Clancy: Ducks 'stole’ victory
By Gloria Rodriguez
Daily Trojan (U. Southern California)
LOS ANGELES (U-WIRE) — If
two plus two equals four, then it
would only make sense that
Thursday’s men’s basketball game
against Oregon at the Sports Arena
would result in a USC victory.
Despite finishing its home sea
son with an undefeated 16-0 home
record, Oregon boasts the worst
road record from the top six teams
in the Pac-10 Conference.
The Ducks are 3-6 on the road.
The Trojans, on the other hand, are
10-1 at home.
“We know they’re undefeated at
home,” USC forward Sam Clancy
said. “We know we’ve only lost
one at home. I like our chances.”
Of course, in basketball, statis
tics often don’t mean a thing.
Take last Saturday. The then-No.
20 Trojans had one of their worst
losses of the season to an unranked
California team, 83-64.
And there’s always the chance of
history repeating itself.
The last time USC played Ore
gon, the Trojans lost to the Ducks,
73-69, in Eugene.
“I’ve been looking forward to
(Thursday’s Oregon game) as
soon as the (last) game ended,”
Clancy said. “I feel they stole it
from us.”
With only two home games left
in their careers, Clancy and the
other Trojan seniors — forward
David Bluthenthal and point guard
Brandon Granville — feel the pres
sure to win the next games against
Oregon and Oregon State.
Wins will result in at least a
share of the Pac-10 title.
“The three guys really know
what these two games mean to
them and to the program,” USC
coach Henry Bibby said. “They
feel the urgency on finishing their
careers doing something that has
n’t been done at USC.”
The real challenge will be to mo
tivate the other players to work for
the title as much as they are.
Bibby kicked forward Jerry
Dupree and guard Gennaro Buster
na out of a film session Monday
because of what he said was their
recent lazy play.
Bibby said the team needs more
help from the bench.
“There’s a lot of pressure on the
seniors, but the younger guys need
to be more responsible, too,” Bibby
said. “If you can’t get your game
off in four or five minutes, you
don’t have a game. The substitutes
are coming in to make something
good happen for you or make
something bad happen. ... Their
mindset has to be on that.”
Bibby left it up to the team to de
cide the punishment of Dupree
and Busterna.
The team opted for extra 6 a.m.
practices for the two.
Granville said the starting sen
iors naturally have a bigger desire
to win because they have been at
USC longer.
“You understand the importance
of every game as you get older in
the program,” Granville said.
The seniors have tried to instill
that motivation into this season’s
new players.
“We try to convey our feelings,”
Granville said. “We try to tell them
about all the notoriety you get. ...
The more you win, the better it is
for everyone.”
Granville said the seniors have
tried to emphasize the importance
of building up the newer Trojan
basketball program.
“They’re starting to see the im
portance of every game,” Clancy
said.
As for Thursday, “We will all be
on the same page,” he said.
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USC forward Sam Clancy said he likes the Trojans’ chances against Oregon tonight in Los
Angeles. With two games left, USC trails the first-place Ducks by one game in the Pac-10.
Jordan might miss rest of season after arthroscopic surgery
By Sam Smith
Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO (KRT) — This could
be what many feared — that the
end for Michael Jordan wouldn’t be
a shot to win a championship, a
pose for eternity.
Jordan had arthroscopic surgery
on his right knee Wednesday and
could miss the rest of the season. So
the last playing memory of the man
many regard as the greatest ever to
play basketball is now of a player
sitting helplessly on the bench, his
face a mask of pain and frustration,
just nine points next to his name on
the scoreboard and his team losing.
Jordan, who turned 39 last week,
will miss Friday’s Bulls game in
Chicago after being placed on the
injured list for only the second time
in his career. He missed 64 games
in his second season, 1985-86, with
a broken foot.
“I’m getting old,” he said Sunday
after what could be the final game
of his career. “It’s a sign that this
might be coming to a closure as tc
where my career is heading. The
body sends you messages.”
The message: When you are liter
ally run off the court by the Miami
Heat, it’s time to stop playing
Washington Wizards head coach
Doug Collins had to remove Jordar
from Sunday’s game with almosl
seven minutes remaining.
“He has to go in there and fine
out what’s causing the irritatior
and why his knee is continuing to
swell,” Collins said. “And depend
ing on how much work (the sur
geon) has to do, that will be the de
ciding factor in how long Michael
will be out.”
Although no timetable was giv
en, Jordan is expected to be out at
least a month. And it’s unclear
whether he’ll be able to play imme
diately afterward. Thus there could
be just a few games left in a season
in which the Wizards (27-28) have
lost seven of their last eight and are
in danger of falling out of the East
ern Conference playoff race.
If they are out of contention, Jor
dan could elect not to return this
season. And though he has said he
intends to play one more year, that
could change if his knee problems
persist over the summer.
“I think (the surgery) would give
him hope for next year,” Collins
said. “I think he knows that if he
didn’t have this done, he wouldn’t
be able to continue to play. More
and more, the swelling is coming
back. There’s something in there
that’s irritating his knee to make
him have the swelling.”
Jordan has been brilliant often
enough this season to spark talk
that he should be the league’s MVP
for pushing the lowly Wizards into
playoff contention. But he has
slowed considerably lately. In four
of his last six games, he scored 16
or fewer points to lower his season
average to 24.3. He has averaged
fewer than 20 points a game since
the All-Star break, though he won a
game in Phoenix last week with a
buzzer-beating shot. He had his sec
ond game in single digits this sea
son-the third of his career-in the
loss to Miami.
Jordan had his knee drained be
fore that game, but the next day it
swelled up again. The problem ini
tially was diagnosed as tendinitis.
“I need to take some time off and
let it get better,” Jordan said after
the Miami game. “I can’t ignore
what my body is telling me. My
mind is still consistent. But my
body isn’t.”
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