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Lakers flying high into postseason
■Shaquille O’Neal leads the
Lakers toward what could be
their first championship in
12 years
By John Nadel
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — The points
kept coming, faster and more fu
rious as the Los Angeles Lakers
looked again and again for their
big man.
A monster dunk here, a short
bank shot there, and even 13 foul
shots, a seldom-reached total for
Shaquille O’Neal.
In a coming-of-age game for
one of the league’s superstars,
O’Neal finished with a career
high 61 points and 23 rebounds
on his 28th birthday last month
to lead the Lakers to yet another
victory.
Yes, it was against the lowly
Clippers. But so what? Nobody
has been able to stop Shaq’s at
tack this season.
Opponents will try again dur
ing the playoffs, starting Sunday
with the Sacramento Kings. But
if the regular season is any indi
cation, the Lakers might as well
already get sized up for rings for
their first championship in 12
years.
“We’ve won the regular-season
title, that’s what you work for
when you open the season,” first
year Lakers coach Phil Jackson
said. “And then you put it be
hind you and you go into a play
off situation where there’s a
whole different level of intensity.
You bring it up another notch.”
The Lakers have failed in the
postseason in recent years. They
lost twice to Utah and once to
San Antonio, earning a reputa
tion as underachievers.
“We’ve always been the team
to beat, believe it or not,” said
O’Neal, in his fourth year with
Los Angeles. “We just have to do
what we’ve been doing, and get
sharp on certain things. We’ll be
all right.”
The hiring of Jackson and his
staff undoubtedly had a lot to do
with the Lakers’ 67 regular-sea
son wins, second-best in fran
chise history and better than any
of the Magic Johnson-led Show
time teams of the 1980s.
There are other factors, like the
improved health and play of
O’Neal, the maturation and de
[
velopment of Kobe Bryant, and
the addition of veteran role play
ers Ron Harper, A.C. Green and
Brian Shaw.
O’Neal and Bryant have at
times been as dominant as
Michael Jordan and Scottie Pip
pen when Jackson coached the
Chicago Bulls to six champi
onships in the ’90s. In addition,
the Lakers’ defense has been sti
fling when necessary, and the
supporting cast has done its job.
That said, there’s nothing to
celebrate yet. The Lakers will be
the first to admit it.
“Potential doesn’t mean any
thing,” said Harper, who joined
the Lakers this season after win
ning three rings in Chicago.
“This team had it for the last four
or five years, right? We have to go
show folks. We have something
to prove, I think.’
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SAC relays last weekend.
This Saturday, she’ll double in
the 800 and then the 1,500.
“I was just going to run the
1,500, but I might as well double
so \\e can get the win,” Crabb said.
“The whole team feels that way.
They’re going for it, gonna do all
they can to scrape together as
many points as they can. We want
to win on our own turf. ”
Particularly against Washing
ton, which has beaten the Ducks
two times in a row, unheard of un
{ {/ was just going to
run the 1,500, but I
might as well double so
we can get the win. The
whole team feels that
way. They're going for it,
gonna do all they can to
scrape together as many
points as they can.
Katie Crabb
middle distance runnerT J
til lately. Despite recent results,
Oregon has a 17-6 advantage. And
the last time the Huskies beat the
Ducks at home was the first time
the two women’s teams met in
1977.
Redshirt freshman Lucretia
Larkin has never competed in a
collegiate dual meet before. Nev
ertheless, the hurdler who made
her first appearance last weekend
with positive efforts at the
Pomona Pitzer Invitational and at
Mt. SAC after being sidelined by
injury early last season, fully ap
preciates the significance of Satur
day’s meet.
“I want to win,” said Larkin, one
of the Ducks’ eight Washingtoni
ans. “I want to win the 100 meter
hurdles. I want our relay to win.
And I think we can win the team
competition period. Especially be
cause a lot of the girls I competed
against [in high school] are on that
team, so it’s kind of like ‘I want to
show you how good I am now. ’”
Larkin is one of Oregon’s several
young athletes making increasing
ly effective contributions, evi
denced by the progress of the
Azle Malinao-Alvarez Emerald
Hilary Holly and Endia Abrante are a part of an improving 4x100 relay team.
4x100 relay team, which consists
of Larkin, sophomore Endia
Abrante, senior Hilary Holly and
freshman Heather Murtaugh. At
Mt. SAC, the quartet finished third
in their heat, with a personal best
of46.95.
“We’re PR-ing and PR-ing and
PR-ing,” Larkin said. “It’s nice.”
Despite the continued improve
ment, that specific relay squad
won’t have an easy time of it
against Washington’s 4x100 team
whose best time is six seconds
faster than Oregon’s.
In fact, their team needs some
events to swing in their direction if
it wants to avoid losing three
straight to the Dawgs.
“We’ve got our work cut out for
us,” Heinonen said. “We have to
get some point swings and see if
that will be enough. ”
Beside the 4x 100 relay, Holly is
scheduled to compete in five
events, including her specialty,
the long jump.
In the throws, the Ducks’ could
use a third-straight good weekend
from senior Maureen Morrison.
Oregon’s pole vaulting crew, led
by sophomore Niki Reed whose
best jump this season is NCAA
provisional 12-5.5, figure to have
the advantage Saturday.
Washington’s top performers in
clude distance star Anna Aoki,
who is one of the best distance
runners in the nation, having al
ready secured her third-straight
NCAA Championships berth in
the 10,000. Along with some of
her distance counterparts, Aoki
will be competing in more than
one event against the Ducks.
“I went through and looked at
the form chart and said ‘What’s
likely to happen?”’ Heinonen
said. “Well, what’s likely to hap
pen is Washington will beat us 85
69.
“And then I said, ‘What’s the
best thing that can happen?’ The
best possible thing is we win by
16,85-69. My likely score is proba
bly too negative — that’s just me.
And there’s no way that every pos
sible thing goes your way, but if we
get half of that, then we win.
“We can win the meet, but we
have to have a lot of things go real
ly well.”
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