Yorick Williams

Yorick Mortimer Williams ( born July 29, 1975 in Manchester ) is an English professional basketball player. The former England international is in the time list of British Basketball League (BBL ) in the top five in operations and achieved points.

Career

Williams began his career in 1994 in his hometown at the Giants, who lost in his first season in 1994/95 the play-off final against defending champions Worthing Bears. After going on the tenth round of the main table, the play-offs missed in the 1997/98 season, Williams switched to the Storm from Derby, who clearly lost the final of the League Cup BBL Trophy in 1999 against his former team. The following season he reached with the Bullets from Birmingham to moderate main round, somewhat surprisingly the final of the play-offs, which again went against the Manchester Giants lost. For the season 2001 /02 Williams left the Bullets and moved together with his compatriot Steve Bucknall to Aris from Thessaloniki in the Greek League A1 Ethniki. However, you missed out on the tenth a place in the play-offs to the Greek championship.

For the season 2002/ 03 Williams returned to the BBL, where he was active in the previously very successful franchise Leopards. The Leopards, however, had left London and had moved to Essex. As Essex Leopards they missed under coach Mike Taylor again the play-offs, and retired after the season from the BBL. Williams moved to the English south coast to the Bears from Brighton, who were in turn in 1999 moved from Worthing. The Bears were also represented internationally under coach Nick Nurse in that season and won the ULEB Cup in 2003/ 04, four out of ten qualifying matches, but this was not enough to reach the second round in third place of the preliminary round group. In the national championship settled in as a first the regular season in the play-offs, in which one but with a point of difference in the semifinals defeated the Chester Jets, against which it had already lost two points difference the final of the BBL Trophy 2004. In the following season they lost the final of the BBL Trophy significantly against Newcastle Eagles, but gained the cup competition BBL Cup. After injury problems for several players, including Williams graduated only 19 games this season, they lost most of the games at the end of the season and was eliminated in the first play-off round.

In the Birmingham Bullets Williams was in season 2005/ 06, although " leading scorer " on points per game the BBL, but the team ended after just nine wins in 40 games the last place and as the Brighton Bears then logged off from playing the BBL. After Williams had previously attempted unsuccessfully to qualify with the England team for the final round of title fights, was 2006 2012 to London a permanent British national team set up after the award of the Olympic Games, having previously temporarily formed British Olympic teams themselves had not even for an Olympic tournament qualify could. Williams was in the fall of 2006, first consideration in six international appearances in the British team in the qualification of the European Championships, in which the British team replaced the England national team. National coach Chris Finch sat Williams but later no longer a. After it had reached with the Riders from Leicester only to a semi-final in the BBL Trophy, Williams moved at club level in 2007 to the Lions from Milton Keynes. With the MK Lions, he won the 2008 BBL Cup, but lost the final of the play-offs against the Guildford Heat. In the following three seasons, it was enough with the Lions only to a play-off participation.

For the 2011/12 season Williams returned to the Leicester Riders who lost as the main round, the second play-off final against the dominant this season Newcastle Eagles. For this, you could win all the titles of the BBL to the final defeat in the BBL Trophy against the Sheffield Sharks in the following season with, among others, captain Drew Sullivan, in each of which the defending champions Newcastle Eagles is defeated in the finals of the BBL Cup and BBL play-offs.