SPORTS
Blazers to begin camp this week
Team hopes to erase memories of playoff failure
PORTLAND (API The
standards for su( < css arc so
high for the Portland Trail
Mazers that anything short of
an NBA title is a disappoint
ment
So the foul taste of last sea
son's playoff pratfall against
the I.os Angeles Pokers lingers
as the team opens training
eamp this week
"The only thing 1 worn
about is we’ll have a tendeni \
to dwell on last year rather than
forget about it. Portland coach
Kic k Adelman said Wednesday
"You have to learn from it. hut
not dwell on it
The Blazers had the league's
best record in the tUtlO ffl regu
lar season and after a trip to
the finals in 1‘1‘tO. were favored
bv many to w in the u 1 champi
unship
Hut the team struggled
against the slowdown tactii s ot
tile Takers in the Western tain
ference finals and lost in six
ga tries
An older. vs iser Portland
team will gather Fridas for the
start of fall training camp at
Lewis & (dark College
"We've had such quick sui
cess that you have to go
through it in order to learn tioss
to deal with it.' Adelman said.
Adelntan isn't bothered bs
the i ritii ism lie's rei eived from
people who sav lie is us out
coached bv the Lakers' Mike
Dunleavy in the playoffs
"If we lose. Fill going to take
the heat," he said If we vs in.
I'm probably going to get more
credit than I deserve That's
just the was it is
I le said 1 hmleas s is an ext el
lent example
"'They talked about tire great
job lie did in our series and
tlies talked in the t .Im ago se
ries about boss he didn't make
enough adjustments Adel
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man said
I hr biggest Ifssun tin- Hla/
its must Irani is how to I>r
more patient oil offense, the
roai h s.nd
"()ur players air more iisrd
to : playing W ith each other hr
said "Were going to know
wr in hrrn here hrforr and vsr
have to have .1 little more pa
timer and realize there are a lot
ot aspei ts to this name
‘We're going to
know we've been
here before and we
have to have a little
more patience and
realize there are a
lot of aspects to this
game. ’
— Rick Adelman,
Coach, Portland Trail Blazers
Adrlman said people forget
that if Cliff Robinson hadn't
dropped the hall on a last break
under the basket or lens 1‘ortri
hadn't missed <111 open jumpei
at the buzzer, the Blazers
would have beaten the l.akrrs
in (lame t>
"And I think s\r would have
won (lame 7 at home hr said
Danny Ainge has threatened
to stay aw<H from c amp in a
contrai I dispute hut Adelman
said hr's confident tin* issue
will he resolved soon
"I'm not really i out erned
afmul it liei ause no one else is
in that situation and 1 think it's
going to work out lie said
Our organization has done a
great joh of taking i are of those
kinds o! situations It s not go
ing to affei t us We have a
month Indore our first regular
season game
\ mam goal of the training
lamp will lie to expand the ol
tense
'll s going to he a matter ol
looking at our various people
and tr\ mg to have a little hit
more of a halam eii game wath
all of our 'players ' he said
lie wants more involvement
horn Robinson Ainge and Alaa
Ahdelnahv
And lie doesn't expert nun ii
change m the 1J man roster
It's going to take somebody
playing aw fulls well in i amp
and in the exhibition season to
he.it anybody out \delman
said.
l ive or six teams have a
chance to win it all this season
lie said
I think we deserve to he one
of those, and we re a logit al
choice it \ on have to pick
one
Arena hearing generates
input, support from public
PORI I \NI) (API A
proposed iu’u arena for I In*
Portland l'rail Hla/ers .il
trm lt>d support .ind yy ide
Hinging suggest ions .it .1
hearing
rile National Haskell),ill
Assoi ration team uants to
liintd a 1 u Jim se.it sports
arena on a its owned proper
ly adjai i-nt to Memorial 1 ail
iseum
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the 1 oliseum as a set olid
arena lor 1 ommunity ey euts
and large 1 omenlions
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offil nils has been negoliat
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sign and lunding ol the
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lion
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held 1 uesd.ty night s heal
ing
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testimony against the pro
postil Hut most who spoke
said they had spet ifn Intel
ests they yyallt addressed
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lunil said lir wauled to t>an
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hexerages inside tin- new l.i
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t.isk fon i' i hair man said
sui h a |iool would eliminate
lioi kt'\ in tin' lai dill ton
mg tho Portland Wintor
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loi minuend the proposal to
tile i it\ and the Nfetropoli
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