Obie Trotter
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| Player information | ||
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| Full name | Obadiah Nelson Trotter | |
| Nickname | Obie | |
| birthday | 9th February 1984 (age 36) | |
| place of birth | Robertsdale , Alabama , United States | |
| size | 186 cm | |
| position | Point guard | |
| college | Alabama A&M | |
| Club information | ||
| society | Enel Brindisi | |
| league | Lega Basket Serie A | |
| Clubs as active | ||
2002–2006 AAMU Bulldogs ( NCAA ) 2006–2008 LTi Gießen 46ers 2009 Étendard de Brest 2009–2010 Torpan Pojat 2010–2012 Szolnoki Olaj KK 2012–2013 BK Nizhny Novgorod 2014 Szolnoki Olaj KK 2014–2015 KAO Dramas 2015–2016 Koroivos Amaliadas Since 2016 Enel Brindisi       
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| since 2011 | Hungary | |
Obadiah Nelson "Obie" Trotter (* 9. February 1984 in Robertsdale , Alabama ) is an American basketball - point guard . After completing his studies, Trotter began a career as a professional basketball player in Europe , which also took him from 2006 to 2008 for two seasons with the 46ers from Gießen in the German basketball league . During his season in Hungary from 2010 to 2012, he took citizenship there and became a Hungarian national player. He then worked in Russia and Greece , among others , before playing for Italian first division club Enel Brindisi since March 2016 .
Career
Trotter studied in his native US state at the Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University and was active for the Bulldogs in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). He was the dominant player of the team and keeps the statistics of this untraditional university team in the categories of points scored, three-point throws hit , assists , ball wins and games played for performance in the NCAA Division I. In 2005, Trotter led the team to their first title in the Southwestern Athletic Conference and was named Player of the Year for that Conference; in the qualifying game for the finals of the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship you lost to the Golden Grizzlies of Oakland University and missed the first round game against the eventual winner, the Tar Heels of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill .
After Trotter was not considered in the draft of the US professional league NBA in 2006 , he moved to the Gießen 46ers in the BBL. After initial problems with the usual European style of play, Trotters contract was extended for another year. Before his second season in the BBL, however, he injured his wrist and was out for a long time. It was not until December 2007 that he was able to compete again for the Giessen team. However, Trotter was still limited by the injury and had to be operated on again after the end of the season. In the 2008-09 season, Trotter played in Brittany Brest on the French Atlantic coast in the second division Pro B . From there he moved to the 2009/10 season to torpan pojat into Finnish Helsinki , where he voted the best player in his position with the team to the NBA and from the major European leagues known Hanno Möttölä was runner that season.
Trotter then moved to Hungary in 2010 to Olaj KK from Szolnok , with whom he won the national double in 2011 and 2012 . During his time at Szolnoki Olaj, Trotter was naturalized and barely missed the 2011 European Championship finals with the Hungarian national team when they were the last team to be eliminated in the additional qualifying round. After successfully qualifying for the main round of the third-tier European club competition EuroChallenge for a Hungarian club team in 2010 , in which they only narrowly failed to make it through to the top sixteen teams, they surprisingly reached the Final Four tournament in the 2011/12 EuroChallenge In the second main round, the German representative Telekom Baskets Bonn was left behind. The final tournament was hosted and the tournament was held in Debrecen . In the semifinals they lost just four points against the eventual winner Beşiktaş Milangaz and then lost the game for third place. Trotter was recognized by the specialist portal eurobasket.com as the best player in his position in this competition. In national competitions, Trotter and Szolnok have twice won the championship and cup double .
For the 2012/13 season Trotter moved to the Russian basketball club from Nizhny Novgorod . A season later he moved to league rivals Triumph Lyubertsy near Moscow. After an injury in qualifying for the 2015 European Championship , Trotter's contract was canceled before the start of the season and he returned to Szolnoki Olaj in early 2014, with whom he again won the double in Hungary. For the following season, Trotter moved to the top Greek league to KAOD in Drama , which, however, narrowly missed the play-offs for the championship in ninth place in the Basket League 2014/15 . Then the team has been logged out of the professional game operation and Trotter moved to the Basket League 2015/16 to eighth-Koroivos of Amaliada at the Greek west coast of the Peloponnese . After the club signed another legionnaire in the backcourt in early 2016 with Aleksandar Ćapin , they finally agreed in mid-March 2016 to terminate the contract and Trotter switched to the top Italian division Serie A to Enel New Basket from Brindisi on the northern edge of the Ionian Sea in the Adriatic .
Web links
- Obie Trotter - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)
- Obie Trotter - Profile of his player agency
- TROTTER, Obadiah - Player profile on the website of the Euro Cup ( English )
- easyCredit BBL - Obie Trotter - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alabama A&M University 2010-2011 Men's Basketball Media Guide. ISSUU.com, March 11, 2011, pp. 41, 44 , accessed March 19, 2011 .
- ↑ Eurobasket.com All-EuroChallenge Awards 2011-2012. (No longer available online.) Eurobasket.com, May 2, 2012, archived from the original on May 12, 2012 ; accessed on June 8, 2012 . 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.
- ^ Obie Trotter moves to Triumph Lyubertsy. court-side.com, July 23, 2013, accessed July 23, 2013 .
- ↑ Samara Sign Pecherov, Trotter Returns: Szolnok To Nurse Former Leader Back To shape. FIBA Europa , January 23, 2014, accessed February 4, 2014 .
- ^ Trotter leaves Koroivos Amaliadas for New Basket Brindisi. SDNA.gr, March 18, 2016, accessed March 19, 2016 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Trotter, Obie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Trotter, Obadiah Nelson (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American-Hungarian basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Robertsdale, Alabama , USA |