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- Oregon Daily Emerald Sports
Seattle takes the Blazers’ label
Stick to grunge music -For
years as a Blazer fan. I've
had to put up with the dis
appointments that went along
with Portland at playoff time
Whether it was Jordan hitting
back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to
backto-back throe-pointers and
then running down the court
shrugging his shoulders for the
television cameras like he did
the year the Bulls crushed the
Blazers in the NBA Finals, or
lost season when Portland was
supposed to give one last run for
NBA title hut fell in four games
in the first round of the playoffs,
it's been one disappointment
after another.
All the while, there were a
few friends of mine who were
big Seattle fans and would (.(in
stantly remind me that Portland
was a team of chokers and that
the Sonics would soon be the
team to boot in the NBA.
Each year Portland would
drop a place or two in the West
ern Conference playoff seedings.
and Seattle would move up a
place or two. Finally, the chang
ing of the guard took place this
season after the Sonics picked
up Kendall Gill and Detlef
Schrempf during the summer.
The Blazers, on the other hand,
were snatching up Chris Dudley
and Harvey Grant. Blazer fans
thought the acquisitions of the
two would be what the team
needed to finally put the team
over the hump, the same wav
they thought Buck Williams,
Danny Ainge and Rod Stru k
land would in previous years
There's no need to talk any
DavkCharbonneai
more about the Hla/ers After all.
there's going to t»e talk, nil sum
mer about what the future holds
for Portland A new conch? New
management7 Drexler finally
getting rid of his contract with
Avia?
And now that the
Sonics have failed
miserably in their
first year as the
favorites to win the
title, they will have
to listen to the
same things the
Blazers have had
to listen to.
The Sonics, however, are a
different story. After finishing
with the Ixtst record in the NBA
and losing in the first round of
the playoffs, the city of Seattle
should start gearing up for the
same crap the city of Portland
has gone through for the past
five years
When Portland was in its
prime, the same thing* were
rating said about the Blazer* that
are now being said about the
Sonii s They're young, athletic
and are overflowing with talent
that extend* 10 players into
their lineup.
And now that the Sonic* have
failed miserably in their first
year as the favorites to win the
title, they will have to listen to
the same things the Blazers have
had to listen to
Chances are. the Sonic* w ill
be strong for at least the next
two or three years, just like the
Blazers were But they will con
stantly Imi fort ed to listen to < rit
icixm alHiut their lack of smarts,
lack of a quality big man and
lack of good coaching.
Like it or not. Seattle, you're
now in the unenviable position
of being the team from the
Northwest that i an t swim to get
over the hump Dick Enberg will
still be able to show shots of the
cits lie fore games and say "Wel
come to majestic Seattle. Wash
ington Home of the team with
the lies! record in the NBA.” just
like he used to open Blazer
games
Personally. 1 don't mind turn
ing over the reins of lining a fan
of a bunch of underachievers
The stress and the throwing of
beer bottles at the television is
something I can do without
One good thing for Seattle
fans Chris Dudley is a free agent
and Ri< k Adelttinn should also
lie a free man soon
IMn i■ CJiarbonncmi is a sports
reporter for thf) Emerald
Nosier angered over team’s snub
By Steve Mims
C)n^QOn Daily £ morakf
The season is over for all but one player on the
Oregon men's golf team.
The Ducks were not one of the 12 teams chosen
from their region to compete in next week's West
ern Kegionals. but junior Ted Suavely grabbed the
one individual spot for a player whose team wasn't
invited.
Suavely will be the only player not with his
team at the regional tournament May 19-21 on the
Tucson National Golf Course in Tucson, Ariz
Snavely must finish among the top five individu
als at the tournament to advance to the NCAA
Championships in June.
As tor the rest of the Ducks, they lost out to San
Francisco for the 12th and final slot in the West
Region despite having defeating the Dons in three
of the five tournaments they competed in together.
"I'm very upset with the manner in which teams
were chosen.” Oregon head coach Steve Nosier
said. ‘They told mo the primary thing for selecting
teams is head-to-head competition for the year.
Eleven teams in the tournament had lietter head
to-head records against us. and 1 have no qualms
with that."
"But for that 12th spot, we hud a better head-on
record than San Francisco. We were 2-2 head-on
against them; we lost to them twice in the fall and
then beat them the last three times we faced them.
If the primary basis is head-on ns.ords, wo should
have the 12th spot."
Nosier also pointed out that San Francisco made
tfie tournament partially because of head-to-head
advantages over Pm ific. and Oregon State, two oth
er teams that were included among the field of 12
In that case. San Francisco's head-to-head record
helped them, hut Oregon didn't get the same ben
efit.
“You have to have apples with apples." Nosier
said. “Do not let us have head-on records count
and let them have it
In addition to a head-to-head advantage. Nosier
brought up a few other advantages he felt Ins team
had over trie Dons
"In strength of si hedule. we make (San Fran
cisco) look like they ployed a junior college sched
ule." ho said. "Wo had wins over Arizona,
Arkansas. Pepperdine and we heat HYU once or
twice. If you want to get to the nitty gritty, look at
stroke difference between teams: We were 42
strokes ahead of them "
The second-year Oregon coach said he became
ungry when the selection committee told him they
were helping both teams by giving San Francisco
the team slot and Oregon the individual position.
"I told them, ‘Don't think your going to appease
me by giving me one player in the tournament.'"
Nosier said the committee told him ho could
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