From: jjehlers@flapjack.dsd.es.com (Jennifer Ehlers)
Subject: Comments on past week at the Rocky Mountain Revue
Organization: Evans & Sutherland
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 16:38:57 GMT


Well, last night was the last night of the Rocky Mountain Revue.  
Sorry I haven't posted much this week, I've been busy working my
real job and up at the Revue.  Anyway,  I have a few comments about the Rocky
Mountain Revue.  I'll post stats later as I have a chance to get them
typed in.  I had complete stats last night, and left them there.
They're probably in a trash can somewhere by now.

According to Paul Westphal (sp?), Phoenix has signed two players here,
they signed Bob Matin who he says will be their project at center.  
He's 7-0 so there is potential.  I think he also pointed at Jerrod Mustaf
when he was talking about the other player, but didn't he play last
year for Phoenix?  Maybe he meant they resigned him.  He also said that
Burtt would have to play real hard to keep his job.

I got to overhear Golden States half time the last few nights.  Other 
than the basic things, the coach told Sprewell he was shooting good, but 
he expected some rebounding.  Most of the minutes for them are going to
Victor Alexander, Latrell Sprewell, Tom Tolbert, and Jud Buechler.
I have decided that Tom Tolbert is not one of my favorite people in
this world.  Also, Aleksandar Djordjevic and Davide Pessina are both
going to play in Italy next year.  Tyrone Hill went home after last
week (don't know if he's injured or just felt he'd played enough),
but Victor Alexander stayed and has played really hard. 

Walt Williams for Sacramento has shown up and has been playing really
well.  I heard he had signed.  Anybody know any details?  I guess Jim
Les felt he had made the proper impression on the coaches.  He went
home after the first week.  He said he was here to try and get more
playing time next year.

I talked with Gene Shue (GM for Philly) this year.  I asked about the
3 guards and he said with Doug Moe's style, they will be running alot
and all 3 will get about 30 minutes per game.  He also mentioned that
they are really excited about Clarence Weatherspoon.  As a side note,
I was really surprised at how young Doug Moe looks in person.  I was
expecting someone who looked alot older.

We were talking to some of the Spanish coaches the other night.  They
were saying that they are going from 26 teams to 22 over there, but that
each team is going to be allowed 3 US players (currently the limit is
2).  After talking to a CBA scout (out of Quad Cities) he said that
the CBA infa-structure is really strong, but that with all the
expansion in the NBA and abroad, that its going to take them a little
while to get the talent back up to standard.  Speaking of the CBA,
this guy said that the CBA and NBA have signed a contract.  He didn't
know any specifics, but said there would be a press announcement 
coming out.

Dallas has played really well here.  They ended up with the best 
record in the league.  I think they felt they got some really good
playing time for their young guys here.  I don't think they will
make the playoffs next year, but watch out.  Doug Smith is really 
coming along, and Sean Rooks is a great defender.  Iuzzolino has
impressed alot of people, he is a spark plug and is really fun
to watch.  Give them a few more years of experience and they could 
be the team of the future.

Robert Horry and Popeye Jones have both played really well for
Houston.

Dan Issel stayed on the bench all week with his team.  As he put
it, this is to help train the young guys, and he's getting training
at being a coach.  He's the only head coach here who actually 
coached any games.  Most of them sit in the stands and watch so
they can evaluate the players.  As far as the Nuggests go, the
only player I can really remember was Massenburg played really
well for them.

As far as the Jazz go, Corey Crowder announced yesterday that he
had accepted a contract to play in Italy for 2 years and 1 million
dollars.  The Jazz had offered him 500,000 for two years.  He played
for the Jazz last year, but felt the money and playing time was in
his best interest to leave.  This means that of the Jazz's 3 open
spots, only 1 of them is already filled (Isaac Austin will be offered
a new contract).  The Jazz have 2 really good point guards in camp,
John Crotty and Tom Garrick, and even before Crowder left the feeling 
was that one of them would be offered a contract.  Now, no telling 
who will get the last spot.

Gerald Paddio, who played in the Sonics, has been playing great here.
From what I've heard he will be somewhere in the NBA next year.  Who
knows, since Tark is trying to reunite all his UNLV players, maybe 
he'll end up at San Antonio.

The final standings ended up as:

Dallas		6-1
Portland	4-3
Clippers	4-3
Utah		4-3
Houston		4-3
Golden State	3-4
Denver 		3-4
Sacramento	3-4
Seattle		2-4
Phoenix		1-5

Seattle and Phoenix both went home after Wednesday night.  Only the
top 8 teams played on Thursday.

Reminder, it really doesn't matter who wins or loses in this league.
The coaches just want to see how the players play.  Alot of times they
don't even try to win, but work to get the right minutes for guys they
want to take a good look at.

Thats about all I can come up with right now.  I'll try and get stats
posted sometime this weekend.  I wish I could offer more comments on
how different players did.  However, I was working at the back door
letting in the players, coaches, scouts, media, etc, and so I didn't
get to see to many of the games.  Most of what I learned was just 
from listening and talking to different people as they came and went.

-- 
  Jennifer Ehlers                   
  jjehlers@dsd.es.com  		    
  Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp. 
  Salt Lake City, Utah               
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