HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1995-08-02, Page 8beds of talent is almost beyond
all odds, particularly for
Canadians who haven't yet
taken to the game with the fire
and passion of their American
neighbors.
"Keep your options open and
play all the time with
everything you've got," he
advises. "More than anything
try to be a coachable player, •
because if you've got the talent
and you're 'coachable' people
will like working with you and
you'll get better."
Despite . all the "trash talk"
and astronomical odds a lot of
kids still love basketball,he
says:
"There is still a lot of heart
in the game."
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RANGERS 8 LEAFS 5
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Soccer
WESTERN ONTARIO
SOCCER LEAGUE
SENIOR
Second Division/ Central
( result July 30)
St. Columban 1 at OLYMPICS 1
scorer: Jason
St. Columban
Schoonderwoerd.
Notes: Wayne Ryan out for season
with broken leg. Locals missing
four regulars, with only one player
on bench as substitute for Sunday's
game.
Despite "trash talk" and long odds
continued from page 7.
riding around in a Rolls Royce
now, but at least he's not
riding the pine. The Aalst
coaching staff still has enough
confidence in his abilities to
play him the full 40 minutes in
many games.
He got married two years ago
to his wife Jacqui, from St.
Catharines where they now live
with her parents in the off-
season, relaxing when not
-visiting friends and family here
and there, with their daughter
Brooklyn. A second child is
due in October. Win, lose or draw, hoops is
She travels with him to Bel- hot. Youngsters all over the
gium. The Vercruyzens get a world these days follow the
car and three-bedroom exploits of the NBA's stars
apartment supplied by the Aalst perhaps more than any other
team, in the industrial city of sport, save soccer. "Show -
about 80,000 people. tune" has new meaning
because of the marketing suc-
cess of these glitter children in
the N11A's locker rooms and
front offices, Southern Ontario
hasn't seen anything quite like
the coming deluge of hype and
glitz as Toronto gets ready for
the Raptors' first season.
Ron says the "trash talk" that
pervades basketball these days
is a poor advertisement and
"has nothing to do with sport,
athletes or young kids."
Team scoring as of Aug. 2:
Brian Melady 10, Steve Ryan 6,
John Jordan 3, Jason Schoonder-
woerd 3, Mark Muir 2, Wayne
Ryan, Steve Mclnally, Jason Van
der Velde.
Future game: Tonight, Wed. Aug. 2,
Falcons at St. Columban, 7 p.m.
This is a makeup game protested
and won by St. Columban earlier In
the season, which Falcons won 1-0.
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teams regardless of sport. But we
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he still gets a kid's kick out of b -ball
Having said that, Ron's mind
boggles at some of the young
college phenoms from this
continent, who ask for first
contracts of $100 -million to
play professionally in the NBA,
then settle on a "mere" $68 -
million. He also wonders about
the big -wigs of the sport who
are willing to part with money
like this .for players who have
never set foot on a pro court.
"I think the dollars are get-
ting a little out of hand," he
says.
He says the two of them have
managed to accumulate "a
small nest egg" thanks to this
game, but notes they need to
be smart with their money so
their children get t good start
in life when the legs do go and
his livelihood is no longer
there.
BELGIAN B -BALL
His season involves about 50
league and exhibition• games,
from August until roughly the
middle of April. Aalst's home
nights are "usually sold out"
with an average crowd of 2,500
fans. Ron says Aalst's fans
follow their basketball team on
the road more than is the case
with other teams in the
country's top division.
The sport is structured like
European football, with First,
Second, Third and Fourth
Divisions, with the top teams
advancing and bottom ones
relegated at the end of each
season. European basketball is
biggest in countries such as
Croatia and Italy. There are 14
teams in the First Division of
the Belgian league and the
Aalst franchise has survived
serious ownership problems in
Ron's three seasons with them,
finishing I I th, third and then
"eighth or ninth" last year. He
has two years left on his cur-
rent contract.
He says he gets homesick -for
Canada during the season
sometimes, that "people are
people the world over", but,
Belgians aren't as friendly and
seem more materialistic than
' folks here at home.
Vercruyzen says all the egos
and entertainment weren't as
big a part of the sport when he
had -stars in his eyes on the
family farm.
Larry Bird and "Magic"
Johnson were the marquee
players and had their fol-
lowers, but these tended to be
first and foremost basketball
fans, the kind who were likely
to have a subscription to Sports
Illustrated. Nowadays, Ron
says, players like Jordan and
the. Shaq (O'Neal) are known
to millions of people in all
comers of the world, many
who couldn't tell you the dif-
ference between a soccer ball
and basketball.
One thing he knows now that
he didn't know then is just how
good you have to be to play in
the world's best basketball
league.
1/100th OF 1 PER CENT
Only one one-hundredth of
one per cent of the players in
the American college game,
themselves an elite few, end up
making it at any professional
level of the sport, he says.
He says the players who
reach the very top, the NBA,
need a ton of self-confidence to
play at that level. The humon-
gous egos and cockiness of
some of today's stars follows
naturally.
Vercruyzen says he's not
jaded, remains competitive and
still gets a kid's kick out of the
sport, but nevertheless in a
couple of years it will be "kind
of nice not to have your life
centre around a little ball."
After his recent Raptor rejec-
tion he doesn't expect another
shot at "the Show", but says he
certainly wouldn't say no "right
off the cuff" if they asked.
"Realistically, I wasn't good
enough," he says.
So he doesn't expect "Air
Vercruyzen" sneakers to be
coming to your local sports
store soon.
Seaforth high school mentor
Johnston says -Ron would have
gone further in the game if he
had received better coaching in
a higher calibre and more
competitive environment in his
formative seasons.
Ken Shields.of the Canadian
Olympic team didn't do much
except put road blocks in the
way of Vercruyzen's develop-
ment either, Johnston adds,
discriminating against players
with U.S. college experience
when choosing squads to
represent this country.
Johnson says it was similar to
the treatment Vercruyzen got at
the recent Raptors' camp,
seemingly summed up by the
same greeting:
"Ron who?"
If Vercruyzen is bitter he
hides it well.
The best way to get to the
NBA is to play for a good b -
ball school like North Carolina
or Duke, Ron says, but
cautions that even getting a
tryout in such traditional hot-
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