Ainars Bagatskis

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Ainars Bagatskis

| image = Bagatskis.JPG

| image_size =

| caption = Bagatskis as the Budivelnyk Kyiv head coach in October 2013

| position = Head coach

| league = Liga Națională

| team = CSO Voluntari

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 6

| weight_lbs = 194

| nationality = Latvian

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1967|3|29}}

| birth_place = Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR

| draft_year = 1989

| career_start = 1985

| career_end = 2006

| coach_start = 2005

| coach_end =

| career_number =

| career_position = Small forward

| years1 = 1985–1987

| team1 = VEF Rīga

| years2 = 1987–1991

| team2 = Rīgas ASK

| years3 = 1991–1992

| team3 = Princips

| years4 = 1992–1993

| team4 = Bergen Gimle

| years5 = 1993–1994

| team5 = Brocēni

| years6 = 1994–1995

| team6 = Rīgas Laiks

| years7 = 1995–1998

| team7 = Brocēni

| years8 = 1998–1999

| team8 = Ericsson Bobry Bytom

| years9 = 1999–2000

| team9 = Hoop Pekaes Pruszków

| years10 = 2000–2001

| team10 = JDA Dijon

| years11 = 2001–2003

| team11 = Ventspils

| years12 = 2003–2004

| team12 = Evraz

| years13 = 2004–2005

| team13 = Žalgiris Kaunas

| years14 = 2005–2006

| team14 = Barons Rīga

| cyears1 = 2005–2006

| cteam1 = Barons Rīga

| cyears2 = 2006

| cteam2 = Žalgiris Kaunas

| cyears3 = 2007–2009

| cteam3 = Valmiera

| cyears4 = 2009–2010

| cteam4 = Enisey

| cyears5 = 2011

| cteam5 = Sokhumi

| cyears6 = 2011–2012

| cteam6 = Kryvbas

| cyears7 = 2012–2014

| cteam7 = Budivelnyk

| cyears8 = 2014–2016

| cteam8 = Nizhny Novgorod

| cyears9 = 2016

| cteam9 = Darüşşafaka (assistant)

| cyears10 = 2016–2017

| cteam10 = Maccabi Tel Aviv

| cyears11 = 2018–2019

| cteam11 = Brose Bamberg

| cyears12 = 2019–2022

| cteam12 = Kyiv-Basket

| cyears13 = 2022–present

| cteam13 = CSO Voluntari

| highlights =

As a player

Norwegian League champion (1993)
6× Latvian League champion (1995, 1997–1999, 2003, 2004)
LKL Three-point Shootout champion (2004)
2× Lithuanian League champion (2005, 2006)
Baltic League champion (2006)

As a coach:

Lithuanian League champion (2006)
Baltic League champion (2006)
2× Ukrainian SuperLeague champion (2013, 2014)
Israeli Cup winner (2017)

}}

Ainars Bagatskis (born 29 March 1967) is a Latvian former professional basketball player and coach, who currently works as the head coach of CSO Voluntari of the Liga Națională.

Playing career

=Club career=

During his club playing career, Bagatskis played at the small forward position.

=Latvia national team=

Bagatskis was a member of the senior Latvia national basketball team from 1992 to 2006. With Latvia, he played in four EuroBasket tournaments.

Coaching career

Bagatskis began his coaching career in the 2005–06 season, while playing in his last season of professional basketball with Barons Rīga, where he stayed for one season. In 2006, he had a short stint as a head coach in one of the greatest Lithuanian teams, Žalgiris Kaunas. Since 2007, he worked as a head coach in several teams, including Valmiera until 2009, the Russian team Yenisey Krasnoyarsk in the 2009–10 season, Sokhumi, and Kryvbasbasket until 2012.

In June 2012, he became the head coach of the Ukrainian team Budivelnyk Kyiv.{{cite news|title=Bagatskis stoja prie "Budivelnyk" vairo|url=http://www.basketnews.lt/news-51276-bagatskis-stoja-prie-budivelnyk-vairo.html#.VSrfsNyUdls|accessdate=12 April 2015|work=basketnews.lt|issue=6 June 2012|language=Lithuanian}} He stayed with them for two seasons, winning the Ukrainian Basketball SuperLeague two times with them, in 2013 and 2014. In the 2013–14 season, his team made its first EuroLeague appearance in the club's history.

On 1 July 2014, he signed a one-year contract to become the head coach of the Russian team Nizhny Novgorod.{{cite news|title=Nizhny Novgorod appoints Bagatskis as boss|url=http://www.euroleague.net/news/i/138324/nizhny-novgorod-appoints-bagatskis-as-boss|accessdate=12 April 2015|work=euroleague.net|issue=1 July 2014}} Nizhny Novgorod ended their season in the VTB United League, after being eliminated by CSKA Moscow, with 3–0 series sweep, in the League's semifinals series.

On 18 June 2016, he signed a two-year contract to become an assistant coach of David Blatt's, with the Turkish club Darüşşafaka.{{cite news|title=Darüşşafaka Doğuş's new assistant coach is Ainars Bagatskis|url=http://www.darussafakadogusbasketbol.com/news-details.aspx?id=63827|accessdate=18 June 2016|work=darussafakadogusbasketbol.com|date=18 June 2016}}

On December 24, 2016, Bagatskis became the head coach of the Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv.{{Cite web |url=http://www.sportando.com/en/europe/israel/221254/maccabi-tel-aviv-name-ainars-bagatskis-head-coach.html |title=Maccabi Tel Aviv name Ainars Bagatskis head coach |access-date=2016-12-30 |archive-date=2016-12-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161231170049/http://www.sportando.com/en/europe/israel/221254/maccabi-tel-aviv-name-ainars-bagatskis-head-coach.html |url-status=dead }}

On 16 May 2017, he parted ways with Maccabi Tel Aviv.{{Cite web |url=http://www.sportando.com/en/europe/israel/234623/maccabi-tel-aviv-fire-ainars-bagatskis-name-arik-shivek-head-coach.html |title=Ainars Bagatskis parted ways with Maccabi Tel Aviv |access-date=2017-05-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170519170719/http://www.sportando.com/en/europe/israel/234623/maccabi-tel-aviv-fire-ainars-bagatskis-name-arik-shivek-head-coach.html |archive-date=2017-05-19 |url-status=dead }}

On 30 June 2018, he signed with Brose Bamberg of the Basketball Bundesliga.[https://sportando.basketball/en/germany/bbl/279506/brose-bamberg-hires-ainars-bagatskis-as-head-coach.html]{{Dead link|date=June 2020|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}

=National team=

Following the departure of Kęstutis Kemzūra, in February 2010, he became a team selector for the senior Latvia national team.{{cite news|last1=Noviks|first1=Māris|title=LBS valde apstiprina Bagatski, sieviešu izlasi vadīs ārzemnieks|url=http://sportacentrs.com/basketbols/izlases/03022010-lbs_valde_atbalsta_bagatski_sieviesu_tren|accessdate=12 April 2015|work=sportacentrs.com|date=3 February 2010|language=Latvian}} So far, his team made two EuroBasket appearances, at the EuroBasket 2011, in Lithuania, and at the EuroBasket 2013, in Slovenia.

Career statistics

=EuroLeague=

| style="text-align:left;"| 2003–04

| style="text-align:left;" rowspan=2| Žalgiris

| 12 || 9 || 24.0 || .386 || .404 || .900 || 2.6 || .8 || .6 || .0 || 9.5 || 7.0

| style="text-align:left;"| 2004–05

| 17 || 0 || 12.5 || .424 || .426 || .882 || .9 || .4 || .4 || .0 || 5.5 || 3.7

|- class="sortbottom"

| style="text-align:left;"| Career

| style="text-align:left;"|

| 29 || 9 || 17.5 || .406 || .414 || .894 || 1.6 || .6 || .4 || .0 || 7.2 || 5.1

Coaching record

=EuroLeague=

| align="left"|Žalgiris

| align="left"|2005–06

| 1 || 0 || 1 || {{Winning percentage|4|6}} || align="center"|Eliminated in Top 16 stage

| align="left"|Žalgiris

| align="left"|2006–07

| 14 || 2 || 12 || {{Winning percentage|2|12}} || align="center"|Eliminated in regular season

| align="left"|Budivelnyk

| align="left"|2013–14

| 10 || 2 || 8 || {{Winning percentage|2|8}} || align="center"|Eliminated in regular season

| align="left"|Nizhny Novgorod

| align="left"|2014–15

| 24 || 8 || 16 || {{Winning percentage|8|16}} || align="center"|Eliminated in Top 16 stage

| align="left"|Maccabi

| align="left"|2016–17

| 16 || 5 || 11 || {{Winning percentage|5|11}} || align="center"|Eliminated in regular season

|-class="sortbottom"

| align="center" colspan=2|Career||74||21||53||{{Winning percentage|21|53}}||

References

External links

[http://www.bagatskis.info/ Official website]
[http://basketball.eurobasket.com/player/Ainars_Bagatskis/7430 Ainars Bagatskis] at eurobasket.com
[http://www.euroleague.net/competition/players/showplayer?pcode=DHB Ainars Bagatskis] at euroleague.net (as a player)
[http://www.euroleague.net/competition/coaches/showcoach?pcode=DHB Ainars Bagatskis] at euroleague.net (as a coach)
[https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/p/rpp//q/Ainars%20Bagatskis/pid//_//players.html Ainars Bagatskis] at fiba.com

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