Paderborn Baskets

Paderborn Baskets
Founded	1991 (as VBC 1969)
Hall	Sports center Maspernplatz (2500 seats)
Homepage	paderborn-baskets.de
president	Christoph Schlösser
Bureau	Dirk Happe , Olaf Port, Karsten Schlattmann, Yannis Wiele
Trainer	Steven Esterkamp
league	ProA 2018/19 : 13th place
home Away
successes
German Champion U14 2011 JBBL German Champion 2012 Green Belt 2006, 2013

The Paderborn Baskets are a professional German basketball team from Paderborn , whose game operations have been organized by Paderborn Baskets Team GmbH since 2002 . In the past, the team competed under various sponsor names, most recently as webmoebel Baskets until April 2012 . From the 2012/13 season to the 2015/16 season, the club competed under the name finke baskets . Since 2016, the University of Paderborn has given its name to the team, which now competes in the 2nd basketball Bundesliga ProA under Uni Baskets Paderborn . The team played first class in the 1994/95 season and from 2006 to 2010Basketball Bundesliga . Since 1984, back then as VBC Paderborn , the team has always played at least second class, and since 2010 it has been back in the second highest national league under its name ProA .

history

VBC 69 (1969 to 1991)

The immediate predecessor club of the Paderborn Baskets was VBC 69 Paderborn, founded in 1969, in which basketball was played for the first time in the city in terms of performance. After just six years, youth teams were able to win championships in the West German Basketball Association (WBV) in 1975, and youth and junior national players such as Manfred Winter and Bernd Zengerling were subsequently produced, who later played first and second leagues. In 1984 the first men's team was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga Group North. The promotion team mainly consisted of players from their own youth, such as Dirk Happe , who had won a bronze medal as a youth national player at the Kadetten (U16) European Championship in his own country the year before.

In the second division, too, the team's corset was made up of players from their own youth and players who had come to the region from studying at the University of Paderborn , where, among others, the long-time Leverkusen coach Günter Hagedorn worked. The “foreigner position” in the team was occupied for several seasons by the Canadian national player Phil Ohl , who also studied teaching at the university and after his return to Canada was again a World Cup participant in 1990 with the national team . After the promotion to the second division in 1984, disagreements arose within the club, particularly in financial issues with the previously more successful volleyball players who had been at the national top as multiple runners-up until the mid-1980s. While the number of active members in the club was already outnumbered by the basketball players, in the late 1980s the audience increased from the stagnating volleyball players to the basketball players who finally decided in 1991 to found their own club.

Promotion and Relegation (1991 to 2001)

In 1991, the basketball department of VBC 69 split off and founded the Paderborn Baskets 91 e. V. Ingbert Koppermann was won as manager of the second division team and promoted to the first division as the goal. In the composition of the team, players were recruited in a targeted and success-oriented manner who had already earned their first merits in the second division. In addition , the first name sponsor was won in 1992 with the Dutch bus manufacturer BOVA , which had moved to the region. Belgian coach Werner Rotsaert and the American Douglas Spradley, who had previously played in Amsterdam, were brought in from the Dutch league, and they only just missed promotion in the decisive game against competitor TK Hannover . In 1993 the floor covering manufacturer forbo finally got on board as a name sponsor and at the end of the season the promotion was ensured early on.

In the first division season 1994/95 they reached the third worst record of the participating teams with nine wins from 32 games, including a surprising home win against the later Korać Cup winner Alba Berlin . Somewhat surprisingly, they reached the Final Four tournament in the cup , where they came in third. The regulations at that time provided for two foreign players per team, while only one foreigner was allowed in the 2nd division. In the following relegation round of the four worst first division teams with the two best second division teams, the first division teams then had to do without a foreigner. In order not to weaken the positions under the basket in the so-called front court with the Estonian national player Margus Metstak, coach Rotsaert renounced the team's top scorer Doug Spradley. The team couldn't cope with this weakening and in the relegation round the second division TuS Lichterfelde was able to place in front of the Paderborn players, who were relegated with it. While the TuSLi, as a cooperation partner of ALBA Berlin, refrained from promotion, the Paderborn team returned to the second division for financial reasons. The changed personnel strategy had created liabilities and the insolvency of a company that was supposed to market the team then almost led to the club's financial ruin. Coach Rotsaert left the club and manager Koppermann resigned from his position, Happe moved from the players to the newly promoted TuS Herten and Spradley later to SG Braunschweig , which was also promoted in 1995 and had replaced the baskets in the first division.

In the second division they tried to slowly discharge the club and had to struggle with financial problems again and again, which is why they finally founded their own Spielbetriebs- GmbH with the name "Spo (r) tlights", which the future economic risks from the maintenance of one should at least partially carry a professional team. The changed personnel policy had also created a regional competitor: TV 1864 Salzkotten rose to the second division with a number of former Paderborn players, including the American Vernon Carr (formerly Sacramento Kings ), in 1995 and delivered itself in the following five years sometimes bitter duels against local rivals. After the Salzkotten team withdrew from the second division in 2000, the rivalry ultimately ended in a cooperation called “talent offensive”. During a training session in preparation for the 1999/2000 season, Daniel Malcorps, who was not yet 26 years old, collapsed with heart failure. The Paderborn Baskets had won teamwork as a name sponsor since 1998 . Their bankruptcy ultimately led to the bankruptcy of the gaming company Spo (r) tlights. The team faced an uncertain future again.

Spradley era coach (2001 to 2009)

In the 2000/01 season Nima Mehrdadi, formerly was assistant coach of coach Rotsaert to top-flight seasons 1994/95, coach of the basket, and had also Doug Spradley, now married to a Paderbornerin, according to some top-flight seasons at Braunschweig and the MBC again welcome to the squad. The club as the actual owner of the professional team's license came out of the bankruptcy of the game operating company somewhat unscathed and in the following season Spradley was the team's coach, while Mehrdadi became the sports director. The success-oriented coach Spradley was finally able to lead the team out of the mediocrity of the second division. With Marius Nolte and Daniel Lieneke from the cooperation partner TV Salzkotten, the nucleus of the new successful team again included two “home grown”. At the beginning of 2004, incumbent President Bert Bruch died suddenly and unexpectedly. For the 2004/05 season , the US-Americans Tim Black and Steven Esterkamp were engaged by league competitors , with whom they no longer lost after the tenth game day and a loss to self-declared promotion favorites Eisbären Bremerhaven . In the end, because of the poorer direct comparison with Bremerhaven, they only came in second. In the following season 2005/06 they did not lose a single game and rose to the top German league for a second time after 50 consecutive victories across the seasons.

Championship play-off against defending champion ALBA Berlin

For the 2006/07 premier league season , after two years, they separated from their name sponsor, the upholstered furniture manufacturer schröno , and since nothing changed at the core of the successful second division team, its suitability for the first division was questioned. Nevertheless, as in the following season 2007/08, 16 wins from 34 games and an eleventh place each in the final table. In the 2007/08 season, in which they competed as digibu Baskets in the meantime , Tim Black was the BBL's top scorer with an average of 21.3 points and then moved to Belgium . For the 2008/09 season Stefano Garris , World Cup bronze medalist in 2002 with the German national team and multiple German champion with ALBA Berlin, returned to his home club. However, Garris was unable to achieve his old level of performance after long injury breaks in previous years and the team started the season badly. After other players left, Chris Ensminger , who was almost 35 and who had played together with Spradley in Weißenfels at the beginning of his career in Germany and had previously been "retired" by the former German champion brose Baskets, was reassigned to the center position . With this reinforcement, the team marched out of the table cellar to the play-off places among the top eight teams. This streak of success was overshadowed by renewed financial holes, which threatened another bankruptcy. Various aid campaigns under the motto "BBL - come to stay", which were also supported by fans of other clubs, and increased spectator interest thanks to the sporting success and the aid campaigns, however, retained solvency, so that the gaming company agreed with the creditors on deferred payments could agree. At the end of the season they qualified eighth for the first time for the play-offs for the German championship, where they stood up to the defending champion and the main round first ALBA Berlin in the first round and only had to admit defeat in the fifth and decisive game of the series. In the end, the EWE Baskets Oldenburg were German champions, where coach Spradley had already been traded as the new coach two years earlier. Spradley left the club in the face of the tense financial situation, as did the most important players, and sports director Mehrdadi resigned in favor of his further professional career.

Relegation from the BBL and return to the new second division ProA (since 2009)

After the great sporting success with the play-off participation in 2009, the following first division season 2009/10 , which was ultimately to be the team's last first division season for the time being, was not a good star due to the low financial strength and the loss of the most important players . The start of the season was overshadowed by the violent death of the former player Lavelle Felton , who had secured the play-off entry and a play-off victory over Alba Berlin in the previous season with his basket successes in the final seconds. Under the new coach Olaf Stolz there was an opening success, but after that they quickly slipped to the bottom of the table, which they never left. After a late release from his coach in February 2010, Dirk Happe took over the team as interim coach until the end of the season and the furniture retailer webmoebel acted as name sponsor for the following two years. At the end of the season, after five wins from a total of 34 games, they were relegated to the bottom of the table.

In the 2010/11 season they joined the ProA created in 2007 , which formed the new lower house of the BBL and, together with the ProB , had replaced the 2nd basketball league. Under the new coach Artur Gacaev, who had previously successfully led the club's junior teams to the top of the national league, they remained hapless and initially slipped into the table cellar. After exchanging coaches with cooperation partner Accent Baskets from Salzkotten, who plays in the WBV's first regional league, Thomas Glasauer became a coach and was able to stabilize the team in the middle of the table. In the following season 2011/12 succeeded with the fifth place a placement in the top third of the table and the qualification for the newly created play-offs of the ProA, where they were eliminated in the first round.

On July 27, 2012, Paderborn Baskets Team GmbH announced that it would file for bankruptcy due to ongoing financial problems. This application was ultimately not made, but on August 10, 2012, a new main and name sponsor, the Paderborn furniture store Finke, was announced.

In January 2013, finke baskets released their previous head coach Thomas Glasauer after the record stood at 7 wins and 12 losses and the targeted play-offs appeared out of reach. At the time of the coach's dismissal, the baskets were in 14th place in the table. Thomas Glasauer's successor was Martin Krüger , who was responsible for various teams at the club until the summer of 2012, especially in the junior division, after having previously coached the second division teams of the Baskets and TV Salzkotten in the 1980s and 1990s. Under Krüger they managed to stay up and the Baskets finished 13th in the table with 12 wins and 18 defeats.

The 2013/2014 season was similar to the 2012/2013 season. The Baskets found themselves in the midfield of the league for almost the entire season, with no real chance of the play-offs, but relegation could also be avoided early on. After the season ended in 12th place in the table, coach Martin Krüger resigned. The reason he cited was the high level of stress that he could no longer cope with as a part-time worker.

Martin Krüger's successor was Uli Naechster . Once again the squad was rebuilt and changed in various positions, but there was no sustainable sporting success. For almost the entire season, the team was in the lower third of the table.

On March 13, 2015, a decisive game against BV Chemnitz 99 was won 69:62. However, the kick-off was 25 minutes late because the computer used for the scoreboard was blocked by an automatically executed Windows update . After a protest from Chemnitz, the game was initially rated 0:20, which would have meant the relegation of the Baskets. Ultimately, the appointment of the Paderborn was granted and their sporting victory was confirmed.

In November 2016, the club was fined for violating a license requirement on the part of the 2nd Bundesliga. After the end of the 2018/19 game year, Naechster gave up his coaching position, but remained sporting director. Steven Esterkamp was hired as the new coach, who returned to where he was already a player. At the time the 2019/20 season was canceled due to the spread of COVID-19 , the team was in sixth place in the table. Playmaker Kendale McCullum was named best player of the season in a league vote.

Youth and youth work

The Paderborn Baskets 91 e. Even before the club was founded, V. had great importance on good youth work as VBC 69 and was one of the leading clubs in Westphalia , which also achieved good placements at state level in comparison with the leading teams in the Rhineland . Started as a new foundation in 1991 with 300 members, the association says it now has almost 600 members, including around 260 young people. With the support concept “Talent Offensive in Ostwestfalen-Lippe” since 2003, talented players from the region could be offered better conditions. While many young players were recruited for the club at the Reismann Gymnasium in Paderborn by teachers such as Fritz Buhr and later Martin "Sir" Krüger, who had previously coached the VBC 69 second division team and the club's youth teams for a number of years, The establishment of a basketball boarding school at this school also made it possible to accommodate talent who came from outside, such as the later junior national players Lars and Ole Wendt, who came from Itzehoe . The boarding school is run as a Paderborn sports boarding school by the Baskets as part of the Paderborn Top Sport Forum in cooperation with the first division soccer club SC Paderborn 07 . Thanks to these measures, the club was able to become the leading male youth club in North Rhine-Westphalia and put its teams in the "TOP 3" teams of the WBV in almost every age group. For girls and women, they cooperate with the TSVE Bielefeld , whose “Lady Dolphins” play the leading role in contrast to boys and men. The most important player who has produced the association, Lea Mersch , the 2011 with the ladies selection at the European Championship finals in 2011 participated. In 2006 and 2013 the club received the “Green Ribbon” for exemplary talent promotion, which was accepted by the then “Vice President Youth” and now President Christoph Schlösser, himself a long-time second division player for the VBC 69.

With the NBBL team under the leadership of coach Gacaev and the Wendt twins, they became the best team in Northwest Germany three times in a row from 2009 to 2011 and reached the top four tournament in this age group at national level. When they participated for the first time in 2009, the team with the youth and junior national players Robert Huelsewede and Dominik Malinowski only just lost the championship final against the youngsters from ALBA Berlin in the final phase. In the following tournaments they lost the semifinals against the eventual winning team ALBA Urspring , who had suffered the only defeat in a Final Four in the semifinals in 2009. On the occasion of the club's 20th anniversary, the outgoing national coach Dirk Bauermann personally congratulated and expressed his thanks and respect, especially to the club's youth coaches. While the U18 team was “only” runner -up in the so-called “Germany Cup” in 2011 despite an outstanding performance by youth national player Till Gloger , the U14 team under coach Stefan Schettke reached the club's first national youth championship. A year later Till Gloger was elected MVP of the NBBL 2011/12 and the U16 won the championship title in the youth basketball league .

Squad

Squad Uni Baskets Paderborn in the 2017/2018 season
Attention: The squad information is out of date! (current season: 2020/2021)
player No. Nat. Surname birth size info Last club 1 Armani Cotton October 1, 1991 2.01 m SF / PF Stella Artois Leuven Bears 4th Devonte Brown 20th August 1992 1.88 m PG Indiana State Sycamores 7th Fritz Hemschemeier December 10, 1998 1.82 m PG own youth 9 Morgan Grim November 7, 1988 2.04 m C. own youth 11 Philip Daubner April 9, 1994 2.04 m SF BSW Sixers 12 Melvin Jostmann July 12, 2000 1.98 m SF own youth 13 Georg Voigtmann October 9, 1994 2.13 m PF / C s. Oliver Würzburg 14th / Ivan Buntic October 8, 1991 2.08 m C. Vfl Kirchheim Knights 15th Luca Kahl June 1, 1997 1.90 m PG own youth 19th Jan-Philip Dübbelde April 30, 1997 1.93 m SG TSVE Bielefeld 21st Dominik Wolf August 21, 1994 1.86 m PG / SG own youth 22nd Ethan Bradford O'Day March 7, 1993 2.06 m C. Vermont Catamounts 23 Miles Osei March 31, 2002 1.89 m SF TSVE Bielefeld 25th Maximilian Kuhle September 9, 1991 1.84 m PG / SG ren4office Nuremberg 31 Dion Anthony Prewster January 10, 1991 1.95 m SG / SF Nelson Giants	Trainer Nat. Surname position Uli next Trainer Martin Kruger Assistant coach Claus Reinsberger Assistant coach Ingo pond Athletic trainer Legend Abbr. meaning swell Team homepage League homepage As of February 1, 2018

Change in 2017/2018

Additions: Georg Wilhelm Voigtmann ( s.Oliver Würzburg ), Devonte Brown ( Indiana State Sycamores ), Armani Cotton ( Stella Artois Leuven Bears ), Dion Prewster ( Nelson Giants ), Ethan Bradford O'Day ( Vermont Catamounts )

Departures: Matt Vest ( RheinStars Cologne ), Chase Adams ( HEBEISEN WHITE WINGS Hanau ), Till Gloger ( Central German BC ), Nick Tufegdzich ( ETB Wohnbau Baskets Essen )

The basketball games take place at the Maspernplatz sports center in Paderborn. The fan club Maspernpower Paderborn '96 e. V. with approx. 70 members takes care of u. a. to organize the away trips.

Best marks in first division seasons

season	Points	Rebounds	Assists	Steals	Blocks
2009/2010	Malik Moore 418 (12.7 per game)	Matt Terwilliger 180 (5.3)	Malik Moore 106 (3.2)	Malik Moore 41 (1.2)	Sefton Barrett 29 (0.9)
2008/2009	Steven Esterkamp 486 (12.5 per game)	Chris Ensminger 325 (9.0)	Lavelle Felton 94 (2.4)	Steven Wright 40 (1.0)	Chris Ensminger 11 (0.3)
2007/2008	Timothy James Black 702 (21.3 per game)	Greg Jenkins 189 (6.5)	Timothy James Black 135 (4.1)	Steven Esterkamp 47 (1.5)	Greg Jenkins 33 (1.1)
2006/2007	Sergerio Gipson 497 (14.6)	Jordan Collins 189 (5.6)	Sergerio Gipson 121 (3.6)	Sergerio Gipson 51 (1.5)	Jordan Collins 18 (0.5)
1994/1995	Douglas Spradley 544 (21.8)		Dirk Happe 123 (3.8)		Christian Mehrens 50 (1.6)

Important former players

• Phil Ohl 1985-1989
• Dirk Happe 1983–1995, 1996/97
• / Douglas Spradley 1992-1996, 2000/01; Trainer 2001-2009
• Christian Mehrens 1993–1995
• Margus Metstak 1994-1995
• Stefano Garris 1996–1998, 2008/09
• Marius Nolte 2001-2009
• Timothy James Black 2004-2008
• Steven Esterkamp 2004-2009
• Chris Ensminger 2008/09

as well as for women:

• Lea Mersch 1994–2004 as a youth player

Trainer

Term of office	Surname
1992-1995	Werner Rotsaert
12 /1995-12 / 1996	Ed Visscher
12 / 1996-199912 /	Pat Elzie
12 /1999-02 / 2001	Werner Rotsaert
02 / 2001-200112 /	Nima Mehrdadi
2001-2009	Douglas Spradley
12 /2009-02 / 2010	Olaf proud
02 / 2010-201012 /	Dirk Happe
12 /2010–11 / 2010	Artur Gacaev
11/2010 - 01/2013	Thomas Glasauer
01 / 2013–201412 /	Martin Kruger
2014-2019	Uli next
since 2019	Steven Esterkamp

Web links

• Official website of the Paderborn Baskets

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "The audience numbers remain a building site". Neue Westfälische , April 17, 2012, accessed on May 13, 2012 (Interview with President Walter: No extension of the name sponsorship). 
2. ↑ Basketball sponsorship perfect. moebelmarkt.de, August 13, 2012, accessed on May 20, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Uni Paderborn: Press release from June 10, 2016, accessed on December 8, 2016
4. ↑ Germany / 1983 European Championships for Cadets. FIBA , accessed on May 13, 2012 (English, third-placed roster in the FIBA ​​archive). 
5. ^ Association history - VBC 69 Paderborn. (PDF (289 kB)) VBC Paderborn , March 19, 2011, pp. 1 + 2 , accessed on January 30, 2013 (club history from the volleyball department's point of view, updated version from March 2011). 
6. ↑ Peter Glauche: Notorious Optimist with Visions. Die Welt , February 15, 2002, accessed on May 13, 2012 (conversation with trainer Pat Elzie, in which he reportedly reported eight months of outstanding payments in Paderborn). 
7. ↑ OWL talent offensive, concept. (PDF 1 MB) Paderborn Baskets, September 2014, accessed on March 10, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Insolvency proceedings for teamwork opened. Heise Verlag , January 3, 2001, accessed on May 13, 2012 . 
9. ↑ Paderborn before the retreat? Schoenen-Dunk.de, August 18, 2001, accessed on May 13, 2012 (reproduction of a press release by Spo (r) tlights GmbH). 
10. ↑ Paderborn Baskets mourn Bert Bruch. ( Memento from July 28, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
11. ↑ Paderborn Baskets threatens bankruptcy. Der Spiegel , January 16, 2009, accessed on May 13, 2012 . 
12. ↑ Show your heart for Paderborn! Skybembels.de, March 2009, accessed on May 13, 2012 . 
13. ↑ Oliver Schulz: Spradley asks Oldenburger for clearance. Nordwest-Zeitung , May 23, 2007, accessed on May 13, 2012 . 
14. ↑ Happe trains the Paderborn Baskets. ( Memento from September 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
15. ↑ Paderborn Baskets insolvent, Radio Hochstift on July 28, 2012
16. ↑ Press conference revealed: Insolvency proceedings finally averted. ( Memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
17. ↑ Krüger new coach of the Paderborn Baskets. ( Memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
18. ↑ New coaching team at the finke baskets. Only text. ( Memento from July 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
19. ↑ Relegation due to a Windows update. Die Zeit , March 26, 2015, accessed on December 27, 2015 (Die Zeit). 
20. ↑ But no descent because of Windows. n-tv , May 12, 2015, accessed on December 27, 2015 (n-tv). 
21. ↑ 2. Basketball Bundesliga | Strafe Uni Baskets Paderborn as part of the licensing of the 2015/2016 season. Retrieved April 1, 2017 . 
22. ↑ https://paderborn-baskets.de/proa-uni-baskets-paderborn-verpflichten-steven-esterkamp-als-neuen-headcoach/
23. ↑ Uni Baskets Paderborn: Kendale McCullum is Player of the Year in the Pro A - Paderborn Baskets. Retrieved June 26, 2020 (German). 
24. ↑ History - Successes 1975–2014. Paderborn Baskets, accessed on May 13, 2012 . 
25. ↑ history. Paderborn Baskets, accessed on May 13, 2012 . 
26. ↑ Talent offensive - basketball boarding school. (No longer available online.) Paderborn Baskets, archived from the original on March 5, 2012 ; Retrieved May 13, 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.  
27. ↑ Paderborn: Green Belt. ( Memento from July 15, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
28. ↑ TOP4 final: 17 seconds were missing from sensation. ( Memento from September 7, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
29. ↑ Jochem Schulze: Bauermann ennobles the baskets. Neue Westfälische , May 23, 2011, accessed on May 20, 2017 . 
30. ↑ Baskets-U18 runner-up at the German Cup. ( Memento from August 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
31. ↑ U14 puts the crown on the Baskets - German championship for Schettke team. ( Memento from September 14, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
32. ↑ NBBL / JBBL Awards. nbbl-basketball.de, accessed on May 20, 2017 (scroll down to list). 
33. ↑ JBBL TOP4: Paderborn Baskets are JBBL champions 2012. Deutscher Basketball Bund e. V., May 20, 2012, accessed May 20, 2017 . 
34. ↑ Individual statistics in the Veltins Basketball Bundesliga 94/95. ( Memento from January 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ′ 28.6 "  N , 8 ° 45 ′ 10.6"  E