Catching up with Oakland’s Jack Gohlke one year after he took over March

A year later, the dream for Jack Ghlke is still real. When the day is long and trust is lagging behind, it sometimes inserts the tape and again follows the time when he took the moon of the march storm. When he became one of those who are the sudden heroes of NCAA, the tournament lives positively.

Jack Gohlke. Name Ring and Bell? Do you remember his 3-clerks fall from the sky as hail for Oakland Golden Grizzlies? It was only 12 months.

At first it was a problem of the Horizon League. Put it 26 times from behind the arch and made 12 of them to help Oakland to go through the semifinals and the final of the conference tournament.

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After the national audience watched the collective jaws fell, Kentucky’s problem. He set fire to wild cats with 32 points and buried 10 of his 20 3-point attempts when the seed no. 14 Golden Grizzlies in the first round of 80-76 pulled the seed no. 3. “I think everyone believed,” Ghlke said that night in Pittsburgh. “But I think I was the one who was the safest.” I tried to tell them, “Hello boys, we belong here. This is the moment we worked so hard for this season and our whole basketball career. “”

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Then he was a problem for the state of North Carolina. He gained 22 points when Oakland pushed Wolfpack to the brink before he lost 79-73 in overtime. The state of North Carolina ended in Final Four. Jack Gohlke ended with one of those Cinderella stories with a moment to live in repetitions. Here and left as a meteor shower.

Formula: Have freedom to shoot from almost anywhere, shoot without fear and worry big people. In the Ghlke’s One Division season, he took 372 shots. Only eight were inside the arch, none in the NCAA tournament. This way one can change your life in one weekend.

“It’s a funny thing,” he said a year later, “in the kind of preparation that led to it, coach (Greg) Kampe, that he told our team all week, that the tournament was changing people’s lives.” I think we were all bought in his team part and we wanted to do it, but I don’t think we really thought about it that it would actually change our lives.

“Then it changed my life as possible.”

He was 6-3 guards coming from the Horizon League team, the transfer of division II, which took advantage of the next year, which gave the pandemia to buy his one shot to bright lights and average 13 points per game. There is not much fame in this CV. But that was before. As soon as Oakland took a court in Pittsburgh, Gohlke lived the life of a hit show, though only short.

“My favorite thing that happened was that there were many children and young basketball players, whether they were there in Pittsburgh, or wherever I went, who came to me, that I saw a little who were just excited to meet me and take pictures or anything,” he said. “Be able to make your day with something as simple as a picture or autograph, which meant a lot to me.”

“I was shocked.” I really couldn’t understand it for the longest time. I just used to be a very normal person who mixes into it. It probably took me at least a month to understand what had happened. ”

He was invited to Arizona to Final Four to attend the All-Star game and of course a 3-point competition.

“The television host asked me just before (three -point competition) and asked how I felt and that she chose me to win,” he said. “I told her that my specialty is definitely not only not only to stand and raise the ball from the stand and shoot.” As confident as I am in myself, I knew it was not my specialty. I think I lost in the first round. ”

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He headed to the summer league in Las Vegas. Then he played professionally in Montenegro for some time. Now he is with the herd of Wisconsin of the NBA G League, gets a few minutes off the bench and average 3.2 points per game. One thing has not changed; Finally, he made 58 shots for herd. Only four were not 3-reporters.

Gohlke said he was learning a lot, and it’s not always easy. He will continue working on his game and also mentor children in the camps because she has a passion for her. When any doubts crawl, it is when he looks back for a certain weekend in Pittsburgh, it can be an elevator.

“Every phase I get into is a kind of resetting,” he said. “It’s one of the things you watch again to get back and remember how you got where you are, and also remember to work hard more and if you insert time, these results may come.” Days may certainly take a long time if things are not going well. But if you have something like that, you can look back and think about how happy you are with your teammates at the moment, it will definitely help. ”

Oakland is 15-17 this season and will play Milwaukee on Thursday on Thursday in the quarterfinals. Gohlke held the cards in his old team and now comes a month that always brings an echo. Looking back, was Kentucky surprised at all? Almost everyone else was.

“That was the most ready I have ever been for the game.” I just tried to be as focused as I could for the biggest game of my life, and I think the results came from all the preparation I did that week and all years earlier. So I wouldn’t say I was surprised by my performance. I was just happy to happen on the biggest scene and that I believed in myself and had all my teammates who had my back and believed me. I was absolutely surprised by the undulating effects, but I expected the performance a bit. ”

He almost did it two days later. But not completely. March eventually got him, just like almost everyone. It’s a month that forces a lot of university basketball players to accept the bad with good.

“It was two faces.” On the one hand, it was so positive that it came out that I had to hold my head and be happy about everything, because there are only so many such opportunities. But at the same time it took a while to overcome. These are the type of loss that you really will not forget, because so much reflector in which we were in the first game would be Sweet 16 even a larger scene. ”

But he will always have Kentucky. “I hope it means a lot for the Oakland community and especially for my teammates and coaches to see our name in these peaks through our jersey.” Maybe I’m going to be on top, but everyone from my teammates misses me and projected for me or coaches calling games, all the types of things, I just hope everyone can appreciate it and see how the great experience it was for us. ”

Certainly there must have been something he held from this game to remember the night that influenced his life at the age of 24.

“I think I can say it now …” He started.

AND?

“We couldn’t get a game ball and I really wanted a game ball.” It is known that many players want those tournament basketballs that were used in the game or have tournament logos. An unnamed manager managed to get a game ball out of the game, so I have it now. ”

And where could this rare prey be a year later?

“I don’t know if I can tell you.”