Marcel Keßen

Marcel Keßen
Player information
Full name	Marcel Theodor Keßen
birthday	January 2, 1997
place of birth	Hohenlimburg, Germany
size	205 cm
position	Power Forward / Center
Club information
society	Polar bears Bremerhaven
league	2nd Bundesliga ProA
Jersey number	20th
Clubs as active
Until 02012 Basketball Boele-Kabel 2011–2016 Phoenix Hagen 2012–2016 → TuS Iserlohn Kangaroos 2016–2020 EWE Baskets Oldenburg / BAWE-OTB Since 2020 Eisbären Bremerhaven 0

Marcel Theodor Keßen (born January 2, 1997 in Hohenlimburg , Hagen ) is a German basketball player . He has been playing for the Eisbären Bremerhaven since 2020 .

Keßen was trained in the Phoenix Hagen youth team .

Career

In his youth, Keßen played with Jonas Grof at the Boele -Kabel club. Both were also part of the youth team of the local first division club Phoenix Hagen in the youth basketball league (JBBL), which was coached by Matthias Grothe , the long-time team captain of the Phoenix men's team. There they missed the entry into the nationwide final tournament in their own hall in 2012, after losing in the play-offs to the later title winner and Westphalian competitor Paderborn Baskets around the two selection players Lars Kamp and Niklas Kiel . While Grof then already moved up to the youth team in the youth basketball league (NBBL), Keßen missed together with Haris Hujić again in the play-off quarter-finals in the 2013 top four. In the NBBL team from Phoenix Hagen They failed in 2014 with a very young team before the play-offs, but in the following season with Jonas Grof, who returned from a year abroad, this time they made it into the top four , which was again played in front of their own audience in Hagen has been. After Hujić had already been awarded the NBBL's Most Valuable Player (MVP) as a middle-class NBBL year-old in 1997 , the Hagen team was also given a chance to win the title. But as in 2012 and 2013, the NBBL team from Phoenix Hagen lost in the semi-finals, this time very close after two extra times against the offspring from Eintracht Frankfurt. Kessen's performance with 18 points and rebounds in this game was surpassed by his " nemesis " Niklas Kiel, who now played in Frankfurt and got 24 points and 22 rebounds. The two opponents then played together in the youth national team in the summer of 2015 and achieved a respectable eighth place in the U18 European Championship finals in Greece after two years in a comparatively very talented team, which also included the younger Isaiah Hartenstein was previously sixth in the U16 European Championship finals. After Grof's retirement due to age and Hujić's due to a change of club, the NBBL team from Phoenix has little chance of participating in the final again in 2016.

By means of a double license , Keßen played individual games in the 1st Regionalliga West from 2012 with the men of the former second division club TuS Iserlohn Kangaroos, who is also trained by his youth coach Grothe. In 2014, NOMA Kangaroos returned to the 2nd basketball league , in which the third-highest division, ProB 2014/15, was promoted to the first main place in the group south. Keßen, who was not yet 18 at the beginning of the season, had an average of 17 minutes of playing time in 21 main round games, in which he got a good seven points and four rebounds per game for the men. In the promotion play-offs they were eliminated in the semi-final series against the north third SC Rist Wedel and then renounced the promotion that was still possible. After Keßen was able to assert himself in the third highest division, he was already used by Phoenix head coach Ingo Freyer at the end of the 2014/15 Bundesliga basketball season alongside his long-time teammate Jonas Grof in the top German division. He made his debut in the penultimate game of the season and, together with an appearance in the last game of the season, had an average playing time of just under ten minutes. Faced with a budget-related shortage of players in the frontcourt that Kessen in was expected Basketball League 2015/16 much more regular also comes in the German top flight for use. He played ten Bundesliga games with an average of around 15 minutes per game for Hagen in the 2016/17 season before the team was deregistered from Bundesliga operations after bankruptcy.

On December 20, 2016, Keßen was signed by the Baskets Akademie Weser-Ems (BAWE) from the 2nd Bundesliga ProB . The BAWE syndicate with the Oldenburger TB serves the Bundesliga club EWE Baskets Oldenburg as a youth team. Via the ProB team, he should recommend himself for assignments in Oldenburg's Bundesliga squad. In May 2017 he was appointed to the squad of the German U20 national team.

Keßen made 55 Bundesliga appearances for Oldenburg, and in summer 2020 he moved to the second division Eisbären Bremerhaven .

Web links

• easyCredit BBL - Marcel Kessen - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
• Marcel Keßen - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Phoenix Hagen Juniors: Chance of a "home title"? Junior Basketball League , May 15, 2015, accessed on October 4, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Axel Gaiser: Junior League: Comeback kids run out of steam in the second extension. DerWesten.de , May 17, 2015, p. 2 , accessed October 4, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Player: Marcel Keßen. 2. Basketball Bundesliga , accessed on October 4, 2015 (player profile; applicable statistics for the 2014/15 season must be selected accordingly). 
4. ↑ EWE Baskets Oldenburg: Baskets Akademie and Marcel Keßen go together. (No longer available online.) In: ewe-baskets.de. Archived from the original on December 21, 2016 ; Retrieved December 20, 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.  
5. ↑ http://www.basketball-bund.de/news/teams/jugend/u20-herren/henrik-roedl-nominiert-u20-herren-172194
6. ↑ https://www.easycredit-bbl.de/de/statistiken/player/portraits/p/30113-marcel-kessen/
7. ↑ https://www.2basketballbundesliga.de/marcel-kessen-verstaeckt-die-eisbaeren-unterm-korb/