Abdul Shamsid-Deen

Abdul Rahman Shamsid - Deen ( born August 1, 1968 Staten Iceland, New York City ) is a retired American professional basketball player who was active among others in Germany, where he was with Bayer Leverkusen German league and cup. After the career end of 2005 Shamsid - Deen returned to his homeland, where he worked among other things as an assistant coach of a high school team in Atlanta.

Career

College ( to 1990 )

Shamsid - Deen joined in 1986 after graduating from Tottenville High School to study at Providence College in Rhode Iceland. Coach of the basketball team Friars in the Big East Conference was a year before Rick Pitino become. In Shamsid - Deen " freshman " - season Pitino led the Friars surprisingly down to the Final Four tournament of the national finals of the NCAA. In the regional finals had beaten the two top-seeded teams, including Big East Conference champion Georgetown Hoyas succession and lost only in the final tournament against the Orangemen of Syracuse University. Then Pitino returned as head coach for the NBA Club New York Knicks, which he had left as assistant coach for the job at Providence College. Pitino's successor had little success and after a season with a negative balance could only Rick Barnes, the Friars qualify again for the NCAA finals. In the final two seasons of Shamsid - Deen for the Friars, however, it was only enough for two scarce Erstrundenniederlagen.

After a " senior" with 8 points and 7 rebounds Shamsid - Deen had a good senior year, he was selected in the NBA Draft in 1990 by the Seattle SuperSonics in the most highly endowed professional league NBA. In this club, however, he was able to gamble no place in the season squad in the training camps.

Professional success in Europe and in Germany (1990 to 1995)

His career as a professional began Shamsid - Deen in France with Racing Club of Paris. Following a moderate course of the season we met in the play- offs for the championship after beating the main round Second Cholet Basket to the semifinals before, where they lost to the defending champion CSP Limoges. In the following season they finally missed after an eleventh place in the main round of qualifying for the championship play-offs. In Korać Cup 1992 one was eliminated by the eventual winners Virtus Rome in the quarterfinals. After Shamsid - Deen had played in the European summer break for the Santero from Aguada Baloncesto Superior Nacional in (BSN ) in Puerto Rico, he joined for the 1992/93 season at the Spanish side CB Sant Josep Girona. He replaced his also built in New York compatriot Darryl Middleton, the Most Valuable Player had previously been the ACB league in the season. After a good start to the season, was elected at the Shamsid - Deen player of the week of the first game day, Girona reached 16th place just under the play-offs, where you eliminated in the first round against the main round First and eventual champions Real Madrid.

1993 replaced Shamsid - Deen with his compatriot Tom Garrick, the U.S. duo Clinton Wheeler and Kannard Johnson at the German double winners TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen, the team coached by Dirk Bauer man with a collection of German national team players, seven of the eight possible national title in the had four seasons previously won. Shamsid - Deen reached with the colors of city dwellers in the National Basketball League in 1993/94 superior without defeat in the play- offs to defend the title. In the " FIBA Europe League ," said Europe Champions Cup but would retire as before after just four wins from 14 matches in the group stage of the 16 best teams. After playing in Puerto Rico for the Vaqueros of Bayamon during the summer break in 1994, returned Shamsid - Deen returned to Leverkusen. While the beginning of January 1995 Cup title after Leverkusen brought back by a narrow victory over ratiopharm Ulm, Shamsid - Deen's contract was terminated after the new year in January 1995.

"Hikers " (1995 to 2000)

In the season 1995/96 signed Shamsid - Deen again a contract in France in Illkirch- Graffenstaden Basket in Strasbourg, but this was solved shortly after the season starts again. In the course of the season he was then in the squad of champions Ülkerspor from Istanbul, Türkiye Basketbol Ligi (TBL ), which, however, in the final series of the championship was no chance against local rival Efes Pilsen and was runner-up. From Puerto Rico then Shamsid - Deen returned to the ACB league, where he reached the last non relegation zone with the Galician club Ourense in the season 1996/97. After a trip to Venezuela to the Cocodrilos from Caracas to Puerto Rico, he played in the BSN in 1997, this time for the Leones of Ponce.

In the season 1997/98 Shamsid - Deen was initially for Hapoel Galil from the Israeli Ligat ha Al on the floor, before he again played after the season starts for Meysuspor, where also his former Leverkusen team-mate Tom Garrick was active in the meantime in the TBL. Meysuspor occupied at the end of the season before last place in the table and got out of the top division again. The season 1998/99 he started again from Maccabi Rishon LeZion in the Ligat ha Al. As previously Galil Elyon when he left that team after a few games and was busy over the New Year at AEL Limassol in Cyprus for four weeks, before finishing the European season in the Polish league ( PLK ) in Zagłębie from Sosnowiec. Then this time he was active in the summer league United States Basketball League for the Brooklyn Kings in his New York home.

In the fall of 1999 Shamsid - Deen moved back to Germany, where he was the entire season in the National Basketball League in 1999/2000 for ratiopharm Ulm under contract. Here he laid for the "Sparrow " with nearly 18 points and 11 rebounds per game again on a double-double on average, but could not prevent the team missed because of the poorer direct comparison of the play-off catchment and in the relegation round with the best second division relegation could not back up, but stayed only because of the waiver of TuS Lichterfelde in the top division. This was Shamsid - Deen's last full season for a club.

" Stand-by Profi" (2000 to 2005)

At the beginning of the 2000 /01 Shamsid - Deen was first in the cadres of Roseto Basket in the Italian Lega Basket Serie A and Polonia Warsaw represented in the PLK without being used in championship games. In November 2000, he was briefly active in Argentina Obras Sanitarias for CA in Buenos Aires, before he was hired as a replacement for the injured Daren Engellant the German first division Brandt Hagen. The Hagen reached under the former Leverkusen master coach builder man at the end of the Basketball Bundesliga 2000/ 01, however, only the twelfth and final non- relegation zone. The playing time decided Shamsid - Deen at the Maratonistas from Coamo again in the BSN of Puerto Rico.

At the beginning of the season 2001 /02 was Shamsid - Deen at the Arkadia Lions from Traiskirchen in the Austrian A- League contract. In the course of the season he was still in the squad of BK Kyiv in Ukraine. Again he moved in the spring of 2002 to Venezuela, where he was active for the Toros from Aragua this time. After a stint again at the Maratonistas from Coamo in Puerto Rico's BSN He also discussed a commitment to the club from San Carlos in the Distrito Nacional of the Dominican Republic in August 2002. With 35 years Shamsid - Deen was again obliged by Sigal Prishtina Kosovo from 2003, which were trained at this time of the well-known in Germany Croatian coach Tomislav bevanda. At the beginning of 2004 he moved to French second division of Rueil -Malmaison, where he was one month under contract. At the beginning of the 2nd Basketball Bundesliga 2004 /05 Shamsid - Deen then played for the South second division club TSV Tröster from Breitengüßbach before he had one last active commitment to the club Uhud from the Saudi Arabian Medina in early 2005.

After End of career Shamsid - Deen finally returned to his American homeland. Here he did not completely rid the sport of basketball, but also acted as an assistant coach at Holy Innocents ' Episcopal School in Atlanta, Georgia.