Scooter Barry

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Basketball player
Scooter Barry
Player information
Full name Richard Francis Barry IV.
Nickname Scooter
birthday August 13, 1966
place of birth San Francisco , United States
size 191 cm
position Point Guard / Shooting Guard
college Kansas
Clubs as active
1985–1989 University of Kansas 1989 Boston Celtics 1989–1991 San José (CBA) 1991–1992 SG Braunschweig 1992 TAU Vitoria 1993–1994 Fort Wayne (CBA) 1994–1995 Yakima Sun Kings (CBA) 1995 South East Melbourne Magic 1995–1996 TuS Herten 1996–1998 SG Braunschweig 1998–2000 MTV Gießen 2000–2001 Pallacanestro Messina 2001 FC Mulhouse Basket 2002–2003 Cholet Basket 2003–2004 Spirou BC Charleroi 2004–2005 Tenerife CB 2005–2006 Baloncesto LeónUnited StatesUnited States
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Richard Francis Barry IV , called Scooter Barry (born August 13, 1966 in San Francisco , California ) is a former German - American basketball player.

Life

Scooter Barry comes from a basketball family, his father is Hall of Famer Rick Barry (* 1944), his three brothers Jon (* 1969), Brent (* 1971) and Drew (* 1973) are all former basketball professionals.

Scooter played at the University of Kansas from 1985 to 1989 and studied psychology . In his first two years of college play, Barry remained a supplementary player and only had a playing time of 4.2 minutes per game during this time. In the 1987/88 season, in which he won the NCAA championship title with Kansas under the direction of coach Larry Brown and alongside the later NBA player Danny Manning , he scored 3.3 points per encounter and averaged 13 per game , 7 minutes on the floor. In the 1988/89 game year Barry posted the best statistical values ​​of his NCAA career and came to 6.3 points per game, in addition, he prepared five basket successes per game of his companions.

Barry was included in the run-up to the 1989/90 season of the NBA team Boston Celtics in the training squad and took part in preparatory games, but was removed from the squad before the start of the season. He then played first with the San José Jammers in the US league Continental Basketball Association (CBA), of which he was a member in the game years 1989/90 and 1990/91.

At the summer league of the NBA in 1991, Barry made the acquaintance of Harald Stein , then a SG Braunschweig player . Stein initiated the commitment of the American there, Barry convinced in the Bundesliga season 91/92 as the best Braunschweig scorer (20 points / game during the point round). He became the favorite of SG supporters. Thanks to his good performance in Braunschweig, he received an offer from the Spanish ACB league and moved to Taugrés Vitoria . For the Basque team he played only five league games, in which he scored an average of 4.8 points. Barry suffered a broken leg in Vitoria, after his recovery he played later in the 1993/93 season for Fort Wayne Fury in the CBA, coach of the team was his father. Scooter Barry also played for Fort Wayne in 1993/94 and in the same league in 1994/95 for the Yakima Sun Kings. During parts of 1995 he was also under contract with the South East Melbourne Magic in Australia .

Barry's second station in Germany was TuS Herten . For the team he scored an average of 17 points per match in 1995/96, for the 1996/97 season he returned to Braunschweig. With the Lower Saxony he moved into the Bundesliga championship round in 1997 and 1998, in the season 97/98 he was the best preparer of the Bundesliga with 6.2 assists per game. After Braunschweig's trainer Bill Magarity had spoken out against a further commitment, Barry moved to league competitor MTV Giessen in the run-up to the 1998/99 season . As in his first year in Braunschweig, he was Harald Stein's team-mate at Mittelhessen. In both of his years in Giessen, he set the Bundesliga record of the season with 14 assists in one game. In 1999 he moved into the final of the DBB Cup with Giessen , where they lost to Alba Berlin.

After leaving Germany, Barry played in Italy, France, Belgium and Spain, and in 2006 he retired from competitive sports at the age of 39. He was an addict, Barry described his fascination for the sport and his long career. With his wife Kerstin, who comes from Braunschweig, he has a daughter and a son. In 2008 he moved with his family from Germany to the United States after his goal of working as a professional coach in Germany (he had obtained his A-trainer license in 2005) had not been implemented. As part of the move, Barry gave up his German citizenship. Professionally, he first worked in California as an employee of a fitness company, then worked in marketing, for a manufacturer of arm covers for basketball players and then for technology companies.

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c First Place Writing - Sports. Retrieved April 1, 2020 (American English).
  2. ↑ Know Your KU History: Scooter Barry. In: rockchalktalk.com. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  3. ↑ 1987-88 Kansas Jayhawks Roster and Stats. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  4. ^ Scooter Barry College Stats. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  5. ↑ 1989 San Jose Jammers Statistics on StatsCrew.com. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  6. ↑ 1990-91 San Jose Jammers Statistics. In: statscrew.com. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  7. ↑ a b c d e Henning Brand: The fan favorite . In: Ute Berndt, Henning Brand, Ingo Hoffmann, Christoph Matthies (eds.): Dunke-Schön. 25 years of the 1st Bundesliga basketball team in Braunschweig . Klartext Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1505-3 , p. 35-37 .
  8. ^ Henning Brand: The team 91/92 . In: Ute Berndt, Henning Brand, Ingo Hoffmann, Christoph Matthies (eds.): Dunke-Schön. 25 years of the 1st Bundesliga basketball team in Braunschweig . Klartext Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1505-3 , p. 24 .
  9. ↑ http://www.acb.com/jugador/temporada-a-temporada/id/20201181
  10. ↑ 1992 Fort Wayne Fury Statistics on StatsCrew.com. Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
  11. ↑ 1993 Fort Wayne Fury Statistics on StatsCrew.com. Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
  12. ↑ 1994 Yakima Sun Kings Statistics on StatsCrew.com. Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Number crunching: NBL - Round 12. In: Basketball Draft Central. January 9, 2019, accessed April 2, 2020 (Australian English).
  14. ↑ a b c Martin Vogel: pairs of brothers . In: Basketball Bundesliga GmbH (Ed.): 50 Years of the Basketball Bundesliga . Cologne, ISBN 978-3-7307-0242-0 , pp. 57 .
  15. ↑ A disappointing end to a good year. September 1, 2015, accessed April 1, 2020 (German).
  16. ↑ https://www.easycredit-bbl.de/de/n/newsarchiv/2013/16-assists-fuer-die-ewigkeit---jared-jordan-passt-sich-gegen-trier-in-die-geschichtsbuecher -the-league /
  17. ^ Richard "Scooter" Barry. In: linkedin.com. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Barry, scooter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barry, Richard Francis IV (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco , USA