga ProA with a double license . After a station in Würzburg and a short return to Bamberg, he joined the Skyliners Frankfurt and then the Telekom Baskets Bonn .

Career

After Kratzer, as one of the youngest players in the squad, had already played individual games for his home club from Bayreuth in the youth basketball league (JBBL) in the 2010/11 season , he then switched to regional competitor TSV Tröster from Breitengüßbach , who was with cooperated with the then German masters Brose Baskets from Bamberg and concentrated his most promising young players in his teams. In the second year of 2013, the team moved into the JBBL final game with just one defeat of the season, where despite 25 points and 18 rebounds from Kratzer in front of their own audience at the final tournament, the youngsters of the German men's record champions Bayer Giants Leverkusen were defeated 54:64. With the German youth selection , Kratzer had a similar individually dominant game at the U16 European Championship finals in 2013 in the intermediate round victory against the eventual European champions Spain with 22 points and 20 rebounds, but the selection for JBBL- MVP Niklas Kiel occupied after three final defeats in the knockout. -System of medals and placement round only eighth place. After Kratzer was promoted to the TSV Tröster U19 squad in the youth basketball league (NBBL) in 2013, he missed the NBBL top four tournament twice with the NBBL team . This happened to the NBBL champion in 2012 and runner-up in 2011 and 2013 since the NBBL was founded in 2006, otherwise only in 2010. At the U18 European Championship finals in 2015, Kratzer was again represented in the squad of the German junior team, which again only reached eighth place.

After the men's team of TSV Tröster was relegated to the regional league as the Brose Baskets farm team after more than two decades in the second division in 2013 , the men's team of the promoted 1. FC Baunach replaced the farm team of the Bamberg first division club. For the ProB 2013/14 , Kratzer with a double license also moved into the Baunach men's squad, which competed in the third highest men's division under the Bike-Café Messingschlager company . After a moderate start to the season, at the end of the season in eighth place in the group south they could just reach the play-offs for promotion, in which they then moved into the final series. Despite the defeat in the final series in a two-legged match against the farm team BAWE OTB of the first division club EWE Baskets Oldenburg , the promotion right to the second highest division ProA had been achieved. In contrast to the ProB champion BAWE OTB, the Baunach farm team also exercised this right and just barely missed the promotion play-offs in the top division in the ProA 2014/15 as a climber in ninth place. Kratzer’s game shares in the men increased from an average of a good ten minutes per game in the ProB main round over more than a quarter of an hour in the ProB play-offs 2014 to just under 20 minutes playing time per game in the ProA 2014/15. Kratzer achieved his first double-double in the second highest men's division in the home game against Paderborn Baskets at the end of February 2015 with twelve points and 14 rebounds in 22 minutes. By the end of the season, Kratzer achieved another double-double and had four more follow in ten appearances at the beginning of the following ProA 2015/16 season , in which his playing time increased to more than 25 minutes per game.

In the summer of 2016, he traveled to Finland with the U20 national team and finished the tournament in fourth place.

After the 2016/17 season, Kratzer was voted ProA player of the year in the 2nd basketball division. He was named the best German player of the ProA game year by the internet service eurobasket.com . For the 2017/18 season he moved to s.Oliver Würzburg . At the U20 European Championship in the summer of 2017, he reached seventh place overall with the German team and scored an average of 8.6 points per match.

In 2018, Kratzer registered for the NBA draft proceedings , but had his name removed from the list of candidates in June 2018.

His time in Würzburg lasted a year, he was used in 28 Bundesliga games in the 2017/18 season, in which he scored an average of 3.3 points. In July 2018 Brose Bamberg announced Kratzer's return. In November 2018 he switched to Bundesliga competitor Skyliners Frankfurt . In May 2019 he was appointed to the A2 national team and completed his participation in the Summer Universiade in Naples in July 2019 in fifth place. At the beginning of February 2020, national coach Henrik Rödl appointed him to the senior national team for the first time and in the same month helped him make his first international appearance in the European Championship qualifier against France.

In the summer of 2020, Kratzer moved to the Telekom Baskets Bonn within the Bundesliga .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eberhard Spaeth: Basketball: Leon Kratzer from Bayreuth fulfills his dream. Nordbayerischer Kurier , March 28, 2015, accessed on November 21, 2015 (see caption).
  2. ↑ Brose Baskets equip Leon Kratzer with a long-term contract. (No longer available online.) Brose Baskets , March 18, 2015, archived from the original on November 22, 2015 ; accessed on November 21, 2015 (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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.brosebaskets.de
  3. ↑ JBBL Ost teams - player profile: Leon Kratzer / 2010/2011 season. (No longer available online.) Junior Basketball League , archived from the original on November 20, 2015 ; accessed on November 21, 2015 (individual seasonal statistics). 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 / www.nbbl-basketball.de
  4. ↑ NBBL / JBBL TOP4 2013: JBBL Finale 2013. Junior Basketball League , 2013, accessed on November 21, 2015 (media information).
  5. ↑ Germany - Spain / U16 European Championship Men (2013). FIBA Europa , August 12, 2013, accessed on November 21, 2015 (English, game statistics).
  6. ↑ U20 men miss the European Championship medal. In: www.basketball-bund.de. German Basketball Association, accessed on August 10, 2016 .
  7. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/zweite.basketball.bundesliga/photos/a.184256954953755.39313.161351603910957/1410661342313304/?type=3&theater
  8. ↑ http://www.eurobasket.com/Germany/basketball-League-ProA_2016-2017.asp
  9. ↑ http://www.infranken.de/regionalsport/bamberg/Leon-Kratzer-wechselelt-nach-Wuerzburg;art287,2732872
  10. ↑ http://www.fiba.com/europe/u20/2017/Germany
  11. ↑ https://sports.abs-cbn.com/nba/news/2018/04/25/2018-nba-draft-sees-236-early-entry-candidates-40752
  12. ↑ https://www.radiogong.com/index.php?id=radio-gong-regionalnews&singleID=56139
  13. ↑ Brose Bamberg brings Leon Kratzer back , br.de from July 12, 2018
  14. ↑ https://www.brosebamberg.de/saison/news/nachricht/artikel/leon-kratzer-verlaesst-brose-bamberg/
  15. ↑ https://www.basketball-bund.de/news/teams/a2-herren/a2-herren-universiade-neapel-hoehepunkt-197251
  16. ↑ Universiade: A2 men in fifth place. German Basketball Association, accessed on July 13, 2019 .
  17. ↑ European Championship qualification men: 14 players nominated. In: German Basketball Association. Retrieved February 4, 2020 .
  18. ↑ DBB men defeat France. German Basketball Association, accessed on February 23, 2020 .
  19. ↑ https://www.telekom-baskets-bonn.de/presse/news/artikel/von-frankfurt-nach-bonn-leon-kratzer-kom-zu-den-baskets.html
personal data
SURNAME Scratch, Leon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth , Germany