Martin Schiller

Martin Schiller

Rasta Vechta
Position	Head coach
League	Basketball Bundesliga
Personal information
Born	(1982-03-08) 8 March 1982 (age 42) Vienna, Austria
Nationality	Austrian
Coaching career	2005–present
Career history
As coach:
2004–2005	Düsseldorf
2005–2007	TSG Bergedorf
2007–2010	WBC Wels (assistant)
2010–2015	Artland Dragons (assistant)
2015–2019	Germany (assistant)
2015–2017	Riesen Ludwigsburg (assistant)
2017–2020	Salt Lake City Stars
2020–2021	Žalgiris Kaunas
2022	Casademont Zaragoza
2024–present	Rasta Vechta
Career highlights and awards
As head coach Lithuanian League winner (2021) Lithuanian King Mindaugas Cup winner (2021) NBA G League Coach of the Year (2020) As assistant coach Austrian League winner (2009)

Martin Schiller (born 8 March 1982) is an Austrian professional basketball coach who is currently serving as head coach of Rasta Vechta of the German Basketball Bundesliga (BBL).

Coaching career

Schiller, the son of an Austrian father and a British mother, moved to Germany with his family when he was ten years old and then grew up in the Hamburg area, where he played basketball in the youth set up of TSG Bergedorf. He studied at the German Sport University Cologne, while coaching youth teams and working as assistant coach at 2. Bundesliga side Düsseldorf Magics. Schiller subsequently worked for WBC Wels in Austria.[1]

From 2010 until 2015, he served as an assistant coach for the Artland Dragons, and afterwards for the Riesen Ludwigsburg of the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL).[2][3] On 23 August 2017 Schiller was named the head coach of the Salt Lake City Stars of the NBA G League.[4] Schiller has also been an assistant coach for the German national team since 2015, where he worked with Jazz assistant coach Alex Jensen.

Schiller was named the NBA G League Coach of the Year for the 2019–20 season after leading the Stars to a 30–12 record.[5]

On 14 July 2020 Schiller was announced as the new head coach of BC Žalgiris.[6] Under Schiller's guidance, the team won the 2021 Lithuanian championship as well as the cup title. On 8 October 2021 Schiller was fired by Žalgiris. According to the club, the decision was taken, because the team did not play "at the level that everybody wants to see". In EuroLeague play, Žalgiris had lost its first two games of the 2021–22 season,[7] while the team was unbeaten in the LKL (4–0), when Schiller was dismissed.[8]

He was named head coach of Casademont Zaragoza of the Spanish Liga ACB on 24 June 2022.[9] On October 18, 2022, Schiller was sacked by Zaragoza after hardly four months in the job.[10] Schiller coached the team in the opening four games of the 2022-23 ACB season, which all ended in defeat.[11]

References

1. "Über Bergedorf ins Mutterland des Basketballs". www.bergedorfer-zeitung.de (in German). 2020-07-14. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
2. "Martin Schiller neuer Assistant Coach der MHP RIESEN | MHP RIESEN Ludwigsburg". Archived from the original on 2017-08-26. Retrieved 2017-07-04.
3. "Martin Schiller named coach of Salt Lake City Stars". USA Today.com. 23 August 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
4. "Stars Name Martin Schiller as Head Coach". NBA G League. 23 August 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
5. "Salt Lake City Stars' Martin Schiller Named 2019-20 NBA G League Coach Of The Year". NBA G League. June 24, 2020. Retrieved June 27, 2020.
6. "Naujuoju Kauno "Žalgirio" treneriu tapo M.Schilleris". BC Žalgiris. July 14, 2020. Retrieved July 14, 2020.
7. "Zalgiris changes Schiller for Zdovc on bench". Welcome to EUROLEAGUE BASKETBALL. Retrieved 2021-10-08.
8. "Turnyro lentelė". lkl.lt. Retrieved 2021-10-08.
9. "Martin Schiller toma las riendas de Casademont Zaragoza". Basket Zaragoza (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-06-25.
10. "MARTIN SCHILLER DEJA DE SER EL ENTRENADOR DE CASADEMONT ZARAGOZA". Basket Zaragoza (in Spanish). 2022-10-18. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
11. "El Casademont Zaragoza despide a Martin Schiller y apunta al regreso de Porfirio Fisac". Heraldo de Aragón (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-10-19.