Holger Geschwindner
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Holger Geschwindner (born September 12, 1945 in Bad Nauheim, Hessen) is a German former professional basketball player. He is known as the long-time coach and mentor of ex-Dallas Mavericks player Dirk Nowitzki. Geschwindner first met Nowitzki when the future basketball superstar was 16 years old.
Geschwindner acted as an official coach of the Dallas Mavericks and runs a basketball academy in Würzburg, Germany that he calls "The Institute of Applied Nonsense". In 1995, Geschwindner calculated the optimum angle of a jump shot to be 60 degrees.
Early life[]
A native of Würzburg, Geschwindner is alleged to have learned basketball as a young boy from an American soldier stationed in Germany.
References[]
- http://www.nba.com/germany/sharpshooters/holger_040831.html
- http://www.derra-bie.de/holger.htm
- Time (magazine)
Categories:
- 1945 births
- Living people
- People from Bad Nauheim
- Basketball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- BSC Saturn Köln players
- German men's basketball players
- Olympic basketball players of West Germany
- German basketball biography stubs