Matthias Grothe

Matthias Grothe
Portrait on the tomb in the Iserlohn main cemetery
Player information
birthday	May 16, 1978
place of birth	Hemer , Germany
date of death	October 31, 2017
size	201 cm
position	Power Forward / Center
Clubs as active
0000–1998 TuS Iserlohn 1998–2002 Brandt Hagen 2002–2004 TuS POCO Iserlohn 2004–2010 Phoenix Hagen
Clubs as coaches
2010–2017 NOMA Iserlohn ( HC ) 2017 Phoenix Hagen ( HC ) 00000
1 As of June 3, 2010

Matthias Grothe (born May 16, 1978 in Hemer ; † October 31, 2017 ) was a German basketball player and coach.

Career

player

Grothe began his career at TuS Iserlohn . The native Hemeraner went through all youth teams of the club. The former youth national player of the DBB played u. a. in the U22 together with Dirk Nowitzki .

Matthias Grothe played 116 Bundesliga games for Brandt Hagen from 1998 to 2002. For two years he then came back to his home club, which had meanwhile been promoted to the second Bundesliga for the second time . The home grown of TuS Iserlohn moved back to Volme in 2004 . Grothe played 150 games in a row in five second division years for Phoenix Hagen without missing a single game. In 4534 minutes (30 minutes on average per game) he scored 2519 points and in 2009 he made it to the basketball league as captain with the firebirds . After a last season in the upper house of German basketball, the native of Sauerland ended his career. At the last home game, a 96-71 win against EnBW Ludwigsburg , Matthias Grothe was bid farewell. His jersey was pulled to the ceiling of the hall and the number 9 will no longer be awarded at Phoenix Hagen in future as a token of appreciation for a well-deserved athlete, as is also common in the US professional league NBA .

Trainer

From the 2010/11 season he took over the coaching position at NOMA Iserlohn Kangaroos and in 2014 led the team to the championship title in the first Regionalliga West. In the first season in the 2nd Bundesliga ProB (2014/15), Iserlohn finished the points round of the southern season under Grothe as leader of the table and reached the semi-finals in the subsequent championship round. In the 2015/16 season, too, Grothe Iserlohn's team led the ProB-Süd to the top (first after the points round), this time it was the end of the playoff quarter-finals. In May 2016 he also took over the post of assistant coach of the German U16 national team.

In November 2016, Grothe contracted lymph gland cancer .

In mid-February 2017 he announced his departure from Iserlohn at the end of the 2016/17 season in order to take over the post of head coach at Phoenix Hagen in the following season . On September 1, 2017, Phoenix announced that Grothe would not be able to fulfill his duties as a trainer for an indefinite period due to his health.

Matthias Grothe succumbed to cancer on October 31, 2017. He was buried in the main cemetery in Iserlohn .

In February 2018, the sports committee of the city of Iserlohn decided to rename the sports hall built on Hemberg in 2011 to Matthias-Grothe-Halle.

successes

• 2009: Promotion to the basketball league with Phoenix Hagen

Hangtime

The film Hangtime - No Easy Game , produced in 2009, is set in the vicinity of Phoenix Hagen . Therefore, some of the players were included in the film and given smaller roles. Matthias Grothe was also seen as Hans-Hubert in the film and plays a team colleague of the main character Vinz .

Web links

Commons : Matthias Grothe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Matthias Grothe - player profile on Basketball-Bundesliga.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New faces among the DBB trainers . Press release of the German Basketball Association, March 26, 2010 on schoenen-dunk.de, accessed on November 1, 2017.
2. ↑ Axel Gaiser: Phoenix captain Matthias Grothe stays on board. WAZ.de , May 14, 2009, archived from the original on August 1, 2012 ; accessed on November 1, 2017 . 
3. ↑ unknown. (pdf) (No longer available online.) Weigelt EDV, April 23, 2010, formerly in the original ; accessed on November 1, 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.    
4. ↑ Markus Wassmuth: The final training became a spontaneous championship celebration! WAZ.de , April 4, 2014, accessed January 18, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Out of season for NOMA Iserlohn Kangaroos after bankruptcy in Wedel! In: lokalkompass.de / Stadtspiegel Iserlohn / Hemer . Retrieved November 1, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Our kangaroos are losing in Nördlingen! Iserlohn Kangaroos press release, April 18, 2016, accessed on November 1, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Arne Woltmann takes over A2 men. Deutscher Basketball Bund, May 17, 2016, accessed on November 1, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Iserlohn Kangaroos head coach Matthias Grothe falls ill. Iserlohn Kangaroos press release, January 17, 2017, accessed on November 1, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Matthias Grothe will not extend his contract with the Iserlohn Kangaroos. Iserlohn Kangaroos press release, February 14, 2017, accessed on November 1, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Successful Phoenix presents Matthias Grothe as head coach. (No longer available online.) Phoenix Hagen, February 16, 2017, archived from the original on September 27, 2017 ; accessed on November 1, 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.  
11. ↑ Grothe is absent for an indefinite period . ( Memento of the original of September 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Phoenix Hagen, September 1, 2017, accessed November 1, 2017. 
12. ↑ Axel Gaiser: Phoenix Hagen mourns head coach Matthias Grothe . Westfalenpost , October 31, 2017, accessed on November 1, 2017.
13. ↑ Hemberg sports halls are now called Matthias-Grothe-Halle and Hemberg sports hall. Retrieved September 27, 2018 .