Page 12 Section ill Portland Observer, February 25, 1982
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Celtic forward Larry Bird stands ready to hit the open man in Bos
ton's win over Portland. Certainly a valuable asset to the team. Bird
scored 25 points as Boston toppled Portland 127-117.
H om e again, hom e again: Former Portland S tate great Freeman
returned to Portland Sunday by w ay of A tlan ta. W illiam s was re
cently traded by San Diego for tw o players. Freeman scored 8 points
as the Hawks downed Portland.
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I f Ralph Sampson, V irg in ia ’ s
Junior center and basketball’ s pre
mier player, doesn’ t become
another Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in
the next decade, he can only biamc
himself. To put it another way, he
has grown physically and has cer
tainly matured to where he's college
basketball’ s most dominant player.
As productive as Sampson was last
week, Virginia while maintaining its
number one ranking, has only man
aged to win by 14 points in their last
5 games. The Cavaliers struggled
against Clemson twice winning by
two and five before beating NCS by
a mere 2 in overtime.
And as productive as Sampson
has been Patrick Ewing o f George
town continues to challenge as the
lest center in the East. E w ing’ s
Georgetown Hoyas have shown
continuous progression and now
have moved in as the nation’s 12th-
ranked team.
And why is this local writer still
trying to give Billy Ray’s job to one
unproductive Jeff Lamp. This char
acter, whom we shall not name, has
openly declared that Billy Ray, who
is productive, w ill lose his jo b to
Jeff Lamp, whom we all know is un
productive. I f P ortland should
make such a move, then we all
should band as one in protest. Billy
Ray needs only minutes to prove his
worth. All one has to do is check out
the games in which Billy has played
20 minutes or more to check out
how productive he’s been.
Portland does need to rid itself of
some dead weight, and that dead
weight is Jeff Lamp, Bob Gross and
all 7 feet of Peter Gudmundssen.
Yes, this will be the year in which
the Blazers will not make the play
o ffs, and no one w ill be more at
fault than Coach Jack Ramsay.
University o f Oregon basketball
hit rock bottom this season. “ Ore
gon probably has more talent than
us,” stated Oregon State University
guard W illiam Brew, “ but we just
have the togetherness to get the job
don.”
I f the U o f O has good players,
then why such a disastrous season?
The problem lies in the coaching.
Under Jim Haney’ s regime, Oregon
has had an embarrassing season, 9
wins to 14 losses.
And no one understands Haney’ s
shortcomings—lack o f skill in the
area o f basketball coaching—better
than Haney him self. He q uickly
gave senior guard Barry Walker the
pink slip for making remarks that
Haney considered “ detrimental to
the team.” That was a typical reac
tion from someone who knows that
he is in a position where he cannot
perform.
Haney’ s reaction was quite the
opposite from that o f Jack Ramsay,
who is a winning coach (28-35) and
has every confidence in his abilities.
When Trailblazer forw ard Bob
Gross criticized Ramsay for not giv
ing him (Gross) more playing time,
the result was more time on the
Court for Gross.
The Oregon basketball problem
was not solved with the dismissal o f
Barry W alker. Jim Haney is the
problem. I f a coach has little mater
ial to work with, one can hardly ex
pect more than a small effort. But if
the players are there and the effort is
still small, then the coach should go.
Haney’s departure may not solve all
o f Oregon’ s basketball problem but
I ’ m sure it won't hurt the program
either.
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to agent Tony DeMarco, is asking
for a cool one m illio n dollars per
year. The Dodgers have offered
three-hundred fifty thousand to the
second year southpaw. That would
make him the clubs th ird highest
paid player. T h ird baseman Ron
Ccy reported he receives three hun
dred ninety one thousand while first
baseman Steve Garvy takes home
three hundred seventy thousand.
His eyes s till tw in kle when he
smiles. He still looks and acts like
the prototype o f a Brigham Young
follo w e r, the kind you w o u ldn ’ t
mind sharing a back alley with.
In fact he still looks like he should
be attending classes at N orth Eu
gene High School. But at the tender
age o f 23 Danny Ainge has been
through the wars o f two profes
sional sports, baseball and now bas
ketball, on the major league level.
There was a brief stay in the class
triple A league, but after mid-season
Ainge found himself in a Toronto
u nifo rm and barely h ittin g his
weight. “ I have no regrets,” Danny
said. “ I made a mistake, I ’ ve paid
for it now. I just want to get down
to the task o f becoming a good NBA
guard.”
A good guard Ainge w ill be but
that, too, is in the the future. He
must now sit and watch, and learn
fro m , T in y A rch ib a ld and Chris
Ford.
“ I d on ’ t mind the sittin g. I'm
looking at it as a learning exper
ience. You might say this is like a
year on the farm club,” Danny said.
“ Coach [B ill FitchJ believes my
time will come so I ’ll wait.”
From High School superstar to
college All-American, just how has
this bench sitting affect Aingc’ s atti
tude toward the game.
“ I ’ m perfectly at ease as a Celtic,
I ’ ve had good practices so it really
doesn’t bother me.”
Ainge only made a brief appear
ance against Portland. On his first
defensive assignment B illy Ray
Bates gave him a fake then blew past
Danny fo r one o f his celebrated
Dunks.
“ I ’ m learning,” suggested Ainge.
“ I was to overplay B illy but just
didn’ t get to his right far enough.”
Danny’ s family and friends made
the trek from Eugene. They didn’ t
see much this tim e, but D anny’ s
time is sure to come.
The 1982 Oregon State A A A
boy’ s basketball championship will
u n fu rl at M em orial Coliseum be
ginning M arch 11. The P IL w ill
send number six and seven ranked
Banson and Grant as their east rep
resentatives. The Metro League will
send the state’ s top two ranking
teams, undefeated Parkrose and
once beaten Glencoe into the tour
nament. The prediction here is that
Grant w ill battle Parkrose fo r the
tourney championship with Park
rose, led by the six-foot-ten Steve
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