¡FEB 9 2000] f-rtTTTK^VÁv4++++H P age B2 (Tlje Uurtlnuò lattò (îf)beeruer /Sports <Í>1 i» rru rr Trail Blazers 115, Bucks 111 A sstM lA T tp P ress 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. Sound familiar? Western Conference F A C IF IC N 3/ Fort Und X -. 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