Lou Roe
{{Short description|American basketball player (born 1972)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox basketball biography
| name = Lou Roe
| image =
| width =
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| height_ft = 6
| height_in = 7
| weight_lb = 220
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1972|07|14}}
| birth_place = Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S.
| high_school = Atlantic City
(Atlantic City, New Jersey)
| college = UMass (1991–1995)
| draft_year = 1995
| draft_round = 2
| draft_pick = 30
| draft_team = Detroit Pistons
| career_start = 1995
| career_end = 2012
| career_position = Power forward
| career_number = 3, 21
| years1 = {{nbay|1995|full=y}}
| team1 = Detroit Pistons
| years2 = {{nbay|1996|full=y}}
| team2 = Golden State Warriors
| years3 = 1997–1998
| team3 = Málaga
| years4 = 1998
| team4 = Rockford Lightning
| years5 = 1998–1999
| team5 = Cantù
| years6 = 1999–2000
| team6 = Quad City Thunder
| years7 = 2000
| team7 = Inca
| years8 = 2000–2002
| team8 = Gijón
| years9 = 2002–2004
| team9 = Lucentum Alicante
| years10 = 2004–2006
| team10 = Caja San Fernando
| years11 = 2006–2007
| team11 = Seoul Knights
| years12 = 2007
| team12 = Palma
| years13 = 2007
| team13 = Baskonia
| years14 = 2007–2008
| team14 = Palma
| years15 = 2008
| team15 = Murcia
| years16 = 2008–2009
| team16 = Gipuzkoa
| years17 = 2009–2010
| team17 = Tenerife
| years18 = 2010–2011
| team18 = Halcones Xalapa
| years19 = 2011–2012
| team19 = Regatas Corrientes
| highlights =
- 2× Spanish League Top Scorer (2004, 2006)
- Spanish League MVP (2001)
- All-Spanish League Team (2004)
- Consensus second-team All-American (1995)
- Third-team All-American – NABC (1994)
- Atlantic 10 Player of the Year (1995)
- 3× First-team All-Atlantic 10 (1993–1995)
- No. 15 retired by UMass Minutemen
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{{MedalSport | Men's basketball}}
{{MedalCountry|{{USA}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|Goodwill Games}}
{{MedalBronze| 1994 St. Petersburg | National team}}
}}
Louis Marquel Roe (born July 14, 1972) is an American former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Spanish Liga ACB, among other leagues. He was an All-American college player at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass).
College playing career
Roe played college basketball for the UMass Minutemen, where in 1995, he was the Atlantic 10 Player of the Year, and a consensus second-team All-American.
Professional playing career
Roe was selected by the Detroit Pistons, in the second round (30th pick overall) of the 1995 NBA draft. Roe played in two NBA seasons with the Pistons and Golden State Warriors. In his brief NBA career, he appeared in 66 games, and scored a total of 130 points.
After his NBA career wound up, Roe played professionally in Spain, the Continental Basketball Association (CBA), Italy, South Korea, Mexico and Argentina.
Post playing career
Roe was working with his alma mater's men's team in an administrative role, assisting his former UMass teammate and former head coach, Derek Kellogg.Former Minuteman Lou Roe excited to join Derek Kellogg's staff at UMass, Daily Hampshire Gazette [http://www.gazettenet.com/2012/08/22/former-minuteman-lou-roe-will-return-to-umass-to-assist-derek-kellogg] In January 2021, Roe was named head coach of the Putnam Vocational Technical Academy in Springfield, Massachusetts.{{Cite web |date=2021-01-20 |title=Putnam coaching job 'checked the box' for Lou Roe's career, family |url=https://www.masslive.com/highschoolsports/2021/01/former-umass-star-lou-roe-head-coach-job-at-putnam-checked-the-box-for-him-his-career-and-his-family.html |access-date=2024-10-25 |website=Masslive |language=en}}
Education
Lou Roe is an undergraduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst through the University Without Walls program.
Honors
- Spanish League MVP: (2001)
- 2× Spanish League Top Scorer: (2004, 2006)
References
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External links
- {{Basketballstats |nba= 691 |bbr= r/roelo01 }}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120529223855/http://www.acb.com/jugador.php?id=A09 Spanish League Profile] {{in lang|es}}
- [http://web.legabasket.it/player/?id=ROE-LOU-72 Italian League Profile] {{in lang|it}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120223080309/http://umasshoops.com/cgi-bin/frameset.cgi?frame1=column.htm&frame2=%2Fhistory%2Falumni%2Flou_roe%2Findex.htm&title=UMassHoops.com UMass College Bio]
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