Luke Schenscher

Luke Schenscher
Player information
Full name	Luke Dean Schenscher
birthday	December 31, 1982
place of birth	Hope Forest, Australia
size	216 cm
position	center
college	Georgia Tech
NBA draft	2005 , undrafted
Clubs as active
2001–2005 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets ( NCAA ) 2005–2006 Fort Worth Flyers 2006 Chicago Bulls 2006–2007 Fort Worth Flyers 2007 Portland Trail Blazers 2007 Brose Baskets 2008–2009 Adelaide 36ers 2009–2010 Perth Wildcats 2010–2012 Townsville Crocodiles Since 2012 Adelaide 36ers 00000 00000 00000 0
National team
000000000	Australia

Luke Dean Schenscher (born December 31, 1982 in Hope Forest , South Australia ) is a retired Australian basketball player . He is the son of German immigrants. Schenscher was, among other things, active in the Australian NBL and in the past played briefly in the NBA and in the German basketball league .

Career

The 2.16 meter center played basketball at the Australian Institute of Sport for three years until 2001 . At the U22 World Cup he played for the Australian junior team in Japan, which ended up in eighth place after losing to Argentina in the quarter-finals. From 2001 to 2005's shear went to study at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States to Atlanta , where he worked for the college team Yellow Jackets in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) of the NCAA played. In the 2003/04 season he reached the final game of the national NCAA finals with the Yellow Jackets , which was lost to the Huskies of the University of Connecticut . When the Yellow Jackets performed most successfully in the NCAA tournament, Schenscher was elected to the "NCAA All-Final Four Team". In 119 games for the Yellow Jackets, of which he was in the starting line-up in 90 games, he scored an average of 7.1 points, 5.4 rebounds and 1.6 blocks.

Schenscher was not selected in the NBA Draft 2005 by any NBA club, but got a provisional contract from the Denver Nuggets in the summer of 2005 in the highest endowed professional league. After he was not included in the final season squad of the Nuggets, he first played in the NBA Development League for the Flyers from Fort Worth , Texas . In early March 2006 he was signed with the Chicago Bulls on short-term contracts, where his compatriot Luc Longley had previously played very successfully. The short-term contracts were finally extended to the end of the season and Schenscher completed 23 appearances in his debut season in the 2005/06 NBA , including three in the play-offs , where the Bulls were eliminated in the first round against eventual champions Miami Heat . Shortly before the start of the season of the following season, Schenscher was not accepted into the Bulls' season squad and released from his contract. He then returned to the " farm team " Fort Worth Flyers in the D-League and was the premiere of the D-League All-Star Games , where he was next to his teammate and " MVP " Pops Mensah-Bonsu his Eastern Conference selection Victory led. In mid-March 2007 he was brought back to the NBA with Mensah-Bonsu on a short-term contract with the Portland Trail Blazers. The Trailblazers extended his contract in the NBA 2006/07 also to the end of the season and Schenscher completed another eleven appearances in the NBA. Here he achieved an average of more than ten minutes without being able to increase his effectiveness on the field. After the Blazers missed the play-offs at the end of the season, Schenscher got no new contract and his NBA career was over.

After Schenscher did not get a new contract in the NBA in 2007, he first tried his hand at Europe and signed a contract with German champion Brose Baskets from Bamberg , who also signed New Zealander Mark Dickel from the fifth continent . Disabled by a knee injury, Schenscher only played one role in the opening game of the 2007/08 basketball division . Schenscher was then given time to recover and released from his contract. Schenscher then returned to his home country and only signed a new contract in March 2008 for the following season with the 36ers from Adelaide in the NBL Australasia . Schenscher scored a double-double in the 2008/09 season with an average of 17 points and eleven rebounds per game and was voted Player of the Month for the NBL in January and February 2009. Against the Perth Wildcats he scored 33 points and 20 rebounds, making it the first NBL player since Mark Bradtke for the 36ers in 1992 to reach or exceed 30 points and 20 rebounds in an NBL game. For the following season he moved to the Wildcats from Perth , with whom he won the championship in the NBL Australasia 2010. The next two seasons he played for the Crocodiles from Townsville , each of which was eliminated in the play-off semi-final series of the championship. For the 2012/13 season he returned to the Adelaide 36ers, but they disappointed and ended the season bottom of the table.

Although early appointed as a college player in 2002 in the men's selection of the Australian Basketball Association, Schenscher could never recommend himself for a final squad given the competition in the " front court " of the Australian national team.

Web links

• Player statistics for Luke Schenscher - Statistics of the NBL Australasia at SportingPulse.com ( English )
• Basketball Australia: Luke Schenscher - Profile on the website of the Australian Association (English)
• Luke Schenscher - player profile on basketball-reference.com
• Georgia Tech Official Athletic Site: 12 Luke Schenscher - Profile on Georgia Institute of Technology Sports Websites

Individual evidence

1. ↑ archive.fiba.com: Players - Luke SCHENSCHER (AUS). FIBA , accessed on May 20, 2013 (English, overview of participation in FIBA ​​competitions). 
2. ↑ Mensah-Bonsu Leads East To D-League All-Star Victory. National Basketball Association , February 17, 2007, accessed May 20, 2013 (game report). 
3. ↑ Brose Baskets signs Aussie center Luke Schenscher. ULEB , July 27, 2007, accessed May 20, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Luke Schenscher (Brose Baskets). (No longer available online.) Basketball Bundesliga , archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on May 20, 2013 (player statistics). 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.  
5. ↑ Thomas Meyer: Contract with Luke Schenscher dissolved. Schoenen-Dunk.de, November 8, 2007, accessed on May 20, 2013 (Medien-Info Brose Baskets). 
6. ↑ Match Results: Adelaide 36ers vs. Perth Wildcats, Oct 25 SportingPulse.com, accessed May 20, 2013 (English, match statistics).