European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 7, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday december 7,1990 the stars and stripes saturday night basketball. Cheering the jumper jeering the steal having heart failure Over free throws. Really is saturday night basketball heaven or what the game is everywhere its Boston at Philly the lakers at Phoenix Chicago at Cleveland. Its Duke at Carolina Indiana at Michigan Arizona at Urcla. Its Carlisle High at Harrisburg High in Pennsylvania Frankfurt High at Wiesbaden High in Germany. Its Baum older at Hanau in army hoops Mildenhall at Ben Waters in air Force hoops. Hack it could be military Ball in Baghdad if this thing goes much longer. Basketball booms worldwide. The National basketball association Isnit the Only outfit with bulging divisions. The International basketball federation might Start a european league. Done task when. But 24 european clubs from 11 countries showed interest at a meeting last month. _. The federation will appoint a panel to study a european league saturday in Rome. A saturday basketball in Rome. Even if its just a meeting to discuss the sport. Surely federation officials will recall the basketball game in Rome last Star urday night. It was an All Star game starring nearly 20 former Aba players. The biggest Star was Michael Cooper. Just last Spring he was a Laker. Now he a making $750,000 for 11 Messaggiero Roma. Why he helped draw 15,000 fans to the All Star game. He won the 3-Point shooting contest. He led the South squad Over the North in the reenactment of a Denver Nugget score 182-176. Now that a saturday night basketball. So was this Remdt Neumann Canning a 3-Pomter for Langenus 100th Point in the German team s 100-72 Victory Over Wurzburg. So the gym held maybe 500 fans. So it was merely Germany a second division. It was still saturday night basketball i be a in Rome i easily made it Quot to Langen which is Quot just South of Frankfurt. So i watched German pro hoops rather than Cooper and the gang. Good fast breaking basketball. Mostly by Langen which towered Over Wurzburg in the standings and on the court. The biggest name on the first place Langen giraffes was Joe Whitney a.6-foot-6 Forward who once was a division ii All America at puget sound in Tacoma Wash. His Salaty about $30,000, plus free car apartment and medical insurance. Whitney hardly commands the biggest salary in German basketball. Leve Kusen of the first division suits up two former Aba. Players Kennard Johnson who played at Cleveland in 1988, and Clinton Wheeler who dribbled from Indiana to Miami to Portland until 1989. Both make Well Over $100,000, along with the car apartment insurance Perks and Langen does no to fill the stands like Bayreuth which boasts the biggest first division Arena at 5,000. V. Still Whitney is a Good example of Germany a focus on basketball. Nothing close to the glitter in Italy but steady. A a in a with a Nice club and the people Are really Friendly Quot Whitney said at a bar set up for Langen players and officials after the game. A i m a local a scores in Bucky Fox indeed. Whitney 28, is in his fifth season with Langen. He sings for a Munich record company. He and his wife Debbie sell balloons on the Side at . Military stores in the Frankfurt area and they re expecting a child around Christmas. He plans to stay in Germany a was Long As the body holds Whitney s body zipped up and Down the court saturday night for 22 Points. He led All scorers and that a typical a head in every category on this typical for most american players in Germany. First division teams pm ploy a quota of two . Players and the second division gets one per team. Despite a Europe a improvement in basketball americans can still dominate the game. A no question Quot said Whitney. He added with a laugh a they think. In a phenomenal Over Steve Hutchinson Isnit bad for Wurzburg Joe Whitney either. He san Ameri can on the team and he can feel it a i feel like in a really Quick Here. Done to get me wrong there Are Quick players and Good jumpers Here. But you get banged around Here. You be got to be Strong to survive. The players Are quicker in the Hutchinson Feelsright-at-Home-m-wurzburgrthei�--6 Center led Wurzburg High school to the 1986 by schools championship picking up the stars an stripes player of the year award for his Effort. He flew stateside to play at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg ore., and the University of Portland. He returned to Wurzburg this year and joined the German team when its regular american Richard rave Nelle was injured. A i its not a Barf life. Hutchinson 22, makes 1,000 Marks a month and lives with his Mother. It could be worse his father master sgt. Tom Hutchinson is in saudi Arabia. Stevens assessment of Germany a second division a it s on the level of a division ii school in the that a sure better than the old Days Paul played for Leve Kusen in 1965. He later dribbled for Western Washington University tried but fleetingly with the Seattle supersonics then returned to coach Langen and raise his two sons Daniel and Mark us who play for Frankfurt High school., Paul Calls Ger Maii basketball in the Iri id-1960s now he says a it s just getting better Ahtl better. I attribute it to. The sport itself. Its a great Hallgrimson Points out. That Germany loses its bigger names because of Money. A a Page 25commentary a basketball does no to have great tradition in Germany a a said Hallgrimson. Thirty two germans arc playing basketball at stateside High schools or colleges. That word comes from Terry Schofield an expert on German basketball. Make that an expert on basketball period. Schofield played on Urcla championship teams in 1969, �?T70 and 71. After playing for John wooden he coached under hint As a Grad assistant in the 1971-72 season. By 1973, Schofield was playing guard for Gottinger in the German league for $300 a month. A i wanted to see the world Quot says Schofield. Quot i was glad to get a seventeen years later Schofield is Stilt in Germany. He a 42, married two months to a native Speaks the language and coaches Bamberg of the first division. You could say he a entrenched. A live had a couple of offers coaching Wise to go Back Quot Schofield said by phone from his Bamberg Home this week. A but i look at College coaching in the . Its recruiting flying around. I can hardly imagine a worse Job. Here in a my own Schofield said he makes a Good his Bamberg dub is winning big this season and that a Good for him. He notes that German teams fire coaches quickly such As when Bayreuth canned former Western Kentucky coach Murray Arnold in september. A the problem Here is survival Quot said Schofield. A the germans expect a return on their Money a that goes for players too. If an american player does no to produce goodbye. The americans playing for Schofield at Bamberg Are Eldridge Occas nor and a1 Lorenzen and they re producing. Occas nor a 6-2 guard from the University of Washington averages 23 Points per game. Lorenzen a 6-10 Center who played at Iowa scores 17 per Outing. Quot a a a. Schofield took his Bamberg Bunch on a tour of -colleges last year and went 7-3. He took Bamberg again last month and this time a schedule full of an Zona Urcla step you get the picture a sent the germans packing at 0-8. _ Schofield sees two sides to German basketball. From one Basket he hits the German youth hoops program for riot coming close to Italy a. A kids Here done to get the Competition and the coaching a he said. From another Basket Schofield sees improvement in a country that according to the German basketball federation has about 100,000 hoop sters. A agents in the states underestimate the level of Competition Oyer Here a said Schofield. A they Send Over a Tot of Guys who have to be sent Home. A Middle of the Road Cuba player might not make it in then there Are Guys like Terry Schofield and Joe Whitney. They stay forever. Playing coaching the game. Shooting to win. Say Joe How would your Langen Feam do against an air Force or army team a your team Quot said Whitney a would beat the Rhein. Main team by 20.�?� it was still saturday night. A great night to Back his basketball words a a a a a the stir and strip a correction thursdays sports Calendar mistakenly carried the Continental sports conference basketball schedule for dec. 14-15 instead of dec. 7-8. / this weekends Csc slate should read. Friday a Lindsey is. Ramstein at sem Bach Hahn at Spang Dahlem Zweig Rick in at Pitburg and Sembach at Rhein main u saturday a Pitburg at Wei Betteken Ramstein at Sembach Span Dahlem at Hahn and Lindsey at Rhein main. Soes Terberg has the Bye. Women a games Start it 6 ., menus games at 8 Both nights Coleman out d East Rutherford . A Rookie Power Forward Derrick Coleman will miss Friday nights game against the Phoenix suns because of an ankle injury a team spokesman said thursday Coleman could be Back next week. . Loses to Greece it to face Italy in Semi by Walt Morrissette a staff writer shape Belgium a the greeks with the hot hands and the Long last names made it even a longer night for the americans thursday night in the shape inter wait Morris it Tel . Top gun Charles Caldwell. 30 Points j6 rebounds Greece hit 4 of 7 three Point shots while the . Could hit Only 4 of 16 a including 2for 10 in the second half the result was a 91.-77 Blowout for the greeks 3-0 that dropped the . 2-1 into fridays 8 30 Semifinal against Italy which beat Belgium 7775 in thursday s last game. T. Nikos Panagiotidis scored 28 Points on 9-om4 shooting and George Skop Lithas added 26 on 1 l-of-14 shooting. The americans Charles. Caldwell stationed at Alzey had 30 Points and 16 re my 2 shape tournament Bounds Augsburg Sandrew Marshall and Charles Bates added 17 each Italy 2-0 won the late wednesday game Over the Netherlands 99-64. Early thursday it was franc Ltd l-2 hammering the . 0-3 136-57 and Germany beating the Netherlands 0-3 73-66. The americans had shot poorly from the outside against France wednesday but managed to pull the game out 74-72 with a Miracle rally and Jay Mclean a Buzzer beater. But there would be no rally this time As the . Shooting went from poor to terrible. The . Made Only 14 of 36 shots in the first half 38 percent while the greeks canned 14 of 20 70 percent. The see shape on Pago 27
