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’Sheed and Scottie score win
We were going to run
a column about
Rasheed Wallace
today.
In fact, now we have no choice
but to say something. But the col
umn we had planned to print —
by one of our sports writers, who
will remain nameless — was
about how ’Sheed is a cancer to
his team.
Anyone who watched Game 1
of the Lakers-Blazers series
would have no choice but to
think ’Sheed would be the Blaz
ers’ downfall.
But that doesn’t take into ac
count the Mom factor.
After an inspiring pep talk
from his mother, ’Sheed went out
Monday night, kept his mouth
shut and ripped the Lakers for 29
points — which coincidentally
was his team’s margin of victory.
So with ’Sheed’s cancerous
tendencies aside for one night,
one of about a thousand crucial
points to this series comes out.
Rasheed Wallace isn’t a disease
waiting to kill Portland’s cham
pionship hopes. He’s the focal
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point of the team and one heck of
a problem for the Lakers.
If he can keep quiet for the rest
of the series and play the way he
did tonight (29 points, 12 re
bounds), the Blazers just might
find themselves closer to a cham
pionship than they have been
since Bill Walton blew out his
knees.
It was ob
vious
tonight: the
Lakers’
power for
wards didn’t
stand a
chance.
Much has
been made
in the past
week of
Shaq vs.
three or four
defenders, but how about ’Sheed
against A.C. Green, Robert Horry
and... Rick Fox?
I mean, come on. Green’s too
old and slow. Horry is not strong
enough. And well, Fox is a pretty
boy who belongs outside guard
ing other tiny complainers (Da
mon Stoudamire?).
This is not to say that Wallace
single-handedly dealt the Lakers
their first home loss of the play
offs ... insert Scottie Pippen here.
Pippen was the man. Let’s go
back roughly one year. The Blaz
ers were gearing up for Game 2
against the Spurs, waiting to get
slapped in the face by Sean Elliot
and his tippy toes. They barely
got past Stoudamire’s antics last
year to have a chance to win that
game. After Elliot’s shot, they
practically gave up right there.
Well, they did. They got swept
right out of the playoffs on their
own home court.
But this is* a different year, a
different team and a different at
titude. Now, I don’t spend much
time in the Blazers’ locker room.
OK, I’ll be lucky if I ever set foot
in there. But, I’d be willing to bet
my entire month’s salary that
Pippen is the reason the Blazers
didn’t fold Monday.
They ran into Staples Center
last night and went right at the
Lakers. They were diving for
loose balls, strangling the Lakers
offensive game plan and nailing
threes like they were the uncon
scious Lakers’ bench in the sec
ond quarter of Game 1.
Pippen is the reason. Jackson
said he needed to be the leader of
this team if it was going to have a
shot. Heck, Paul Allen traded six
players and took on a $14 mil
lion contract because he knew
this man was the missing link.
His shot over Bryon Russel
was pretty cool. But anyone can
be Johnny on the spot and have a
shot fall to win a game.
Pippen’s true worth came out
tonight. When Jackson said the
Blazers needed a leader, he did
n’t mean someone who could go
out and score 30 points a night,
make the winning shot and dom
inate the game with his basket
ball abilities. The Blazers have
’Sheed to do that.
Jackson is too much of a genius
to think a leader only scores. He
meant a man who would grab his
team by the horns in the locker
room and at the hotel and con
vince them that they are the best
team in the NBA. He meant a
man who would bring the ball
down the floor every possession
of the fourth quarter and make
sure they burn some clock. He
meant a man who would dive for
loose balls and single-handedly
turn a good Blazers defense into
Brutus ‘the Barber’ Beefcake’s
sleeper hold.
This series is far from over. If
you’re impressed with Pippen’s
leadership skills, just take a look
at the Lakers bench and the
greatest coach in NBA history.
This is going to be a great one,
but I can only wonder if Jackson
is kicking himself for coaching
the other team by accident.
Jonathan Allen is a copy editor for the
Emerald. His views do not necessarily re
flect those of the paper. He can be
reached at jra2970@gladstone.
uoregon.edu.
Miller remains honest:
he hates those Knicks
By Chris Sheridan
The Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS — “I hate
them.”
Reggie Miller didn’t hide his
feelings Monday as he spoke
about the New York Knicks and
the Eastern Conference’s other
great rivalry.
The Pacers’ guard stayed away
from the “I respect them” line that
had cushioned his remarks a day
earlier.
“They always think they’re big
ger and badder than everyone,”
Miller said. “And we know they
don’t give us any respect. So why
should I give respect or like some
one that doesn’t give us respect?”
This will be Chapter 6 of
Knicks-Pacers in the postseason,
a rivalry that has produced some
of the most dramatic NBA theater
of the past decade. The star of the
show has often been the skinny,
outspoken sharpshooter who so
relishes playing the villain.
Miller has had some of the best
performances of his career against
the Knicks, most of them coming
at Madison Square Garden.
He scored 25 points in the
fourth quarter of Game 5 in 1994,
eight points in 11.2 seconds to
win Game 1 in 1995, and made a
3-pointer from in front of Spike
Lee’s courtside seat to force over
time in Game 4 in 1998 and spark
Indiana to a series-turning victo
ry
The Pacers watched Game 7 of
the Miami-New York series to
gether Sunday afternoon, then
held a practice in the evening.
They held another practice Mon
day while the Knicks returned to
New York from Miami and pre
pared to fly to Indianapolis later
in the day.
“Personally, I wanted to play
New York, somewhat exorcise
some demons,” said Miller, who
has been playing some of the best
playoff basketball of his career
during this postseason.
“We have beaten New York, but
it’s never been in a conference fi
nal. Detroit had to get by Boston,
Chicago had to get past Detroit. So
there’s always that team you’ve
got to get by to get to the next lev
el, and New York is that team for
us.”
Indiana and New York met in
the conference finals in 1994 and
1999, the Knicks winning both
times. The Pacers won second
round matchups in 1995 and
1998, and the Knicks beat Indiana
in the first round in 1993, when
their playoff rivalry began.