Hanno Möttölä

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Hanno Möttölä
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Hanno Aleksanteri Möttölä (born 9 September 1976) is a Finnish basketball coach and a former professional

power forward, Möttölä played for the Atlanta Hawks in the National Basketball Association
(NBA), becoming the first player from Finland to play in the NBA.

College career

Möttölä attended the University of Utah, in the United States, where he played college basketball under head coach Rick Majerus. He was a starter on the Utah Utes team that played in the final of the 1998 NCAA national championship tournament, which they lost to Kentucky.

Professional career

After college, Möttölä was selected in the second round, with the 40th overall pick, in the

Scavolini Pesaro
(from 2004 to 2005).

Möttölä also played in the

Aris, after signing with the team on 26 July 2007.[1]

Möttölä announced his retirement from playing basketball on 26 September 2008,[2] but decided to return to basketball just nine months later.[3] In September 2009, Möttölä signed with the Finnish team Torpan Pojat. He played in the team for four seasons, during which the team was the runner-up in the Finnish League championship (2009–10), in the Finnish Cup (2010–11), and finished in third-place in Finnish League (2011–12).[4]

International career

Möttölä was a long-time member of the senior

2014 FIBA World Cup.[5]

Coaching career

After ending his playing career, Möttölä has worked as the head coach of Helsinki Basketball Academy team HBA-Märsky in second-tier

Finland national team
since 2019.

Personal life

Finnish ice hockey players, Jarkko Ruutu and Tuomo Ruutu, are Möttölä's second cousins.[6]

Career statistics

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field-goal percentage  3P%  3-point field-goal percentage  FT%  Free-throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  PIR  Performance Index Rating
 Bold  Career high

NBA

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2000-01 Atlanta 72 3 13.5 .444 .000 .811 2.4 .3 .2 .1 4.5
2001-02 Atlanta 82 14 16.7 .440 .077 .750 3.3 .6 .2 .2 4.8
Career 154 17 15.2 .442 .063 .783 2.9 .5 .2 .2 4.6

EuroLeague

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG PIR
2002–03 TAU Cerámica 7 3 30.4 .569 .444 .774 3.4 1.0 .7 .3 15.1 13.6
2003–04 Skipper Bologna 22 16 21.8 .520 .348 .879 3.8 .4 .8 .4 10.8 9.2
2004–05
Scavolini Pesaro
22 16 28.6 .497 .375 .833 5.1 .9 1.0 .5 13.7 12.2
2006–07 Žalgiris 12 5 22.6 .547 .500 .806 3.9 1.3 .5 .5 10.9 9.8
2007–08
Aris
20 16 19.7 .488 .459 .824 2.8 .7 .4 .1 8.0 6.0
Career 83 56 23.9 .516 .406 .833 3.9 .8 .7 .3 11.3 9.7

EuroCup

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG PIR
2005–06 Dynamo Moscow 14 4 16.54 .397 .444 .167 3.0 .5 .7 .6 6.4 4.2

References

  1. ^ Sotirou, Kostas (2007). "Aris inks big men Mottola and Agadakos". Euroleague. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
  2. ^ "Hanno Mottola of Finland retires". Inside Hoops. Archived from the original on 13 February 2012. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
  3. ^ Martinez, Frans (2009). "Hanno Mottola vuelve a las canchas". Solo Basket (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 February 2017.
  4. ^ "Hanno Möttölä vahvistaa ToPoa Divisioona A:n kärjessä". Basket.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 5 February 2017.
  5. ^ Hanno MÖTTÖLÄ (FIN).
  6. ^ Tuomo Ruutu; ihanfinaalissa.fi (in Finnish) Archived 2010-02-10 at the Wayback Machine

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