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Meet the ‘who-dats’ on Jazz fall roster
Friday, September 29, 2006 8:33 PM CDT
CHUCK NUNN/Jazz Session
With the announcement Friday of the Utah Jazz 2006 fall camp roster, I'm going
to break off breaking down the positions for today and focus instead on some
of the 「who-dats」 on the camp roster. The position breakdowns ─ plus lots
of stuff from Monday's media day in Salt Lake City ─ will pick up next week.
The first invitee who caught my eye was 7-2 Frans Steyn, a South Afrikaaner
who played three years at Oklahoma State before transferring to NCAA Division
II school Southwest Baptist University for starters' minutes. He averaged
12.4 points, 7.8 rebounds and 2.1 blocks per game his senior season.
Of course, it seems like anymore people think of most 7-2 players as big
stiffs who can't contribute in today's basketball. But some of the buzz
from Steyn's summer pre-draft workouts is pretty good.
In a May 31 workout with the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets, Steyn was
pitted against first rounders Patrick O'Bryant and Shelden Williams, and
Hornets brass was pretty impressed by what they saw.
「He held his own against those guys, which was something I didn't expect」
Hornets coach Byron Scott said after the workout. 「He's a big, strong kid.
He's a little bit more athletic than I thought he was. He was good around
the basket and finished strong.」
Steyn also worked out this summer in Chicago with Jazz second-round pick
Dee Brown and other draft hopefuls with Tim Grover, Michael Jordan's former
personal trainer.
The Jazz got a look at Steyn when he played with the San Antonio Spurs' entry
in the 2006 Reebok Rocky Mountain Revue. Steyn played in three games for the
Spurs, totalling eight points, three rebounds and a block.
Tyler Smith, a 6-6 forward out of Penn State's Class of 2002, had his most
notorious season with the Nittany Lions during his junior year. Smith started
32 of 33 games for Penn State, which went 21-12 overall and made its first-ever
appearance in a modern-day NCAA Tournament Sweet 16. Smith averaged 7.6 ppg.
and 4.5 rpg and was named as one of 16 finalists for the 2001 USA Men's World
University Games team.
Smith's senior season with the Lions was better individually, but the team
didn't fare as well as the previous season. Smith averaged 12.1 ppg game
while grabbing 4.9 rpg. He shot .456 from the field and had 27 steals and 39
assists.
Hiram Fuller, a 6-9 forward out of Fresno State, played briefly with the
Jazz during the Rocky Mountain Revue this summer. In two games, Fuller
tallied eight points and five rebounds.
Five-foot-nine Brian Chase played his college ball at Virginia Tech. Chase
played last season with the NBA Development League’s now-defunct Roanoke
franchise. In three games, he averaged 13 points per game and six assists per
game. He's also seen action with the CBA's Gary Steelheads and the ABA's
Maryland Nighthawks.
With first-round draft pick Ronnie Brewer automatically guaranteed a contract
and second rounder Paul Millsap getting a partially guaranteed deal, the heat
will be on Brown, Steyn, Smith, Fuller and Chase as they compete for the two
possible remaining roster spots Utah has left. That makes October a pretty
interesting month for Jazz watchers as the countdown to the 2006-07 NBA
season is on.
2006-07 Utah Jazz Training Camp Roster (略)
Contact South Idaho Press sports editor Chuck Nunn at
cnunn@southidahopress.com or feel free to blog this column
at www.southidahopress.com.
http://www.southidahopress.com/articles/2006/09/30/sports/local/jazzsess.txt
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