Bryant’s defense
beautiful in win
By Chris Sheridan
The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA— Kobe
Bryant’s defense didn’t just neu
tralize Allen Iverson’s offense, it
completely shut it down.
Bryant held Iverson scoreless in
the second half and scored his
team’s final six points Sunday to
lead the Los Angeles Lakers to
their seventh straight win, 87-84
over the Philadelphia 76ers.
“What I tried to do was put my
self in his shoes,” Bryant said. “In
the past when I’ve had games
where I’m struggling, any mo
ment I could go off. I’m sure he
was thinking the same way, so I
just played him.”
And play him he did, blocking
Iverson’s shots from in front and
behind and forcing him to drive
the middle where Shaquille
O’Neal was waiting.
Bryant and O’Neal each
blocked shots by Iverson in the fi
nal 3.3 seconds, contributing to
his O-for-11 second half. The Lak
ers scored 11 of the game’s final
14 points as an increasingly frus
trated Iverson kept driving the
lane, shooting against double- and
triple-teams and looking for foul
calls that never came.
“They played defense very
well, and the referees never called
a foul every time he went to the
goal,” Sixers coach Larry Brown
said. “I thought (Iverson) was
pretty upset the whole second
half. I don’t think you can blame
him. His coach tells him to get to
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to be that night.”
To say the least, it was a land
mark win.
The win also gave Oregon sole
possession of first-place in the
Pac-10, and extended Runge’s
streak of wins against Northwest
schools to 27 games.
Oregon overcame 26 turnovers,
12 of which were committed in
the first 13 minutes. The Ducks,
one of the league’s best free-throw
shooting teams, shot a pathetic
45.5 percent from the charity
stripe. The Huskies out-bombed
Oregon from behind the three
point line, 40 percent compared to
26.7 percent, respectively.
But most of all, this game could
be a “shot in the arm,” as Runge
would say, because a young-but
seasoned Duck lineup came from
behind and won. They overcame
the loss of their best player in front
of 6,162 fans at Key Arena.
“That’s a huge credit to the dif
ferent players who stepped up who
really had been struggling through
out the game,” Runge said. “To do
it without Shaq on the floor is a
huge boost of confidence for the
players who were out there.”
Three days after scoring 18 points
against Washington State, Williams
was en route to possible Pac-10
Player of the Week honors with 20
points on 8-of-ll shooting in 32
minutes. The point guard also had
three assists and seven rebounds.
But with 6:50 left to play and
the Ducks trailing 58-60,
Williams’ nationally-televised
shooting clinic came to an abrupt
end when she hit the hand of a
shooting Julia Gray.
Washington began to pull away
as Oregon went dry. Freshman
point guard Kourtney Shreve hit a
three-pointer to cubthe lead to 65
61, but uncontested baskets by for
the free-throw line, try to drive it
to the basket.”
Bryant finished with 18 points,
seven assists and five blocks,
while O’Neal nearly had the sec
ond triple-double of his career
with 22 points, 16 rebounds and
nine assists.
Glen Rice contributed 18 points
for the Lakers, who improved to
4-0 on their current six-game East
ern road trip with games upcom
ing against New Jersey and Cleve
land.
“These next two teams we are
supposed to beat, so yeah,”
O’Neal said when asked if a per
fect road trip was likely.
O’Neal, whose lone career
triple-double came in 1993, had a
chance for his 10th assist when he
fed a wide-open Brian Shaw with
51 seconds left. But Shaw badly
missed an 18-footer.
“I got fouled on that play,”
Shaw claimed. “I’m not a great
shooter, but I’m not that bad ei
ther. But at that point in the game
they’re not going to call that.”
With the Sixers trailing by one
and the clock ticking inside 10
seconds, Iverson drove the right
side of the lane and had a runner
cleanly blocked by Bryant while
Toni Kukoc stood unguarded in
the corner.
Bryant made two free throws
with 1.7 seconds left for a three
point cushion, and Iverson’s 3
point attempt at the buzzer was
swatted away by O’Neal.
wards Bmily Autrey and LeAnn
Sheets pushed the deficit to eight.
And then, the elbow heard
‘round the Northwest.
Oregon retained possession af
ter Franza left the floor, and senior
Nicole Strange ignited the scoring
.run with a clutch jump shot from
the top of the paint.
Then following an ensuing
timeout, Craighead backed her
whack with a three-point shot.
Again, Strange hit a crucial
jumper, this one coming from be
hind the backboard along the
baseline, and Oregon was down
by one, 69-68, with 1:06 remain
ing.And it was Craighead one
more time on Oregon’s final pos
session. But instead of shooting
the ball, the sophomore passed
the ball inside to Wolvert, who
powered past her defender to
score the game-winning bucket.
“As tough as a struggle as we
had offensively tonight, we really
willed it to happen in the last cou
ple minutes of this game and that’s
a tremendous credit to this team,”
Runge said.
Washington forward Loree
Payne, a freshman, led all scorers
with 24 points on 10-of-20 shoot
ing in 37 minutes. Autrey scored
11 points, including the first
three-point basket of her career
early in the second half.
Junior forward Lindsey Dion
braved a sore knee for 24 minutes,
coming out of the game in the sec
ond half for good with nine
points, three rebounds, two assists
and two steals.
Oregon has three days to rest be
fore facing UCLA at McArthur
Court on Thursday at 7 p.m. in a
matchup that will have huge im
plication»on the Pac-10 title race.
“We’ve got to have a big win at
home,” Wolvert said. “We’ve got
to get a lot of people out there, so
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