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Page 4..The Portland Observer...April 15,1992
B lazers W in P a cific D iv is io n (again), H o-H um
BY BILL BARBER
There are only about a dozen Port
land residents who were surprised to
hear that news (and they just moved
here from C alifornia this year). Port
land fans did not need to be clairvoyant
or visit a psychic. They have seen this
com ing for a long time. It was alm ost
anti-clim atic on Sunday. D uckw orth’s
perform ance was certainly not anti-
clim atic; there’s no soubt h e’s ready
for the playoffs.
“ My rookie year we went to the
fin a ls” said C liff R o b in so n after
Portland’s thunderous defeat of San
Antonio (123-97) Sunday afternoon.
“It was my first year and 1 wasn ’ t really
com fortable with what was going on.”
He continued, “ Last year 1 played well
and this year I ’m really looking for
ward to it. We did n ’t accom plish what
we w anted to last year. This year, the
whole team has the resolve that they
don’t want to go back into the playoffs
and have the same thing happen again.
W e arc playing well right now. W e’re
going to the boards, m oving the ball
and playing together. As long as we
continue to play together, we are going
to hard to beat.”
Pacific Division champs! - No
cham pagne - N o “W e’re N um ber 1,'
The attitude of the players and coaches
in the locker room was ju st business
like. They were all saying the same
thing. “ It’s only the first step on our list
o f goals.” It w asn’t rehearsed that ev
eryone on the team should sound like a
pet shop full of parrots. That is simply
TH E com m on attitude o f a group of
determ ined men, whose goals were
chiseled in stone after the last loss of
the 1991-92 season. The really inter
esting thing about that attitude, is that
Kevin Duckworth shows he has what it takes to advance beyond Pacific
Division Champ to winning the national playoffs.
you could see it in the faces of the fans
as they exiled Memorial Coliseum on
Sunday afternoon.
The current altitude is not a new
phenomenon. In interviews and infor
mal chats throughout the season, it be
came abundantly clear that everyone
associated with the Portland Trail Blazer
team had the same “G et the job done”
outlook. I do n ’t think any team in the
W estern Conference is looking forward
to a match-up with the Blazers right
now. they’re hot! W hen it com es to
overall balance, Portland has to be the
Blazer Broadcasting
To Air Third Prime
Time Special
K in g Basketball C lin ic
The Trail Blazers will wrap up
their highly successful 1991-92 regular
season with a 60-minute prime time
special entitled “Blazer Trail...The Sec
ond Season,” scheduled to air Tuesday,
April 21 at 8:00 p.m. on K 0IN -T V .
Blazers fans in M edford and Grants
Pass can also view the special on TCI
cable. Residents o f the Eugene-Spring
field area can see the special on
“O regon’s Fox,” KLSR-TV.
The show will be hosted by Bill
Schoncly. Game action highlights will
center on how the Blazers fared from
the NBA All-Star Game through the
end o f the regular season. Pat Lafferty
gives viewers an inside look at life on
the road in the NBA. Steve Jones will
pay a visit to the Ainge household as
Danny discusses the importance o f fam
ily. The team is active in a num ber o f
community service projects and fans
will see what kind o f impact the Trail
Blazers are having on the Boys and
Girls Clubs o f Portland.
Mike Rice goes one-on-one with
coach Rick Adelman, as they take a
look back at the second half of the
regular season and a look forward to
what the upcoming playoffs may hold
lor the Trail Blazers. Jones pairs with
Rice as the two analysts dissect the last
half o f the regular season and preview
what may be in store for the NBA
Playoffs.
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m ost feared team in the NBA. San
A n to n io ’s S ean E llio tt said a fte r
Sunday’s hum iliation,” The Blazers are
the best team in the conference and
maybe the deepest team in the whole
league.” The Spurs head coach Bob
Bass agreed saying “The Blazers are the
best team out there.”
Balance is alw ays a key in a cham
pionship team. Every team in the league
has a Superstar or two. Basketball fans
all over the country are familiar with the
Trail Blazers starting line up. In Port
land we are fortunate to have a bench
that could probably start on the majority
of team s in the NBA. Not just because
of their talent; it’s the intangibles. They
play with a lot of heart, determ ination,
and a team concept that a lot of players
forget after college when the big bucks
of the NBA start rolling in. they’re all
playing in their prim e ... even if they
haven’t reached i t ... or they’re a little
beyond it. Every time they come o ff the
bench, and the other team thinks they
will get a little breather because the “ B ig
Boys” have sat down; but the bench
comes on to play their precious few
minutes like they’re two points behind
with only 10 seconds to play! Anyone
who has ever played the game will tell
you, “ You c a n ’t beat a team like that.”
W ayne Cooper, a Portland crowd
favorite said, “A fter 14 years in the
league, the thing that you want m ost is a
cham pionship. T hat is w hat you are
going to rem em ber when it’s all over.
You w on’t forget the great games that
you had. or the special m oments o f
winning the W estern Conference, but
winning the cham pionship would be the
best thing for me, considering the years
it took to do it.” W e are all in agreem ent,
Coop.
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The United Negro College Fund is
hoping that a lot o f people would like to
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with all proceeds going to UNCF>
Each o f the 7” x 18” color litho
graphs features one o f the Blazers' start
ing five (Clyde Drexler, Terry Porter,
Kevin D uckworth, Buck W illiams and
Jerome Kersey), and they are available
at any Bank of America branch location
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the price o f the prints.
"This project is an exciting one to
work with because it has such an O r
egon flavor," said Adrienne Caver, area
developm ent director for UNCF. "The
Blazers are O regon's team and with 65
Bank of America branches throughout
the state it makes it a real grass roots
fund-raising effort. In addition, a p o r
tion of the proceeds raised from these
prints will go to O regon scholars."
The UNCF raises funds to help its
41 member colleges and universities
provide high-quality, low-cost educa
tion to over 50,000 students who com e
from all 50 states. M ost UNCF students
have great hurdles to overcom e and
more than 90% require financial assis
tance. More than half com e from fam i
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textbooks and laboratory equipm ent.
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Herman has developed art for CBS
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