Roger Huggins

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Basketball player
Roger Huggins
Player information
Full name Roger John Huggins
birthday 5th September 1967
place of birth London (ENG),
United Kingdom
size 200 cm
position Power forward
college Hawaiʻi Pacific
Clubs as active
1986–1988 Bracknell Pirates 1988–1993 HPU Sea Warriors ( NAIA ) 1993–1994 Bobcat Gent 1994–1997 Sheffield Sharks 1997–2000 Racing Basket Antwerp 2000–2001 Athlon Ieper 2001 Hapoel Jerusalem 2001–2003 Spirou BC Charleroi 2003–2004 Euphony Lüttich Basket 2004–2005 Bnei haScharon 2005–2006 Euphony Bree 2006–2007 Liège Basket 2007 Spirou Charleroi 2007–2008 Dexia Mons-HainautUnited KingdomUnited Kingdom
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National team 1
1996-2001
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Roger John Huggins (born September 5, 1967 in London ) is a retired British basketball player . After studying in the United States, Huggins played in the Belgian league in particular . At the age of 40, at the end of his career in 2008, he reached the FIBA EuroCup final with Dexia from Mons . Huggins was also a national player for the English and British national teams for a long time .

Career

Huggins first played in the British Basketball League for the Pirates from Bracknell until 1988 , before he went to the USA to study at Hawai'i Pacific University at the age of 21 . With their university team Sea Warriors, which at that time still played in the NAIA , he won the NAIA championship in 1993. He then had an invitation to test training at the NBA club Seattle SuperSonics , which he did not sign.

After completing his studies, Huggins returned to Europe in 1993 and, at the age of 26, received a professional contract with the club from Ghent , Belgium , for which he played for one season. He then returned to his home country and played for the Sharks from Sheffield . In his first season for the Sharks, he reached first place with the team after regular time and also won the League Cup of the British Basketball League. Huggins was named MVP of the league and, as in the two following seasons, received an invitation to the all-star game of the league's best players. The Bosman decision also opened up new opportunities for Huggins, as he no longer occupied a “foreigner place” in other European club teams.

In 1997, Huggins returned to the Belgian league and played for Racing Basket from Antwerp , which had a successful past as Racing Mechelen. Here, too, he was one of the best players in the league who received an invitation to the all-star game of this league. In the European club competitions Saporta Cup 1999 and Korać Cup 2000 you reached the knockout rounds after group matches , in which you were eliminated early in the rounds of the best 32 and 16 teams. In 2000 they won the Belgian championship, then almost the entire team moved for the 2000/01 season to league competitor Athlon from Ypres , where he also played with the German international Jürgen Malbeck . This time they made it to the semi-finals of the Korać Cup 2001, where KK Hemofarm from the Serbian Vršac was narrowly defeated in the addition of two games with two points. Immediately afterwards, Huggins, who led his team in this competition in rebounds , blocks and steals and also had a double-digit point yield, was signed by the Israeli club Hapoel from Jerusalem in April 2001 during the current season . After a good debut with a win against the dominant series champion Maccabi Tel Aviv , they reached the play-off final series for the championship, which was then lost to the defending champion.

From the 2001/02 season Huggins played for Spirou BC from Charleroi in the French- speaking Wallonia under coach Giovanni Bozzi , after he had previously only been active in Belgium for clubs from Flanders . The four-time champion from 1996 to 1999 had previously given the last two titles to the clubs from Antwerp and Ostend sponsored by the ICT provider Telindus . In 2002 they achieved another cup success and in 2003 they were able to take back the championship title from Ostend and win the Belgian double . After this championship, the now 36-year-old Huggins left the club and switched to the league competitor from Liège , who was sponsored by the ICT provider Euphony Benelux and has now been coached by Bozzi. Here he played again with the Belgian-American point guard Michael Huger, with whom he had already played in Antwerp and Ypres. Together they could defeat defending champion Spirou BC 2004 in the semi-finals of the cup competition and then win the first national title for this club with the final victory. In the final series of the championship, however, the team from Hainaut prevailed and defended their title.

For the 2004/05 season, Huggins moved again to the Israeli Ligat ha'Al to Bnei HaSharon in Herzliya . With this club he reached the Israeli cup final, which was lost to Maccabi Tel Aviv, and third place in the Israeli championship. Chris Finch , his team-mate at the Sheffield Sharks, had come to the Belgian league as a coach and won the Belgian championship in 2005 with the club from Bree . After the 2012 Olympic Games were awarded , a British national basketball team was re-formed and hosted automatically should and replaced the unsuccessful national teams from England, Scotland and Wales, and Finch their national coach, who also brought Huggins back into the new selection. Also took Finch Huggins in 2005 in the Belgian league, where he together with the Belgian national team Herbert Baert , Huggins' players in Antwerp and Ypres, an experienced frontcourt formed, while in the backcourt , the British team-mate Nate Reinking and Julius Jenkins , later multiple MVP of the German basketball league , acted. In the ULEB Cup 2005/06 they were eliminated after the group matches in the round of 16 against Huggins former club Hapoel Jerusalem and in the Belgian championship the defending champion lost the semi-final series against Dexia Mons-Hainaut. After financial problems, the most important players left the club at the end of the season and Huggins moved again to the club in Liège, where the now 39-year-old was mainly used in the FIBA EuroCup , in which he was eliminated in the second round before the knockout games. For the end of the season, Huggins moved back to the Belgian champions Spirou BC in Charleroi, with whom he defended the 2007 championship. In the following season he played at the regional rival Charleroi in Mons again under coach Chris Finch, who had brought other British national players to Hainaut in addition to Nate Reinking with Andrew Sullivan and Michael Lenzly . With Dexia Mons-Hainaut he reached the final in the FIBA ​​EuroCup, in which Huggins was almost exclusively used, in which the Latvian club Barons / LMT from Riga was defeated by just one point. Subsequently, Huggins ended his active career at the age of almost 41.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ian Whittell: Huggins feels the tug of Europe. The Independent , March 3, 1996, accessed August 12, 2012 (news archive article).
  2. ↑ FLV Athlon Ieper / Korac Cup 2001. FIBA Europe , accessed on August 12, 2012 (English, team profile).
  3. Jump up ↑ Jerusalem gets Bree, Huggins in ULEB Cup playoffs. The Jerusalem Post , January 21, 2006, accessed August 12, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Pete Thompson: Huggins Likes Liege Chances Of Progressing In EuroCup. FIBA Europa , January 8, 2007, accessed August 12, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Barons Edge Dexia In Thriller To Win EuroCup Title. FIBA Europa , April 20, 2008, accessed August 12, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Huggins, Roger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huggins, Roger John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH 5th September 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH London