Matt Walsh (basketball player)

Player information
Matt Walsh

Full name	Matthew Vincent Walsh
birthday	2nd December 1982
place of birth	Holland (PA), USA
size	197 cm
position	Small Forward / Shooting Guard
college	Florida
Clubs as active
2002–2005 Florida Gators ( NCAA ) 2005 Miami Heat 2006 Arkansas RimRockers 2006–2007 Olympia Larisa 2007–2008 Ricoh Manresa 2008–2009 Spirou BC Charleroi 2009–2010 KK Union Olimpija 2010 Aris Thessaloniki 2010–2011 ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne 2011–2012 UCAM Murcia 2012 Caja Laboral Vitoria 2012 BK Asowmasch Mariupol 2012–2013 Spirou Charleroi 2013 Brose Baskets 2013–2014 Virtus Granarolo Bologna 2014–2015 Eskişehir BasketUnited States 00000 United States 00000United States Greece Spain Belgium Slovenia 00000Greece France Spain 00000Spain 00000Ukraine Belgium 00000Germany Italy Turkey

Matthew Vincent Walsh (born December 2, 1982 in Holland , Pennsylvania ) is a retired American basketball player . After a short career start in the highest endowed professional league NBA , Walsh played as a professional for nine years in various European countries. He was twice Belgian champion with Spirou BC Charleroi and 2012 Ukrainian runner-up with Azovmasch Mariupol. In the basketball Bundesliga 2012/13 Walsh was also German champion at Brose Baskets Bamberg, although he was absent at the end of the season due to injury.

Career

After high school, Walsh attended the "Prep School" Germantown Academy in Fort Washington until 2002 to prepare for college. He then spent three years at the University of Florida in Gainesville , where he played for the college team Gators in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) of the NCAA Division I. In each of the three seasons, the Gators were able to qualify for the national finals of the NCAA and never got beyond the second round. In 2005 the Gators, whose squad included the future NBA players Joakim Noah , Al Horford , Corey Brewer , Anthony Roberson , David Lee , Taurean Green and the later Bundesliga profile Lee Humphrey , won the SEC championship tournament. After leaving the NCAA finals, Walsh waived a fourth college season and signed up for the Entry Draft , while many of his teammates continued playing and won the NCAA college championship for the Gators for the first time the following year.

Walsh was not selected in the 2005 NBA draft , but was able to earn a place in the Miami Heat squad in the NBA through the "Summer League". After he had survived the "cut" before the start of the season for the final season squad, he was released after two missions in November 2005 and joined the Arkansas RimRockers in the NBA Development League at the beginning of the following year , where he was again with Roberson as well as with Clay Tucker among others . After he could not earn a place in an NBA squad in the Summer League in the summer of 2006, he moved to Europe for the 2006/07 season and played in the Greek A1 Ethniki for Olympia from Larisa . Together in a team with, among others, the German national player Stephen Arigbabu and the Greek young talent Giorgos Printezis , GS Olympia managed to qualify for the play-offs for the Greek championship for the first time after the seventh place in the main round , in which they were eliminated in the first round against Aris Saloniki . Walsh led the team with almost 18 points per game and was the second best scorer in the entire league and participant in the " All-Star Game " of the Greek league.

Matt Walsh (left with number 44) with Olimpija 2009 against Maccabi Tel Aviv

For the 2007/08 season Walsh moved to the Spanish ACB league to Ricoh Bàsquet from Manresa . For the Catalan first division returnee, Walsh was named Player of the Week on the fourth matchday because of his effectiveness values. In February 2008, however, the newcomer released Walsh from his contract and obliged Toby Bailey from the insolvent Cologne 99ers . Walsh moved to the Belgian league to Spirou BC from Charleroi , where he was able to bring back the championship title after a four-year break with Michael-Hakim Jordan, among others . In the following season 2008/09, in which Walsh was named Most Valuable Player in the Belgian league, you could even win the national double for the club. Walsh was also able to win the cup with champions KK Union Olimpija from Ljubljana in the following season 2009/10 in Slovenia . For the Slovenian club he was also appointed MVP of the second match day of the ULEB Euroleague 2009/10 , with the club not surviving the preliminary round of this highest European club competition after only one win in ten games. Again Walsh left a club early in February and moved back to Greece to Aris from Thessaloniki . Aris also reached seventh place and was eliminated in the play-off quarter-finals against Olympiacos .

For the 2010/11 season Walsh moved to the French LNB Pro A to the record champions ASVEL from Villeurbanne . ASVEL reached sixth in the main round of the play-off semifinal series, in which they were eliminated against the eventual champions SLUC Nancy . In November 2011 he returned to the ACB league and played for newly promoted UCAM from Murcia , which he left after two months. After another four-week contract with the Basque club Caja Laboral from Vitoria-Gasteiz , he played the season in the Basketball Superliga Ukraine for Azovmash from Mariupol to the end. The previously successful club, however, lost a championship final series for the second time in a row, this time against BK Donetsk, trained by Saša Obradović . For the 2012/13 season, Walsh returned to his former Belgian club Spirou BC, which had also lost the championship final series for the first time since 2008. Here he first played with former Bundesliga professionals Derrick Allen and Je'Kel Foster , before the latter moved back to the Bundesliga at Alba Berlin in December 2012 . For Walsh, February was once again the month of change, when, as top scorer and best rebounder in the Belgian league, he now also moved to the German basketball league to the previous double winner Brose Baskets from Bamberg . After the season and winning the championship again, in which Walsh only played five championship games in the Bundesliga and missed the play-offs due to injury, he moved to the traditional club Virtus from Bologna . However, this team could not qualify for the play-offs once again and improved slightly to 13th place, although Walsh's contract was then terminated despite almost 16 points and a good seven rebounds per game. The following season Walsh played in the Türkiye Basketbol Ligi for the team Olin, who had moved from Edirne to Eskişehir . Although Walsh was the second best scorer in the league with a good 18 points per game and the most effective player in the league, he could not prevent the relegation of his team as penultimate. Subsequently, in September 2015, before the start of the following season, Walsh announced his retirement from professional competitive sports.

Others

Walsh also attracted attention through his longstanding love affair with fellow student Lauren Anderson , who was a playmate in the US in both 2002 and Spain in 2008 when Walsh played for Manresa.

Web links

Commons : Matt Walsh - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

WALSH, MATT - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB ( English )
Matt Walsh Europe Stats - Individual statistics from European competitions at basketball-reference.com (English)
Matt Walsh - player profile on basketball-reference.com

Individual evidence

↑ ACB.COM: Matt Walsh. Liga ACB , accessed on February 21, 2016 (Spanish, player profile).
^ Week 2, co-MVPs: Tiago Splitter, Matt Walsh. ULEB , October 30, 2009, accessed February 28, 2013 .
^ Matt Walsh - Lyon-Villeurbanne - Joueurs - Pro A. Ligue Nationale de Basket , accessed on February 28, 2013 (French, player profile with statistics).
↑ Ulrike Ringer: Matt Walsh strengthens the Brose Baskets. Brose Baskets , February 19, 2013, accessed on February 28, 2013 (media information).
↑ Matt Walsh (Brose Baskets). Basketball Bundesliga , accessed on October 7, 2013 (player profile).
↑ Ulrike Ringer: Matt Walsh is injured. Brose Baskets , April 3, 2013, accessed on October 7, 2013 (media information).
↑ Luca Aquino: Giallo risolto, Walsh firma Biennale con la Virtus. Corriere di Bologna , August 2, 2013, accessed October 7, 2013 (Italian).
↑ Legabasket: Matt Walsh. Lega Basket Serie A , accessed February 21, 2016 (Italian, player profile).
^ Matt Walsh - Turkish Basketball League Player. TBLStat.net, accessed February 21, 2016 (English).
↑ Roc Massaguer: Matt Walsh, el hombre afortunado. Liga ACB , September 22, 2007, accessed February 28, 2013 (Spanish).
^ Carlos Jodar: Matt Walsh: tirador, estrella del Ricoh y novia 'chica Playboy'. Marca , September 23, 2007; Retrieved February 28, 2013 (Spanish).

personal data
SURNAME	Walsh, Matt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Walsh, Matthew Vincent (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH	2nd December 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH	Holland (Pennsylvania) , USA

[1] ACB.COM: Matt Walsh. Liga ACB , accessed on February 21, 2016 (Spanish, player profile).

[2] Week 2, co-MVPs: Tiago Splitter, Matt Walsh. ULEB , October 30, 2009, accessed February 28, 2013 .

[3] Matt Walsh - Lyon-Villeurbanne - Joueurs - Pro A. Ligue Nationale de Basket , accessed on February 28, 2013 (French, player profile with statistics).

[4] Ulrike Ringer: Matt Walsh strengthens the Brose Baskets. Brose Baskets , February 19, 2013, accessed on February 28, 2013 (media information).

[5] Matt Walsh (Brose Baskets). Basketball Bundesliga , accessed on October 7, 2013 (player profile).

[6] Ulrike Ringer: Matt Walsh is injured. Brose Baskets , April 3, 2013, accessed on October 7, 2013 (media information).

[7] Luca Aquino: Giallo risolto, Walsh firma Biennale con la Virtus. Corriere di Bologna , August 2, 2013, accessed October 7, 2013 (Italian).

[8] Legabasket: Matt Walsh. Lega Basket Serie A , accessed February 21, 2016 (Italian, player profile).

[9] Matt Walsh - Turkish Basketball League Player. TBLStat.net, accessed February 21, 2016 (English).

[10] Roc Massaguer: Matt Walsh, el hombre afortunado. Liga ACB , September 22, 2007, accessed February 28, 2013 (Spanish).

[11] Carlos Jodar: Matt Walsh: tirador, estrella del Ricoh y novia 'chica Playboy'. Marca , September 23, 2007; Retrieved February 28, 2013 (Spanish).