Pavel Ermolinskij

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Pavel Ermolinskij
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Pavel Ermolinskij with KR in February 2015.
Personal information
Born (1987-01-25) 25 January 1987 (age 37)
Moscow, Soviet Union
NationalityIcelandic
Listed height6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
Career information
Playing career1998–2022
Position Point guard
Career history
As player:
1998 ÍA
2001–2002 Skallagrímur
2002–2003 ÍR
2003–2004 JA Vichy
2004–2005 Unicaja Málaga
2005–2007 CB Axarquia
2007–2008 CB Ciudad de Huelva
2008–2009 UB La Palma
2009–2010 Cáceres 2016 Basket
2010KR
2010–2011KR
2011–2012 Sundsvall Dragons
2012–2013 Norrköping Dolphins
2013–2019KR
2019–2022 Valur
As coach:
2021–2022 Valur (assistant)
2023–2024 Tindastóll
Career highlights and awards
As player:

As head coach:

As assistant coach:

Pavel Ermolinskij (born 25 January 1987) is an Icelandic basketball coach and former player of Russian descent, [1] a member of the Icelandic national team. [2] He played in the Spanish Liga ACB for several seasons, winning the Spanish King's Cup in 2005. As a player, won the Icelandic championship eight times, seven times with KR, in 2011 and 2014 to 2019, [3] and in 2022 with Valur. In 2023, he guided Tindastóll to their first Icelandic championship in his first year as a head coach. [4]

Contents

Early life

Pavel was born in Moscow in the Soviet Union [5] to Soviet national basketball team player Alexander Ermolinskij. [1] [6] The family moved to Hungary in his youth, where his father played professionally and in 1992, when he was five, they emigrated to Iceland when his father signed with Skallagrímur in Borgarnes. [7]

Playing career

Club career

Pavel first appeared in a Úrvalsdeild karla game on 6 March 1998, at the age of only 11, when his father and head coach of Körfuknattleiksfélag ÍA, Alexander Ermolinskij, selected him for the 10-man squad against Njarðvík. At the time there were no rules regarding minimum age of players in the league. [8]

His next taste of the senior team was with Skallagrímur during the 2001–02 season [9] when he appeared in 15 games, averaging 1.8 points per game. [10]

During the 2014-2015 season, Pavel averaged a triple-double in the Úrvalsdeild with 13.3 points, 10.5 rebounds and 10.3 assists per game in 15 regular season games. [11] [12]

Pavel led the Úrvalsdeild karla in assists during the 2017-2018 season. [13] On April 28, 2018, he won his sixth Icelandic championship after KR defeated Tindastóll in the Úrvalsdeild finals. [14] It was the eighteenth straight playoffs series he won in the Úrvalsdeild playoffs. [15] After sitting out the first three games of the 2018–2019 season, Pavel resumed training with KR in end of October. [16] On 4 May 2019 he won his 7th national championship after KR beat ÍR in the Úrvalsdeild finals 3–2. [17]

On 13 August 2019, Pavel signed a 2-year contract with KR's Reykjavík rivals Valur. [18] He started the season strong, with big fourth quarter performances in victories against Fjölnir and Þór Þorlákshöfn. [19] On 25 October, he scored the game winning three pointer with 5 seconds left in an overtime victory against Tindastóll. [20] On 5 January 2020, Pavel was 1 assist shy of the Úrvalsdeild record when he handed out 17 assists in a victory against Fjölnir. [21]

On 6 May 2022, he played his 100th Úrvalsdeild playoffs game when Valur defeated Tindastóll in game one of the 2022 Úrvalsdeild finals. [3] On 18 May 2022, he won his eight national championship after Valur defeated Tindastóll in the Úrvalsdeild finals. [4]

On 22 August 2022, Pavel announced he would not return to Valur [22] and in October, he announced his retirement from playing. [23]

National team career

Pavel has played with the Icelandic national basketball team since 2004 and participated in EuroBasket 2015 [24] and EuroBasket 2017. [25] [26]

Coaching career

Pavel served as an assistant coach for Valur during the 2021–22 season.

On 14 January 2023, he was hired as the head coach of Tindastóll, replacing Vladimir Anzulović. [27] On 18 May 2023, he guided Tindastóll to its first ever national championship. [28] [29]

In June, he signed a 2-year contract extension with Tindastóll. [30] In march, Pavel took an indefinite medical leave and missed the rest of the season. On 28 May 2024, both parties announced that he would no return the following season. [31]

Honours

Iceland

Club

Individual

Spain

Club

Coach

Head coach

Assistant coach

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