Maik Zirbes

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Basketball player
Maik Zirbes
Zirbes 2017 in the German national jersey
Player information
birthday January 29, 1990
place of birth Traben-Trarbach , Germany
size 207 cm
position center
Club information
society Shabab Al Ahli
Jersey number 33
Clubs as active
2006–2009 TBB Junior Team ( NBBL ) 2007–2012 TBB Trier 2010 → Saar-Pfalz Braves ( DL ) 2012–2014 Brose Baskets 2014–2016 Red Star Belgrade 2016–2017 Maccabi Tel Aviv 2017–2018 FC Bayern Munich 2018–2019 Red Star Belgrade 2019 Guangxi Weizhuang 2019–2020 Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana Since 2020 Shabab Al AhliGermanyGermany
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1 As of February 27, 2019

Maik Hendrik Zirbes (born January 29, 1990 in Traben-Trarbach ) is a German national basketball player . The 2.07 meter center was promoted in the youth area of ​​the Bundesliga club TBB Trier from 2005 and made it into the basketball Bundesliga there . In the further course of his career he won the German championship with Brose Baskets Bamberg and FC Bayern Munich . Zirbes' international stations were Maccabi Tel Aviv , Red Star Belgrade , Guangxi Weizhuang, Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana and, since 2020, Shabab Al Ahli .

Success as a youth player

In 2008 Maik Zirbes took part with the German U18 national team at the renowned Albert Schweitzer tournament in Mannheim and at the U18 European Championship in Greece. At both tournaments he was one of the individually outstanding players. In addition, this year he won the DBB Youth Cup with the U18 team of SFG Bernkastel in Berlin . After the end of the 2008/09 season he was recognized as the most valuable player in the NBBL .

Professional career

TBB Trier

In the 2009/10 season , Zirbes was used in 28 Bundesliga games for Trier , but overall did not get beyond the status of a supplementary player. He received additional match practice as a double licensed player in Pro A , where he scored an average of 8.9 points in 14 games for the Saar-Palatinate Braves .

In the 2010/11 season Maik Zirbes was again in the squad of TBB Trier and made his breakthrough as a Bundesliga player. The new coach Henrik Rödl placed him as a center in the starting lineup from the start. In 34 appearances in the Bundesliga and a field throw rate of over 60 percent, Zirbes increased his average point from 1.6 to 7.5.

After a further boost in performance in the first half of the 2011/12 season , Zirbes was nominated for the first time for the Bundesliga all-star game in January 2012 . He scored 14 points for the selection of the best German players in the league, supervised by his club coach Rödl. With an average of 10.6 points and 7.1 rebounds per game, Zirbes was a guarantee for Trier's relegation, which was only confirmed on the penultimate game day. He recorded a total of 106 offensive rebounds, leading the Bundesliga rankings in this category. For his achievements in the 2011/12 season, the coaches voted him “ Best German Young Player ” and “ Most Improved Player ” in the league.

Brose Baskets

For the 2012/13 season Maik Zirbes moved to the then reigning German champion and cup winner Brose Baskets in Bamberg . Acting as Tibor Pleiß's successor , Zirbes played regularly in the Bamberg top five in both the Bundesliga and the Euroleague from the start of the season . In January 2013 he was in the starting line-up of the National Team, chosen by the fans, for the first time in the BBL All-Star Game. Shortly before, Zirbes had to put up with public criticism from Wolfgang Heyder , the managing director of Brose Baskets, who in an interview with BIG magazine attested that he had a "dangerous tendency towards complacency". The 2012/13 season ended for Brose Baskets with another win in the German championship, with Zirbes having an outstanding throw rate of 71 percent in the twelve play-off games against Phoenix Hagen , FC Bayern Munich and EWE Baskets Oldenburg .

For Brose Baskets, the 2013/14 season was characterized by several personnel changes in key positions right through to the final stages of the main Bundesliga round, with Maik Zirbes losing his place in the starting line-up to D'or Fischer over the course of the season . Accordingly, his shares of the game decreased compared to the first year in Bamberg, but he still achieved one of the best throwing rates in the entire league with over 66 percent.

Red Star Belgrade

After the early exit in the 2014 play-offs, head coach Chris Fleming was dismissed in Bamberg and the squad under his successor Andrea Trinchieri was heavily reorganized. Maik Zirbes also decided to change and accepted an offer from Red Star Belgrade in Serbia for two years . The first season with his new club was very successful: After winning the Serbian Cup , the team of coach Dejan Radonjić won the Adriatic Basketball League and finally the national championship for the first time in 17 years . In the last game of the final series against Partizan Belgrade , which Red Star won 3-0, Maik Zirbes was his team's top scorer with 17 points. In the ULEB Euroleague , Red Star Belgrade made it into the top 16.

In the 2015/16 season, Roter Stern Belgrade was able to build on the successes of the previous year, with Zirbes significantly increasing his personal statistics and advancing as "Iron Maik" to the leading player. In the Adriatic Basketball League, after finishing second in the main round, the team confidently defended their title with a 3-0 win in the playoff final against Mega Leks . Maik Zirbes was the best scorer and board player of his team in this competition with a seasonal average of 13.2 points and 5.9 rebounds. After completing the main round, he was elected to the league's All-Star Team. On the European level, Red Star reached the quarter-finals of the ULEB Euroleague , where they had to admit defeat to the later champion CSKA Moscow . With an average of 12.4 points in 27 games, Zirbes was able to more than double its yield compared to the previous year. At the end of the season, Zirbes and his team again won the Serbian championship.

Maccabi Tel Aviv

After two successful years, Maik Zirbes ended his engagement in Belgrade in the summer of 2016 and moved to the Israeli record champions Maccabi Tel Aviv together with his team-mate Quincy Miller . There he was used in 15 EuroLeague games and scored an average of 8.1 points and three rebounds. In the Israeli league he came to nine missions and averages of 8.3 points and 4.4 rebounds per game.

FC Bayern Munich

In January 2017 Maik Zirbes returned to Germany and was signed on loan from FC Bayern Munich . There he scored 8.3 points and 3.2 rebounds on average in 18 Bundesliga games. In July 2017, Zirbes signed a contract with Bayern for the 2017/18 season. The Munich team had previously signed the Serbian point guard Stefan Jović , with whom Zirbes had played very successfully in Belgrade. In the course of the season, Zirbes' former Belgrade coach Dejan Radonjić also joined Bayern as the successor to the dismissed Aleksandar Djordjević , who finally won the double for the first time in the club's history . The final opponent was Alba Berlin both in the cup and in the championship . Zirbes, who played a total of 72 competitive games this season, was used by both coaches as a substitute for Devin Booker and scored an average of 6.8 points and 3.3 rebounds in the Bundesliga with a playing time of 15 minutes. In the EuroCup , in which Bayern were eliminated in the semifinals, Zirbes averaged 5.9 points and 2.7 rebounds.

Red Star Belgrade

Zirbes returned to Roter Stern during the summer break of 2018. With the Serbian capital club, he won the championship title in the Adriatic basketball league for the third time in his career in spring 2019.

Guangxi Weizhuang

At the beginning of May 2019, Zirbes' move to the Chinese team Guangxi Weizhuang was  announced.

KK Union Olimpija

For the 2019/20 season, Zirbes accepted an offer from the top Slovenian team Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana  . In the Adriatic Basketball League, he scored 5.8 points per game for the team.

Shabab Al Ahli

In summer 2020 he moved to the Shabab Al Ahli team in the United Arab Emirates.

National team

At the age of 19, Zirbes made his debut in the German senior national team in a friendly against the Netherlands , but was subsequently not appointed to the squad for the 2009 European Championships in Poland by then national coach Dirk Bauermann .

Zirbes played his next international game in July 2012 during the second term of office of national coach Svetislav Pesic . After good performances in a few test matches and in the Supercup , he was nominated for the qualifying round for the 2013 European Championship , which was very successful with eight wins in eight games. Zirbes scored double-digit points in three games and achieved an average of 5.4 points overall.

In September 2013 Maik Zirbes took part in a men's European championship for the first time under Pesic's successor Frank Menz . Despite a surprising opening win against eventual European champions France , to which Zirbes contributed four points, the German team was eliminated from the tournament in Slovenia after the preliminary round. As a substitute in the center position, Zirbes worked on average under ten minutes.

In August 2014, in the absence of Tibor Pleiß , Maik Zirbes played the qualifying round for the European Championship 2015 as a center in the German starting line-up. As second in Group C, Germany secured participation in the tournament, with Zirbes recording an average of 7.2 points and 4.8 rebounds. A year later, however, he missed the European Championship finals due to a ligament injury that he had sustained in a preparatory tournament.

Style of play

Maik Zirbes is a classic center that is able to close to a high percentage close to the basket. He often creates pick and roll situations in conjunction with the point guard and thereby creates favorable throwing positions in the zone . The trade magazine BIG described Zirbes as "one of the best pick'n'roll centers in Europe". He is a reliable rebounder at both ends of the field and can change the opponent's game on the defensive due to his physically robust presence in the zone.

Achievements and Awards

Title wins

Personal awards in the basketball league

Personal awards in the Adriatic Basketball League

  • Elected to the Ideal Starting Five of the 2015/16 season

Web links

Commons : Maik Zirbes  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ International match statistics
  2. ↑ Two titles for Maik Zirbes . schoenen-dunk.de. Retrieved April 29, 2012.
  3. ↑ Zirbes is coming to Bamberg as the successor . spox.com. June 21, 2012. Retrieved February 20, 2014.
  4. ^ Starting formations for the Beko BBL Allstar Game . schoenen-dunk.de. December 14, 2012. Retrieved February 27, 2013.
  5. ↑ "I see a dangerous tendency towards complacency" . beko-bbl.de. January 7, 2013. Archived from the original on March 1, 2014. 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. Retrieved February 20, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.beko-bbl.de
  6. ↑ Maik Zirbes leads Crvena Zvezda to Serbian league title after 17 years . eurobasket.com. June 19, 2015. Accessed June 23, 2015.
  7. ↑ Interview Maik Zirbes - “Let's keep fighting together until the end” . aba-liga.com. February 10, 2016. Archived from the original on June 1, 2016. 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. Retrieved June 1, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aba-liga.com
  8. ↑ Dragicevic heads the Ideal Starting Five . aba-liga.com. March 11, 2016. Archived from the original on March 11, 2016. 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. Retrieved June 4, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aba-liga.com
  9. ↑ Maccabi signs frontcourt duo Miller, Zirbes . euroleague.net. June 13, 2016. Retrieved June 16, 2016.
  10. ↑ Maik Zirbes changes to FC Bayern Basketball - FC Bayern Basketball. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 24, 2017 ; accessed on January 24, 2017 . 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.fcb-basketball.de
  11. ↑ Maik Zirbes signs with FC Bayern . fcb-basketball.de. July 30, 2017. Accessed July 31, 2017.  ( 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 / www.fcb-basketball.de  
  12. ↑ EuroCup 2017-18 Statistics Maik Zirbes . eurocupbasketball.com. Retrieved June 18, 2018.
  13. ↑ Zirbes is active again for Crvena Zvezda. July 18, 2018, accessed April 24, 2019 .
  14. ↑ DBB Men Abroad 2018/2019 - Update 28th German Basketball Association, accessed on April 24, 2019 .
  15. ↑ dpa: National player Zirbes moves to China. In: morgenpost.de. May 3, 2019, accessed May 3, 2019 .
  16. ↑ https://www.cedevita.olimpija.com/novice/cedevita-olimpija-pod-obrocema-mocnejsa-za-maika-zirbesa
  17. ↑ https://www.aba-liga.com/player/2371/19/1/maik-zirbes/
  18. ↑ http://rs.n1info.com/Sport-Klub/Kosarka/a619077/Cirbes-nastavlja-karijeru-u-Emiratima.html
  19. ↑ Pesic nominates squad for European Championship qualification . basketball-bund.de. Retrieved August 18, 2012.
  20. ↑ EM statistics Germany . eurobasket.com. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
  21. ↑ Statistics EM qualification Maik Zirbes . fibaeurope.com. Retrieved August 28, 2014.
  22. ↑ Shock: Center Zirbes is missing injured at EM . sueddeutsche.de. August 21, 2015. Accessed August 27, 2020.
  23. ↑ BIG Special - Basketball Season 2017/18, p. 57
personal data
SURNAME Swiss pine, Maik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zirbes, Maik Hendrik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Traben-Trarbach , Germany