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Show a DAILY Saturday, November 19, 2005 HERALD BYU MEN'S BASKETBALL A loss on the court.. but a win on the recruiting trail for BYU basketball BYU men's basketball lost its opener to Marymount on Friday night, The that's the present. On the same day. the program got a huge for the future. Kentucky? Missed him. Kansas? Too late. CaP Sorry BYU stole a gem right out from under the noses of college Cougars Continued from CI That was nothing BYU hadn't experienced before. The Cougars were 8 at home a far cry from the 57-- of the four previous years. Yet the struggling continued into this year, and BYU didn't even have a lead to show for it over the final 20 minutes. The, crowd of 9,826 left with about two minutes left. For one night, the Cougars and their supporters will have to settle for flashes of excel6-- 1 pick and Denver Nuggets forward Nene. His odyssey to America is ' an amazing story, as well. He didn't speak any English when he got to Modesto in 2004 and actually failed his first high school entrance exam. 'Instead of going home, de Toledo poured his efforts into learning to read and write in Darnell Dickson BYU Basketball w it h de Toledo for four years instead of two. "With high school kids you have to be patient," Roese said. "But Luiz brings something a lit- English. He made incredible progress and with the help of a local Portuguese Court translator and Modesto Christian teachers, now has a 3,14 GPA. He couldn't play last season powerhouses everywhere. for Modesto Christian because Brazilian Luiz de Tothe California Interscholastic ledo (great name, by the way) Federation (GIF) has a specific sighed a letter-o- f intent to plav rule which bans incoming forbasketball at BYU on Friday: d The forward eign from playing the first year will play his senior season at they are in California if they moved in without a parent. De Modesto Christian High, a Caliwho lives with a host fornia powerhouse,. Toledo, ; family, gets his chance'to play Why is this kid so special? Let the recruiting website this season as a senior. "We had to wait for the right NorCalPreps.com introduce vou: "... de Toledo's upside is opportunity," Roese said. "We tremendous. He has an outknew he was leaning towards standing perimeter stroke and signing late, so we didn't push the" body to bang inside; Few too hard. Then last week we started to pursue him more. players have as high a ceiling." ' Luiz knew who I was and BYU assistant coach Walter Roese who is also from Brazil. what BYU stands for. An education is really important said he knew de Toledo "My to him. He knows our success competitive advantage," he called it with foreign kids and wanted to and timed it just be a part of our program." right in offering him a scholar-- ' Roese. who's so smooth he ship. could probably pursuade the Ea"He's the kind of kid you walk into the gym and see him gles to give Terrell Owens another chance, was promoted from and say. 'Whoa,'." Roese said. "He's got a great build and he's . director of basketball operations an amazing kid." to assistant coach last spring. De Toledo is Portuguese for, He deserves a raise. NBA lottery pick Rafael to paraphrase the late Chris Farley, "of Toledo." (If you don't Araujo and Luiz Lemes made a significant impact at BYU as get- the reference, you haven't w atched junior college transfers and Ferenough Saturday nando Malaman, another Bra- -' Night Live. Catch the reruns on zilian native and JC transfer; "E" or "Comedy Central"). De Toledo his an started against Loyola Mary-- , for the mount on Friday. Roese and the played wingspan, rest of the BYU coaching staff lan junior national team and is cousin to former NBA lotterv are kxking forward to working , - : ' Freshman center Trent Plaisted had 17 points, making six of his eight shots and showing his comfort level from the free throw line. He hit "That's when you know I'm feeling good," Plaisted said He made his first five shots and scored 10 of BYLTs first 14 points. He only had five points in a second half marred by foul tledifferent to the program. He had long arms and huge hands and he's really; athletic, "His high school coach (Gary Porter) told me Liiiz has great upper-bod- y strength and is T a big-tim- e Division I player,". ; Roese said. "I told him we're a e Division I program and he'd fit in well."' One of de Toledo's Modesto Christian teammates is headed to Kentucky, and another to Washington. But de Toledo is a ming to ' big-tim- . trouble. Jimmy Balderson led BYU with 18 points and Mike Rose chipped in 12. Rose was pleased with how his team started the game, and Provo. "Well, I am very happy to find a place to play college," de Toledo told NorCalPreps. "It's a relief in a way. Plus again, I think I can play early at BYU. This happened so fast as far as learning about BYU but I felt comfortable quickly because of Walter Roese." BYU signed a couple of nice players earlier this week in Jordan Cameron, a swingman from Newbury Park, Calif., and 8 forward Noah Hartsock of Oklahoma, who will serve an LDS mission before coming to Provo. But with de Toledo (did I mention I love that name?), BYU has a guy who could be a said, "and stretches where we look like we've never played basketball." I Hey, new guy: BYU started three new players: G Rashaun Bro'adus, F Fernando Malaman and Plaisted. The first two were junior college transfers, and t. Plaisted earned a medical Malaman had six points Broadus on a pair of had nine points in 30 minutes, red-shir- 45-4- lence. -, 1 -- Rebels run past Long Beach St. shots. but missed The other starters were junior guards Austin Ainge (four points, three assists, three turnovers in 21 minutes) and Balderson. '. ' Rose isn't sure how often he'll go with that starting lineup, but thought the group would best handle a variety of looks LMU could've provided. Lee Cummard, a highly toutin ed freshman, had a , minutes. 16 I Jason Franchuk can be reached at ' jfranchukheraldextra.com. o " ? 6-- THE ASSOCIATED -- PRESS .. LAS VEGAS Michael 21 Umeh had a game-hig- h points and Ricky Morgan difference maker. "I am dreaming in English now," de Toledo said, "so, I guess my dreams are of BYU now." ''. h last-yea- helped there. LMU also had four fewer turnovers and five more second-chanc- e points. "We can't have stretches where we play great," Plaisted again after halftime. In both exhibition games, the Cougars tended to look sluggish. So Rose used Thursday's p actice to provide a warm-up- , then he let the team scrimmage. The plan worked. BYU jumped out to a 12-- 5 lead to start the game, and had a 124 run at the beginning of the second half . BYU, however, never inched closer than three points after that early lead. ' That happened for the sec- ond and last time with 16:17 left on a Balderson basket that cut his team's deficit to Nearly four minutes later, the deficit was at 12. The last time the Lions, last year, felt who went 1 panicked was at the mark. Theiead had been whit- tied to four points. Tent ion, an Arizona assistant the past eight years, called timeout. Smiling and apparently relaxed most of the game, Teiir ; tion got his players to feed off his calm. After the stoppage, Wes Wardrop hit one of his He finished three with 19 points. ' BYU finished with six less rebounds. Having Derek Dawes (shoulder) may have added 19 points and seven assists as UNLV never trailed and beat Long Beach State 108-7- 3 Friday night in the season opener for both teams. The Rebels ( went on an 18-run to start the second half including seven from Jason Petrimoulx to take a 7141 ' ISAAC 4 I Daily Herald sports editor Darnell Dickson can be reached 5 or by at at ddicfesonfs heraldextra.com. 344-255- . BREKKENLas Vegas l State's Dominique go after a loose ball in Las Vegas on Friday. UNLV's Michael Umeh, left, and Long Beach . lead. , . A Joe Darger basket with 2:21 to play put UNLV over the rebounds. mark for the first time since a 101-7win Dec. 17, 2002, against Tennessee-Marti- committed 19 turnovers and shot 38 percent. They trailed bv double digits for the game's Morgan and Umeh combined f for 27 of UNLV's 53 points and the Rebels shot 64 percent from the field as they raced out to a 16 point halftime lead. Long Beach State ) go; .14 a team-higpoints from Kevin Houston, but the 49ers 100-poi- first-hal- 8 Louis Amundson added 14 for the Rebels, Petrimoulx had 12 and Dustin Villepigue had 10 six points and a game-hig- h final 31:29. Aaron Nixon added and Jibril Hodges had Long Beach State. (0-1- UTAH VAixtY Sports AiEDaVf mm l m i r MOM iLIB,(CIH ImiWIr o" Event :10k5k Run C4 I 350 West 800 North, Orem 1 Mile Kids Fun Run ". . ' ... - Date: Saturday November 19th o ri Location: Provo Town Center, Provo UT www.GQiHiLaii'IlBDiLoe.ciniinni Register Online v;.;.:--.v;rr-i'-- points for I More college basketball, Mf 5 13 11 h l ME!!! P Ricks www.biueredrun.org V:',v s. C3. |
