Tilo burdock

Player information
Tilo burdock
Tilo Klette (2013)
birthday	December 16, 1977
place of birth	Dresden, GDR
size	206 cm
position	Power Forward / Center
Clubs as active
1993–2000 BG 74 Göttingen 2000–2001 Brandt Hagen 2001–2003 Telekom Baskets Bonn 2003–2005 WBC Raiffeisen Wels 2005–2006 Kapfenberg Bulls 2006–2007 Ōsaka Panasonic Trians ( JBL ) 2008–2011 WBC Raiffeisen Wels 2011–2013 Hokkaidō Levanga 2013– 2015 WBC Raiffeisen Wels 2015–2019 Gmunden Swans 2019–2020 Raiffeisen Flyers WelsGermany Germany Germany Austria Austria Japan Austria Japan Austria Austria Austria
Clubs as coaches
Since 2019 Raiffeisen Flyers Wels (AT) 00Austria

Tilo Klette (born December 16, 1977 in Dresden ) is a former basketball player who was born in Germany and who now has Austrian citizenship. After starting his career in his home country, where he last played in 2003 for Telekom Baskets Bonn in the top division of the basketball league , Klette moved to Austria and later to Japan . With the WBC Wels, Klette became Austrian champion in 2009 . Tilo Klette is now married to his long-term partner Judith. They have a daughter and son together, and his eldest son comes from a previous relationship.

Career

Klette came to the Federal Republic of Germany with his parents in 1989. The family settled in Lower Saxony . At first, Klette mainly played football and made it into the Lower Saxony youth team as a goalkeeper . Klette did not begin to perform basketball until he was 16 and came to the BG 74 in Göttingen through the TG Münden club in his home town of Hannoversch Münden . There he completed his first appearances in the men's team in the 2nd Bundesliga group north just two years later . In 2000 he moved one league higher to Brandt Hagen in the basketball league . Here he came in the basketball Bundesliga 2000/01 on solid playing times of more than ten minutes per game. However, the Hagen team, which had ambitions for top positions after signing the former Leverkusen master coach Dirk Bauermann , disappointed overall and was only able to ensure relegation in the qualifying round. Then Klette was signed by the runner-up Telekom Baskets from Bonn . However, his services stagnated here and he was used significantly less. After he was used in the basketball Bundesliga 2002/03 only in 13 games with an average of less than six minutes playing time per game, he then left Germany.

For the 2003/04 season, Klette got a contract in the Austrian basketball league (ÖBL) with the WBC from Wels , which had previously returned to the top national division. Here he advanced to the team's top scorer in the following two seasons . After two seasons, he then moved to the Bulls from Kapfenberg in 2005 , who were Austrian champions four times in a row from 2001 to 2004. In the play-off semi- final series for the 2006 championship, however, they lost to their former club from Wels. Then Klette moved to Japan, where he played for the Panasonic Superkangeroos. After his first very successful season with Panasonic, he then went to Puerto Rico and played there for two months for the Indios de Mayaguez team.

For the 07/08 season he returned to Japan and played for Panasonic Trains. This season was also very successful. He was again able to assert himself as the only European in the JBL and ended this game year among the five best basket shooters in the league. Then he returned to Wels in Austria and ended the season there, but could not prevent that they were eliminated in the first play-off round for the championship against defending champion Allianz Swans Gmunden . In the following season, ÖBL 2008/09 , however, the "coup" succeeded when the two champions of previous years, the Fürstenfeld Panthers and the Swans Gmunden , were defeated one after the other in the semi-final and final series , and the first championship for the Welser club reached. Klette then recommended his teammate Brandon Thomas to his former club from Göttingen, where a trainer worked with his friend John Patrick who, like Klette, had previously also been active in Göttingen and Japan.

After Wels won its first championship in 50 years, the WBC Wels represented the Austrian colors in international competition. In the qualification for the EuroCup you could defeat the top-class opponent Besiktas Istanbul in your home hall thanks to a good playing Tilo Klette. After his three-year contract expired, the working paper was not renewed and the now 33-year-old was drawn to the land of the rising sun again.

At Levanga Hokkaido, Klette was looked after by German coach Torsten Loibl in the 2011/12 season , and the team only narrowly missed their first participation in the championship round. Klette was again one of the most effective players in the league this season.

Due to the good performance Levanga Hokkaido signed him for another season. In 2013, Klette returned to WBC Raiffeisen Wels, and when he was 35 he signed a two-year contract. Thanks to his help, the club managed to reach the semifinals of the ÖBL for the first time in five years. During the summer break of 2015, Klette, who had meanwhile assumed Austrian citizenship, was signed by Bundesliga competitor Swans Gmunden. Before the 2019/20 season, he returned to Wels at the age of 41, where he worked as a player and member of the coaching staff.

In August 2020, Klette announced that he had ended his active career as a basketball player. He will continue to work as an athletic trainer in Wels.

Web links

Player - details: Tilo Klette - profile and statistics from the ÖBL from 2007
easyCredit BBL - Tilo Klette - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website

Individual evidence

^ Upper Austrian news: Klette: From Wels to Gmunden . ( nachrichten.at [accessed on November 10, 2018]).
↑ Portrait - Tilo Klette. Retrieved November 10, 2018 .
↑ Anja Horstmann: Tilo Klette: "Allez, Allez". Telekom Baskets Bonn , November 25, 2001, accessed on May 9, 2013 (“ Homestory ” with interview).
↑ ^a ^b Mark Bambey: "Fans will love Brandon". Göttinger Tageblatt , July 9, 2009, accessed on May 9, 2013 .
↑ Basketball: Kapfenberg fishes near Wels. Der Standard , July 3, 2005, accessed May 9, 2013 .
↑ Second new addition to the WBC Wels . In: mein district.at . ( mein district.at [accessed on November 10, 2018]).
↑ Gmunden signs Germans Klette . ( kurier.at [accessed on November 10, 2018]).
↑ https://www.flyerswels.at/portal/tilo-klette-und-die-raiffeisen-flyers-iegen-gemeinsame-wege/
↑ https://www.skysportaustria.at/tilo-klette-gibt-karrieende-known/

personal data
SURNAME	Burdock, Tilo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH	December 16, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dresden , GDR

[1] Upper Austrian news: Klette: From Wels to Gmunden . ( nachrichten.at [accessed on November 10, 2018]).

[2] Portrait - Tilo Klette. Retrieved November 10, 2018 .

[3] Anja Horstmann: Tilo Klette: "Allez, Allez". Telekom Baskets Bonn , November 25, 2001, accessed on May 9, 2013 (“ Homestory ” with interview).

[GT_Bambey-4] Mark Bambey: "Fans will love Brandon". Göttinger Tageblatt , July 9, 2009, accessed on May 9, 2013 .

[5] Basketball: Kapfenberg fishes near Wels. Der Standard , July 3, 2005, accessed May 9, 2013 .

[6] Second new addition to the WBC Wels . In: mein district.at . ( mein district.at [accessed on November 10, 2018]).

[7] Gmunden signs Germans Klette . ( kurier.at [accessed on November 10, 2018]).

[8] ttps://www.flyerswels.at/portal/tilo-klette-und-die-raiffeisen-flyers-iegen-gemeinsame-wege/

[9] ttps://www.skysportaustria.at/tilo-klette-gibt-karrieende-known/