Raoul Korner

Raoul Korner
Player information
birthday	April 2nd 1974
place of birth	Vienna, Austria
position	Point guard
Clubs as coaches
1999–2001 BasketClubs Vienna 2001–2003 Union Mattersburg 49ers 2003–2005 UBM Arkadia Traiskirchen Lions 2005–2010 Welser BC 2010–2013 EiffelTowers Den Bosch 2013–2016 Basketball Löwen Braunschweig Since 2016 medi Bayreuth 0
National team as coach
2001–2003 Austria B national team A national team ( AC ) Austria since 2019 0000000000000 0000000000000 0

Raoul Korner (born April 2, 1974 in Vienna ) is an Austrian basketball coach . He is currently the head coach of the German Bundesliga club Medi Bayreuth and the Austrian national coach.

Korner won the national championship and the cup competition once each in his home country Austria and in the Netherlands with his respective teams. From the basketball Bundesliga 2013/14 he was the head coach of the New York Phantoms from Braunschweig, the first Austrian to be the responsible coach of a team in the German basketball league .

Career

Korner, who was a player himself until 1996, completed his law degree in 1997 , then trained as a real estate agent and soon after became a professional basketball coach. He referred to Fritz Miklas as his mentor , "who was insane enough to entrust a 25-year-old with the role of head coach and at the same time sacrifice his own career," as Korner later said. In his second season as the responsible coach of BasketClubs Vienna in his hometown, he was able to bring the team into the four best teams in the “ Austrian Basketball Bundesliga ” in 2001 , after the team had only been third from bottom of the table in the previous two seasons. Korner was then named “Trainer of the Year” in Austria and moved to league competitor Union 49ers from Mattersburg . With the 49ers he won in his first season 2001/02 with the national cup competition 2002 his first title as coach and was able to place the team in the championship also among the top four teams. Korner was again named Trainer of the Year. After the 49ers could not improve in the following season, Korner switched to competitor UBM Lions from Traiskirchen . With the Lions, who had been double winners three years earlier and slipped to third from last place in the preseason, Korner did not achieve any significant success and only made a slight improvement in the final table in each case in eighth place.

After two years, Korner took over another Austrian first division club in 2005, the WBC from Wels . In the 2006 cup competition, they beat their former team from Traiskirchen in the final and won their first title for the club, which had returned to Austria's top division in 2003. For the first time after returning to the first division, they also moved into the final series of the championship, in which they were subject to defending champion Allianz Swans Gmunden . The team from Gmunden also failed in the following two championship play-offs , but before reaching the final. In 2009 they lost the final of the cup competition against the reigning champions BSC Panthers Fürstenfeld with just one point difference , but in the semi-final series of the championship 2008/09 they were able to prevail against the defending champion and moved back into the final series after three years. This time you could defeat the "feared opponent" Swans Gmunden and win the first championship for the club. In addition to team captain Armin Woschank , Brandon Thomas , who later played in the German Bundesliga , the German Tilo Klette and final MVP Ricky Moore were among the most important players in the championship success. In the following season, the defending champion was eliminated early in the play-off quarter-final series and Korner left the club.

For the 2010/11 season Korner was given the opportunity to take over the EiffelTowers team from 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands. The Dutch record champions last became national champions in 2007. After a third place in the first season, Korner was again champion with the club in 2012. In the following 2012/13 season they lost the Supercup final against defending champion ZZ Leiden at the beginning , but were able to prevail against this team in the semi-finals of the cup competition and also win the Dutch cup competition in the final. As the main round first and defending champion, however, you retired in the play-off semi-final series and could not defend his title. Korner was then given the opportunity to switch to the German basketball league and in 2013 became the coach of the New York Phantoms from Braunschweig , who had previously struggled to stay in the basketball league in 2012/13 . From 2014 Korner was a Braunschweig coach and sports director in a dual role. In the 2014/15 season, under Korner's leadership, Lower Saxony missed the championship round by a wafer after 17 wins and 17 defeats in the Bundesliga point round. In the 2015/16 season, Braunschweig finished in tenth place.

After three years in Braunschweig, he moved to Medi Bayreuth as the new head coach on May 3, 2016 . In the 2016/17 season, Korner led Bayreuth to fourth place in the final table of the Bundesliga point round, in the playoff quarter-finals his team was eliminated by Oldenburg. In the 2017/18 game year, Bayreuth moved into the championship round in sixth place, where it had to cancel the sails again in the quarter-finals (this time against Ludwigsburg). In the summer of 2019 Korner extended his contract in Bayreuth until 2021 and at the same time took over the position of Austrian national coach.

Web links

• Raoul Korner: "The players have to be ready to work hard" - media information from the New York Phantoms in the form of an interview with Korner on June 15, 2013 on their website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Raoul Korner head coach at Braunschweig. Der Standard , June 11, 2013, accessed October 27, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Telekom Sport: Coaches & Körner: Korner, Harmsen. Accessed December 30, 2018 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Ute Berndt: Raoul Korner is the head coach of the New York Phantoms. Braunschweiger Zeitung , June 11, 2013, accessed on October 27, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Raoul Korner # 1: Mission Sustainability. In: basketballherz.de. Accessed December 30, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Basketball Braunschweig: Raoul Korner and Löwen are not going into the future together. Accessed December 30, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Raoul Korner is the new Head Coach / Stäubli extends sponsorship for 2 years. (No longer available online.) In: medi bayreuth. May 3, 2016, archived from the original on May 3, 2016 ; Retrieved May 3, 2016 . 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.  
7. ^ Bayreuth versus Oldenburg: backcourt versus frontcourt. In: BASKETBALL.DE. May 4, 2017, accessed December 30, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Bayreuth prematurely eliminated against Oldenburg. May 16, 2017, accessed December 30, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Great season ends for Heroes Of Tomorrow in the playoff quarterfinals. Accessed December 30, 2018 . 
10. ↑ https://www.medi-bayreuth.de/details/News/medi-head-coach-raoul-korner-nun-auch-oesterreichischer-nationaltrainer/