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Wednesday, July 20, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
KU recruits are optimistic
Bv the Kansan staff
For the most part, the news the prospective men's basketball recruits have heard about the Kansas program has not been good.
From the soap opera of Coach Larry Brown's final days in Lawrence to the NCAA investigation announced last week, they have been able to get back into summer. The only relief came when new coach Roy Williams was hired.
"So far, (that) has been the only bright spot," said Freeman West, a transfer from Paris (Texas) Junior College. "I've been kicked down and it's getting we'll come out of it OK. If we don’t I’m still willing to stay in Kansas."
The five 1987-88 recruits and Ricky Calloway, a transfer from Indiana who will be eligible in 1988-89, said they would attend Kansas this fall. Calloway and West are taking summer school classes on campus.
Other recruits are 6-foot-11 center Omar Roland of Garden City Community College, 6-4 forward Alonzo Jamison of Rancho Santiago (Calif.)
Community College and St. Louis (Mo.) Vashon high school teammates Malcolm Nash and Sean Tunstall.
"If Larry Brown's leaving didn't deter my kids, these small accusations will definitely not do anything to change the minds," Vasson coach
Jamison, the co-California junior college player of the year, said he wasn't concerned about the allegations.
"It's no big deal," he said. "I still want to go there."
Most recruits said they hadn't been contacted by Williams, but they knew he was an assistant coach at North Carolina.
"He has a lot of credentials," West said. "I heard he was an assistant to Coach (Dean) Smith for 10 years. He more than enough qualifications."
Two players, Roland and Jamison,
were taking summer school classes
to establish eligibility at Kansas.
Roland said he was taking a course at
Garden City to improve his grade
point average, although he had completed
the 48 hours required of junior
college transfers. Jamison said he had to pass two classes to earn sophomore standing at Kansas.
Nash, a 6.7 forward, was awaiting the results of his SAT exam to learn whether he had met Proposition 48 eligibility guidelines, Irons said. He said Tunstall was eligible.
Tunstall and Nash are counselors at a camp in Muskegon, Mich this week, and couldn't be reached for comment. Both compete in the D.C. Wulcît Summer League in St. Louis against high school and collegiate players.
Jamison is playing NCAA Division I players in the California State University at Los Angeles summer league.
Calloway and West said they were playing current and former Jayhawk players in Lawrence.
"Right now I'm just taking summer classes, working in the weight room and playing with the guys." Calloway said.
The Jayhawks' recruiting class was ranked 36th nationally in National Recruiter's Cage Letter.
Manning likely U.S. team pick
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Less than two months from the opening game in the men's basketball competition at the Seoul Olympics, United States coach John Thompson has some major chores ahead.
First, Thompson must pare a list of 21 of the outstanding amateur basketball players in the nation to 12 for the Games, which begin Sept. 17.
He now knows which countries will compose the opposition at the Olympics, and he is finally close to seeing it. He will be coming for a very tough job coming to an end.
Thompson and the 21 remaining players began camp at Georgetown on Sunday, and they met with the media yesterday, one of two such occasions during the camp, which runs through Aug. 6.
"Getting down will be tough enough so I haven't set what day, what time, the list will be posted," Thompson said. "Players will make that decision easy or they will make it hard. Right now we're looking for the players who are willing to play with intensity, players with quickness, players who do things with consistency."
Although no player has a berth locked up, some are obvious choices according to Thompson.
Players such as David Robinson and Danny Manning, the top selections in the last two NBA drafts, have allowed them to set letters, let alone members of the team.
But others, like Central Michigan's Dan Majleer, Stanford's Todd Lichti, Bimbo Coles of Virginia Tech and Alonzo Mourning, who is trying to become the first high school player on a United States men's Olympic basketball team, will have to shine to make the team.
"Everyone at first thought Alonzo was invited to the trials as a favor; now they know that's wrong," Manning said of the 6-foot-9, 230-pound fighter for Georgetown, where Thompson coaches during the regular season.
Mourning, a recent graduate of Indian River High School in Chesapeake, Va., is a physical player, a style that is known in international basketball and among Thompson's past teams at Georgetown.
"Alonzo's at an advantage because he's a shot blocker and they are aggressive to begin with," said North Carolina's J.R. Reid, another likely victim. "He's been impressed with who he he's playing against and he's beet tough."
Thompson's decisions will be even tougher than going for a rebound between Reid and Mourning.
A player like Majerle, who was Mid-American Conference player of the year, makes it hard because he played the post position in college but would be used as a small forward and swing player if he were to make the team.
"I just didn't get the exposure and TV coverage the other guys might have gotten," Majerle said. "I'm not going to do anything different the rest of the way, just play hard and show I can do the job at both positions if they need me."
Majerle was brought to Thompson's attention by his former assistant at Georgetown and Olympic aide, Bill Stein.
"I saw him at the Portsmouth Invitational (NBA prospect camp) and he had 20-some points and a dozen rebounds," Stein said. "I knew he'd have to make a position change but the desire was there and he worked hard on defense."
Defense is and has been a key word for Thompson.
"At Duke we do many things based on defense and work hard at it," Danny Ferry said. "After having seen these workouts and having listened to Coach Thompson, you see their defense is successful because they work so hard at it."
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