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Stiles Fired Up for
WNBA Season
Local
Athletes
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(A P)— Jackie
Stiles sat on an
a lu m in u m
bleacher, fidget
ing. H er right leg
ta p p e d
so
quickly against
the m etal bench
that the w hole
thing squeaked
and shook.
A fter m onths
o f injury and in
Jackie Stiles
a c tiv ity , S tile s
was eager to take part in the
Portland F ire’s first practice
M onday. And she also m ade
an extraordinary admission, for
her: that her full-bore tenacity
m ight have done m ore harm
than good — to her and the
team — last season.
“ I feel a lot responsible for
w hat happened to us at the
end last year,” Stiles said. “ I
probably overdid it, but it was
a tough adjustm ent. The way.I
gain confidence is from my
w ork ethic, but som etim es that
can hurt m e.”
Stiles, 23, was the W N B A ’s
rookie o f the year last season,
started in all 32 gam es and av
eraged 14.9 points. But she de
veloped a sore right w rist, her
shooting w rist, and late in the
season broke her left w rist and
d id n ’t even know it until a
month later.
The m ore she w ore dow n,
the m ore her team struggled.
Portland started 8-4, but lost
17 o f its last 20.
Stiles had surgery in Sep
tem ber, and around that tim e
doctors discovered the frac
ture in her left w rist. It had
already m ended, so it was left
alone. Stiles had to w ear a cast
on her right arm for six w eeks,
though. She also had surgery
earlier this year to rem ove an
Grant Sophomore Ronnie
Perry tests his form and
concentration in the 100
meter high hurdles last week
at a track meet on the
Marshall High School
campus.
P H O T O B v D a vid G iezyng /
T he P ortland O bserver
Blazers Forced Into Summer Retirement
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hard. I figured Pip would fake to
Kobe and try to deny me the rock.”
T he B lazers had one last
chance, but Pippen’s inbound
pass went over W allace’s head,
and Horry rebounded with 0.9
seconds left.
Pippen took the blame for his
d e fe n se on H o rry ’s b a sk e t.
“I didn’t get out to Horry, basi
cally, and it cost us the ballgame,”
Pippen said.
Portland was in the game not
only because the Lakers shot 41
percent in the second half, but
also because the Blazers played
terrific defense on O ’Neal for a
change.
He finished with 21 points, but
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Portland's Rasheed Wallace tries to deny an entry pass into the
Lakers ’ Samaki Walker. (AP photo)
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he went into the fourth shooting
just l-for-5 from the field. Portland
used a combination of defenders
on O ’ Neal to deny him the ball, but
he started getting free in the final
period, when he was 4-of-6. He
actually did most of his damage
from the free-throw line, making
11 o f 16. He also had 11 rebounds
and seven assists.
“Reading the paper, 1 knew they
were going to throw everybody at
me, even Paul Allen,” O ’Neal said.
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“So 1 was trying to keep my guys
involved.”
Wallace had 20 points and 12
rebounds to lead the Blazers, and
Bonzi Wells added 19 points.
Portland kept it close despite
going more than five minutes with-
o u t a b a sk e t in y th e fo u rth .
W a lla c e ’s sh o rt tu rn a ro u n d
jum per ended the drought, giving
the Blazers an 80-78 lead with 5:34
to play. It was anyone’s game
until the final minute.
“W e had our chances this
whole series, especially tonight,”
said Portland center Dale Davis,
who fouled out for the second
time in the series. He was ejected
from the other game. “T here’s no
way that we shouldn’t have won
that game, but we didn’t.”
Portland fell to 2-9 in playoff
series against the Lakers, who
have elim inated the Blazers five
tim es in the last six years.
“I ’m ju st sick right now, em o
tio n a lly , p h y s ic a lly ,” W ells
said. “We played our hearts out.
Everybody cam e out here and
left it all on the court, but they’re
the cham ps. And w e’re ju st like
all the rest o f the team s in the
league. W e’re ju st fighting for
second.”
ovarian cyst.
Stiles, the gym rat, nearly
w ent nuts. T he young w om an
who forced h erself take 1,000
ju m p shots before calling it a
d ay w h ile g ro w in g u p in
Claflin, K an., was so w eak once
the cast cam e off, she c o u ld n ’t
even get the ball near the rim.
“T hat was a very hum bling
experience.” she said. “ It kind
o f felt like 1 was alm ost starting
over again.”
O ver the last few w eeks,
how ever, Stiles has been prac
ticing and lifting w eights more
than seven hours a day. She
says she ’ s back at full strength,
and is even thankful that her
ailm ents forced her to take a
break from the gam e after play
ing nearly 15 m onths straight.
“If I w ouldn’t have had the
su rg e rie s, I w o u ld n ’t have
stopped,” she said. “ It forced
m e to lay off, to get rested. It
also show ed m e how m uch I
love the gam e o f basketball
and how hard it is to be aw ay
from it.”
C oach L inda H argrove said
Stiles is slow ly learning that
she c a n ’t push h e rse lf as hard
as she w ants.
“W e’re trying to get her to
think in term s o f a 10-year c a
reer. She alw ays thinks about
tom orrow ,” H argrove said.
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