Tim Abromaitis

Tim Abromaitis
Player information
Full name	Timothy James Abromaitis
birthday	17th September 1989
place of birth	Waterbury (CT), USA
size	203 cm
position	Small forward / power forward
college	Notre Dame
Club information
society	Iberostar Tenerife
league	League ACB
Clubs as active
2007–2011 ND Fighting Irish ( NCAA ) 2012–2013 ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne 2013–2014 Strasbourg IG 2014–2015 Löwen Braunschweig Since 2015 Iberostar Tenerife 0

Timothy James Abromaitis (born September 17, 1989 in Waterbury , Connecticut ) is an American basketball player . After studying in his home country, Abromaitis has been playing as a professional player in Europe since 2012. In France he was runner-up in 2014 with Strasbourg IG. After a season in the German basketball league with the Löwen Braunschweig, Abromaitis has been playing in the Spanish ACB league for Iberostar in Tenerife on the Canary Islands since 2015 .

Career

Abromaitis' father James played after studying at the University of Connecticut (UConn) also professional basketball in Europe, among other things for Real Madrid , where he won a Spanish runner-up, and in the Italian Trieste . Tim Abromaitis, whose great-grandparents come from Lithuania , went to college in Farmington (Connecticut) to study at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana , where he worked for the college team Fighting Irish in basketball in what was then the Big East Conference , which also included the UConn Huskies played, got active. In his first season as a freshman , however, he came only to twelve short appearances, so that he suspended the following season 2008/09. In his actual " sophomore season" he came back as a starter and led the team in the following 2010/11 season together with Ben Hansbrough even to a season record of 27 wins and seven losses, the fewest season losses in over 30 years of the Fighting Irish and the best win rate in a long time. After the narrow opening defeat with one point difference in the national NCAA finals tournament 2010, the Fighting Irish got a top placement in the seed list of the finals tournament in 2011. After an opening win they lost the second game against the surprise team of Florida State Seminoles quite clearly with 14 points difference.

Abromaitis then took part in the summer 2011 with a college selection that included Draymond Green , JaMychal Green and Greg Mangano , Trevor Mbakwe and Darius Miller , who were later also active in Germany, like Abromaitis , at the 2011 Summer Universiade . After the only tournament defeat in the quarter-finals against Lithuania with two points difference, the US selection also won the final placement game against the German A2 national team and reached fifth place. In his following final season in college as "senior" Abromaitis injured himself after two missions on the cruciate ligament , which is why he also skipped this season, but as a novelty secured a third award as a "Scholar Athlete" of the Big East. After Abromaitis had already suspended the second season, he was denied a request for another season in a sixth year of college, so that Abromaitis could effectively only show his skills at college two seasons after his unfortunate freshman season. Together with his injury, that was not enough to be selected in the two rounds of the 2012 NBA Draft by a club in the highest endowed professional league. Abromaitis' father Jim was selected in the 1979 NBA draft in the then still existing fifth round in 95th position by the New York Nets , without later having played a game in the NBA .

After Abromaitis had already obtained a Master of Business Administration in 2011 through his rapid academic studies , he began a career as a professional basketball player after rehabilitation from his injury and got a contract with the French record champions ASVEL from Villeurbanne for the 2012/13 season . As the third-placed team in the main round ASVEL returned to the play-offs for the championship, in which, however, Illkirch-Graffenstaden Basket from Strasbourg was defeated in the semi-final series in two games. The later runner-up from Alsace then took Abromaitis under contract for the following season, in which the team moved as the main round first again in the final series for the championship. After Strasbourg had won the two previous play-off series over the "full distance", they lost the final series in three games without their own win against the former European Cup winner Limoges CSP , who had only returned to the top division two years earlier was. With the French runner-up, Abromaitis also took part in the highest-ranking European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2013/14 , in which they were eliminated together with the German champion Brose Baskets after the preliminary round, but were allowed to continue playing in the 2013/14 Eurocup . Here you failed in the second round, among other things, at the old and new German cup winner Alba Berlin .

After his game shares had rather decreased in his second season in France, Abromaitis moved to the basketball Bundesliga 2014/15 to Germany to the Basketball Löwen from Braunschweig . After the Braunschweiger had previously belonged to the lower third of the table as Phantoms for two years, Abromaitis helped the team to return to the middle of the table with his personal performance improvement over the course of the season. In ninth place in the table, the Lions just missed a place in the play-off finals for the championship. For the following season Abromaitis was able to secure a contract in the Spanish ACB league with Iberostar 1939 , which play their home games on the Canary Island of Tenerife .

Web links

• ABROMAITIS, TIM - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB ( English )
• ACB.COM: Tim Abromaitis - Profile on the websites of the Spanish league ACB ( Spanish )
• easyCredit BBL - Tim Abromaitis - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
• Tim Abromaitis BIo - Profile on the Sports Websites of the University of Notre Dame (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tim Abromaitis: "I don't like being in the spotlight". Basketball Löwen Braunschweig , February 15, 2015, accessed on July 16, 2015 (portrait as media info). 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Twenty-Sixth World University Games –– 2011. USA Basketball , December 2, 2011, accessed on July 16, 2015 (English). 
3. ↑ Notre Dame's Tim Abromaitis Named American Eagle Outfitters BIG EAST Scholar-Athlete of the Year. March 6, 2012, archived from the original on March 8, 2014 ; accessed on July 16, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Tim Abromaitis - Joueurs - Pro A. Ligue Nationale de Basket , accessed on July 16, 2015 (French, player profile with statistics). 
5. ↑ El Iberostar Tenerife ficha a Tim Abromaitis. CB 1939 Canarias , July 14, 2015, accessed July 16, 2015 (Spanish).