Keith Gatlin

Keith Gatlin
Gatlin as a trainer (2020)
Player information
birthday	December 23, 1964
place of birth	Newark , New Jersey , USA
size	192 cm
position	Point Guard / Shooting Guard
college	University of Maryland, College Park
Clubs as active
1983–1986 UM Terrapins ( NCAA ) 1987–1988 UM Terrapins 1988–1989 Tulsa Fast Breakers ( CBA ) 1989 Quad City Thunder (CBA) 1989–1990 Pensacola Tornados (CBA) 1991 New Haven Skyhawks ( USBL ) 1992–1996 Brandt Hagen 1996 –1997 Panionios Athens 1997–1998 MTV 1846 Giessen 1998–2000 Élan Sportif Chalonnais 2000–2001 Al-Riyadi Beirut 000 0 000 0

Keith Gatlin (born December 23, 1964 in Newark (New Jersey) , New Jersey ) is a former American basketball player who played as a professional in Europe and was German cup winner and runner-up with Brandt Hagen in 1994 . He now works as an assistant trainer at High Point University in North Carolina .

career

During his studies Gatlin was active for the Terrapins, or Terps for short , college team at the University of Maryland . He is one of the best assist providers who had played for this team up to then and gave 649 assists in four seasons . A certain national prominence gained Gatlin by a basket of success, in which he in a sense gave himself the master, when he was in the final seconds of extra time with a throw under the opponent's basket his opponent and eventual NBA champion Kenny Smith threw the ball onto his back, The rebounding ball then transformed itself into the basket of the UNC Tar Heels , which finally decided this game. Gatlin's teammate and recipient of many of his assists was Len Bias , one of the most talented and athletic basketball players of his day. His drug abuse-induced death two days after the 1986 NBA draft sparked one of the biggest scandals in American college sport. In Gatlin's own belief, this tragedy prevented him from being signed by an NBA club.

After graduating, Gatlin played for several clubs in the Continental Basketball Association . In the 1991/92 season he was in the squad of Greensboro City Gaters , a franchise of the short-lived Global Basketball Association, but made no game for this club due to a knee injury. Then Gatlin moved to Europe and initially played in the German basketball league in Hagen . In his second season in 1993/94 with this club he won the cup and made it to the final of the German championship . In 1996 he moved to Panionios in Athens in Greece for one season before he returned to the BBL and played for the club MTV 1846 from Giessen , then called "Flippers" . With the Flippers, however, the play-offs for the championship were missed in that season and Gatlin could only distinguish himself personally as a scorer with more than 20 points per game and winner of the three-point throwing competition of the BBL All-Star Games 1997. Overall, he scored during his Bundesliga time 2761 points.

He then played two seasons in Chalon-sur-Saône , France , before ending his active career at the age of 36 after a season in Beirut, Lebanon . As a high school coach, he supervised the basketball team at Veritas Academy in Kernersville, North Carolina, coached the girls 'team at Greensboro Day School (GDS) and was assistant coach of the GDS boys' team. At the Wesleyan Christian Academy in High Point he trained from 2011, among others , Harry Giles, who were later selected by the Portland Trail Blazers in the NBA draft , and McDonald's All-American Theo Pinson and was in office for nine years. In 2013 and 2014 the school team won the championship title in the NCISAA league under his leadership as a coach. In July 2018, he took up the post as assistant coach of the High Point University basketball team in the first division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

Web links

• Keith Gatlin College Stats - Statistics from college playing times at sports-reference.com ( English )
• Keith Gatlin's Inbounds Pass - Video of Gatlin's legendary throw-in and basket success in the game against the Tar Heels on youtube.com (English commentary)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Maryland Men's Basketball Record Book - Assists. (PDF (2.1 MB)) (No longer available online.) UM Terps , December 22, 2017, p. 20 , archived from the original on March 19, 2018 ; accessed on March 19, 2018 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Vincent Thomas: Bias' death still haunts coach, teammate. St. Petersburg Times (USA) , June 25, 2006, accessed August 28, 2010 . 
3. ↑ The best first division scorers since '75 . In: Deutscher Basketball Bund eV (Hrsg.): Special issue s.Oliver BBL season 2000/2001 . DSV Deutscher Sportverlag GmbH, Cologne 2000, p. 54 .
4. ^ Andy Durham: Keith Gatlin to High Point Wesleyan. GreensboroSports.com, July 14, 2009, accessed August 28, 2010 (posted). 
5. ^ David Reynolds: Theo Pinson chooses North Carolina. News & Record: Greensboro.com, May 22, 2013, accessed March 19, 2018 . 
6. ^ Keith Gatlin Named HPU Men's Basketball Assistant Coach. Archived from the original on November 12, 2018 ; accessed on January 19, 2019 (English).