Matthew Otten

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Matthew Otten
Matthew Otten in 2009.jpg
Otten playing for GasTerra Flames in 2009
Oberwart Gunners
Position Head coach
Personal information
Born (1981-12-08) December 8, 1981 (age 43)
Las Vegas, Nevada
NationalityAmerican / Dutch
Listed height6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Career information
High school Yuba City (Yuba City, California)
College
NBA draft 2005: undrafted
Playing career2004–2015
Position Shooting guard
Coaching career2015–present
Career history
As player:
2004–2006 Apollon Limassol
2006–2007 Cheshire Phoenix
2007–2008 Lugano Tigers
2009–2011 Donar
2011–2012 Mersey Tigers
2012–2015 Rotterdam
As coach:
2015–2017 Den Bosch (assistant)
2019–2022 Netherlands (assistant)
2019–2020 Dreamfield Dolphins
2020–2021 Yoast United
2021–2022 Donar
2024–present Oberwart Gunners
Career highlights and awards
As coach:

As player:

Matthew Otten (born December 8, 1981) is an American retired basketball player and current coach. [1] He is serving as head coach of the Oberwart Gunners. Otten holds a Dutch passport as well and played the shooting guard position during his career.

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Professional career

Otten was part of the GasTerra Flames in 2010 and 2011, the years in which the club won a Dutch cup and national championship. In the 2011–12 season, Otten played for Mersey Tigers in the United Kingdom. In 2012 Otten returned to the Netherlands in 2012, when he signed with Rotterdam Basketbal College. After one year with the club, his contract was renewed. [2] His numbers rose in his second season in Rotterdam, as Otten averaged 13.4 points per game compared to 9.0 the previous season. In June 2014, Otten re-signed again with Challenge Sports Rotterdam. [3]

After the 2014–15 season, Otten retired.

Coaching career

In 2015, Otten started his coaching career as assistant with Den Bosch.

Since June 2019, Otten is assistant coach of Netherlands under Maurizio Buscaglia. [4] He joined the team for EuroBasket 2022 in Prague.

On 9 August 2020, Otten signed as head coach for newly established club Basketball Community Gelderland, marking his debut as head coach in the Dutch Basketball League. [5] Later, the club was named Yoast United. With Yoast, he managed to qualify for the final of the 2021 DBL Cup where the team lost to BAL Weert.

On May 25, 2021, Otten signed a two-year contract as the head coach of Donar, with the option for a third season. [6] On March 20, 2022, he won the Dutch Cup with Donar, guiding the team to its first trophy since 2018. [7] In the national playoffs, Donar was swept by rival Heroes Den Bosch in the semifinals; however, the team reached the BNXT playoff finals, where they lost to ZZ Leiden.

On October 13, shortly after the start of the 2022–23 season, Otten was fired by Donar after losing all pre-season games as well as the first two official games of the season. [8]

On June 7, 2024, he was named head coach of Austrian side Oberwart Gunners. [9]

Awards and accomplishments

As coach

Donar

As player

Donar

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References

  1. ↑ "Matthew Otten's profile". eurobasket.com .
  2. ↑ "Matthew Otten gets extension with Rotterdam Basketbal College". Basketballplus.nl (in Dutch). May 26, 2013. Archived from the original on April 13, 2014. Retrieved August 17, 2013.
  3. ↑ Matthew Otten re-signs with Challenge Sports Rotterdam
  4. ↑ "Matthew Otten assistent-coach bij Nederland tegen Polen". Oranje Basketball. 3 August 2019. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
  5. ↑ "Otten hoofdcoach Basketball Community Gelderland" (in Dutch). 9 August 2020. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  6. ↑ Brink, Adriaan van den. "Matthew Otten is de nieuwe coach van Donar". Donar (in Dutch). Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  7. ↑ "Donar is na het winnen van een zinderende finale tegen Heroes voor de zevende maal bekerkampioen geworden". Basketball.nl (in Dutch). 20 March 2022. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  8. ↑ "Donar verder zonder Matthew Otten". Donar (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-10-21.
  9. ↑ "Neuer Gunners-Trainer heißt Matthew Otten". ORF (in German). 2024-06-07. Retrieved 2025-01-12.
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