Holger Geschwindner
Holger Geschwindner (born September 12, 1945 in Bad Nauheim, Hesse) is a former basketball player, and is the mentor, coach and friend of Dallas Mavericks' former power forward Dirk Nowitzki. Geschwindner first met Nowitzki when the future basketball superstar was 16 years old.
Holger acted as an official coach of the Dallas Mavericks and runs a basketball academy in Würzburg that he calls "the Institute of Applied Nonsense." In 1995 Holger 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
- http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1724406,00.html
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