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RUNNER-UP - Rick’s Ole Country Store finished second to Optimist in the 11-12 year old Ci- |
ty League basketball tournament. Players include, front row, Grant Holder. Second row,
Eugene Morgan, Emmett McClain, Chad Leigh and Bruton Wilson. Back row, Chip Cash,
Shawn Pressley, Steve Robbins and Coach Ernie Teague.
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| © | Dick DeVenzio
The Good, Bad,
And The Italian
You’re thinking I made up that line, but it was a movie
several years ago, a takeoff of course on ‘‘The Good, the Bad
and the Ugly.”
Both titles apply to NC State basketball in more ways than 1
have room to enumerate. But let me start.
Some people love Jim Valvano--people like sports writers J
wanting good stories and candid comments, and people like
stragglers at courtside who get their sense of importance
from knowing a celebrity. Valvano will talk to them. He
REALLY will. Not just ‘“‘Hey, how’s it going?” either. He’ll
talk, ask questions, and even listen carefully to the answers
and respond to them.
Jim Valvano is about the nicest person I have ever seen--
celebrity or no. But nevertheless, some players must Hate -
playing for Valvano, one of the all time great coaches-of-
whimsy. A guy plays 35 minutes one game and doesn’t get in
the next.
Did you notice Valvano putting in Ernie Myers for ONE SE-
COND in the St. Johns game? ONE SECOND--just long
enought to go in to commit an intentional foul. Then right out.
Oh, that’s all part of the game, right?
No, it’s not. That’s the kind of thing that makes a player
want to punch a coach in the face.
You have to understand how coaches WORK to tie a
player’s self image to his performance. ‘“Have pride,” they
tell you. ‘Always give 100%--or more.’’ And ‘‘be consistent.”
These things don’t jive. They aren’t just ‘part of the game.’
Maybe they are IN THE PROS, where each guy is getting
thousands of dollars to sit down and get up on command. But
in college, where you're just getting a scholarship in return
for your basketball skills, you're being sold on the total col-
lege ex Sperienes. That’s what recruiting is. They all, by rule,
must offer the same. So they sell a player on the ‘total ex-
perience. And it is one lousy, hate-filled experience getting
excited to pay a game and then NOT being given a chance
even to fai
Did you notice the TV camera pan the State bench at the
end of the St. Johns game? So many times during the NCAA
playoffs, the commentators would say, ‘“The bench tells the
story.” The winning team would be up slapping high fives,
shouting and raising fists, while the losing teams would be
looking sullen, heads in hands, tears in eyes.
They didn’t say, ‘‘the bench tells the story,” as the camera
scanned the State players. The commentator decided to be
‘‘/discreet’’ and remain silent. Because EVERY FACE HAD
A SMILE ON IT. Thompson, Bolton, Myers, Del Negro,
Jackson. Don’t kid yourself into thinking those guys have any
idea why Valvano does what he does. They play a lot
sometimes. Sometimes they don’t play at all. It’s called
Whimsy if you dislike Valvano’s style, ‘“‘instinct’’ if you like
im.
With Lorenzo Charles, it’s called LOAFING, pure and sim-
ple. Commentator Doug Collins said he thought Lorenzo look-
ed tired after seeing him play for the first time, but then add-
ed that Lorenzo himself told him he wasn’t tired at all. That’s
just the way Lorenzo still plays after four years! Incredible.
Jogging down the court while the ball and people are flying by
him--while high school All-Americans sit the bench watching.
How does Valvano explain THAT to his kids on the bench?
Valvano is years ahead of many coaches, intelligently us-
ing the foul rules in his behalf, intentionally fouling a guy who
had just shot an air ball, winning a national championship
once on long jump shots, sheer adrenalin and pizzazz.
I don’t know what to think of Jim Valvano. I don’t mind how
many commercials he makes, or even that he and State allow
a kid in with SAT scores of 470 (if the kid can pass his courses,
who cares what his scores were?) but I don’t understand brin-
ing in five forwards this year to go along with Bolton, Thomp-
son, Pierre and McMillan. I don’t understand them still
recruiting some guards--which they are doing--on the
assumption that some disgruntled players are likely to leave
school. (They don’t have any scholarships left to give unless
someone leaves.)
Valvano is a better person than most of us, and he knows
more basketball. And yet...
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Dick DeVeneio, Those “FIRST QUALITY
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is holding his 14th annual SHOWROOM SAMPLES
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