Mike Jackel

Mike Jackel
Player information
Full name	Michael Jackel
Nickname	Mister Bundesliga
birthday	October 19, 1959
place of birth	Vancouver , Canada
size	199 cm
position	Small forward
college	Simon Fraser
Clubs as active
000 01982 MTV Wolfenbüttel 1982–1985 ASC 1846 Göttingen 1985–1988 BSC Saturn Cologne 1988–1989 DTV Charlottenburg 1989–1990 Galatasaray Cologne 1990–1996 TTL Bamberg 1996–1999 SG Braunschweig
National team 1
1984-1993	Germany	113 games
1 As of: 02.09.2008

Mike Jackel medal table
Basketball (men)
Germany
European Championship
gold	1993 Germany	Germany

Michael "Mike" Jackel (born October 19, 1959 in Vancouver , British Columbia ) is a former German - Canadian basketball player . In terms of points scored, he is the most successful basketball player in the German Bundesliga . As “Mister Bundesliga”, the small forward scored 10,783 points in 17 years and was German champion and cup winner four times. The son of German parents who emigrated to Canada also played for the German national basketball team and unexpectedly became European champion with them in 1993 .

career

Jackel spent his college years at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby in his home country, Canada, and was ranked second in the college's "eternal basketball rankings" when he left university in 1982. Between 1978 and 1982 he had scored 1940 points for SFU. In his final season 1981/82 he was the best offensive player in the NAIA college league with an average of 28.9 points per game .

Jackel went to Germany and was already a cup winner in his first year with MTV Wolfenbüttel . In the following year, the left-hander switched to ASC 1846 Göttingen , with whom he immediately won the German championship and in 1984 even the double . In 1985 he won his third cup in Göttingen in his fourth year in Germany. Even after his subsequent move to BSC Saturn Cologne , Jackel remained successful: in 1987 and 1988 he again celebrated two German championships in a row. In 1992, TTL Bamberg won another cup. In the same year Jackel set a new record for a championship round game with 55 points in the Bundesliga quarter-finals against Hagen. During his time in Bamberg, Jackel was one of the players whom the young Dirk Nowitzki admired. Later they played against each other: Jackel in the Braunschweiger and Nowitzki in the Würzburg colors. At the end of November 1996 Jackel scored his 10,000th Bundesliga point with a free throw in the game with Braunschweig against Gießen.

At the European Championship finals held in the FRG in June 1985, Jackel was the second best scorer of the German team with 19.9 points per use. At the EM 1987 he led the FRG selection with 23.5 points per match and achieved his highest score in an international match with 40 points against Israel during the tournament. The son of German emigrants celebrated his greatest international success in 1993 when he won the European Championship in his own country with the German national team . In the final against Russia he got ten points. Between 1984 and 1993 he completed 113 international games and took part in three European championships and the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona . After Detlef Schrempf , Jackel was the second best scorer in the German team at Olympia 92 with an average of 14.1 per match. If you take the total and per game basket points as a yardstick, Jackel was the most successful national player in recent history after Dirk Nowitzki.

Jackel's work on the field was characterized by a quick first step in attack and his great danger in the basket, including a safe middle distance throw. “It never bothered me that I was never the most athletic player,” he said of himself. “I was always quick and could move to the basket; I worked hard to get the missing throw at college, ”said Jackel in the book 50 Years of the Basketball Bundesliga .

In 1999 Jackel ended his professional career with SG Braunschweig at the age of 39 . He then went back to Canada with his wife Frauke, who came from Göttingen , where he worked for ten years as a coach for a basketball academy and later as a civilian employee for the police. His son Kevin played basketball at Douglas College in British Columbia .

successes

• German cup winner (1982) with MTV Wolfenbüttel
• German champion ( 1983 , 1984 ) with ASC 1846 Göttingen
• German cup winner (1984, 1985) with ASC 1846 Göttingen
• German champion ( 1987 , 1988 ) with BSC Saturn Cologne
• German cup winner (1992) with TTL Bamberg
• European basketball champion ( 1993 )
• 10,783 points scored during his 17-year Bundesliga career (player with the most points scored in the basketball Bundesliga )
• Induction into the Sports Hall of Fame at Simon Fraser University (1994)
• British Columbia Province Basketball Hall of Fame induction (2003)

Web links

• Mike Jackel - National team statistics
• Canadian Hall of Fame entry (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ "These are our 12 giants", Sport-Bild from June 23, 1993, p. 32 f.
2. ↑ HENNING SUSSEBACH: After 17 years Mike Jackel is leaving the Bundesliga: In hot pants against Allied children . In: Berliner Zeitung . ( berliner-zeitung.de [accessed December 6, 2016]).
3. ↑ MEN'S BASKETBALL REGULAR SEASON RECORDS. NAIA, accessed December 6, 2016 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} PressReader.com - Newspapers from around the world. Accessed March 31, 2020 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Haruka Gruber: “I'm proud of the record!” In: Basketball Bundesliga GmbH (Ed.): 50 years of the Basketball Bundesliga . Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-7307-0242-0 , pp. 76-79 .
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} Henning Brand: The record man . In: Ute Berndt, Henning Brand, Ingo Hoffmann, Christoph Matthies (eds.): Dunke-Schön. 25 years of the 1st Bundesliga basketball team in Braunschweig . Klartext Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1505-3 , p. 95-97 .
7. ↑ Michael Jackel profile, European Championship for Men 1985. Retrieved April 1, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Michael Jackel profile, European Championship for Men 1987. Retrieved April 1, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Germany accumulated statistics | 1992 Olympic Games: Tournament for Men | ARCHIVE.FIBA.COM. Accessed March 31, 2020 . 
10. ↑ The Province, Sports, High School, Share Saturday could be the Day of the Jackel Tumblr Pinterest Google Plus Reddit LinkedIn Email, Tumblr: Saturday could be the Day of the Jackel | The Province. March 28, 2008, accessed March 31, 2020 (Canadian English). 
11. ↑ Sports: 'The most dedicated guy I know'. April 25, 2012, Retrieved March 31, 2020 (American English). 
12. ↑ Simon Fraser University | Canada. In: athletics.sfu.ca. Retrieved December 6, 2016 . 
13. ↑ Ubuntu2: Hall of Fame Inductees - Basketball BC. In: www.basketball.bc.ca. Retrieved December 6, 2016 .