Aleksandar Matović (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Матовић; born 3 January 1978) is a Serbian basketball coach who is currently an assistant coach for Partizan Belgrade of the Serbian KLS, the Adriatic League and the EuroLeague.
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Position | Assistant coach | |||||||||||||||||||
League | Basketball League of Serbia ABA League EuroLeague | |||||||||||||||||||
Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1978-01-03) 3 January 1978 (age 44) Čačak, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia | |||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Serbian | |||||||||||||||||||
Career history | ||||||||||||||||||||
As coach: | ||||||||||||||||||||
00 | Superfund | |||||||||||||||||||
2015–2016 | AEK (assistant) | |||||||||||||||||||
2016 | Budućnost (assistant) | |||||||||||||||||||
2017–2021 | Partizan (assistant) | |||||||||||||||||||
2017; 2018 | Partizan (interim) | |||||||||||||||||||
2021 | Partizan | |||||||||||||||||||
2021–present | Partizan (assistant) | |||||||||||||||||||
Medals
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Matović started his coaching career as a youth coach for Borac Čačak and Partizan. Later, Matović was the head coach of Superfund.[1]
In August 2015, Matović became an assistant coach of AEK under Dragan Šakota.[2][3] In July 2016, he became an assistant coach for Budućnost under Vlado Šćepanović.[4]
Individually through the years, Matović was a player development coach for many NBA players, such as Klay Thompson, Mychel Thompson, Goran Dragić, Zoran Dragić, Semih Erden, Sasha Vujačić, Andris Biedriņš, and Vladimir Radmanović.[2]
In summer 2017, Matović became an assistant coach for Partizan NIS under Miroslav Nikolić.[5][6] In mid-December 2017, Matović was the interim head coach for Partizan following departure of coach Nikolić.[7] On 13 December, he coached the Partizan team in a 83–67 loss to RETAbet Bilbao Basket.[8] On the next day, Matović joined staff of Nenad Čanak who was hired as the new Partizan head coach.[9]
In October 2018, Matović was named the interim head coach for Partizan following departure of coach Čanak.[10] On 31 October, Matović had a 77–72 loss to Turk Telecom.[11][12] Matović finished his second stint as the interim head coach with one lost when new head coach Andrea Trinchieri was hired on 1 November, joining his coaching staff as assistant.[13][6]
On 8 March 2021, Partizan NIS hired Matović as their new head coach for the rest of the 2020–21 season.[14][15] Two days later, he made his official debut in a 75–70 loss to Metropolitans 92.[16][17] Following this lost, Partizan was eliminated in the Top 16 stage of the 2020–21 EuroCup season.[18] He left the head coach position in June 2021, following arrival of the new head coach Željko Obradović.[19] In August, he was named back as an assistant coach for Partizan under Obradović.[20]
In June 2021, Matović was added to the coaching staff of Serbia men's national team under Igor Kokoškov as a player development coach.[21][22]
Team | Year | G | W | L | W–L% | Result |
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Partizan | 2017–18 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .000 | Interim head coach |
Partizan | 2018–19 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .000 | |
Partizan | 2020–21 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .000 | Eliminated in Top 16 stage |
Career | 3 | 0 | 3 | .000 |
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