Marcus Smallwood

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Marcus Smallwood (born February 19, 1982 in Elgin, Illinois ) is a retired American basketball player .

career

Smallwood finished his four-year tenure at Northern Illinois University in 2004 as the eleventh best scorer (1276 points) and sixth best rebounder (843 rebounds) in the history of the college team. His 145 blocked throws were the second best value.

His career as a professional basketball player began with Astoria Bydgoszcz. The 1.98-meter-long winger played four appearances for the Polish first division team in the 2004/05 season with averages of 9 points and 9.5 rebounds before moving on to Finland. For Pyrbasket Tampere, he scored an average of 13.5 points and 10.8 rebounds in six first division games. There was also a short engagement in Tampere, as well as in Sweden  with the Solna Vikings , for whom he played a month, then returned to the United States and in spring 2005 joined the Windy City Dawgs team in the US International Basketball League (IBL ) connected.

In the 2005/06 season Smallwood was under contract with Forssan Koripojat in the Finnish second division and came there in 26 games to 19.7 points and 11.1 rebounds per encounter. He then stayed in his home country for two years, worked as a trading broker and played for the Elgin Racers in the IBL. In 2008 he signed a contract with the German second division team Saar-Pfalz Braves , after he  had traveled to Frankfurt am Main on his own to recommend himself at a viewing tournament. He stayed with the Palatinate until 2010, and after the 2009/10 season Smallwood was named the best winger of the 2nd Bundesliga ProA by the specialist portal eurobasket.com  . In the 2010/11 season he was initially in the same league with the Cuxhaven BasCats under contract. At Lower Saxony he was team captain and scored 12.6 points and 10.9 rebounds per game. At the end of November 2010, he asked in Cuxhaven to terminate the contract in order to switch to the relay competitor VfL Kirchheim Knights , which caused disappointment and incomprehension in Cuxhaven. In Kirchheim he was used in 20 second division games by the end of the 2010/11 season, with 15.7 points, 10.8 rebounds and 2.1 blocks per game, he achieved top values. He was the league-wide leader in rebounds, and in the blocked throws he was second in the league rankings.

In the run-up to the 2011/12 season, Smallwood was signed by the Mitteldeutscher BC (then also 2. Bundesliga ProA). At the end of November 2011 there was a separation between the team and the American, with an average of 6.5 points and 4.8 rebounds, he was below the expectations of the MBC team management. Smallwood then moved to Sigal Prishtina in Kosovo , but returned to Germany in mid-December 2011 and signed a contract with the then third division club SC Rasta Vechta .

In the 2012/13 season he was back in the service of VfL Kirchheim Knights in the 2nd Bundesliga ProA. After a short trip to the Czech Republic to visit BK Jindrichuv Hradec at the beginning of the 2013/14 season, Smallwood joined BIS Baskets Speyer in the 2nd Bundesliga ProB from November 2014 . He stayed there until the end of the 2014/15 season, in which he had shone with averages of 17.8 points and 12.8 rebounds.

In the 2015/16 season Smallwood was under contract with BG Karlsruhe in the 2nd Bundesliga ProB. He played 24 games for the BG (12.7 points, 9.6 rebounds / game). In mid-November 2016, third division team Scanplus Baskets Elchingen announced Smallwood's commitment, but the contract was canceled a few days later because the American did not pass the sports medical examination.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Anna Blumtritt: MBC OBLIGATES THE BEST REBOUNDER OF THE PRO A: MARCUS SMALLWOOD BECOMES A WOLF. In: MBC. July 18, 2011, accessed on August 10, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/niuhuskies.com/documents/2019/11/8/2019_20_NIU_Men_s_Basketball_Record_Book.pdf
  3. ↑ PLK.PL: Koszykówka - Polish Basketball League. Retrieved August 10, 2020 (Polish).
  4. ↑ a b Pelaaja. In: basket.fi. Retrieved August 10, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Colin DECAIR: Smallwood back in states. In: Northern Star. April 11, 2005, accessed August 10, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b Saarbrücker Zeitung: The popular giant. Retrieved August 10, 2020 .
  7. ^ International Basketball League - Marcus Smallwood Stats. Retrieved August 10, 2020 .
  8. ↑ PROA_2009-2010 Basketball League GERMANY - eurobasket. Accessed August 10, 2020 (English).
  9. ↑ BasCats captain disembark. Retrieved on August 10, 2020 (German).
  10. ↑ Anna Blumtritt: MBC separates from Center Marcus Smallwood. In: MBC. November 29, 2011, accessed on August 10, 2020 (German).
  11. ↑ Yumpu.com: S'JENI PER EUROPE - Gazeta Express. Retrieved August 10, 2020 (xx).
  12. ↑ RASTA Vechta signs Marcus Smallwood. Retrieved August 10, 2020 .
  13. ^ Luka: Marcus Smallwood signs with Kirchheim. In: Court Side Newspaper. September 18, 2012, accessed August 10, 2020 (American English).
  14. ↑ Erik: Marcus Smallwood leaves Jindrichuv Hradec. In: Court Side Newspaper. October 17, 2013, Retrieved August 10, 2020 (American English).
  15. ↑ Basketball: TGW before a difficult task against Marcus Smallwood and Co. November 28, 2014, accessed on August 10, 2020 (German).
  16. ↑ New addition to the ScanPlus Baskets - Marcus Smallwood in the Elche jersey - BARMER 2nd Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved on August 10, 2020 (German).
  17. ↑ https://www.2basketballbundesliga.de/teams/kader/player/3421/ ?
  18. ↑ ScanPlus Baskets: Contract termination with newcomer Marcus Smallwood - BARMER 2. Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved on August 10, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Smallwood, Marcus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH 19th February 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Elgin (Illinois)