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by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds
Rockets even series
United Press International
BOSTON — Walk the ball up. Slow it down. Take
a time out. Don’t run. Be patient. Take another time
out.
That what’s the Houston Rockets wanted to do to
he fast-breaking Boston Celtics before their NBA
ate with Championship series began.
And Thursday night they played the slow-down
game and half-court offense well enough to beat the
Celtics 92-90 and even the best-of seven series at 1-1.
covering h They also broke a 14-game losing streak against
Boston.
“Don’t call what we play out there a slowdown
5ame,” said Houston coach Del Harris. That’s what
he Celtics were calling it.
itners sir s ] owc ] own j s impossible with a 24-second clock.
1 ul ^°ll e 8 es P^y a slowdown when the players stand
a legal aci. at h a lf cour t and talk about what they did over
heard of l, e weekend” Harris said.
But Houston refused to run with the Celtics, sev-
i’s residents! tral times stalling even on what appeared to be
ics. Ranik potential fast-breaks.
tes a service: i Boston, which loves to run and play a transition
1 not eontri# game from defense-to-offense, was frustrated all
night trying to increase the pace.
“They controlled the tempo of the game all night,”
laid Celtic guard M. L. Carr. “That’s why the tempo
k
pas so sporadic. ”
Knepper hurls Astros past Cubs
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Celtic forward Larry Bird, who had 21 rebounds,
14 defensively to start some fast breaks, said, “We
ran pretty good in spurts but we couldn’t continue it.
We slowed the game down ourselves.”
Celtic coach Bill Fitch said, “We re a fast break
team. We should make five or six turnovers a game
more than a team that plays a slowdown.”
The Celtics though had 22 turnovers to Houston’s
nine, disgruntling Fitch so much he broke a black
board in the lockeroom at halftime.
Celtic guard Chris Ford said, “I don’t think their
slowdown and working for the shot disrupts our
shooting. We turned the ball over too many times in
our backcourt.”
Rocket guards Tom Henderson, Calvin Murphy,
Mike Dunleavy and Allen Leavell took turns setting
up Houston’s offense. Thursday night that was most
ly dumping passes into Moses Malone in the low post
and letting the bullish 6-10 center roll for layups.
The deliberate offense worked. Malone had 10-
for-24 from the floor and went to the free throw line
18 times, sinking 11. Boston, suffering in the slow
down, outrebounded Houston 48-35 and outscored
the Rockets from the floor 41-34.
But the Celtics had only 13 free throws, hitting
eight.
United Press International
ARLINGTON — The word was
out last year: If you want to beat
the Texas Rangers, throw a south
paw at them. But opposing teams
may be ready to revise their
thinking.
The Rangers, who failed horr
ibly against left-handers last sea
son, have defeated seven of the
last nine they have faced, includ
ing three straight Chicago White
Sox starters.
“We’ve played well against left
handers,” Texas catcher Jim
Sundberg said following Thursday
night’s 9-4 triumph.
After Harold Baines gave Chi
cago a 3-2 lead with a two-run tri
ple in the sixth inning the Rangers
came back to score seven times in
the eighth to sweep the three-
games series.
Sundberg cited two other im
provements in the team’s current
success — a “positive attitude”
and a stronger bench.
“I’m pretty pleased with the
progress of the team. We have a
lot of confidence right now, ” he
said.
“Everybody has been doing the
job — even guys who weren’t star
ters — like (Bill) Stein and (Leon)
Roberts. We aren’t playing with
pressure this year.”
Three Rangers starters, Buddy
Bell, Billy Sample and Mickey
Rivers, have been sidelined with
injuries, but Stein has hit .444 (8 of
18) in five games and Roberts has
supplied a home run, double and
four RBI the last two nights.
Texas took a 2-0 lead after four
innings, scoring once in the
second when Mario Mendoza
singled home John Grubb, who
had doubled.
Grubb, who went 2-for-5 and
scored three runs, tallied in the
fourth on a Bump Wills single.
“This team is more exciting than
last year’s,” Sundberg said. “We
have a chance to win more games
than any other year. There is a
great atmosphere and we are get
ting that feeling about winning —
that things can get better.”
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BOSTON — Calvin Murphy’s
agent, Tom Woolf, says the Hous
ton Rockets’ unwillingness to
negotiate a new contract for his
client before the NBA playoffs will
cause them to pay more to keep
him.
“Calvin’s value has risen con
siderably as a result of the Rockets’
success in the playoffs,” Woolf
said. “But aside from the dollars
and cents, there’s a goodwill
aspect to be considered.”
Murphy, who will be 33 Satur
day, becomes a free agent at the
end of the Rockets’ current NBA
championship series, and Woolf
said he will actively seek offers
from other clubs.
The Rockets can retain Murphy
by matching another offer.
For most of this season, the
5-10 guard with the feather shoot
ing touch has performed as the
Rockets sixth man. He lost his
starting job early in the season.
He has consistently come off the
bench to add an offensive lift, and
in one playoff game he scored 42
points.
The agent said he had wanted to
deal only with the Rockets but that
the team forced him to shop his
client.
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CHICAGO — While Los
Ingeles’ Fernando Valenzuela has
een grabbing all the early season
leadlines, Houston’s Bob Knep-
)er has quietly been pitching
ihutouts of his own in relative
obscurity.
His latest gem came Thursday
iftemoon at Wrigley Field when
the veteran southpaw hurled a six-
litter to lead the Astros to a 6-0
riumph over the hapless Chicago
2ubs.
Knepper’s shutout was his third
)f the season and lowered his
iarned run average to 1.00.
“There are no superstars on this
team,” said Knepper, acquired
rom San Fransisco in exchange
or Enos Cabell. “We’re all a regu
ar group of guys here. I don’t
nind working in some obscurity. ”
Knepper, who walked only two
and struck out five, credited his
umaround — he won only nine
md had an ERA of over four last
year —- to his ability to relax.
“The biggest thing is to relax
nd try not to throw harder than I
lave to,” Knepper explained.
m not trying to kill myself out
there. Besides, it’s nice to have an
iarly lead.”
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Houston, winner of eight of 10
on its current road trip and 16 of its
last 18 against the Cubs, staked
Knepper to a 2-0 lead in the first.
Terry Puhl, who scored three
times in the game, led off with a
walk off Chicago starter and loser
Randy Martz, 1-1. Puhl stole
second and scored on Craig
Reynolds’ infield single and a
throwing error by Chicago third
baseman Ken Reitz. Danny Keep
singled Reynolds to third and Jose
Cruz’s sacrifice fly scored
Reynolds.
“I’m sure it makes a pitcher
more relaxed to have the early
lead,” Puhl noted. “But, in Wrig
ley Field, even with the wind
blowing in, you need all you can
get.”
Houston added two runs in the
second on Cruz’s second sacrifice
fly and an RBI single by Art Howe
and two more in the sixth on an
RBI triple by Reynolds and an RBI
double by Heep.
“We sure could use the com
plete game,” said Houston mana
ger Bill Virdon. “We’ve used our
bullpen a little more than we had
wanted lately, so this came in
handy.”
The only serious threat the
Cubs had was in the sixth when
they had runners on first and
third. But Knepper struck out
Scot Thompson and got Bill Buck
ner to bounce into a double play.
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