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SANDRA K. BELL
Agant
Little League try-outs will be held
Satuday, M arch 27, 1982 at Penin
sula Park from 9 am until 12 noon.
Those signing up are asked to bring
their birth certificates or their par
ents. Those boys living in the Irving
P ark d istrict who wish to play
should sign up at Peninsula. The
Sportsmen and Irvin g boundaries
are now one— the result o f a merger
between the two.
Linle League begins this Saturday
in local parks.
The N a tio n a l A A U basketball
tournament will take place M arch
25-28 at D avid Douglas H igh
School’s two gymnasiums. Play will
begin M arch 25 at 3 pm , and the
final game is scheduled for Sunday
at 4 pm.
This year's field is loaded. A ll
four o f last year’s tournament final
ists are back. The finalists include
O h io ’ s Custer brothers who took
second last year. M arathon O il rep
resenting Chicago, D etroit, M ich i
gan’s Burger King and the Pacific
N orthwest's own defending cham
pions, Seattle’s Brewster Packing.
The four-day series will bring such
ex-pros as Frank Sanders, form er
Boston Celtic and Kansas City King;
T alvin Skinner, ex-Seattle Super
sonic; and Darnell H illm an, ex-Los
Angeles Laker.
Top Collegians include Dan Cald
w e ll, U n ive rs ity o f W ashington;
Dave W estley, C reighton U n iv e r
sity; M ike Clark, University o f Ore
gon; Ron Baxter, University o f Tex
as; Bill Reynolds, Northwest Louisi
ana; and Bill McShane, Tony M a r
tin, and Ricky Lee, all former Ore
gon State U n ive rs ity players.
McShare, M artin and Lee will repre
sent Advanced Control Technology—
Portland.
This is a national tournament and
should be well worth the price o f ad
mission.
W here have you gone D avid
Thom pson, D av id T h o m pson,
where have you gone charm ing
David?
It would be nice to say that David
Thompson, 6-4 guard, o f the Den
ver Nuggets has gone to take his na
tu ral place among the elite o f the
N B A , but presently that just is not
the situation. W e all remember the
lithe young all- A m erican and col
lege player o f the year that burst on
the N B A scene a fte r a most illus
trious career at N o rth C a ro lin a
State. W e also remember how David
and and his NCS teammates denied
U C L A and Coach John W ooden
the 1974 N C A A cham pionship by
beating the Bruins 74-71. Thompson
had many great nights but who will
ever forget A p ril 9, 1978, the last
game the Detroit Pistons would play
in Cobo Arena before their journey
to Pontiac Silverdome.
Thompson was in a neck-to-neck
finish w ith George G ervin fo r the
N B A scoring title. Gervin was the
eventual winner, but what David did
then was spectacular. He shot 28-of-
38 from the field, l7-of-20 from the
line, set an N B A record with 13 field
goals in his 32-point first quarter,
had 53 at the half and finished with
73, a figure only surpassed by W ilt
Chamberlain’s 100-point effort.
I t ’ s hard to forget a one-man ef
fo rt lik e that and I ’ m sure D avid
Thompson won’t forget either. The
question now is, “ W h y D avid
Thom pson is held q u ietly in the
background while Denver makes 4s
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run for the playoffs? David has had
a lot of problems, the First o f which
was “ the contract,” that eight hun
dred thousand whopper that David
signed a fte r the 1978 season de
signed primarily by Denver to keep
the rest o f the N B A predators away
from their young star. That contract
led to many ill feelings among team
mates and fans. Many will say that
“ the contract” led to Thom pson’s
demise.
After “ the contract,” David was
beset by injuries. He overcame the
first, a bad heel in 1980 that caused
him to miss all but th irty -n in e
games. Thom pson bounced back
momentarily last year to reclaim his
stardom with the Nuggets and one
would think that the nightmare was
over. Not so.
The 1982 season saw D avid
nagged with injuries causing him to
miss twenty o f the team 's first
thirty-five games. He was later fined
for missing piactice and rumor had
it that he was fighting a drug prob
lem.
Thom pson is again healthy but
under Coach Doug M o e ’s system,
Thom pson's scoring is no longer
needed. You see, David is a guard
and Moe depends on his front line
o f Dan Issel, Alex English and Kiki
Van de Weghe to do the scoring.
W hat M oe demands out o f the
backcourt is good defense and ball
h an d ling . N ew ly acquired T .R .
D u n n , fro m P o rtla n d , has been
super in the backcourt and has
emerged as the team’s top rebound
er and ballhandler.
Thompson now Finds himself in a
situation not unlike that o f P o rt
la n d ’ s B illy Ray B a te s .. no m in
utes.
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The problem: No speed in the backcourt
by Ron Sykes
As the N B A season draws to an
end i t ’ s becoming more and more
evident that Portland cannot win.
Not only will this team not make the
playoffs, but this 1982 team will not
finish above .500. Why then? There
is one reason that we all are aware
o f, and there’s one that’s seldom if
ever discussed.
I t ’ s been w idely discussed that
this Blazer team is lacking the domi
nant force in the middle, and, now,
it’s so apparent that this team is miss
ing speed in the backcourt.
To see the problem all one has to
do is first turn to the college game,
the game that is widely recognized
as the scoring ground for the pros.
As we watch the 1982 n atio n al
collegiate Division I championship
unfurl we recognize one thing imme
diately. . .the best 16 teams all had
one thing in common. No it wasn’t
the dominating center, but speed in
the backcourt. And that friends is
what is hurting Portland the most.
Remember the “ 7 6 -7 7 ” cham
pionship team? W ell, that team only
really came into it’s own when Cap
tain Bill W alton asked Coach Jack
Ramsay to use silver-q u ick John
Davis for the injured Dave Tw ard-
zik instead o f the experienced but
lead-footed Larry Steele. It was then
that these Blazers became red-hot-
and-rollin’ .
N ow , I ’ m sure some people will
not w ant to believe this but here
comes anyway.
The b elief here is that it is Jim
Paxson that is hurting most o f all.
Sure Jim is consistent, he’s in te lli
gent and all those good things.
Paxson can deliver the jumper as
steady as a popcorn machine turns
out popcorn.
But Jim does not have the speed
so necessary for big minutes in to
day’ s N B A . Paxson would be b ril
liant as a sixth man, because he is a
steadying influence.
Today’s game depends so heavily
on tra n s itio n , and tran s itio n de
mands speed.
Come playoff time just watch the
teams that are going som ewhere.
They will all have one thing in com
mon— speed in the backcourt.
Sure, some w ill say what about
the Celtics, the hottest team in the
N B A , don’t they start slow-footed
Chris Ford in their backcourt? And
a re n ’ t they the team w ith the best
N B A record?
Sure, Ford is a starter, but the key
here is the word starter. Boston only
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