Zach Morley

Zach Morley
Zach Morley (2012)
Player information
Full name	Zach Scott Morley
birthday	April 25, 1983
place of birth	Maryville (MO), USA
size	203 cm
position	Small forward
college	Wisconsin
Clubs as active
2001–2003 Indian Hills Warriors (NJCAA) 2003–2005 Wisconsin Badgers ( NCAA ) 2005–2007 Gandía Bàsquet 2007–2008 Leche Río Breogán 2008–2009 Gandía Bàsquet 2009–2010 Autocid Ford Burgos 2010–2012 BK Budiwelnyk Kiev 2012–2013 ALBA Berlin 2013–2014 Chorale Roanne Basket

Zach Scott Morley (born April 25, 1983 in Maryville , Missouri ) is an American basketball player . Morley played after his studies first years in the second Spanish Liga Española de Baloncesto before leaving for two years in the Ukraine in 2012-13 Basketball Bundesliga played for ALBA Berlin, with whom he the BBL Cup 2013 won. After injury problems at the beginning of the 2013/14 season, he got a new contract at the end of 2013 with French first division club Chorale Roanne in the Ligue Nationale de Basket .

Career

Born in northern Missouri, Morley moved to Indian Hills Community College in 2001 to study across the state line in Iowa . Their basketball team Warriors was one of the most successful teams in the National Junior College Athletic Association in the 1990s, winning three titles in a row. During Morley's time until 2003 you could not follow up on these successes, but Morley himself was able to continue his studies at the University of Wisconsin , whose college team Badgers are among the most prestigious teams in the most important college league NCAA . The Badgers won the 2004 Big Ten Conference final tournament with Morley . After a second round defeat in 2004 they reached the second round in the 2005 national finals, Sweet Sixteen , which was lost to the eventual title winner UNC Tar Heels.

After finishing his studies in 2005, Morley did not get a contract in a major professional league, but still tried his hand at a professional and began his professional career in the third Spanish league LEB-2 with the basketball club from the coastal city of Gandía in the Valencia region . With his team he rose straight away in 2006 in the second division. In 2007 he moved to league rivals and former first division club Breogán from Lugo in Galicia . With this he won 2008 with the "Copa del Príncipe" a national cup competition, which is played without the Spanish first division. In the championship they were eliminated in the play-offs for the remaining promotion place in the first division in the semi-finals against the eventual play-off winner Bruesa GBC . He then returned to Gandía for one season, which, however, withdrew from the second division in 2009. For the following season 2009/10 he got a contract with league rivals from Burgos . With this he even moved into the final series for promotion to the first division this time, which was lost to ViveMenorca . After Morley had already been awarded as MVP of the match day the previous season , this award was again awarded to him on match day 13; In addition, at the end of the season he was in the "Top Five" of all LEB Oro players in the points per game and effectiveness categories .

Morley left Spain for the 2010/11 season and moved to Ukraine, where he won another national championship with the traditional club Budiwelnik from Kiev in 2011 after a 14-year break. This title could not be defended in the Basketball Superliga Ukraine the following year and instead retired without a win in the play-off semifinals against former champions BK Azovmasch Mariupol , who in turn remained without a win in the final series against the new champions BK Donetsk . Donetsk coach Saša Obradović was then signed by the German club Alba Berlin and was able to convince his new club to sign Morley in addition to Vule Avdalović . The German first division team received a wild card for the highest European club competition ULEB Euroleague 2012/13 , in which he reached the round of the best 16 teams. After winning the Beko BBL-Pokal cup competition in 2013 , however, they were eliminated as fifth in the main round in the first play-off round. For the 2013/14 season, Morley moved to league competitor medi from Bayreuth . However, the contract with him was terminated shortly after the start of training for the 2013/14 season due to an injury. Morley had to recover from his injury and only got a new contract in the French LNB Pro A with Chorale Basket from Roanne at the end of 2013 . After Chorale Roanne was relegated from the first division, his new contract with the Spanish club Bàsquet Manresa was canceled before the start of the 2014/15 season after the medical examination, just like a year earlier in Bayreuth.

Web links

• easyCredit BBL - Zach Morley - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
• MORLEY, ZACH - Statistics on the websites of the ULEB ( English )
• FEB: MORLEY, ZACH SCOTT - player profile on the websites of FEB ( Spanish )
• Zach Morley Stats - Wisconsin Badgers - NCAA playtime stats on statsheet.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Miguel Panadés: Zach Morley (Gandia Basquet), MVP de la jornada Adecco LEB Oro. FEB , April 20, 2009, accessed December 28, 2012 (Spanish). 
2. ↑ Miguel Panadés: Zach Morley (Ford Burgos), MVP de la jornada. FEB.es, December 14, 2009, accessed December 28, 2012 (Spanish). 
3. ^ Next transfer coup from medi bayreuth. (No longer available online.) BBC Bayreuth , July 5, 2013, archived from the original on July 8, 2013 ; accessed on July 5, 2013 (media info). 
4. ↑ Zach Morley does not start for medi bayreuth. (No longer available online.) Medi bayreuth , August 14, 2013, archived from the original on August 17, 2013 ; accessed on August 14, 2013 (media info). 
5. ↑ Zach Morley officiellement chorus alien. Chorale Roanne Basket , December 28, 2013, accessed December 30, 2013 (French, media info). 
6. ^ Zach Morley no pasa la revisión médica y no se incorporará a La Bruixa d'Or. Liga ACB , September 22, 2014, accessed September 22, 2014 (Spanish).