Lowgators Announce New Head Coach
August 28, 2002 - NBA G League (G League)
Charleston Lowgators News Release
North Charleston, S.C. (August 28, 2002) â Former North Charleston assistant coach Doug Marty has been named the new head coach of the Lowgators, it was announced today by NBDL Executive Director Karl Hicks. Marty replaces former head coach Alex English, who accepted the Director of Player Development position with the Atlanta Hawks.
"Doug is a bright young coach with a wealth of international coaching and playing experience," Hicks said. "He was integral to the Lowgators success last season, and we fully expect the team to maintain its level of competitiveness under his leadership."
Marty's professional basketball career took him on a 14-year international tour, before returning to the U.S. in September 2001 for the assistant coaching position with the NBDL and North Charleston.
Marty was a three-year starter at point guard for Stanford (1979-â82) and three times led the Cardinal in assists and minutes played. After serving as a graduate assistant coach at Stanford, Marty played professionally in Denmark (1984-87) where he led the National League in scoring at 31.2 ppg during his second season.
During his postgraduate studies at the University of Warwick in England, Marty was captain of the basketball team (1985-86) and averaged 36.2 ppg. He also served as head coach of the Luxembourg Basketball Federation's Ad Contern Team (1993-96) and head basketball instructor at the National Institute of Sports and was a player/coach for six seasons in the Norwegian National League.
Marty is also no stranger to winning championships, garnering national titles in Luxembourg (2001) as a coach and in Norway (1998) as a player.
"I'm thrilled and thankful for this opportunity and look forward to getting on court with the players," said Marty. "We will work very hard to help our guys develop and form a team the community can be proud to support."
After completing his undergraduate work at Stanford, Marty earned a Master's Degree in International Studies from the University of Warwick in Coventry, England (1986) and a Master's Degree in Education from Harvard University (2000).
The NBDL, the NBA's minor league includes the Fayetteville Patriots (N.C.), North Charleston Lowgators (S.C.), Huntsville Flight (Ala.), Mobile Revelers (Ala.), Roanoke Dazzle (Va.), Columbus Riverdragons (Ga.), Greenville Groove (S.C.), and Asheville Altitude (N.C.). The league offers players the opportunity to develop their talent in a highly competitive atmosphere under the NBA's umbrella. To date, two head coaches and eight players have been called up to the NBA since the NBDL's inaugural season and five executives have moved from NBDL teams to positions with major league organizations.
Designed to help grow the sport of basketball both domestically and internationally, the NBDL serves as a source of on-court talent for the NBA's 29 teams and as a diverse human resources pool for the NBA and its teams by training employees in management, operations, public relations, sales and marketing positions in each NBDL city.
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