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BLOGS of pro basketball players overseas
Behind the backboard: the truth about life overseas |
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There are currently 6791 ex-college players, who play 2012-13 season overseas
*the number is for both men and women players, who play outside of the U.S. (updated on 6/15/2013) Check Detailed list by College or by country
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Pekka Salminen Basketball Career |
Born: Oct.1, 1963
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Head Coach & Manager:
1997-1998: Pussihukat
1998-1999: Pussihukat
1999 - re-signed for another 2 years with Pussihukat
1999-2000: Pussihukat
2000-re-signed for 4 years
2000-2001: Pussihukat
2001-2002: Pussihukat
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Head Coach:
2002-2003: Solna IF Stockholm Vikings (Sweden)
2003-2004: Solna IF Stockholm Vikings (Sweden)
2004-2005: Solna Vikings (Sweden), left in Apr.'05
2005-2006: ToPo Helsinki (Korisliiga)
2006-2007: ToPo Helsinki (Korisliiga)
2007-2008: Solna Vikings (Sweden-Basketligan)
2008-2009: Solna Vikings (Sweden-Basketligan)
2009-2010: Joensuun Kataja (Korisliiga), left in May.'10
2010-2011: Honka Espoo Playboys (Korisliiga)
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Coach Assistant:
2011-2012: Torpan Pojat Helsinki (Korisliiga)
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Head Coach:
2012-2013: Tapiolan Honka (1st Division)
2013-2014: Tapiolan Honka (Korisliiga)
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Awards/Achievements:
Head Coach: Finnish U18 National Team -00, 10-11
Albert Schweitzer Junior Championships in Mannheim (Germany) -00
Coach Assistant: Finnish National Team -00-12
Swedish Basketligan Champion -03
Eurobasket.com All-Swedish Basketligan Coach of the Year -03, 09
Swedish Basketligan Semifinals -04
Swedish Basketligan Regular Season Runner-Up -05, 08
Head Coach: Swedish Basketligan All-Star Game -08
Swdish League Champion -08
Swedish Basketligan Regular Season Runner-Up -09
Swedish Basketligan Finalist -09
European Championships U18 in Wroclaw (Poland) -11
Head Coach: Finnish U16 National Team -11, 12
Head Coach: Finnish U20 National Team -06, 07, 12
European Championships U20 -06, 07 (Bronze)
Baltic Sea Cup U16 in Tallinn (Estonia) -12
Finnish League Semifinals -12
European Championships U20 Division B in Sofia (Bulgaria) -12
Finnish 1st Division Champion -13
Eurobasket.com All-Finnish 1st Division Coach of the Year -13
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BLOG POSTINGS
 Time to play- Jun.17, 2013 (by Pekka)
The U20 squad has been camping for 10 days now, it has been good, we have been practicing well and we will be ready to play when the Nordic games start.
This traditional tournament will be played at my home town, Vantaa Tuesday-Thursday with Estonia, Denmark and Sweden as our opponents. Good competition , great games for us at this point.
Week after that we will have visitors from Great Britain, will play them twice at Helsinki [read more] | |
The U20 squad has been camping for 10 days now, it has been good, we have been practicing well and we will be ready to play when the Nordic games start.
This traditional tournament will be played at my home town, Vantaa Tuesday-Thursday with Estonia, Denmark and Sweden as our opponents. Good competition , great games for us at this point.
Week after that we will have visitors from Great Britain, will play them twice at Helsinki.
The last preparation tournament before the championships will take place July 3rd-5th at the beautiful city of Rakvere and again against good competition Estonia, Ukraine and Lithuania. A real test for the young men, especially Lithuania.
Our championships (Group B) will take place July 12th-21st at Romania. There will also be some really good teams: Poland, Belgium.... Tough competition and a great challenge for my team. Our main goal is to produce players for the senior national team, but winning the tournament would be nice also..
After the U20 program I will have one week off before joining the senior national team. Extremely excited about that as well, life is good.
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First camp- Jun.6, 2013 (by Pekka)
Finnish U20 NT camp has started.
After three days of practicing I have to say that I am really happy, all the players are in great shape, we have a lot of size and good guards,life is smiling!
Off the 21 players camping at the moment only 12 will make the team, and it will be a tough decision. This is my fourth U20 national team and I have never had this many good players to choose from [read more] | |
Finnish U20 NT camp has started.
After three days of practicing I have to say that I am really happy, all the players are in great shape, we have a lot of size and good guards,life is smiling!
Off the 21 players camping at the moment only 12 will make the team, and it will be a tough decision. This is my fourth U20 national team and I have never had this many good players to choose from. Age group -86 was close:
Gerald Lee, Mikko Koivisto, Petteri Koponen, Samuel Haanp and Vesa Mklinen have been playing with senior NT, and Ilkka Vuori just got an invitation to next camp and a lot of other guys from that group have had a great career in b-ball. But these new guys: there are so many good ones, hopefully they keep on working hard and make right decisions about their careers.
We have been working on offense first three days, have not been doing like this before, normally it is D first for me, but decided to try like this this year. A good experiment, but to be honest, I have been waiting for this day, todays sessions will be about DEFENSE, intensity.
Excited and ready to go.
Respect the game
P
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Bisons, back2back- May.18, 2013 (by Pekka)
What a great basketball season we had here in Finland.
Kataja played really well in Europe, the league was extremely competitive and the quality of basketball played was, again, really good.
The finals then?
Best of five, and all those five games needed, upsets, huge crowds, intensity, tradition It was great time to be a basketball fan [read more] | |
What a great basketball season we had here in Finland.
Kataja played really well in Europe, the league was extremely competitive and the quality of basketball played was, again, really good.
The finals then?
Best of five, and all those five games needed, upsets, huge crowds, intensity, tradition It was great time to be a basketball fan.
At the end the Bisons (Loimaa) took the championship but KTP did not give them anything easy, they played hard, they played smart and really physical.
The Bisons had all the answers and had different people stepping up different times and they played great defense!
Have to congratulate all the winners, especially all my former players: Onnea!
For Yours truly this last couple of weeks have been full of recruiting, decision making and also some (much needed) time off.
Lets see what kind of a team we will have at Tapiolan Honka next year..I am excited!
My next task will be planning the U20 national team program , we will have our first camp at the beginning of June.
My staff looks great: Greg Gibson, the championship coach (Bisons) and the shooting guard of Kataja, Petri Virtanen
Conditining coach Jussi Hirvonen has worked with our senior NT for like 10 years and at Frankfurt and at MBC and
It will be a priviledge to work with these guys!
Respect the game
P
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| At the buzzer! May.3, 2013 | | | This should be fun Apr.19, 2013 | | | 3-1 we are in the Finals! Apr.10, 2013 | | | The semifinals have started Apr.4, 2013 | | | Thursday will be the day! Mar.25, 2013 | | | Hotel room at Joensuu.. Mar.16, 2013 | | | Made the play-offs! Mar.5, 2013 | | | New year..is it already late February? Feb.23, 2013 | |
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