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San Diego, CA {San Diego C .) Evening Tribune (Cir. D. 123,092)

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Manute Bol on the Bu~ets \~ 8 ~-::- in and grab some atten- "He's Just going to av~imself a look as far as ~a~ing lion and, hopefull~, ~arnd "And we'll also look at it ID a that team," Termim ~ 1 · be he's one or two o 'more expanded view ~n tha\~:ia very well be I'm not three years away, w~~h s!~se because with expansion down about it ID t a . If Scott shows the kind of there's going to be r:e t::; 8 capable of, I think there improvement thath. ID hether it is with Washington or will be a spot for 1m w d aling with a little bit different ''With a center you re e be used to some extent after animal, but that can only nd Basically if you look up you get past the second r~!l g 'the NBA ;oster after the the odds of a player ma ID and less It drops off drasti• second round, it becomes l~sB t that'~ just how it's going cally after the second_roun_ · ~o have to earn himself a to have to be. Scott ish go1Dg 'bilities of the Continental position, or explore t poss1 League and/or E~rope. th NBA remain a possibility, While alternatives_ to e . NBA dream, or watch it Thompson wiU not give :,pgh~e same type of effort that md aining some experience with Moses and Manute ane "gsaid Thompson, who had from that and go from th er ' ff' · ls "We have to t d by Bullets o 1c1a • not yet been co~tac f nnel they have and who they find out what k1Dd O pers~ a game plan and go from got in the draft, then ma e there. experience and it's (Eu- "Maybe I need a little _more I have to sit down now rope) even more of a~ opt_io~:::~xt week or so and find another team." , sidetracked, without ma in led to his success at US~-1' "It's a good team an looking forward to playing

Thompson, who was selected r leading the Toreros to ference Player of the Ye~~ aft:son led USO in scoring th 'CAA Tourna~ent t is s: bee;me the school'~ all- (15.9) and rebou_nding (7.4~ a~ both categories. He is the time career Div1s1on 1Ji~ I~ chosen in the draft, the seventh play~r frwomhit rsh who was selected by Port- ressed by Thompson's NBA teams supposedly were 11{;.~tead his inability to height and all-around ab1htf1'. tar ca~ps in Hawaii and make scoul<: _take ~ottc~ at ad pesrceptions of limited mo- Chicago e::irller this-~ ear an his Cleveland off. the fourth round," Termtm sat ob:tr the one overriding ice. "The mobility factor w;~f ( was d!finitely a negative, negative teams loo~ed at. . in the all-star games and the fact that h!S perfo~~a~': 1 don't think that was were not strong enou~h t~ &:o~t had a tremendous ca· necessarily fair cons1derin: roduced quite a few pr rcer III a conference tha P players. k' d go out and play three "It's not real fair to have a . I Chicago and throw out days in Hawaii and three days I~ own school. Scott may what he's done in four }ears at h1\ind of judgment But have fallen victim to_ that. v~ry that's the way thP, busmef IS. r g Marty Blake· "I heard Added NBA director o scou in Bo ues (the diminuti a lot of projections tha: o/one the trst round) would o guard selected by W~hing 1 fn t~d no inclination I real Y in the second round rea Y i her but what's big · thought he (Thompson) whoulde~~ hpl~y. just tell him to go er? He will still ha~; a c anc out and work hard. -round choices have a muc History shows that fou~hth NBA than second-round tougher time making it in e last bemg Mike land in 1984. ma · . bility dowr.graded his value. e factor for him going in "I don't kno 1£ there ts any ?; f

By Ktrk Kenney Tnbune Sportswnter T HE BIG buildup was followed by a bigger letdown for Scott Thompson yesterday The 7-!.2gt l!SD cent!r, who had ~en hs!· ed among the top 50 players ln th1 year BA draft, had visions 01 a second-round selection dancing in his head. "I felt comfortable going into today, but I kind of to ed and turned and got up a cou pie of times during the mght," said Thom;>, on yesterday from his Citrus Heights home Thompson watched the draft's first round come and go on television The second round was not televised, but he received updates from USA TODAY's draft hotline o word "When the end or the second round came and sttll nothing, I thought the third roun~," he 1d "l waited around for the thrrd round to end and got the phone call before I knew 1t'

It was Mark •enruni, Thompson's atto:• ney. Thompson Jad been drafted, but not m the third round. Said ThomJ>Sln. "He called and I said, 'Whats t e deal'. He said, 'Washmgton Bul- lets. r'ourth romd. 81st pie ' I d, 'O,~, wow.' It was a ock more tha n:,,th ng. Among the p 1 a,>f'r~ cnosen ahead of Thompson we 13 centers. San Anto~10 made Navy's vid Robinson the No. 1 pick m the lottery. o surprise there. But_ what about Atlanta using its third-round pick to get Song Tao from the Chinese national team? ''It may not a good start, but 1t gives me a httle motivat10n now," Thompson said "I have to go prove myself a little more and turn some opinion around. Things didn't turn out the way I wanted, but that's the way 1I goes. I guel s draft day is unpredictable e they said." Please see THOMPSON,

PROJ .CTF.D SSECO D-ROUND PICK Ir a liltle more nd turn ome opinion around"

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Bon i optimi tic that with a little effort he'll catch on m the NBA, but 1t may not be with the team th t

What the Post means by Lo~ Angelesized (I see no reason for that hyphen) is evident ln Stein's comparison of the two cities: ., "~i;re in Southern California," he wrote, :J mankmd has taken a landscape drenched with, · sun 0 capable of supporting every kind of · , beautiful vegetation from palms to pines, and '.' j blotte~ it out with hideous developments, , shoppmg centers, apartments and every kind of ticky-tacky monument to greed. •"The native Angeleno takes this in stride. He ,'_·; ' has never known any other, better way. But as a ,. 1 transplant from Washington, I'd long har!>ored memories of its green places and a hope that I .. could return to them. ... ~- "l was wrong. Washington and its environs are .• not different from Southern California. They • were just slow off the mark. They show every sign of catching up with the ugliness of Los Angeles, and fast." I AM REMINDED of an old horror story in ·" which two beautiful young people, a man and ,,1 a woman, are cast adrift on a remote island Jl whose inhabitants are covered·from head to foot> I i by a hideous ruzzy while growth. Despite the ,,." : presence or these monsters, the young couple ri , are happy in their paradise until one day one of , • them sees a small white spot on the other. ·•" Evidently the nation's cities live in rear of discovering that tiny spot of infection on their civic bodies - that first freeway, that first shopping strip, that first high-rise, that first desecrated wild space, that first gridlock. So Los Angelization is here to stay. ;., , But perhaps Reilly is right. If Los Angelizatiomu is a phenomenon of our times, perhaps we oughtc, to standardize the spelling. Reilly notes that Los Angelesizalion and Los Angelization perform the same function. . ',.,

GUEST COLUMN By Jack Smith ;2.1/JJ Los Angeles lends name to urban fear A PHRASE THAT STRIKES fear and loathing into the hearts of most urban communities in America is Los ngelesizatlon. Or is it Los Angelizatlon? The phrase is of fairly recent origin, and It appears in both forms. Whal it means Is an insidious metamorphosis by which a neat, clean, moderately large and prosperous city gradually - or rapidly - becomes an overgrown metropolis, overcrowded, overbuilt, crisscrossed by freeways, and plagued by crim\!, litter, poverty and every other manifestation of urban blight. Taking note of the growing use of this phrase, Charles J. Reilly, director or communications, University of San Diego, thinks it ls time we settled on one·spellfngor the other. , . "I wish you would use your podium," he writes, "to clear up the proper spelling of the quasi-expletive Los·Angelesization. I've seen two spellings recently, including one in your column and one in the San Diego Union." He enclosed an alarming story from the Union in which San Diego's runaway growth is seen as plunging that once idyllic city toward a nightmare of inner-city blight and sprawling suburbs by the year 2000.

Thompson will have to continue the same work habits in pursuit of 11n NBA job as he did in college. "1 know cott ha physically im- proved over his career and has made strides in his jumping abili- ty," he said. "But Moses is a physi- cal player and that's the area where Scott needs to improve." Thomp ·on fini hed his college career an Diego's all-time lead- ing corer with 1,379 points and as its leading rebounder with 740. He averaged 15.9 points and 7.4 rebounds a game during his senior year and shot 54.1 percent from the floor and 72.8 percent from the foul line. Thompson was the West Coast Athletic Conference Player of the Year last eason and posted career averages of 12.2 points ~d 6.5 re- bounds. Egan said he had heard Thomp- on would go as high as the second round and Thompson said hearing this made him more anticipatory. "With all the media hype, you start expecting tuff," Thompson said. "I'm disappointed, but you've got to take things in stride."

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Scott Thompson has his work cut out for him.

as a player. "If he's willing to work and get on a weight program, he's got a chance," said Egan.

Egan added that Thompson may have options such as playing overseas, but in any event, he would have to continue to develop

Worried by this apparently remorseless trend My choice will mean nothing. Usage will Mayor_ Maureen O'Connor recently appointed a ' prevail. My bet would be on Los Angelize and committee to 'prepare a Vision aeport Los Angelization, The two forms would thus be describing the ideal San Diego or the future consistent. After all, Angel is enough. I have Said a critic of that report: "In sum, the v;sion never understood why we call ourselves Re(lort is for a San.Piego or the 1960s, while the Angelenos, or Angelinos, when Los Angeles is trend forecasts Los Angelization by the year the city of the Angels, not the City or the 2000. The year 2000 is not far off." Angelenos. The word also turned up recently in a , Why don't we j~st come right out and call Was_hmgton Post headline over a story by our.selves Angels? Benia_min J. Stein, a Los Angeles transplant rrom Im an angel. . Washmgton, wh?, on returning to the capital, And San Franciscans are Friscans. was shock~d by its degeneration. The headline react: "Are We Being Los Angeles-izect?" JACK SMITH is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Stan G(ll,am's column returns Wednesday.

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/ Assistant coach picked for USD The Times-Advocate "')..q c:;-t:; SAN DIEGO -'1.JWYeisity of S1tn Die_so has announced the ap- pomtment of Charies Katsiaficas as assistant men's basketball coach. Katsiaficas, 26, was head bas- ketball coach at Pomona-Pitzer College and comes to USD after compiling a 15-10 record last sea- on. He served as a sistant varsity coach in 1985-86 when Pomona- Pitzer won its first conference championship in 68 years. He was junior varsity coach in 1984-85. A three-year varsity basketball player at Tufts University, Katsi- aficas played and helped coach a professional team in Sweden for a year before going to Pomona- Pitzer.

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/4on I Van~~~lin comments on the role,'V°~e sin making for 1gn pol-1ey over th p st 25 year t 6 p.m. tomorrow )l.t JJSD's University Center. It's an address before the World Affairs Council's annual meetini!: Make reserva- tions through th . council rn the House of Ho pitality, Balboa Park./ .,/ Ill • ,41 /

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:-'uso nam~basketball assistant .Char~ts?a:aas has been played varsity basketball for_ three named an assistant basketball coach years and was the team captam as a at USD. Katsiaficas, 26, replaces senior. Katsiaficas played and hel~ Rick Seboenlein, who resigned last coach a pro team for one year m

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Katsiaficas was the head coach at Pomona-Pitzer last season, leading the Division III college to a 15-10 record. He served as an assistant varsity coach at Pomona-Pitzer in 1985-86 when the school won its first conference championship in 68 years. Katsiaficas graduated from Tufts University in Massachusetts. He •