Jakarta - RANS PIK Basketball brought in a new head coach who had brought his team to win the Indonesia Basketball League (IBL) competition, Wahyu Widayat Jati. As reported by Antara, November 2, Wahyu Widayat Jati is a figure who is familiar in the world of IBL coaching because he once brought CLS Knights Surabaya to become the 2015-2016 IBL champion.
Citing the official IBL website, Wahyu previously served as assistant coach of the Indonesian basketball national team accompanying Head Coach Milos Pejic.
Talking about the achievements of the national team, especially in the coaching world, Wahyu, who was included in the coaching team in several national team squads, has disabled a number of achievements. Among them, the 2015 SEA Games silver medal with the women's national team while serving as assistant coach of Bambang Asdianto Pribadi, who in fact last season became coach of RANS.
Then won the 2017 SEABA silver medal as the coach of the men's national team, the 2017 SEA Games silver medal as a coach, until finally the highest achievement was to win the 2021 SEA Games gold medal as assistant coach of Milos Pejic.
Returning to IBL, Wahyu is also one of the IBL legends. He won the first national title with Satria Muda in the Kobatama era in 1999 which was also the first title for the Satria Muda team.
Then he again won five championship rings by winning the league in the era of the 2004 IBL, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 competitions.
Wahyu Widayat Jati then decided to withdraw and continue his studies in the United States. After returning to Indonesia, he returned to play in the Indonesian basketball competition whose name was changed to NBL Indonesia and defended Aspac. Together with Aspac, Wahyu brought back two titles in the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 seasons. He won a total of eight national championship rings as players.
Shifting as a coach, Wahyu led the Surabaya CLS Knights to win the 2015-2016 IBL. In the regular season, CLS Knights was so dominant that they set a record of 31-2 or 31 wins and only lost twice. Then in the final, CLS Knights defeated Satria Muda with a 2-1 advantage in the best-of-three match series.
Wahyu then moved to NSH Jakarta and coached for two seasons. His first season with NSH didn't go well. They became caretakers by only winning three times from 17 matches.
But NSH bounced back in season two in his coaching period. NSH became the team with the second best record of all regular seasons by winning 12 out of a total of 18 matches. But NSH hasn't been able to talk more in the playoffs.
RANS PIK's decision to take Wahyu Widayat Jati as a coach is confirmed to win the title next season armed with experience and cold hands from his new coach.
Meanwhile, before being trusted as coach of RANS PIK, Wahyu Widayat Jati was also familiar with the IBL competition because he sat on the bench with the Indonesia Patriots team accompanying Milos Pejic last season.
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