Thomas Deuster

This article is about a basketball player. For the cartographer and author of the same name, see Thomas Deuster (author) .

Thomas Deuster
Player information
Nickname	jet
birthday	December 13, 1964
place of birth	Leverkusen, FR Germany
size	205 cm
position	Power Forward / Center
college	Oregon
Clubs as active
1983–1984 Centralia Trailblazers (NWAACC) 1984–1986 Oregon Ducks ( NCAA ) 1986–1989 DTV Charlottenburg 1989–1994 TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1994–1997 Rhöndorfer TV
National team 1
1986-1988	Germany	41
Clubs as coaches
000002002 Bayer Giants Leverkusen
1 As of January 8, 2015

Thomas Deuster (* 13. December 1964 in Leverkusen ) is a former German basketball - international and sports managers. After studying in the United States , Deuster played in the German basketball league . With the men's national team , Deuster missed the qualification for the Olympic basketball tournament in 1988 , while he was a total of five German champions and three cup winners with his home club Bayer Leverkusen . After the end of his career, Deuster was the manager of the German record champions Bayer Giants Leverkusen until 2005. Deuster remained connected to basketball as a youth coach at Fast-Break Leverkusen eV afterwards.

Career

Deuster graduated from the High School in Centralia (Washington) in 1983 , which his former Leverkusen club mate Detlef Schrempf had already visited and with whose school team had won a state championship in Washington in 1981 . Deuster, however, lost in 1983 with the Tigers school team against the Olympic Trojans , in which his German youth team mate Christian Welp stood out, with whom Deuster had won a bronze medal at the 1981 European Cadet Championships. While Welp and Schrempf went to study at the University of Washington , Deuster first switched to the Junior College in Centralia, whose college team Trailblazers play in the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges (NWAACC). After a year, Deuster went to the University of Oregon for further studies , where he played with the college team Ducks like Welp in the then Pacific-10 Conference of the NCAA . While Schrempf and Welp could recommend themselves for a career in the NBA professional league with the Washington Huskies , neither the Ducks nor Deuster could play themselves in the foreground with the Ducks at that time.

After two years in Oregon , Deuster finished his studies there and went back to Germany in 1986, where he joined the first division club DTV Charlottenburg in Berlin-Charlottenburg , a predecessor club of the future serial master Alba Berlin . After the dismissal of the coach Rick Shore, the club got into financial difficulties due to outstanding claims and later had to file for bankruptcy. After Deuster was initially only used in friendly games in the men's national team , he was a member of the Olympic team in July 1988, which had to qualify for the Olympic basketball tournament at the European qualifying tournament in the Netherlands . Here, the selection without the NBA professionals Schrempf, Welp and Uwe Blab only took the penultimate place and thus missed the qualification. Before the first division license from Charlottenburg was transferred to the successor club, Deuster had left Berlin in 1989 and returned to his hometown. In 1989 he won bronze at the Universiade  in Duisburg with the German student selection .

At TSV Bayer 04, most recently champions in 1986, the young coach Dirk Bauermann replaced defending champion Steiner Bayreuth in 1990 and subsequently won seven championships in a row, including with Welp, who played for Leverkusen from 1991. Deuster, on the other hand, played for Bayer until 1994, who rose to the record championship with these championships and in Deuster's time until 1994 won the double three times in connection with the cup victory . Deuster moved in 1994 Rhine up to Rhöndorfer TV, with whom he in the 2nd Basketball League 1994/95 in the top flight basketball league rise. After two seasons, in which the Rhöndorfer last reached the second main round place in the basketball Bundesliga 1996/97 before defending champion Leverkusen, but were eliminated in the first play-off round against local rivals Telekom Baskets Bonn , Deuster ended his active career.

After his active career, Deuster worked for Bayer 04 and its sponsor , who increasingly concentrated his financial resources on football. In 2000, Deuster became the successor to long-time successful manager Otto Reintjes at Bayer 04 , who moved to the Bundesliga basketball association. As a result of the Bosman decision , the existing restrictions on the use of foreigners had largely been lifted and German national players were also courted by clubs from financially strong southern European leagues. In addition, the Berliners closed the gap to Bayer 04 with a financially powerful name sponsor from the mid-1990s and replaced the previous series champions Leverkusen. In February 2002 Deuster coach broke Calvin Oldham as Bayreuth player himself nor competitor of Leverkusen, and took over the athletic slid down into mediocrity, now as Bayer Giants firmierende team on an interim basis even to the end of the season. In the play-offs of the basketball Bundesliga 2001/02 you remained fourth in the main round in the first round without a win against defending champion Alba Berlin. For the following season, Deuster installed his former teammate Heimo Förster as a coach and the Bayer Giants took on the declared concept to celebrate new successes with talented young players for national player Denis Wucherer . While the Berliners had achieved their sporting advancement ten years earlier in cooperation with TuS Lichterfelde , the Leverkusen-based team had little success in the medium term due to the increased competitive pressure and the increasing number of experienced foreign players in the league. After having only just barely made it into the play-offs twice, they slipped to fourth from bottom place in the final table of the 2004/05 Basketball Bundesliga . Denis Wucherer then moved abroad at the end of his career and Deuster made room as manager for Otto Reintjes, who initially returned to his old position after his contract with the league expired and did not renew the contract of coach Förster. Deuster went back to the chemicals division of the largest private Leverkusen employer.

Web links

• Thomas Deuster - Overview of participation in international FIBA tournaments on archive.fiba.com (English)
• Games by Thomas Deuster - national team appearances in the archive of H.-J. Mahr on mahr.sb-vision.de
• Thomas Deuster | FIBA Europe - Player History - Statistics from European club competitions of FIBA Europe (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Nathan Joyce: Oly remembers one of its greatest in Welp. KitsapSun.com, January 29, 2011, accessed January 8, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Terry Mosher: Scott Evans is happy where he's at. KitsapSun.com, February 28, 2012, accessed January 8, 2015 (English). 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Sebastian Arlt: Bayer is betting on the German map. Berliner Morgenpost , October 27, 2002, accessed on January 8, 2015 (repro in the news archive). 
4. ↑ Christoph Büker: Once upon a time ... bronze 25 years ago . In: Deutscher Basketball Bund (Ed.): DBB Journal . No. 41 , October 2014, p. 36, 37 .
5. ↑ Reintjes is working on "Mini-NBA". Rheinische Post , May 17, 2000, accessed on January 8, 2015 (repro in the news archive). 
6. Jump up ↑ Basketball: Giants separate from coach Oldham. Rheinische Post, February 21, 2002, accessed on January 8, 2015 (repro in the news archive). 
7. ↑ Otto Reintjes only disappears briefly from the stage. Nordwest-Zeitung , April 14, 2005, accessed January 8, 2015 .