Martin Schiller (born 8 March 1982) is an Austrian professional

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coach who most recently served as head coach of

Casademont Zaragoza Basket Zaragoza 2002 S.A.D., more commonly referred to as Basket Zaragoza and as Casademont Zaragoza for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball club based in Zaragoza, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB. Their home arena is th ...

of the

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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

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area, where he played basketball in the youth set up of TSG Bergedorf. He studied at the

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, while coaching youth teams and working as assistant coach at 2. Bundesliga side Düsseldorf Magics. Schiller subsequently worked for

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in Austria. From 2010 until 2015, he served as an assistant coach for the

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, and afterwards for the

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of the

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(BBL). On 23 August 2017 Schiller was named the head coach of the

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of the

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. Schiller has also been an assistant coach for the German national team since 2015, where he worked with Jazz assistant coach

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. Schiller was named the

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for the 2019–20 season after leading the Stars to a 30–12 record. On 14 July 2020 Schiller was announced as the new head coach of BC Žalgiris. 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, while the team was unbeaten in the LKL (4-0), when Schiller was dismissed. He was named head coach of

of the Spanish

on 24 June 2022. On October 18, 2022, Schiller was sacked by Zaragoza after hardly four months in the job. Schiller coached the team in the opening four games of the 2022-23 ACB season, which all ended in defeat.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schiller, Martin 1982 births Living people Artland Dragons coaches Austrian basketball coaches Austrian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Riesen Ludwigsburg coaches Salt Lake City Stars coaches Sportspeople from Vienna Austrian emigrants to Germany Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Spain Austrian people of British descent Sportspeople from Hamburg Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Lithuania BC Žalgiris coaches