Joe Ingles
Howart Joseph "Joe" Ingles ( born October 2, 1987 in Happy Valley, South Australia ) is an Australian basketball player. After career start in the NBL Australasia at the Melbourne South Dragons Ingles plays since 2009 in the Spanish ACB League in 2011 and 2012 where he won the national championship with FC Barcelona, and the Spanish Cup twice competition " Copa del Rey ". With the Australian national team, he won the basketball Ozeanienmeisterschaft 2011 and took part in the Olympic Games in 2008 and 2012.
Career
After two years at the Australian Institute of Sport Ingles was signed in March 2006 by the new franchise South Dragons from Melbourne in the NBL Australasia as the first player in club history, scoring 29 points in his first game, what the record at the is an Australian debut " rookies " in the NBL. At the end of the season Ingles received the 2007 " NBL Rookie of the Year Award". At the end of their third season, the South Dragons won together with, among others, his team-mate Mark Worthington their first championship in the NBL. Next, the operation of the South Dragons game has been discontinued.
Ingles, who was already previously while watching the NBA club Los Angeles Lakers, played in the NBA Summer League 2009 in the jersey of the Golden State Warriors. However, for the season 2009/10 he moved to Spain in the ACB league to the Andalusian club from Granada, where he was twice Player of the match with the greatest effectiveness of all players in the league. Granada missed as a table tenth the play-offs at the Spanish Championship. At the start of the following season Ingles moved in November 2010 as vice champions FC Barcelona. With the Catalans, he twice won the Spanish Cup in 2011 and 2012, twice the cup competition " Copa del Rey " in 2011 and 2013, and also " Supercopa " 2011. After 2010/11 in the ULEB Euro League in the quarter-final play-offs yet the eventual champions Panathinaikos Athens had been eliminated, was achieved in the following two sweeps each the " Final Four " tournament. After a third place in 2012 in the " small final " against defending champion Panathinaikos in 2013 it reached only to a fourth place.
For the 2013/14 season left Ingles Spain and joined the dominant Israeli series champion Maccabi Tel Aviv, who had but surprisingly lost in the preseason the championship final against Maccabi Haifa.
National
His first finals tournament with the Australian national team had Ingles. During the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, where retired United States in the quarter-finals against the defending and eventual champions, finishing in seventh place at the end He had his most successful game in the 85:116 defeat to the United States when he was able to achieve in the last quarter with 100% hit rate eleven points. In the Basketball World Championship 2010 they finished in the end only the tenth place after clearly defeated in the second round with Slovenia 58:87. 2011 they won the smooth play-off series to the Ozeanienmeisterschaft against the New Zealand national basketball team against which you had to put back in the 2009 final. At the Olympic Games in 2012 they met in the quarter-finals again the defending champion United States, which were four years ago was defeated in a similar manner with 86:119.