Scott Fields (basketball coach)

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Scott Fields (born October 31, 1967 in Kokoma, Indiana ) is an American basketball coach .

career

Fields played basketball at Lewis Cass High School and Montreat College, North Carolina, and began his coaching career in 1987 as an assistant coach at Huntington College in Indiana . From 1988 to 1990 he was assistant coach at King College (State of Tennessee ) and in the 1990/91 game year in the same position at Centenary College in Louisiana  . After further positions as assistant coach in his home country (1991/92 at Chowan University, 1992 to 1994 at Chaminade University and 1994/95 at Chipola College), he was head coach of the US professional team Dothan Blast in the 1995/96 season .

In 1996 Fields moved to Luxembourg and was employed there in the 1996/97 season as an assistant coach at the BBC Ecluse Stadtbredimus and as an assistant coach for the Luxembourg national team. In the summer of 1997 he coached the team Fajardo Caridudos in Puerto Rico and in the 1997/98 season the Swedish club Jämtland Ambassadors, which went bankrupt in March 1998, so that he came to the separation between Fields and the team.

In the 1998/99 season Fields exercised the position of head coach for the Austrian Bundesliga club UKJ Möllersdorf . From October to the end of December 1999 he was head coach of the German Bundesliga club SSV Ratiopharm Ulm .

Fields led the Saudi club Al Ittihad in the 2000/01 game year to win the national championship. This was followed by Al Riyadi in Lebanon (2002/03), Qatar Sports Club in Qatar (2003/04) and the Lebanese clubs Champville (2004/05) and Sagesse (2005) further stations in the Middle East. In 2006 Fields was the coach and manager of Salt Lake Dream in the US league ABA, in the 2006/07 season he coached the Utah Eagles in the CBA, another professional game class in his home country.

In the spring of 2007 he was in charge of pre-season preparation for the Jilin North East Tigers from the Chinese CBA league. In 2007, 2008 and 2009, Fields served as an assistant coach to the Golden State Warriors  in the NBA Summer League . In 2009 and 2010 he also took part in regular training sessions at Utah Jazz as a guest . In the 2007/08 season he was the head coach of the Chinese club Dongguan Snowwolves under contract and in 2010 worked again for the club as a coach.

During the 2012 NBA Summer League, he was a member of the Sacramento Kings extended coaching staff . From September 2012 to March 2013 Fields coached the Guaros de Lara team in Venezuela . As of December 2013, Fields appeared regularly as a basketball professional on an Internet broadcast named after him. In January 2016, Fields joined Utah State University Eastern as an assistant coach.

Footnotes

  1. a b c d e Coach Fields Bio. In: Coach Scott Fields. Retrieved March 29, 2019 .
  2. ^ Aftonbladet Sport: Jämtland Ambassadors i bankruptcy. Retrieved March 29, 2019 .
  3. Nygammal coach i Jämtland krisdrabbade Ambassadors. Retrieved March 29, 2019 .
  4. Basketball: Ulm dismisses coach Juric . In: Spiegel Online . October 7, 1999 ( spiegel.de [accessed March 29, 2019]).
  5. Friday December 31st, 1999, 3:56 pm: Charles Brigham new coach of basketball - Bundesliga club Ulm. December 31, 1999, accessed March 29, 2019 .
  6. ^ Scott Fields: Coach Profile. In: usbasket.com. Retrieved March 29, 2019 .
  7. ^ Utah CBA coach loves job. October 20, 2006, accessed March 29, 2019 .
  8. ^ Coach Scott Fields optimistic for mens basketball program. In: USU Eastern Eagle. September 8, 2016, accessed March 29, 2019 .