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Oct 9, 2012 · Basketball star Dirk Nowitzki was but an awkward teenager when Holger Geschwindner first saw him play. But Geschwindner quickly took the young player under his wing and helped turn him...
Apr 14, 2023 · Just like the 2022 sports drama “Hustle,” someone has to truly believe in your talent for you to make it to the NBA. For 2023 Hall of Fame inductee Dirk Nowitzki, it was a coach named Holger Geschwindner. Mentor/coach "It's been an amazing journey when I met my coach,” Dirk said. “I met him when I was about 15, 16.
- Holger Geschwindner: Basketball Is An Art
- Holger’s Unique Coaching Methods
- Dirk Nowitzki Stuns The NBA
Holger had his own vision of basketball, he hated patterns and saw the sport as an art form, a dance where the best players were artistic and aggressive. Only one thing had to have a perfect pattern – Dirk’s jump shot. Every component of the unique high-arching jump shot Dirk became known for throughout his career was by design. Holger, who studied...
One day in practice Holger brought a friend of his who was a saxophone player. Dirk was working on his dribbling and music suddenly filled the gym. Without missing a beat, Holger instructed Dirk to keep dribbling in the rhythm of the music his friend was playing. Things like this became a regular occurrence, and a big part of Holger’s coaching phil...
As it turned out, all this that looked like utter madness to onlookers had tremendous consequences for Dirk’s basketball. Thanks to all of the strange shooting drills and his experience playing the piano and the guitar, Dirk was able to shoot and hit from almost any position and situation. All the dancing and fencing lessons gave him incredible foo...
Holger Geschwindner (born 12 September 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.
Jan 5, 2022 · Holger Geschwindner, Nowitzki's longtime mentor and then X-Rays assistant coach: We played really a risky game [leaving Germany]. We had been a second-division team and Dirk was a top guy.
Jan 21, 2022 · At 19, Nowitzki had been honing his jump shot for years under the tutelage of Holger Geschwindner, a former German national team player who took charge of Nowitzki’s training after seeing...
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Apr 12, 2019 · Mavericks legend Dirk Nowitzki, who will be retiring at the end of the 2018-19 season, has forever changed how we view big men and international players in the NBA.
