EBBC (Den Bosch)

SPM Shoeters Den Bosch
Nickname	EBBC Titans
Leagues	DBL FIBA Europe Cup
Founded	1952
Arena	Maaspoort Sports and Events
Arena Capacity	2,700[1]
Location	's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Team colors	Black, Silver, White
President	Albert Dominicus
Head coach	Sam Jones
Championships	16 Dutch Championships 6 Dutch Cups 2 Dutch Supercup 1 Ricoh Cup 1 Haarlem Basketball Week
Website	www.SPMShoeters.nl
Uniforms
Home Away

EBBC, for sponsorships named SPM Shoeters Den Bosch, is a Dutch basketball team based in 's-Hertogenbosch.^[2] The team plays in the Dutch Basketball League (DBL). The team has won a record 16 Dutch championships. The team has also been a regular at international competitions. Den Bosch plays their home games at the Maaspoort Sports & Events.

History

On 18 October 1952, EBBC was founded by Cees Vossen, Tom van der Leur, Hans van Oorschot and Frans van de Wiel. In 1962 it played in the Eredivisie for the first time, but not very successful. Subsequently the team degraded again.

Decades later, in June 2005, Den Bosch merged EiffelTowers Nijmegen. The club has one of the largest budgets in the Netherlands, and with that they were able to attract good players like Leon Rodgers. In their first season they had immediate success by winning the Dutch Championship title. The year after that (2006–2007) EiffelTowers The Bosch would win the title again after a clean sweep against the Matrixx Magixx from Nijmegen, after just losing four games in the regular season. The two following years, Den Bosch reaches the finals, but loses twice to ABC Amsterdam. In 2012 the club won their 15th Dutch championship, after beating ZZ Leiden in a best-of-seven-series.

After 13 years playing as the EiffelTowers, the club changed its name to SPM Shoeters in 2013. Along with the name change the club changed the team colors to black, after playing in red since 2000. In the 2014–15 season, Shoeters won its first DBL championship: Donar was beaten 4–1 in the Finals. The team also performed excellent in the EuroChallenge that season, reaching the Top 16 over the likes of German team ratiopharm ulm. Brandyn Curry had an superb season for Shoeters, and was named the DBL Playoffs MVP.

Sponsorship names

Due to sponsorship reasons, EBBC has known a lot of names over the years:

Logos

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  2005–2013
  EiffelTowers
           

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  2013–present
  SPM Shoeters
                

Honours

Domestic

Dutch League^[4]

• Winners (16): 1978-79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1992–93, 1995–96, 1996–97, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2011-12, 2014–15

Dutch Cup^[2]

• Winners (6): 1992-93, 1999-00, 2001–02, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2012-13

Dutch SuperCup^[4]

• Winners (2): 2013, 2015

Ricoh Cup^[4]

• Winners (1): 2000

European

FIBA Saporta Cup^[4]

• Runners-up (1): 1978-79

Worldwide

FIBA Intercontinental Cup^[4]

• Runners-up (1): 1982

Friendly

Haarlem Basketball Week^[4]

• Winners (1): 2006

Players

Current roster

SPM Shoeters Den Bosch roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. # Nat. Name Ht. Wt. Age 2.0 !SG 1 NED ! Lietmeijer, Valentijn 7000191000000000000♠1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) 1.0 !PG 2 NED ! Bouwknecht, Maarten 7000185000000000000♠1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) 1.5 !G 4 NED ! Slagter, Arvin 7000196000000000000♠1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 7001940000000000000♠94 kg (207 lb) 7001300000000000000♠30 – (1985-10-19)19 October 1985 1.0 !PG 5 NED ! Williams, Leon 7000188000000000000♠1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 4.0 !PF 7 NED ! Wessels, Stefan 7000202999999999999♠2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 7002100000000000000♠100 kg (220 lb) 7001310000000000000♠31 – (1984-04-13)13 April 1984 1.0 !PG 9 NED ! Schilder, Mike 7000183000000000000♠1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) 7001770000000000000♠77 kg (170 lb) 7001210000000000000♠21 – (1994-05-26)26 May 1994 4.0 !PF 10 NED ! de Pagter, Ralf 7000200000000000000♠2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 7001800000000000000♠80 kg (176 lb) 7001260000000000000♠26 – (1989-07-22)22 July 1989 3.0 !SF 12 NED ! Akerboom, Jr., Kees (C) 7000200000000000000♠2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 7001900000000000000♠90 kg (198 lb) 7001320000000000000♠32 – (1983-12-20)20 December 1983 4.0 !PF 13 NED ! Adriaans, Frerik (DP) 7000199000000000000♠1.99 m (6 ft 6 in) 7001210000000000000♠21 – (1995-02-10)10 February 1995 2.5 !G/F 14 NED ! de Vries, Pim (DP) 7000193000000000000♠1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 7001200000000000000♠20 – (1995-06-13)13 June 1995 5.0 !C 15 NED ! Aarts, Marcel 7000213000000000000♠2.13 m (7 ft 0 in) 7001320000000000000♠32 – (1983-08-09)9 August 1983 5.0 !C 32 SRB ! Kravic, Dejan 7000211000000000000♠2.11 m (6 ft 11 in) 7002109000000000000♠109 kg (240 lb) 7001250000000000000♠25 – (1990-09-09)9 September 1990	Head coach Sam Jones Assistant coach(es) Sander van der Holst Legend (C) Team captain (DP) Development player Injured Roster Updated: July 30, 2015

Depth chart

Notable players

Season by season

Head coaches

Coach	From	To	Honours
Don Beck	2009	2010	–
Raoul Korner	2010	2013	1 DBL, 1 NBB Cup
Sam Jones	2013	present	1 DBL, 1 Dutch Supercup

References

External links

• Official Site (Dutch)