Page 4 Portland Oboervor Thursday. May 11. 1«T78 Notice J.N. "Nick" Poet, Administrator, Child ron's Services Division, announced that day care services will reopen in Oregon this week. Well, the Blazers are dead and. for sure, they went down with their heads held high. So basketball, for Portland that is. has ended on a blue Monday in the King City. However, the Seattle writers were quite fair in their coverage of the Blazer tragedy so we'll share a few of their words with you. George Meyers, writing for the Time« had this to say: If you were a Blazerma nia. your tears today (Monday) would be . . . should be . . . tempered by a powerful - pride. Throughout the explosive Seattle Port land series, you could not escape the pondering how the SuperSonics would have fared without Marvin Webster. Jack Sikma and Fred Brown. That would be a rough counterpart of the Trailblazers losing Bill W alton, Llovd Neal and Bob Gross. Meyers, realizing the very tough situs tion Portland was in without the trio made this comment: To have survived the games, thus debilitated, against any National Basketball Association team of play-off caliber was an astonishing ac complishment. Another interesting piece of news from Seattle reveals some interesting facts on the Bobby Gross injury. Gross, in an interview with the Time« had this to say about his much publicized ankle injury, actually a stress fracture. Gross says, “1 kind of felt it shouldn't have happened, if we had known what it was. At first, they thought it was tendinitis. I continued to play on it." That lasted a week, when the correct diagnosis of a stress fracture put him in a cast and on crutches. Now, I thought that was really in­ teresting and just have to wonder why this was never printed in Portland's media. Seattle's Dennis Johnson had this to say about his scuffle with Dave Twardzik. "I didn t throw no punches. I was getting up off the floor when the little dude jumped on me like he was superman." What 's going on in the East? Puzzling isn't It? W ho would have believed the heavily favored 76'ers would now be struggling in a series with the Bullets, and now stand on the brink of disaster behind 3-1. Philadelphia, to say the least, is looking bad. disorganized and totally out of it. Much has been said about their one-on- one playground style of play, and in this writer's view it s all deserved. All world, as he calls himself. Lloyd Free has been really ridiculous in his shot selection, or perhaps I should say lack of shot selec tion. W henever the 6-2 guard came down on the offensive and you just knew he would be firing, and forcing a shot, more often than not they (the 76'ers) just stood around on defensr allowing Elvin Hayes to destroy them inside. The 76'ers now look as frustrated as they did last year in the championship series with Portland. I