Kings easily dispatch tired Mavericks
Keith Whitmire
The Dallas Morning News (KRT)
DALLAS — The only rust on
the Kings might have flaked off
the rim after one of their many
made baskets.
Sacramento had five days be
tween games after dispatching
Utah early. Their time off was
well-spent.
The Kings hit the American
Airlines Center floor running.
They hit 8 of their first 13 shots
to lead 20-10 with 6:20 remaining
in the first quarter.
“I really felt that tonight we
were really focused,” Kings coach
Rick Adelman said. “You could
feel it in the locker room. You
never really know until you step
out on the floor, but I felt we were
really focused.”
It wasn’t just that the Kings
were sharp, but that so many of
them never skipped a beat from
the Utah series.
Six players scored in double fig
ures. The only starter who didn’t,
point guard Mike Bibby, had seven
points, but he had seven assists.
“We really had a flow going,”
Adelman said. “We had different
guys coming in shooting the ball
well. It makes it hard to guard us
when it’s that way.”
The Kings finished the first
quarter with a 33-24 lead, a simi
lar start to their three regular sea
son wins over the Mavericks. In
those three games, Sacramento
finished the first quarter with an
average lead of 10 points.
“I think we did a really good job
of preparing them for what they
were going to go through once we
were done with Utah,” Adelman
said. “I think it’s the maturity of the
team that they understand that.”
Even after the Mavs had a
chance to regroup at halftime, it
was the Kings who roared out of
the locker room in the second half.
The Kings outscored the Maver
icks 12-4 to start the third quarter
and eventually pushed their lead
to 28 points.
The key to the Kings’ aggressive
starts was the work done during the
layoff. Rather than rest tired bodies,
the Kings went at each other.
“He worked us good,” guard
Doug Christie said of Adelman’s
off-day workouts. “We went
through a lot of stuff. Everyone
was really attacking each other
in practice.”
The only one who wasn’t attack
ing, forward Chris Webber, finished
with 24 points, six rebounds and
nine assists. Webber rested his sore
knees and ankle while the rest of his
teammates went at it.
“I think it was different for differ
ent guys,” Webber said. “Coach re
ally worked hard in practice. I
haven’t been able to practice since
we beat Utah. For the other guys,
they were tired of practicing against
each other, and they were wanting
to get some fresh meat.”
The Mavericks may have been
meat for the Kings, but they certain
ly weren’t fresh after having fin
ished a seven-game series with Port
land on Sunday. The Mavs didn’t
appear tired, but they certainly
played like it compared to the high
speed Kings.
“Maybe a bit,” Christie said.
“They were still pushing the ball.
They really tried to attack us.”
© 2003, The Dallas Morning News.
Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services.
Ron Jenkins Fort Worth Star-Telegram (KRT)
Peja Stojakovic (16) and the rested Kings took care of Dirk Nowitzki and the tired Mavericks in Dallas on Tuesday night.
Tennis
continued from page 11
“I’m really happy,” Panova said.
“I think it’s awesome that I won.”
Panova was 30-14 overall during
the regular season and 17-7 against
ranked opponents. She has a 17-4
tournament record from both con
ference championships and a quar
terfinal appearance at the National
Indoor Championships.
In nine Pac-10 tournament
matches indoors and outdoors,
Panova lost only one set.
Nagle is 17-15 in singles play with
a 5-5 record against ranked oppo
nents. Nagle spent most of the sea
son playing at the No. 2 position on
the women’s squad.
In doubles play, the tandem has a
16-11 record, including three wins
against top-15 opponents.
Kost earned a 15-13 overall sin
gles record during the regular sea
son, despite sitting out the first
month of dual matches because of
an abdominal injury. When he re
turned to play, Kost won his first
five matches.
“That’s a big recognition for him,”
men’s head coach Chris Russell
said. “To make that team, you have
to be one of the better players in the
country. I think it’s a great tribute to
where he is as a player and to where
he is going to be in the future.”
Kost played in the ITA All-Ameri
can Championships in the fall.
During the regular season, Kost
defeated then-No. 10 Alex Vlaski
of Washington and then-No. 12
David Martin of Stanford in
straight sets. He teamed with
freshman Thomas Bieri for most
doubles matches. The pair earned
a 12-9 season record.
Kost was named an All-Pac-10
honorable mention after the 2002
season. He will be the first Duck to
compete in the men’s NCAA Cham
pionships since 2000.
The three Ducks have just less
than two weeks before they begin
NCAA Championships competition.
Panova and Nagle, ranked No. 33
in the country, will play in the dou
bles bracket, while No. 15 Panova
will also enter the singles bracket.
Nagle, ranked No. 54, is listed as the
second alternate for the singles
bracket. The women’s national tour
nament begins May 19 in
Gainesville, Fla.
No. 51 Kost will travel to Athens,
Ga., for the men’s NCAA Champi
onships on May 21.
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