Duško Ivanović Explained

Duško Ivanović
Position:Head coach
Height Ft:6
Height In:5
Weight Lb:210
Nationality:Montenegrin
Birth Date:1 September 1957
Birth Place:Bijelo Polje, PR Montenegro, FPR Yugoslavia
Draft Year:1979
Career Start:1980
Career End:1994
Career Position:Shooting guard / small forward
Coach Start:1993
Years1:1980–1987
Team1:Budućnost
Years2:1987–1990
Team2:Jugoplastika
Years3:1990–1992
Team3:Girona
Years4:1992
Team4:Limoges CSP
Years5:1992–1993
Team5:Girona
Years6:1993–1994
Team6:Fribourg Olympic
Cyears1:1993–1994
Cteam1:Fribourg Olympic (assistant)
Cyears2:1994–1995
Cteam2:Girona (assistant)
Cyears3:1995–1999
Cteam3:Fribourg Olympic
Cyears4:1999–2000
Cteam4:Limoges CSP
Cyears5:2000–2005
Cteam5:Saski Baskonia
Cyears6:2005–2008
Cteam6:Barcelona
Cyears7:2008–2012
Cteam7:Saski Baskonia
Cyears8:2014–2015
Cteam8:Panathinaikos
Cyears9:2016–2017
Cteam9:Khimki
Cyears10:2018–2019
Cteam10:Beşiktaş
Cyears11:2019–2021
Cteam11:Saski Baskonia
Cyears12:2022–2023
Cteam12:Crvena zvezda
Cyears13:2023–2024
Cteam13:Saski Baskonia
Highlights:As player:

As head coach:

Duško Ivanović (Душко Ивановић ; born September 1, 1957) is a Montenegrin professional basketball coach and former player who was most recently the head coach for Saski Baskonia of the Spanish Liga ACB and the EuroLeague.

Professional playing career

As a player, Ivanović started his career with Jedinstvo Bijelo Polje. He played with Budućnost, Jugoplastika, Valvi Girona, Limoges CSP, and Fribourg Olympic. With Jugoplastika, he won two consecutive EuroLeague championships, in 1989 and 1990.

Coaching career

Ivanović's coaching career started with Sisley Fribourg, in the 1993–94 season, where he was both a player and an assistant coach, working as a player-coach. In the 1994–95 season, he was an assistant coach of Valvi Girona. After that, he was the head coach of Fribourg Olympic (1995–1999), the senior Swiss national basketball team (1997–2000), CSP Limoges (1999–2000), TAU Cerámica (2000–2005), and FC Barcelona (2005–2008), from which he resigned, on 14 February 2008.

For the 2008–09 season, he was back at Vitoria, again working as the head coach of Caja Laboral, a position he held until November 2012, when he was fired.[1]

On 10 June 2014, Ivanović signed a two-year contract with the Greek League team Panathinaikos.[2] On 3 May 2015, after a 66–77 home game loss to Panathinaikos' arch rivals, Olympiacos, he parted ways with the team.[3]

On 15 March 2016, Ivanović was hired as the new head coach of the Russian club Khimki.[4] On 29 June 2017, he parted ways with Khimki.[5]

On 20 August 2018, he signed a one-year deal with Beşiktaş.[6] In December 2019, Ivanović left Beşiktaş, to return as head coach for Kirolbet Baskonia, once again. On 15 November 2021, he was fired again by Baskonia.

On 14 November 2022, Ivanović signed a two-year contract with the Serbian team Crvena zvezda, joining one day after the firing of head coach Vladimir Jovanović who was let go following a poor start in EuroLeague with only one win in 7 games.[7]

Coaching record

EuroLeague

|- | align="left" rowspan=5 |Baskonia| align="left"|2000–01| 22 || 15 || 7 || || align="center"|Lost in the Finals|- | align="left"|2001–02| 15 || 11 || 4 || || align="center"|Eliminated in Top 16 stage|- | align="left"|2002–03| 20 || 11 || 9 || || align="center"|Eliminated in Top 16 stage|- | align="left"|2003–04| 20 || 13 || 7 || || align="center"|Eliminated in Top 16 stage|- | align="left"|2004–05| 20 || 11 || 9 || || align="center"|Lost in the final game|- | align="left" rowspan=3|FC Barcelona| align="left"|2005–06| 25 || 14 || 11 || || align="center"|Lost in 3rd place game|- | align="left"|2006–07| 23 || 14 || 9 || || align="center"|Eliminated in quarterfinals|- | align="left"|2007–08| 14 || 9 || 5 || || align="center"|Eliminated in quarterfinals|- | align="left" rowspan=5|Baskonia| align="left"|2008–09| 21 || 14 || 7 || || align="center"|Eliminated in quarterfinals|- | align="left"|2009–10| 20 || 11 || 9 || || align="center"|Eliminated in quarterfinals|- | align="left"|2010–11| 20 || 10 || 10 || || align="center"|Eliminated in quarterfinals|- | align="left"|2011–12| 10 || 5 || 5 || || align="center"|Eliminated in regular season|- | align="left"|2012–13| 6 || 1 || 5 || || align="center"|Fired|- | align="left"|Panathinaikos| align="left"|2014–15| 28 || 13 || 15 || || align="center"|Eliminated in quarterfinals|- | align="left"|Khimki| align="left"|2015–16| 4 || 2 || 2 || || align="center"|Eliminated in Top 16 stage|- | align="left" rowspan=3|Baskonia| align="left"|2019–20| 13 || 6 || 7 || || align="center"| Season stopped due to the COVID-19 pandemic|- | align="left"|2020–21| 34 || 18 || 16 || || align="center"|Eliminated in regular season|-| align="left"|2021–22| 9 || 3 || 6 || || align="center"|Fired|- | align="left" rowspan=2|Crvena zvezda| align="left"|2022–23| 27 || 16 || 11 || || align="center"|Eliminated in regular season|-| align="left" rowspan=2|2023–24| 4 || 1 || 3 || || align="center"|Fired|-| align="left"|Baskonia| 34 || 18 || 16 || || align="center"|Eliminated in quarterfinals|-class="sortbottom"| align="center" colspan=2|Career||389||216||173||||

Personal

In 2006, Ivanović took part in the Montenegrin independence campaign on the pro-independence side.[8]

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.baskonia.com/es/noticias_general.asp?id_noticia=4365 Dusko Ivanovic deja de ser entrenador del Caja Laboral
  2. http://www.paobc.gr/page.ashx?pid=2&aid=23065&lang=2 Dusko Ivanovic for two years
  3. News: Ivanović napustio Panatinaikos. 3 May 2015. b92.net. Tanjug. sr.
  4. Web site: Dusko Ivanovic, BC Khimki new coach. BC Khimki. March 15, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160315155522/http://en.bckhimki.ru/news/clubnews/2016/march/1085/. March 15, 2016.
  5. News: Dusko Ivanovic, Khimki Moscow part ways. 29 June 2017. Sportando.com. 29 June 2017.
  6. Web site: Dusko Ivanovic named new head coach of Besiktas . 20 August 2018 . 20 August 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180820235217/https://sportando.basketball/en/turkey/bsl/286102/dusko-ivanovic-named-new-head-coach-of-besiktas.html . dead .
  7. Web site: Crvena zvezda mts appoint Duško Ivanović as new head coach . aba-liga.com . 15 November 2022.
  8. News: Blok za nezavisnost: Zaokružite "da" . Mondo . 18 May 2006 . 21 March 2023 . sr.