Terence Dials
Terence Jerome Dials, Jr. ( born July 15, 1983 in Detroit, Michigan ) is an American professional basketball player. After completing his studies in his home country Dials played professionally in Europe. Dials, who had several seasons in France active, played in the season 2009/ 10, both in Germany and in Switzerland. Between 2010 and 2012 he played alongside Cyprus also also in China and Taiwan. Since 2013 he plays in Orléans, where he also began his professional career.
Career
Dials grew up in Boardman (Ohio ) and went to study at the Ohio State University, where he played for the college team Buckeyes in the Big Ten Conference of the NCAA. In its first year it won the championship tournament of the Big Ten along with, among others, the later basketball league players Brian Brown and Velimir Radinović 2002. In the second season, he sat out six games. The other results and seasons were then overshadowed by the scandal surrounding the Montenegrin player Boban Savović whose benefits resulted in the Buckeyes to a cancellation of the results to 2002 and an additional three -year ban for NCAA finals led. In his final college season Dials was voted " Player of the Year" 2006, the Big Ten Conference and the Buckeyes managed for the first time after the hold a qualification for the national NCAA finals, where they in the second round as favorites surprisingly strong against the Hoyas of Georgetown University documents.
Despite good recent college season Dials was not selected in the NBA Draft in 2006 and 2006 started a professional career at Entente Orleans in the French LNB Pro A. Despite a positive record this season of top-flight climbers missed because of the poorer direct comparison to jump into the play- offs to the French championship. Plan for the next season 2007/ 08 Dials moved to league rivals and cup winners Élan Béarnais from Pau, who had missed for the same reason the play-offs. In the ULEB Cup in 2007 /08 they lost twice against, among others, the German representative Artland Dragons and retired in the first round of. In the French Cup remained at the end of the season prior Dials former team of Orléans, but missed the playoffs again. Dials returned to Orléans, which first moved in as a table runner the main round after the climb into the play- offs, while the nine -time champion 1986-2004 descended from Pau as Table. In the play-offs Entente pulled out a way to the final, where they defeated then comparatively clear record champions ASVEL.
In the 2009/10 season Dials initially remained without a contract and was then obliged to replace the injured Nate Gerwig from the German first division Paderborn Baskets. However Dials made presentations to the stuck in financial and sporting difficulties Bundesliga not in the best condition and this gave him the end of January free, whereupon he moved to the Swiss national basketball league for BBC Nyon. After only two months left Dials end of March 2010 the Swiss first division again, and then played in the infra- CBA " National Basketball League of China" ( NBL ) for the team from Anshan. For the European season 2010/11 he returned first and played in Cyprus for Pizza Express Apollon Limassol. However, after 13 games, he went back to China in the NBL and played for the " Springs " from Hebei. He then took a few games to Taiwan for " Pure Youth".
After a " try-out " the French first division CSP Élite from Limoges in the pre-season 2012/13 Dials got a contract with the second division Hyères Var Basket from Toulon in Pro B. After his former club separated from Orléans by Brandon Hunter, brought him, however, in early April 2013, the Orléans Loiret Basket, so the new name of the Entente, high in the first division.