Portland Observer, June 30, 1982 Page 9
Sport Talk
by Ron Sykes
Sports Editor
Portland gives up no. I pick point
guard Kelvin Ransey for W ayne
Cooper, who will serve strictly as a
backup to M ychal Thompson at
Center. Where’s the help?
D allas is (he big winner in this
trade. The M avs, drafting fou rth ,
will take college basketball's third*
best power forward, coming out this
year, Wyoming’s Bill Garnett.
Experts all agree that Ralph
Sampson o f Virginia is the best cen
ter around with Georgetown’ s Pat
Ewing not far behind.
So the question here is did P o rt
land gain or lose in the Ransey
trade? The answer is: a standstill.
The Blazers gained a badly needed
big man. But lost a prem ier point
guard. You be the judge.
Is it wise to give up a prem ier
point guard to gain a mediocre
center? Also remember that Dallas
was seriously considering waiving
W ayne C ooper in December.
Cooper was only w ithdraw n (fro m
waivers) after Portland showed in
terest in him. I t ’ s believed around
the western conference that the
Trailblazers are the sole reason M r.
Cooper is still in the league.
C o op er, who was a free agent,
signed a m u lti-year contract with
Dallas, believed to be worth I m il
lion spread over 4 years.
The 6-10 center has been traded
three times in as many years. He was
originally drafted in 1978 by Golden
State in the second round. H e was
traded last year to U tah in the deal
that brought Bernard King to G old
en State. From there it was to Dallas
and now Portland.
The Blazers needed help badly in
the front court. W ith the addition o f
Renny C a rr and W ayne C ooper
Blazer brass believes they have gone
from a weak rebounding team to
one o f the best in the western con
ference. But remem ber rebounds
alone cannot win in the N B A .
Draftees named
You still must outscore the oppo
sition in order to win games. The
Blazers lost a prolific scorer in Kel
vin Ransey (13.6 pm).
W ith Ransey gone to D allas the
Blazers made Lafayette “ F a t” lev
er, 6-3, guard from A rizo n a State
their top pick.
M ost follow ers o f T ra ilb la z e r
basketball thought the Blazers
would go for Lester Conner, the 6-4
A ll-A m e ric a guard, fro m Oregon
State. But true to form Blazer brass
passed on the O SU product. It has
been a known fact that fo r some
strange reason P o rtla n d seems to
think very little o f local talent.
C onner is a far superior a ll-
around guard than Lever. L et’s rate
the two prospects in the fou r cate
gories that point guards are needed
to excel in. W e’ll use a 5-point grad
ing system.
C onner: scoring, 4 .0; defense,
5.0, passing, 4.5; rebounding, 5.0.
Lever: scoring, 5.0; defense, 3.5;
passing, 3.5; rebounding, 3.0.
It seems that the Blazers arc look
ing strictly for a scoring guard,
while trading away their only good
point guard. Lever will add scoring
but w ha, w ill they do fo r defense.
I t ’s true that Ransey wasn’t exactly
a stalwart on “ D ” but he was ade
quate.
A ll previous scouting reports on
Lever show that the 6-3 flash needs
a good deal o f work in the defensive
department.
Still find it hard to believe a team
that stresses defense, and team play,
could pass on Conner.
And, yes, Portland will miss Ran
sey. At present second year Darnell
V alentine is the only experienced
point guard on the roster. Valentine
needs work, work and more work if
he’s to fill that all-important role.
In the second round P o rtla n d ’s
choice was 6-7 Lyndon Townes o f
James Madison. That works out to
two household names, Toens and
James Madison.
Los Angeles was true to form in
selecting N o rth C a ro lin a ’s James
Worthy number one in the draft. A t
6-9 Worhty will add depth to a team
that’s already loaded.
Jesse Owens
Trophy Award
Worthy at 6-9 is somewhat in the
m old o f E a rv in Johnson. H e is
q u ick, can handle the ball and a
better than adequate passer and
shooter.
Firs, round picks should be a tre
mendous boost to all teams. I can’t
see this happening w ith P o rtla n d .
Lafayette Lever is, at best, a second
round selection.
It should be remembered that un
til now the Blazers have had only
two first round selections on their
roster M ychal Thompson and K el
vin Ransey.
W hat a difference a day makes,
or perhaps a year. When Ransey ar
rived fro m O h io State he was
thought to be the one ingredient the
team needed to become winners
again. A fter one bad year he became
expendable. L ife in the fast lane is
tough.
F
I^BERKELEY
Evelyn Ashford
A secondary ob jective o f the
Clinic is to give high school students
an introduction to the basics o f row
ing so that those interested in row
ing on the Portland Junior C re w ’s
1982-83 competitive teams will come
to the program with a rudimentary
knowledge o f the sport.
Those interested in the clinic may
register for any o f the four sessions
available. The first 40-hour session
is scheduled June 28 to July 23 from
7 to 9 a .m ., M on d ay through F ri-
day. Another 40-hour session will be
offered July 26 through August 20.
Tw o 16-hour sessions arc scheduled
during the same 4-week periods on
Tuesday and Thu rsd ay evenings
from 6 to 8 p .m . A special rowing
program for the blind is being o f
fered for the first tim e, under the
auspices o f Shared Outdoor Adven
ture R ecreation (S O A R ), July 19
through August 13 two evenings per
week.
The fee for the 40-hour classes is
a w a rd .
Edwin Moses
Owens Award winner named
W hen most Am ericans think o f
Jesse Ownes, they remember a man
w ho was a superb exam ple o f the
spirit o f athletic achievement and
com radship am ong nations. It
seems fittin g that a prestigious
aw ard to am ateur athletes should
bear his name.
The first athlete to be so honored
was Sebastian Coe o f Great Britian,
the w o rld ’ s fastest at the classic
distances o f 800 m eters, 1,000
meters and the mile.
The 25-year-old student o f social
history and economics surged to a
rush o f 50 first-place votes with the
Portland Rowing Clinic begins program
Portland Rowing Clinic will begin
its fifth summer rowing program on
Monday. June 28 at Station L Row
ing Club. The clinic is open to both
men and women ages 14 and above,
the p rim a ry ob jective o f the p ro
gram is to give beginners a taste o f
the pleasures that can be found in
rowing, and to provide for both the
novice and the experienced rower a
coached program that will develop
rowing skill and promote physical
fitness.
W in n e r
of
Sebastian Coe.
$75 for students and $95 for adults.
The evening class is offered at $45
for students and $60 for adults.
Judy Kitzman, Coach o f Portland
Junior C rew and form er coach o f
women’s crew at Oregon State U n i
versity, is the in s tru c to r. Becky
Stephenson, two-time national row
ing champion at the University o f
Massachusetts and Oregon State
University will assist.
To register, call Judy Kitzman at
283-4078.
five continent blue ribbon jury. Coe
easily outdistanced Edwin Moses,
the U S ’ s top 400 meters h u rd ler,
who was runner up with six firsts.
Inthirds place was Evelyn Ashford,
the US peak women’s sprinter, who
had the same number o f firsts but
was outscored on second votes 26 to
9 by Moses.
O th er fin alists were M a ry T .
Meagher, N o ., 1 swimming star o f
the US, and Olga Bicherova o f the
Soviet U nion, women’ s all-around
gym nastic p e rfo rm e r. They each
received one first place vote.
The first ell-professional U .S. baseball team was
founded in 1 8 7 0 . Its members were know n at
that tim e as the C incinnati Red Stockings.
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