{{Short description|Argentine basketball coach}} {{Infobox basketball biography | name = Julio Lamas | image = | image_size = | caption = | team = | position = | league = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1964|6|9}} | birth_place = Buenos Aires, Argentina | coach_start = 1987 | coach_end = | cyears1 = 1987–1988 | cteam1 = S.C. Cañadense (assistant) | cyears2 = 1988–1992 | cteam2 = S.C. Cañadense | cyears3 = 1992–1995 | cteam3 = Venado Tuerto | cyears4 = 1995–1997 | cteam4 = Boca Juniors | cyears5 = 1999–2000 | cteam5 = Saski Baskonia | cyears6 = 2000–2001 | cteam6 = Obras Sanitarias | cyears7 = 2001–2003 | cteam7 = Lucentum Alicante | cyears8 = 2003–2004 | cteam8 = Real Madrid | cyears9 = 2004–2007 | cteam9 = Ben Hur Rafaela | cyears10 = 2007–2009 | cteam10 = Libertad Sunchales | cyears11 = 2014–2015 | cteam11 = Obras Sanitarias | cyears12 = 2015–2017 | cteam12 = San Lorenzo de Almagro | highlights = '''As head coach:''' * 2× FIBA South American League champion (2006, 2011) * InterLeagues Tournament champion (2011) * 5× Argentine League champion (1997, 2005, 2008, 2016, 2017) * 7× Argentine League Coach of the Year (1991, 1997, 2005–2008, 2011) * Spanish 2nd Division champion (2002) * Spanish 2nd Division Cup winner (2002) | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport|Men's basketball}} {{Medal|Country|{{bk|ARG}}}} {{MedalCompetition|FIBA AmeriCup}} {{MedalBronze| 1999 Puerto Rico | }} {{MedalGold| 2011 Argentina | }} {{MedalBronze| 2013 Venezuela | }} {{MedalCompetition|FIBA South American Championship}} {{MedalSilver|1999 Argentina | }} {{MedalGold|2012 Argentina | }} }} '''Julio César Lamas''' (born June 9, 1964) is an Argentine professional basketball coach. He was head coach of the Japan men's national team from 2017 to 2021. He has also been the head coach of the Argentina men's national team.
==Club coaching career== ===Argentina=== Lamas has won 5 Argentine League championships, in 1997 with Boca Juniors, in 2005 with Ben Hur, in 2008 with Libertad de Sunchales,<ref name="USA Basketball">{{cite web|title=Argentinean Assistant National Team Coach Julio Lamas To Speak AT NABC Convention In Indianapolis|url=http://www.usabasketball.com/mens/2010_nabc.html|publisher=USA Basketball|accessdate=12 December 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100921221628/http://www.usabasketball.com/mens/2010_nabc.html|archivedate=21 September 2010}}</ref> and in 2016 and 2017, with San Lorenzo de Almagro. He also won the FIBA South American League with Ben Hur in 2006.
===Spain=== Lamas also coached in Spain. He coached in the Spanish League with Tau Cerámica (1999–2000), and in the Spanish 2nd Division with Lucentum Alicante, with which he won the Spanish 2nd Division league championship, and the Spanish 2nd tier cup competition, the Copa Príncipe, in 2002. He also coached in the Spanish League with Real Madrid (2003–2004).
==National team coaching career== ===Argentina national team=== Lamas was the head coach of the senior men's Argentina national basketball team at the 1998 FIBA World Cup. He was also the assistant coach to Sergio Hernández on the Argentine 2008 Summer Olympics team that won the bronze medal.<ref name="USA Basketball" /> On December 16, 2010, his return to the head coach position of the Argentina national team was officially announced, as he replaced Sergio Hernández.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.canchallena.com/1334177-lamas-desembarca-en-la-seleccion |title=Lamas desembarca en la selección |newspaper=Cancha Llena |language=Spanish |date=2010-12-16 |accessdate=2010-12-16 }}</ref>
He, as head coach of Argentina, brought home a gold medal from the 2011 FIBA AmeriCup, coached the defenders of Argentina at the 2012 Summer Olympics,<ref>{{cite web|title=Basketball: World Cup qualification could prove turning point for Japan|url=https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2019/02/e54aa6fac00a-focus-basketball-world-cup-qualification-could-prove-turning-point-for-japan.html|publisher=Joel Fitzpatrick/Kyodo News+|date=26 February 2019|accessdate=19 May 2020}}</ref> brought home bronze medal from the 2013 FIBA AmeriCup, and coached the defenders of Argentina at the 2014 FIBA World Cup.
===Japan national team=== Lamas became the head coach of the senior Japan men's national basketball team in 2017. In 2019, the team appeared in the 2019 FIBA World Cup, the first time the team had made it to the World Cup in 13 years.
On September 21, 2021, he announced that he would be stepping down following a contract expiration.<ref>{{cite web|title=Basketball: Hovasse replaces Lamas as Japan men's team head coach|url=https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2021/09/074c0f6a8328-basketball-japan-mens-team-head-coach-lamas-steps-down.html|publisher=Kyodo News|date=21 September 2021|accessdate=25 November 2022}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/eurocup/players/?seasoncode=U2003&pcode=CTD&clubcode=MAD EuroCup coaching profile] *[http://www.acb.com/entrenador.php?id=AE8 Spanish League profile] {{in lang|es}}
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