Pete Lisicky

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Peter Matthew "Pete" Lisicky (born March 3, 1976 in Allentown ) is a former American - Slovak basketball player .

career

Lisicky grew up in Allentown in the US state of Pennsylvania  . He played at Whitehall High School, then from 1994 to 1998 at Pennsylvania State University . There he set a university record with a total of 332 three-point throws hit. The 1.92 meter tall player posted 13.6 points on average and served as the team's captain in the 1997/98 season. With nine three-pointers in one game (scored on December 9, 1995) Lisicky reached another record for the university.

Lisicky began his professional career at SAV Vacallo Basket in Switzerland , he won the cup competition with the team in 1999 and 2000, and in February 2000 Vacallo was excluded from the league for economic reasons. In the 2000/01 season he was briefly under contract with the Italian top team Benetton Treviso (5 games: 3.2 points / game in the Italian league; 4 games: 6.8 points / game in the Euroleague ), then at Freiburg Olympic . In the 2001/02 season he played for Basket Club Lugano, with the team he became Swiss champions.

In the summer of 2002 Lisicky, who had meanwhile succeeded in taking on Slovak citizenship due to his Slovak origin, was signed by the German Bundesliga club TXU Energie Braunschweig . In his time in Braunschweig he played 86 Bundesliga games, in the 2002/03 season he was the best with 16.5 points per match and in 2003/04 he was second best Braunschweig scorer behind Demond Mallet with 14.5 points per use. Lisicky was heavily involved in the fact that Lower Saxony reached the Bundesliga semi-finals in 2003. In December 2002 he scored eight three-point throws in 14 attempts in a Bundesliga game.

At the end of April 2005 he moved from Braunschweig to France for the capital club Paris Basket Racing . By the end of the 2004/05 season, Lisicky was still in six games in the French Ligue Nationale de Basket .

Lisicky, whose strengths included the free throw in addition to the three-point throw, but was accused of lack of speed, was also appointed to the national team of Slovakia, with which he took part in the 2005 European B Championship.

After his short trip to Paris he was in the service of the Polish first division club WTK Anwil Włocławek in 2005/6 , at the end of his career Lisicky played at Air Avellino in the Italian Serie A from 2006 to 2009 , but stayed there compared to his previous career Point yield moderate.

After working as a professional basketball player, Lisicky worked in the United States in the wealth management sector.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Peter Matthew Lisicky profile, Euro Basket 2005. Accessed July 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Pete Lisicky's mom's buried treasure: PSU basketball videos from> 20 years ago including ... Terrell Owens at Rec Hall? February 17, 2019, accessed on July 23, 2020 .
  3. ^ Lehigh Valley Flashback June 29: In 1993, Whitehall basketball star Pete Lisicky commits to Penn State. Retrieved July 23, 2020 .
  4. ↑ 2017-18 Penn State Men's Basketball Media Guide. Retrieved July 23, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Basket-ball: Vacallo exclu du championnat. Retrieved July 23, 2020 (French).
  6. ↑ a b Lisicky Peter - Statistiche INDIVIDUALI. In: LEGABASKET SERIE A. Retrieved July 23, 2020 .
  7. ↑ LISICKY, PETER - Welcome to EUROLEAGUE BASKETBALL. Retrieved July 23, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Freiburg Olympic with a lot of heart to the first major success. In: Freiburger Nachrichten. Retrieved July 23, 2020 .
  9. ↑ BASKET: Lugano, via Rashid Atkins, arriva Pete Lisicky. November 27, 2001, accessed July 23, 2020 (Italian).
  10. ↑ SBL_2001-2002 Basketball League SWITZERLAND - eurobasket. Retrieved July 23, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Pete Lisicky is alive and well in Europe ** Ex-Whitehall star is playing pro ball in Germany and is a member of the Slovakian national team. Retrieved July 23, 2020 (American English).
  12. ↑ a b c Pete Lisicky: "Pistol Pete" . In: Dunke-Schön. 25 years of the 1st Bundesliga basketball team in Braunschweig . Klartext Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1505-3 , p. 181 .
  13. ↑ RP ONLINE: All changes at a glance: Basketball: interplay without example. Retrieved July 23, 2020 .
  14. ↑ 1956 Pete LISICKY. In: Basketball Bundesliga. Retrieved July 23, 2020 .
  15. ↑ The team 02/03 . In: Dunke-Schön. 25 years of the 1st Bundesliga basketball team in Braunschweig . Klartext Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1505-3 , p. 176, 177 .
  16. ↑ Semi-final thriller against Berlin, 7000 fans and Mallet's cruciate ligament tear . In: Dunke-Schön. 25 years of the 1st Bundesliga basketball team in Braunschweig . Klartext Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1505-3 , p. 175 .
  17. ↑ Nordwest-Zeitung: Pete Lisicky is missing in Braunschweig. Retrieved July 23, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Lisicky Pete | LNB.fr. Retrieved July 23, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Pete Lisicky, STATYSTYKI SUMY. In: Koszykówka - Polska Liga Koszykówki. Retrieved July 23, 2020 (Polish).
  20. ↑ Where Are They Now Q&A: Pete Lisicky. Retrieved July 23, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Lisicky, Pete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lisicky, Peter Matthew (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Slovak basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Allentown, Pennsylvania