Klaus Perwas

Klaus Perwas ( born March 8, 1971 in Osnabrück ) is a former German professional basketball player. He graduated as a construction player twelve games in Dress of the German national basketball team. After he finished his athletic career due to a persistent knee injury, he was active as a coach.

Playing career

Klaus Perwas began in his childhood when TV bite village and later at the BC Giants Osnabrück to play basketball. He was supported mainly by its enthusiastic basketball father Peter Perwas, a Osnabrück merchant and former football player, who had led the Giants Osnabrück as a patron and manager of the county class in 1983 in the first basketball league. Klaus Perwas was among cadres of the national youth teams of the DBB. His positions as Bundesliga players were the BG Bramsche -Osnabrück and the SSV ratiopharm Ulm, before he had his most successful phase at the Telekom Baskets Bonn. As a national player Perwas moved to the Bonners in the second basketball league and coach Bruno SOCE, the establishment of player as team captain in the 1995/1996 season with only one defeat in the promotion round to the highest German league. As the climber Telekom Baskets succeeded immediately the runner- 1997 Towards the end of the next season, the team finished his second as the main round to Perwas injured his knee -. Which he never fully recovered. His activities in Bonn then went into the field of coaching.

In the National Perwas debuted on November 5, 1994 in a match against Lithuania. Although he handed in with 17 points shortly after his best performance against Greece, he succeeded only the jump in the expanded group of national players. Overall, he scored 37 points in twelve international matches. His last international match was on 28 February 1998 against Slovakia.

Coaching career

For the 2000/2001 season Perwas took over the post of assistant coach in the Telekom Baskets. For the 2002/2003 season he joined - also as an assistant coach - to local rivals SOBA Dragons Rhöndorf in the second division. There he became his successor in 2005 after three years as an assistant to Berthold Bisselik. This commitment was terminated after one year.

Since 2008 Perwas assistant coach at Bundesliga Team German Bank Skyliners, first as an assistant to head coach Murat Didin. He is responsible as an assistant coach among other things, the Individual Training and perspective development of young players. Even under Didins successor Gordon Herbert and Muli Katz urine remained Klaus Perwas assistant coach of the Skyliners. In early March 2012, he extended his contract with the Skyliners early by two years, until the end of the season 2013/2014.