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Dave Love has a Chip on His Shoulder

- Calgary Herald (2002)

Love, 27, gives much of the credit for his success to Engelland, a former Duke University basketball star who became an all star for the short lived Calgary 88s of the long since defunct World Basketball League. Love was a ball boy and equipment manager with the 88s in the late 80's and early 90's, and with the Calgary Outlaws, a one-year wonder in 1984 in the National Basketball League. It's was with the 88s where Engelland met Love, a player at Lord Beaverbrook High School who had big dreams, but a little less talent than the other kids eyeing college hoop careers.

"He started working with me on stuff that I'm now teaching these kids. We spent a few hours a couple of times a week working on my shot over the course of the summer. Then after the 88s folded, Chip started his own camps and Lindsay Park and in Chicago," says Love. For four summers, Love helped out Engelland. All Love is trying to do is pick up where Engelland left off in Calgary years ago. His programs include guest lectures at team practices, day clinics and weeklong camps in the summer. While his work touches on all facets of the game, his main focus is shooting.

"In Calgary, kids sort of get taught to keep your butt down and your knees bent, follow through and keep your elbow in and that's really all the we are taugh - myself included - until I met Chip Engelland says Love. "Then when I met Chip, he took me through every part of my body and told me what I should be doing. If you've everr taken a gold lesson, the amount of detail in a basketball shot is akin to a golf swing."

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