Obie Trotter

Obadiah Nelson " Obie " Trotter (born 9 February 1984 in Robertsdale, Alabama ) is an American professional basketball point guard. After studying Trotter began a career as a professional basketball player in Europe, for two seasons with the 46ers from casting also took him from 2006 to 2008 in the German Basketball Bundesliga. During his playing time from 2010 to 2012 in Hungary, he participated in the local citizenship and Hungarian national team. He then played one season in Russia, before returning to Szolnoki Olaj early 2014 to Hungary.

Career

Trotter studied in his native U.S. state at the Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University and was active for the Bulldogs in the NCAA. He was the dominant player of the team and leads the statistics of these little traditional high school team in the categories of points scored, made ​​a three-point throws, assists, ball gains and completed games for achievements in NCAA Division I. In 2005, Trotter the team to their first title in the South Western Athletic Conference and was named player of the year this Conference; in the qualifier for the final round of the NCAA Men 's Division I Basketball Championship was subject to the Golden Grizzlies of Oakland University and missed the first round to eventual winners, the Tar Heels of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

After Trotter in 2006 was not considered in the Draft of the U.S. professional league NBA, he moved to the casting 46ers in the BBL. After initial problems with the usual European way of playing Trotters contract was extended for another year. Before his second season in the BBL but he was injured at the wrist and fell out a long time. Only in December 2007, he was able to compete for the Giessen again. Trotter was, however, still limited by the injury and had to undergo surgery after the season one more time. In the 2008 / 09 season, Trotter played in the Breton Brest on the French Atlantic coast in the second division Pro B. From there he moved to the 2009/10 season to Torpan Pojat the Finnish Helsinki, where he was voted the best player at his position and with the team to the known from the NBA and the leading European leagues Hanno Möttölä runner-up that season was.

Following Trotter moved to Hungary in 2010 to Olaj KK from Szolnok, with whom he both 2011 and 2012 won the national Double. During his time at Szolnoki Olaj Trotter was naturalized and missed with the Hungarian national team only just the finals in 2011, when they retired as the last team in the additional qualifying round. After they had successfully qualified in 2010 for a Hungarian club team for the main round of the third-tier European club competition Euro Challenge, in which we failed in the round of sixteen best teams just wide of the next round, you reach in the Euro Challenge 2011/12, surprising the Final Four tournament where you could be in the second round of the main inter alia, the German representatives Telekom Baskets Bonn behind. At the final tournament is hosted and was the tournament in Debrecen. In the semifinals they lost just four points against the eventual winner Beşiktaş Milangaz and then also lost the match for third place. Trotter was awarded the specialist portal eurobasket.com as the best player at his position in this competition.

For the 2012/13 season Trotter joined the Russian basketball club from Nizhny Novgorod. A season later he moved to league rivals triumph Ljuberzy in Moscow. After an injury in the qualifiers for the European Championship 2015 Trotters contract was resolved before the season starts and he returned back to the beginning of 2014 Szolnoki Olaj.