Oded Kattash

Oded Kattash
עודד קטש

Oded Kattash, 2017
Panathinaikos
Position	Head coach
League	Greek Basket League EuroLeague
Personal information
Born	(1974-10-10) October 10, 1974 Giv'atayim, Israel
Nationality	Israeli
Listed height	1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)
Listed weight	84 kg (185 lb)
Career information
NBA draft	1996: undrafted
Playing career	1991–2001
Position	Point guard
Coaching career	2004–present
Career history
As player:
1991–1992	Maccabi Darom
1992–1993	Maccabi Ramat Gan
1994–1995	Hapoel Galil Elyon
1995–1999	Maccabi Tel Aviv
1999–2001	Panathinaikos
As coach:
2004–2007	Hapoel Galil Elyon
2007–2008	Maccabi Tel Aviv
2008–2010	Hapoel Gilboa Galil
2010–2013	Israel (assistant)
2010–2011	Hapoel Jerusalem
2012–2014	Hapoel Eilat
2014–2015	Hapoel Tel Aviv
2015–2017	Hapoel Eilat
2017	Israel U-20
2017–present	Israel
2018–2021	Hapoel Jerusalem
2021–present	Panathinaikos
Career highlights and awards
As player: FIBA EuroBasket Top Scorer (1997) EuroLeague champion (2000) 2× FIBA EuroStar (1997, 1999) 2× Greek League champion (2000, 2001) 4× Israeli League champion (1996–1999) Israeli Basketball Premier League MVP (1998) 2× Israeli Cup winner (1998, 1999) As head coach: Israeli League champion (2010) 2× Israeli Cup winner (2019, 2020) Greek Cup winner (2021) Israeli League Cup winner (2019) Israeli League Coach of the Year (2007)
Medals Men's Basketball Head Coach for Israel FIBA Europe Under-20 2017 Greece National Team

Oded Kattash (Template:Lang-he, born October 10, 1974) is an Israeli professional basketball coach and former player. During his playing career, at a height of 194 cm (6' 4 1⁄2") tall, he played at the point guard position. He was the 1998 Israeli Basketball Premier League MVP. He is currently working as the head coach of Panathinaikos of the Greek Basket League and the EuroLeague, but he is also the head coach of the senior Israel men's national team. As a player, he won the EuroLeague title in the 1999–2000 season, while playing with Panathinaikos.

Early career

When Kattash was 9 years old, he joined the junior youth department of Maccabi Tel Aviv. He then played with Maccabi Darom, which was Maccabi Tel Aviv's farm team at the time.

Professional playing career

Kattash played with Maccabi Ramat Gan, and Hapoel Galil Elyon, before returning in 1995, to Maccabi Tel Aviv, to join their senior men's team. With Macabbi's senior team, he won 4 Israeli League championships and 2 Israeli State Cups. He was the 1998 Israeli Basketball Premier League MVP. After leading the 1997 EuroBasket in scoring, he subsequently agreed to play with the New York Knicks, but he never actually played in the NBA, because of the 1998–99 NBA season lockout, that started on July 1, 1998.

Eventually, he signed a three-year contract with Panathinaikos. In the 2000 EuroLeague Finals game, he scored 17 points, against his former team Maccabi Tel Aviv, to win the EuroLeague championship with Panathinaikos. His career ended prematurely a few months later, when he suffered a serious knee injury.

National team playing career

Kattash played at the 1997 edition of the EuroBasket, with the senior Israeli national basketball team, scoring 22 points per game during the tournament.

Coaching career

Oded Kattash coaching (2003)

After Kattash retired from playing basketball, he took up basketball coaching, and he first coached Hapoel Galil Elyon. He was the head coach of Macabbi Tel Aviv, from summer of 2007, until January 1, 2008, when he resigned.

Shortly after, he returned to Galil Elyon, and helped the team stay in the Israeli first division. In 2009, he remained with Galil, leading them against the odds, to the Israeli League Final Four, and coming within a last shot of knocking out Maccabi Tel Aviv in the semifinals. In 2010, he won the Israeli League championship with Galil, after a win over Maccabi Tel Aviv in the league finals.

In June 2010, Kattash was appointed as Hapoel Jerusalem's head coach, signing a three-year contract.

On June 21, 2012, Kattash was appointed the head coach of Hapoel Eilat, as the team was re-included into the Israeli Premier League, for the 2012-13 season.

On June 27, 2014, at the end of his contract, Kattash signed a three-year contract with Hapoel Tel Aviv. On November 3, 2015, he was dismissed, after only four games, after three consecutive losses. He subsequently returned to Hapoel Eilat. However, On July 18, 2017, Hapoel Eilat and Kattash decided to part ways. During that summer, Kattash led the Israel national under-20 basketball team to a silver medal at the 2017 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship.

On October 10, 2017, The Basketball Federation of Israel, named Kattash the new head coach of the senior Israeli national team, for the next four years.

On February 22, 2018, Kattash returned for a second stint to Hapoel Jerusalem, signing a one-and-a-half year deal.

On January 14, 2021, Kattash signed a one-and-a-half year deal with Panathinaikos of the Greek Basket League and the EuroLeague.

Coaching record

Legend
G	Games coached	W	Games won	L	Games lost	W–L %	Win-loss %

Note: The EuroLeague is not the only competition in which the team played during the season. He also coached in domestic competition, and regional competition if applicable.

EuroLeague

Team	Year	G	W	L	W–L%	Result
Maccabi Tel Aviv	2007–08	9	6	3	.667	Resigned
Panathinaikos	2020–21	16	5	11	.313	Eliminated in the regular season
Career		25	11	14	.440

Personal

• Kattash is known to have different-coloured irises, a condition known as heterochromia of the irises (heterochromia iridis).

External links

• FIBA Profile
• FIBA Europe Profile
• Article about Kattash
• Kattash and Knicks
• News piece about coaching Maccabi
• Sinai, Allon (January 1, 2008). "Local Hoops: Kattash steps down as Maccabi TA coach". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved March 17, 2008.