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National Residence
Hall Honorary
Congratulations to this weeks Outstanding Staff Members.
Lara Smiley Josh Christiansen Leo Silva
Veronica Slots Bryce Arndt Jasmine Smith-Howard
April Case Come Whitmore
Thank you RHA and current and future programming assistants for
your hard work and great success with the Cinco de Mayo program.
It you know someone in the Residence Community who should be recognized
E-mail ckwalker@hotmail.com
£ University of Oregon Housing
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The Admiral David E. Jeremiah and
Mrs. Connie Jeremiah Lecture Series
"When 'Broken (gCass JCoats
Growing Up under the
Khmer Rouge
Chanrithy Him, Author
Thursday, May 18
3:00 jp.m.
(gerCvnger Lounge
reception to follow
This lecture series is sponsored by the Jeremiah Family and the
Center for Asian and Pacific Studies and is free and open to the public.
For more information, call 346-1521.
University of Oregon
Lakers' ‘D’ burns the Suns
■After giving up 117 points
Sunday, the Lakers’ defense
strangled the Suns and
finished the series, 87-65
By Jdhn Nadel
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — The Los An
geles Lakers simmered for two
days after being blown out in
Phoenix.
So they returned the favor, but
good.
“This game’s a mystery to me,”
Lakers coach Phil Jackson said af
ter the Lakers
humiliated
the Suns 87
65 Tuesday
night to win
the best-of
seven West
ern Conference semifinals in five
games.
“How’s that for killer instinct?”
wondered Kobe Bryant, the
game’s high scorer with 17 points.
Phoenix held a 71-48 halftime
lead en route to a 117-98 victory on
Sunday to force a fifth game. The
117 points were the most scored by
a Lakers’ opponent this season.
In Game 5, the Suns equaled a
playoff record for futility in the
first half, scoring only 23 points.
And their final total of 65 fell six
points short of their first-half out
put two days earlier.
“We just couldn’t make shots,”
Suns coach Scott Skiles said. “We
had a bunch of open looks, we
just didn’t make them.”
Shaquille O’Neal had 15
points, 21 rebounds and three
blocked shots despite sitting out
the fourth quarter for the Lakers,
whcih face Portland in the best
of-seven conference finals, start
ing Saturday at Staples Center.
“Team-wise, we played an in
spiring game,” O’Neal said. “Per
sonally, I didn’t play that well,
but my teammates stepped up for
me. We played great defense and
were real active with our hands.
We came out and took it to them.
We got a lead and never lost our
focus.”
Jackson didn’t agree with
O’Neal’s assessment of his play.
“I thought he was real domi
nant in the game,” Jackson said.
“I thought he changed shots, con
trolled the boards. He played
with a little bit of a banged up
knee, banged up shin.”
O’Neal was injured Sunday
and wore a sleeve on his lower
right leg.
The Suns were a beaten team
by late in the second quarter, and
it showed in their body language
after they continued to miss shot
after shot, many unopposed.
“I think the reason we were so
frustrated was because of all the
trash-talking they did before the
game,” said Penny Hardaway,
who was held to eight points after
averaging 24.8 in the first four
games. “I think that had every
body’s adrenaline going, and then
not to be able to knock down those
shots kind of demoralized us.”
The Suns’ 23 first-half points
tied the playoff record in a half set
by Utah in the second half of a 96
54 loss to Chicago Bulls on June
7,1998 in the NBA Finals. The 54
points are the playoff record low
for a game.
The Suns also tied the playoff
record for futility in a second
quarter, when they scored nine to
the Lakers’ 28.
Phoenix shot 2-of-17 in the sec
ond quarter (11.8 percent), and 8
of-37 in the half (21.6 percent).
“We wanted to be more aggres
sive defensively, run the fast
break and get them in foul trou
ble,” said Glen Rice, who had 14
points for the Lakers.
That’s exactly what happened.
Cliff Robinson, who averaged
24.5 points previously in the se
ries, picked up his third foul three
minutes into the second quarter
and sat out the remainder of the
half. He finished with eight points.
Center Luc Longley also picked
up his third foul in the second
quarter.
Todd Day led the Suns with 10
points, all but two in the fourth
quarter. Jason Kidd, who had 22
points, 10 rebounds and 16 as
sists for his first playoff triple
double in Game 4, was held to
eight points, seven rebounds and
two assists.
The nature of the loss on Sun
day prompted veteran Los Ange
les guard Ron Harper, a member of
three championship teams with
the Bulls, to say the Lakers played
absolutely no defense in Game 4,
and lacked a killer instinct.
Notes: The NBA record for
fewest points in a half in a regular
season game is 19 by the Los An
geles Clippers against the Lakers
last Dec. 14. The Lakers big three
of O’Neal, Bryant and Rice scored
their team’s first 18 points. No
other Lakers player scored until
Harper made a layup with 50 sec
onds left in the first quarter. ...
The Lakers finished the season
with an 8-1 record against the
Suns. ... The Lakers are 6-0 in
playoff games at Staples Center
and have won 23 of 24 home
games since a 95-91 loss to Port
land on Jan. 22.
of UO students
drink 1 or fewer
days a week...
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New View 2000
Office of Student Life
University of Oregon