Page 8 Portland Observer, April 6, 1983
A fte r all was la id and done the
N orth C aro lin a State W olfpack
went out and took a 54-52 win from
the n a tio n '* top ranked team, the
Houston Cougars.
Houston's famed Phi Scamma
J am ma shouldn't feel bad. For they
weren't outplayed in Albuquerque
last Monday night, they were merely
outcoached
Houston's Guy Lewis, coaching
in his first championship game in 27
years, coached as if it were his first
game period. Lewis made two mon­
umental coaching errors. First he
left Clyde "The Glide" Drexler. the
hub o f both his offense and defense,
in the game long enough to pick up
four, yes four louls in the first half.
This should never happen to a
player that means so much to a
team.
What Lewis did was tantamount
to asking Alberto Salazar to run the
Boston Marathon on one leg, while
all the other runners use two.
A player can play the second half
with three fouls, but is reduced to
almost nothing when he’s asked to
play with four. Drexler's game be­
came so tentative that he was no
longer a factor. Clyde’s line was a
sub par l-S from the flo o r, 2 re­
bounds, no assists and no blocked
shots.
Houston’ s bench is so deep that
they could have survived this first
mistake and were on the way to
doing so.
The Cougars went into the dres­
sing room down 33-25. On Saturday
they trailed No. 2 Louisville by a 12-
point margin. In the second half,
with Drexler leading break after
break and Akeem Olajuwon grab­
bing board after board, while block­
ing everything in sight the Cougars
outscored the Cardinals 21-2 and
went on to victory.
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But against the Wolfpack Coach
Lewis chose to slow the game down
after his team erased an eight-point
halftim e deficit and went up by
seven.
W h at’s that old saying, "Dance
with the one that brings you." Well,
Houston won all year by running,
not by going in to a freeze. When
they had NCS on the rocks early in
the second half, Lewis made a mis­
take by loosening up when he
should
have
tightened
the
tourniquet.
Monday's loss by Houston, or I
should say L e w is .. .is a classic ex­
ample in showing that the best team
doesn't always win. Houston, for
sure, had the horses. N orth
C arolina Stale's Jim Valvano
proved to be the best coach. And
how about Akeem " T h e D ream "
Olajuwon? "T he Dream” was awe­
some against the " P a c k ." He had
20 points, snagged 23 boards and
seven blocked shots. Just how good
is Akeem?
"O laju w o n is rapidly becoming
the best center in the game.” stated
Lew Harris, "and I ’ve seen them all
through the years. This man is a
better shot blocker than Bill Russell,
he's more aggressive the Chamber­
lin and quicker than Jabbar," H a r­
ris goes on to say.
“ And in my book," Harris says,
"the guys were the best of all time."
Com paring O laju w on w ith to ­
day's lop centers Ralph Sampson
and Pat Ewing, the feeling here is
that Akeem is better than Ewing and
not far behind the 7-4 Sampson. Re­
member Akeem is from Lagos, N i­
geria, a country in Africa that is bet­
ter known for its jungles than for
basketball courts. Olajuwon's pro­
gress in just one year has been phe­
nomenal. Houston, despite their de­
feat, is still the best team in the
country. P A C -1 0 , as wll as west
coast basketball, was considered
down this year. And after watching
the final four teams— NCS, Louis­
ville, Georgia and Houston one can
easily see why basketball’ s elite
made their statements claiming east­
ern and southern superiority.
The teams in the fin al four
showed us all that the thinking and
recruiting o f players is due fo r a
great revolution. The lean, skinny
players are now replaced with big
muscular athletes who can run
through brick walls, skywalk and
handle the ball. Perhaps Coach Jack
A vina put it best when he said.
"West Coast basketball will have to
change; we've got to alter our think­
ing as far as the recruitment of play­
ers." I f the teams gathered at Albu­
querque were representative of col­
legiate’s finest, then the message
should be clear. For othey were all
comprised of big, swift black play­
ers. There wasn't one white starter
on any of the four teams. I f Oregon
and Oregon State are to be competi­
tive on the national scene, they’ re
going to have to travel south or east
and actively recruit the Houston
prototype.
Remember Moses?
Thursday, October 21, 1976 just
may be one o f the blackest days in
T railblazer history. For it was on
this day Coach Jack Ramsay let the
greatest player in basketball go.
The following is an excerpt from
a local publication; The players
seemed to take the departure o f
Moses Malone (traded Tuesday to
Buffalo for cash and a future draft
choice) well. One who was saddened,
however, was Lucas, who, like M a ­
lone. came to Portland in the disper­
sal d ra ft o f American Basketball
Association players.
" I miss M o ." Lucas said. " I feel
sorry for him. I don’t think he had a
chance here. He can play the game.
1 know that because I played «gain«»
him in the A B A ."
Luke was so right. M o, as Luke
calls him, can truly play the game,
as he’s proven night in and night
out. But how can you feel sorry for
a man who makes two million per?
As it turned out Portland's letting
Malone go was the best thing that
could have happened to Moses. He
would never have made that kind of
money in the Rose C ity. D r. Jack
d id n 't like Moses' game, and has
said in the past that he wasn't too
fond o f “ Dr. J ."
Oh, well, to each his own.
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That former Blazers Geoff Petrie,
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That both Sidney Wicks and Cur­
tis Rowe joined the Celtics in Octo­
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Dong Ja Yang, assistant profes­
sor of physical education at Howard
University, is the man behind the tae
kwon do movement in the United
States.
He has generated so much respect
for this Korean martial art that in
May 1982 lac kwon do was recog­
nized by the International Olympic
Committee and will be included in
the 1988 Olympic games.
Yang has also coached the H ow ­
ard University Tae Kwon Do team
to the number one position in the
National Amateur Athletic Union,
making H ow ard's squad the top
team in collegiate tae kwon do in the
nation.
From 1977 to 1982, Yang present­
ed lectures and seminars to students
and instructors at 69 colleges na-
Dong Ja Y an g . le ft, co ach o f th e H o w a rd U n ivaraity tae k w o n do
tea m . w a tc h e s m e m b ers o f his ch am p io n s h ip te a m d e m o n s tra te v a ­
rious kic k s o f th e K o rean m a rtia l a rt.
(P h o to : M a rv in T. Jonas)
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tionwide on establishing tae kwon
do as a part of their physical educa­
tion programs as well as an in tra ­
mural and club sport.
In 1967, Yang went to How ard
from the University of Iowa to teach
tae kwon do and judo, adding both
m artial arts to H ow ard's physical
education program.
Yang promotes tae kwon do be­
cause of the physical, spiritual and
technical values he says it gives.
" In my e s tim a tio n ," he says,
"none of the other sports can give
these benefits to the same degree
that tae kwon do does." His goal is
to see tae kwon do become a popu­
lar sport.
A native of Korea, Yang is a mas­
ter o f both tae kwon do and judo.
He is 5 ft. 8 in., 184 lbs. and in com­
petitions, he is included in the
"light-heavy” category.
In his native Korea, where Yang
began participating in martial arts at
the age o f 5, almost all o f the
schools have tae kwon do as a part
o f their physical education pro­
grams.
" T a e kwon do is new to the
United States," he says. " I wanted
to introduce it and make an effort to
spread it around as a sport and an
art.”
Because o f his involvement in
promoting tae kwon do nationally,
Yang was elected to a second term
as president o f the 45,000-member
National A A U Tae Kwon Do Union
o f the U .S .A ., the governing body
of tae kwon do in the United States.
He served as president o f the N a­
tional Collegiate Tae Kwon Do As­
sociation for four years— 1974 to
1978. This past December, he was
elected first vice president o f the
Pan American Tae Kwon Do
U nion , which is comprised o f 32
countries from North, Central and
South America. And, he is a mem­
ber o f the U nited States Olympic
Committee.
Tae kwon do, which literally
means the art of fighting (do) with
the feet (tae) and hands (kwon), was
developed in Korea about 2,300
years ago. It consists of moves that
use kicks about 75 percent o f the
time and hand moves or punches
about 25 percent o f the time. It is a
method of offense and defense with­
out the use o f weapons, and in ­
volves personal encounter.
Karate, on the other hand, is pri­
m arily 75 percent hand moves or
punches and 25 percent kicks, and
judo primarily consists of throwing,
holding, choking and arm locks.
According to an A pril 1982 sur­
vey conducted by the University of
California at Berkeley, there are 127
colleges in the United States (hat
have tae kwon do teams.
This past November, the Howard
U niversity Tae Kwon Do Team
competed at a competition hosted
by the University o f C alifornia at
Berkeley which included teams from
H a rv a rd , Y ale, U C L A , Stanford
University. M IT , Cornell and the
University o f Maryland. The H ow ­
ard team maintained its status as the
national collegiate champions—a ti­
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"Members of the team have their
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" T a e kwon do requires superb
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