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Trail Blazers 115, Bucks 111
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George Karl envies Mike Dunleavy’s
choices. So does every other coach
in the NBA.
The Portland Trail Blazers’ remarkable
d ep th and seem ingly boundless
confidence carried them to a 115-111
victory over Milwaukee on Monday
night.
The Blazers won forthe ninth time in
1 Ooutings and improved the league’s
best record to 3 7-11 by winning rather
easily under arduous circumstances.
Portland was playing its fourth road
gam e in five nights, but Dunleavy
dipped into his reserve strength to
breeze past the inconsistent Bucks
w ith 37 fourth-quarter points and a
tenacious defensive stand.
“O ur starters were tired. We started
to play sluggish, and that’s when
they started making runs on us,”
Dunleavy said. “When we went to
our bench, wearing them down was
th e m in d se t, and w e did th a t
effectively.”
M eanw hile, Karl had the sam e
problem he has faced throughout his
first 99 games as the coach o f the
Bucks. Unless the offense is working
together, Milwaukee sputters to a
halt - and usually loses.
“They play a great 48-minute game,”
Karl said o f the Blazers. "They play
more (quality) minutes in a game than
any other team in the NBA. They
have big guys, athletes and shooters,
and Dunleavy can choose what he
wants to put on the floor.”
Steve Smith had 24 points and hit a
key jum per with 34 seconds left for
the Blazers, who made their decisive
fourth-quarter run with five reserves
playing most o f the minutes.
“Their duties are evenly distributed
amongst every player on the team,”
said Milwaukee’s Ray Allen, who
had 26 points. “That is a team. That’s
what you play for.”
Portland improved its road record to
20-8 while play ing just one night after
a 100-94 victory in Boston. The
Blazers handed Milwaukee its third
loss in four games.
Portland trailed much o f the game
before storming back against the
inconsistent Bucks, who shot 56
percent from the field, but couldn’t
execute in the fourth quarter. The
Blazers hit 11 o f 15 shots in the final
period.
"It was a prime example o f us not
taking advantage o f possessions,”
Allen said. “Portland did that. They
went to the free-throw line or took
advantage o f every other possession.
That’s how they won the game.”
ArterGlenn Robinson’s jumper tied it
at 97 with 5:21 to play, the Blazers
made an 11-4 run keyed by big
defensive plays from Smith. Greg
Anthony. Milwaukee managed just
two jumpers by Danny Manning in a
4-minute span.
NFL star Derrick Thomas dies
A ss< x ia i ed P ress
Derrick Thomas, one o f the most
feared defenders in the NFL and a
nine-tim e Pro Bowl player, died
Tuesday, less than a month after being
paralyzed in a car crash on an icy
road. He was 33.
Thomas was being transferred from
his hospital bed to a wheelchair on
his way to therapy when he uttered
something to his mother and his eyes
rolled back, said Dr. FrankEismont,a
neurosurgeon at Jackson Memorial
Hospital.
“We were hoping that Derrick’s story
would have been a happier ending,”
he sa id . “T h is is v ery m uch
unexpected.”
The Kansas City Chiefs linebacker,
who held the NFL record o f seven
sacks in a game, went into cardio
respiratory arrest, he said.
Doctors have not determined an exact
cause o f death and might perform an
autopsy. One o f Thomas’ doctors,
Dr. Barth Green, said a massive blood
clot probably killed Thomas.
“This is a total shock,” Green said.
“Derrick was an extraordinary person
and was breaking all the records while
he was here.”
A shaken Chiefs coach Gunther
Cunningham recalled telephoning
Thomas at the Miami hospital from
the Pro Bowl on Sunday in Hawaii,
Tiger from page 1
“W hen y ou’re coming down the
stre tc h in a to u rn a m e n t and
everything is on the line, you forget
what you have done — how bad you
have played or how good you have
played,” he said. “What really counts
is the moment. It’s right now. That’s
what you focus on.”
The focus now shifts to another of
the game’s greats, Byron Nelson, and
a record that some consider even
more out o f reach than Joe DiMaggio’s
56-game hitting streak or the Los
Angeles Lakers’ 33-game winning
streak.
Nelson won 11 straight tournaments
in 1945, a time when the field was
depleted because o f World War II
and when golf didn’t have nearly the
number o f talented players it does
now.
Hogan won six in a row in 1948, and
five in a row in 1953, including the
British Open.
Since then, no one has gone longer
than three straight tournam ents
without getting beaten.
“ It's going to take somebody to stuff
it in his face a couple o f times coming
down the stretch to knock him off,”
Davis Love III said on the eve o f
Pebble Beach.
Goodluck.
The latest to try was Matt Gogel, a 28-
year-old rookie who played the first
10 holes in 5-under to build a seven-
shot lead.
Right about the time everyone was
willing to give upon Woods, he rocked
Pebble Beach as only he can. On the
15th hole. Woods hit a wedge from 97
yards away that landed four feet right
o f the flag and spun back into the hole
for an eagle.
On the next hole, he came within an
inch of another eagle from the fairway.
On the 17th, he nearly chipped in from
near the same spot where Tom Watson
holed a chip to win the 1982 U.S.
Open.
And Woods closed his final-round
64 with a birdie on the 18th.
Gogel, meanwhile, made bogeys on
the 11th and 12th holes, another one
on No. 16andcouldn’tm usterabirdie
on the 18th to force a playoff.
“ I don’t know about destiny,” Gogel
said. “H e’s just damned good.”
W oods punched the air with one of
his famous uppercuts when he made
1
the eagle on the 15th, a signature shot
in a vintage charge.
“ It was one o f those things where
you're trying to get it close and leave
yourself a putt at birdie,” he said. “It
ju st happened to go in.”
It always seems to work out that way
for him.
In a playoff against Tom Lehman in
the 1997 Mercedes Championship,
his 7-iron hit the cup on the first extra
hole and left him a tap-in for victory.
In the Memorial Toumament last year.
Woods was in a fight with Vijay Singh
in the final round and faced a certain
bogey — or worse — until he holed
a chip from thick rough.
And in his first appearance in the
Phoenix Open three years ago, a
tournament infamous for its football
like crowd around the par-3 16th,
W oods gave them som ething to
celebrate with a hole-in-one.
He didn’t just become the youngest
Masters champion in 1997 — he did
it with a record score to win by the
largest margin tournament history.
“His ability to make it happen when it
h as to h a p p e n is c o n s is te n t,”
Nicklaus said recently. “T hat’s what
makes champions. I marvel watching
him play.”
W oods’ sixth straight victory was
even more exciting than No. 5. Inthat
one, he finished eagle-birdie-birdie
to beat two-time U.S. Open champion
Ernie Els on the second playoff hole
in Hawaii to win the M ercedes
Championship.
“ I think he’s a legend in the making,"
Els said. “ H e’s 24. H e’s probably
going to be bigger than Elvis when he
gets into his 40s.”
Woods has tried to play down talk o f
the streak because it takes place over
two years, and because he played a
European tour event late last year
and tied for sixth. But No. 6 got his
attention.
“It’s definitely more intriguing, no
doubt about that,” he said.
The next stop in pursuit o f Nelson
co m es T h u rsd a y in the B uick
Invitational at Torrey Pines G olf
Course in La Jolla, Cal if.
Woods is the defending champion in
the Buick. A year ago, he had rounds
o f62-65 on the weekend, and broke a
tie on the last hole with an eagle.
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after seeing players and fans honoring
Thomas by wearing his number.
Thomas had not been selected for
this year’s game.
“Derrick said, ‘Coach, be strong.' He
never told me how strong 1 needed to
be,” Cunningham said.
After a game, Thomas would always
walk across the field “with a smile on
his face,” the coach said. “Not
because the Chiefs won. but because
that’s the way he was. And that’s the
way I’ll always remember him.”
Flags were lowered to half staff at
Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City,
and the Missouri Legislature paused
for a moment o f si lence after Thomas ’
death was announced by state Sen.
Bill K enney, a form er C h iefs
quarterback.
“Derrick Thomas was a’true hero,”
said Kenney, who urged lawmakers
to support a bill for spinal cord
research in Missouri.
Thomas was driving a car during a
snowstorm on Jan. 23 as he and two
friends headed to the Kansas City
airport to fly to St. Louis forthe NFC
Championship game. He lost control
o f the car and it overturned at least
three times, police said.
Police said Thomas was speeding
and weaving in traffic, but prosecutor
Don Norris said there w asn’t enough
evidence to file charges.
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