Malik Müller

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Basketball player
Malik Müller
Player information
birthday January 24, 1994 (26 years and 221 days)
place of birth Frankfurt am Main , Germany
size 190 cm
position Shooting Guard / Point Guard
college Virginia Tech
Jersey number 12
Clubs as active
2007–2013 Team Urspring ( JBBL / NBBL ) 2010–2013 erdgas Ehingen / Urspring School 2014–2015 Virginia Tech Hokies ( NCAA ) 2015–2017 Brose Baskets 2015–2017 → Baunach Young Pikes 2017–2018 BG Göttingen 2018 MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg 2018–2020 Hamburg TowersGermanyGermany
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Malik Müller (born January 24, 1994 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German basketball player . In his youth, Müller was a student at the basketball boarding school at the Urspring School , where he won two championships in the youth basketball league (NBBL) with the youth team . The participant in the Jordan Brand Classic tournament then played during a study visit to the United States in the Atlantic Coast Conference of the NCAA university league, before the former junior selection player returned to Germany after two years in 2015 and became a professional basketball player with the German champions Brose Baskets Bamberg .

Career

Müller began playing basketball at EOSC Offenbach, where the old international, NCAA champion and multiple German title holder Henrik Rödl had also started playing. In contrast to Rödl, however, Müller went to the boarding school of the Urspring School in Schelklingen , Württemberg , at the age of 13 , which has an ambitious school team. From Schelklingen, Müller was spotted early on for DBB selection teams . At the Albert Schweitzer Tournament 2010, the host DBB started with two teams, as the younger generation should prepare for their role as host in the summer of 2010 at the U17 World Cup in Hamburg . As the youngest player of the younger U17 selection, Müller was involved in the fact that this team took a formidable third place in Mannheim , which was secured in the game for the bronze medal against the selection of the United States .

Then, almost ten days later, Müller was used as one of ten nominated Europeans and the only German for the invitation game of the Internationals at the Jordan Brand Classic in New York's Madison Square Garden , where he was the most effective player of the game despite the defeat of his selection as Internationals MVP was awarded. In the premier season of the youth basketball league (JBBL) 2010, Müller and his Urspring teammates failed in the semifinals at the Top Four tournament in Bamberg with just two points difference to the eventual title winner of the IBBA from Berlin . After two opening wins at the U17 World Cup, the German selection lost significantly against the eventual finalists Poland with 33:79 and could only win one of the other five games, so that as hosts in Hamburg it was only enough for eighth place.

In cooperation with TSG Ehingen, the Schelklingen trainees start not only in the men's team in the 2nd basketball league but also in the junior basketball league (NBBL). There, Müller and his teammates were able to defend the 2011 NBBL Top Four title and secure the fourth title win in five events. NBBL runner-up TSV Tröster Breitengüßbach , junior cooperation partner of the then German men's champion Brose Baskets, was able to return the favor at the following final tournament and dethroned the native students in the semifinals in 2012, before Müller and his teammates competed at the 2013 Top Four tournament in Bamberg, the like 2010 took place in the Forum Bamberg , was able to get back the title from the host and defending champion TSV Tröster in the final. At the U18 European Championship finals, Müller, along with Paul Zipser and İsmet Akpınar, among others, only came in a disappointing 14th and third from bottom, so that the DBB youngsters were relegated to Division B for the time being. This placement could not be improved in the U20 European Championship finals two years later, even if this place in an expanded field of participants was enough to stay in Division A.

In the men's team of the Ehingen cooperation partners, Müller had already celebrated his premiere with two appearances in the third-highest division ProB 2009/10 . After the Ehinger in 2011 were promoted to the second highest division ProA , the playing time of the junior player Müller doubled and increased further to almost 18 minutes per game in 18 appearances of the ProA 2011/12 . After finishing eleventh in 2012, the former promoted player in the ProA 2012/13 finally reached eighth place in the first-time qualification for the play-offs for promotion to the top division. In the first play-off round they lost significantly against the main round first and later promoted SC Rasta Vechta . In that season, Müller showed a good nine points per game in a good 22 minutes of playing time per game, a very solid performance for a 19-year-old male player.

Müller then realized his dream of studying in the United States , the motherland of basketball. He received an athletic scholarship from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2013 , but the NCAA college league withdrew his eligibility to play, so he had to miss a year of championship games. In the second year, Müller was able to play under a new coach for the Hokies university team in the particularly strong Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) in the NCAA, but the new coach was already planning with other players. Similar to original student Lucca Staiger before, Müller therefore dropped out and returned to Germany, where he got a three-year contract with the German champion Brose Baskets in Bamberg . After initially individual appearances in the top division, where he made his debut in the away win at the Tigers Tübingen in early November 2015, Müller initially played mainly in the farm team Young Pikes from neighboring Baunach in the second division, 2nd Bundesliga ProA, with a double license . From the 2017/18 season he belonged exclusively to the Bamberg Bundesliga squad. In mid-December 2017, Müller asked for his contract to be terminated, and Bamberg complied with the request. Until then, Müller had played a total of eight Bundesliga games for the team, two in the 2015/16 season (four and a half minutes playing time, two points per match on average), six in the 2017/18 season (eight and a half minutes playing time and two points per match on average ). After leaving Bamberg, Müller moved to the BG Göttingen within the Bundesliga . He parted ways with the Göttingen team back in February 2018, after having played four Bundesliga games for the "Veilchen". Müller moved within the Bundesliga to the MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg , for whom he played in 20 Bundesliga games (4.4 points on average) until the end of the 2017/18 season.

In July 2018, second division Hamburg Towers announced Müller's commitment. He won the championship title in the 2nd Bundesliga ProA with the Hanseatic League in the 2018/19 season , contributed an average of 6.2 points per match and thus made it to the basketball Bundesliga. In the 2019/20 season, he played only seven games due to an injury; in the summer of 2020 he announced that he would take a one-year basketball break and devote himself to composing music.

Others

Müller is one of the protagonists of the “Basketball School” DVD series from 1x1-Sport and the Urspring School .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörn Polzin: Malik Müller before a big jump. Offenbach-Post , November 6, 2015, accessed on November 21, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Germany U17. Deutscher Basketball Bund , 2010, accessed on November 21, 2015 (squad overview).
  3. ↑ U17 boys win bronze after a sensational tournament. German Basketball Federation , April 10, 2010, accessed on November 21, 2015 (German / English, match report as media information).
  4. ↑ Jordan Brand Classic: Malik Müller is MVP. German Basketball Association , April 19, 2010, accessed on November 21, 2015 (media info).
  5. ↑ Christian Schneider: An interview with U-17 national player Malik Müller: “I experienced Michael Jordan's aura”. Spox.com , July 2, 2010, accessed November 21, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Jan Finken, Jörg Bähre: NBBL / JBBL TOP4 2010: TOP4 - semi-finals: Marin throws IBBA into the JBBL final. Junior Basketball Bundesliga , 2010, accessed on November 21, 2015 (match report as media info).
  7. ↑ NBBL / JBBL TOP4 2011: NBBL Finale 2011. Junior Basketball League , 2011, accessed on November 21, 2015 (match report as media information).
  8. ↑ NBBL / JBBL TOP4 2013: NBBL Finale 2013. Junior Basketball League , 2013, accessed on November 21, 2015 (match report as media information).
  9. ↑ Germany / U18 European Championship Men (2012). FIBA Europe , accessed on November 22, 2015 (English, squad overview and reports).
  10. ↑ a b Player Statistics - Malik Müller - Erdgas Ehingen. (No longer available online.) Basketball Bundesliga , archived from the original on November 23, 2015 ; accessed on November 21, 2015 (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
  11. ↑ Associated Press : Hokies' Malik Mueller ineligible. ESPN , October 1, 2013, accessed November 22, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Manuel Baraniak: Malik Müller not eligible to play. (No longer available online.) Basketball.de, October 2, 2013, archived from the original on November 23, 2015 ; accessed on November 22, 2015 . 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 / basketball.de
  13. ↑ Malik Muller Stats. Sports Reference LLC, accessed November 22, 2015 (English, Individual Statistics).
  14. ↑ Malik Müller signs with Brose Baskets. Franconian Day , July 20, 2015, accessed on November 21, 2015 .
  15. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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 / basketball.de
  16. ↑ https://www.brosebamberg.de/saison/news/nachricht/artikel/brose-bamberg-und-malik-mueller-loesen-vertrag-auf/
  17. ↑ Müller moves to Göttingen - Simon no longer in the squad - BG Göttingen . In: BG Göttingen . December 12, 2017 ( bggoettingen.de [accessed December 12, 2017]).
  18. ↑ https://www.bggoettingen.de/veilchen-verlaengern-vertrag-mit-kamp-mueller-nicht-mehr-im-kader/
  19. ↑ https://www.sport.de/news/ne3099702/mhp-riesen-verpflichten-malik-mueller/
  20. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 18, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) 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.hamburgtowers.de
  21. ↑ BARMER 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Squad. Retrieved on May 4, 2019 (German).
  22. ↑ https://www.easycredit-bbl.de/de/statistiken/player/portraits/p/15563-malik-mueller/
  23. ↑ https://www.mopo.de/sport/towers/malik-mueller-towers-basketballer-macht-pause-und-widmet-sich-der-musik-37185528
  24. ↑ Basketball training . In: 1x1Sport Akademie . ( 1x1sport.de [accessed December 20, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Malik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main , Germany