Portland blips’ L.A. for 11th-straight win at home
PORTLAND, Ore. —The All
Star break might be just what the
Portland Trail Blazers need.
Arvydas Sabonis scored 23
points as Portland held on to the
NBA’s best record by beating the
Los Angeles Clippers 107-100 on
Wednesday night.
“It took being down 18 for us to
get in the game,” Damon
Stoudamire said of the Blazers’
sluggish start, which came after
Portland returned from a four
game, five-night East Coast road
trip. “The All-Star break is coming
at the best possible time.”
Steve Smith added 17 points for
the Blazers, who won their 11th
straight home game and improved
to 38-11 overall. The Los Angeles
Lakers stayed a half-game behind
the Blazers after beating the Min
nesota Timberwolves.
“Taking people too lightly is a
big problem, and tonight we really
put ourselves at risk,” said Blazers
coach Mike Dunleavy, whose
players didn’t want any part of his
scolding after the game.
“When 1 came in the locker
room they were all in the shower
and they hollered back, ’We’re on
our break,’ ” Dunleavy said. “I told
them, ’We started our break at 7
p.m.’”
Maurice Taylor led the Clippers
with 23 points and Troy Hudson
added 22.
Hudson scored 16 on 4-of-5 3
point shooting in the first quarter
as the Clippers took a 38-20 lead.
The Blazers trailed by as many as
18 in the second quarter and 10 at
halftime before starting the third
quarter with a 16-2 run.
A reverse layup by Brian Skinner
pulled the Clippers within 93-92
with 3:26 to go. A 22-foot jumper
by Taylor pulled the Clippers with
in 99-96, and a dunk by Taylor cut
it to 101-98 with 44 seconds left,
but they couldn’t get any closer.
“A win is a win,” guard Greg
Anthony said.
Rasheed Wallace had 15 points
and 13 rebounds for the Blazers, and
Detlef Schrempf added 15 points.
The Clippers have lost five in a
row and 15 of 16. They fell to 0-3
under interim coach Jim Todd,
who stepped in when Chris Ford
was fired last Thursday.
“The mission tonight was to
come in and steal a win, and I
thought we were going to do it,”
said Lamar Odom, who had 16
points. But tney are a veteran
team, and as soon as you let them
breathe, they bite you.”
The Blazers turned it around in
the third after trailing 55-45 at
halftime.
Sabonis had 15 points in the
quarter, and his dunk tied it at 57.
Wallace gave the Blazers their first
lead at 59-57 with a turnaround
jumper with 7:03 left in the third.
Los Angeles didn’t quit, and a 3
pointer by Hudson at the buzzer
put the Clippers up 79-77.
The Blazers didn’t have any
turnovers in the third quarter after
committing nine in the first half.
The Clippers ran out to a quick
lead, capitalizing on seven Blazers
turnovers in the first quarter. Hud
son’s third 3-pointer put Los An
geles up 29-16.
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second quarter. Damon
Stoudamire, who sat at the end of
the Blazers’ bench sulking with
his jersey off after Dunleavy put
Anthony in to guard Hudson, hit
a deep jumper, and Schrempf sank
two free throws to cut it to a 10
point deficit.
“The Clippers were great early,”
Stoudamire said. “They hit just
about every shot, but we were able
to get back in the game.”
Wallace hit a bank shot with just
under a minute left to cut the lead
to 50-45, but the Clippers pushed
the lead back to 10 points as Lamar
Odom hit a wide-open 3-pointer
and Eric Piatkowski hit a fast
break layup.
—The Associated Press
Basketball
continued from page 7A
1985 when former Oregon great
Terrell Brandon was beginning
his prep career with Grant High
School.
Oregon head coach Ernie Kent
said that this year the Ducks
matchup with Stanford is better
than any time during his three
year tenure.
“We don’t need to play a per
fect game,” Kent said. “In the
past, I felt like we had to do that to
beat them, and we still would lose
by 20.”
There is a reason that the No. 2
Cardinal is regarded as one of the
nations’ best. Its inside presence
is strong, and sharpshooters
David Moseley and Sam Jacobson
have repeatedly burned teams
from the perimeter.
“You’re obviously not going to
shut Stanford down all over the
place, but we can certainly do
some things to limit their threes
and playing production,” Kent
said. “We need to play a smart,
solid game.”
Oregon forward A.D. Smith
was quick to point out that the
Cardinal doesn’t allow its oppo
nents a large margin of error.
“They’re a tough team, and if
you don’t shoot the ball well,
you’re going to have a tough time
beating them,” said Smith, whose
20-point, 13-rebound perform
ance against Arizona State last
weekend was one of his best all
around performances of the sea
son.
“If you allow them to shoot the
ball well, you’re going to have a
tough time beating them. They’re
a tough team to recover from.”
Stanford has had continuous
success in the NCAA Tournament
in recent years, and playing in big
games in hostile environments
has made the Cardinal a very
mentally-sound team. According
to Kent, that stability was a major
factor in Stanford’s win against
the Ducks earlier in the season.
“Mentally, they were a lot more
solid than we were for 40 min
utes,” Kent said. “When we did
break down, they made us pay.
They’re a big, strong, powerful
basketball team that will wear on
you both physically and mentally
because it’s not often that they’re
going to break down in a lot of dif
ferent areas. They’re not going to
beat themselves.”
The Cardinal is now the stan
dard by which Pac-10 success is
measured, a situation that would
have seemed improbable a
decade ago. Kent credits Stan
ford’s success to the 16 years of
coaching by the Cardinal’s head
coach Mike Montgomery.
“He’s been there with continu
ity, their system is in tact and their
recruiting is in tact,” Kent said.
“Them and Arizona have so
much more continuity then any
one else in this conference, which
is why they are always one and
two in the conference and ranked
are nationally.
“That’s where we’re progress
ing to get to, and we’re not their
yet. They’re one of the more dom
inant teams and programs in the
country, and they’re what the rest
of us are trying to catch up to.”
Although a win at Stanford
would earn the Ducks unprece
dented respect nationally, Kent
wants his players to stay level
headed.
“This win would set us up to
move higher in the rankings, but
you still have eight games to go
before you do any celebrating at
all,” Kent said. “Emotionally, we
can’t get devastated by one bad
loss or bad weekend because
there is still a lot of basketball to
be played.”
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