Page 18/The Battalion/Thursday, April 14, 1983
Spurs notch two victories over LA
as Banks scores career-high of 44
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — San
Antonio forward Gene Banks
says the key to playing the Lak
ers is to get off to a good start.
Banks started out with 22
points in the first half Wednes
day night and ended the game
with a total of 44, a career high,
to lead the San Antonio Spurs to
a 114-109 victory over Los
Angeles.
Earlier Wednesday night,
San Antonio made use of three
seconds to gain another win for
its record and hand the Lakers a
117-1 14 defeat in a replay of a
Nov. 30 game.
“The key against L. A. is to get
out to a good start. L.A. will al
ways keep coming back at you so
you have to be ready to make the
big plays,” said Banks who con
nected on 19 of his 22 shots f rom
the floor to break his previous
career high of 32 points.
The second-year forward
from Duke scored 22 points in
each half, including 14 in the
fourth quarter.
“Banks played like a man pos
sessed,” San Antonio coach Stan
Albeck said. “It’s great to have
someone come in and do the job
when everyone seems to be con
centrating on the three big
men.”
The victory gave the Midwest
Divison champion Spurs a 51-29
record and a 4-1 advantage over
the Pacific Division champion
Lakers in the season series.
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Los Angeles coach Pat Riley
said the Lakers were underman
ned Wednesday night, playing
without forward Jamaal Wilkes,
whose wife gave birth to a child
in Los Angeles Tuesday. James
Worthy was also out with a
broken leg.
“In the second game,” he said,
“I think the Spurs had some
thing to prove. Gene Banks
played the game of his career
and has really improved as a
player.”
Led by Banks and George
Gervin, San Antonio built a 15-
point, 101-8(5 lead midway
through the fourt h quarter. The
Lakers scored 1 1 straight to cut
the Spurs’ lead to 101-97, but
could come no closer.
Gervin, who had only six
points over the first three quar
ters, added 10 in the final
period. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
led Los Angeles, now 57-23,
with 38 points.
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Norm Nixon agreed the abs
ence of key players made a dif
ference.
“We have a lot of key people
missing and it's hard to compen
sate when you’re in that posi
tion. I think if we would have
had Jamaal tonight we would
have been fine. Watch for the
Lakers in the playof fs.”
San Antonio gained the re
play of a game won 137-132 in
double overtime by the Lakers
by protesting a free throw lane
violation call by referee Jack
Madden on the second of two
f ree throws by Nixon.
In an attempt to give his team
either a chance for a game-tying
or game-winning shot, Nixon
faked a f ree throw to draw a lane
violation. League officials sup
ported the Spurs’ protest that
Nixon's fake violated NBA
rules.
In the replay, picked up at the
point of the protest, Nixon
failed in an attempt to bounce
the ball off the rim to one of his
teammates. 1 he ball hit off the
backboard and was awarded to
San Antonio at mid-court.
Johnny Moore was fouled on
the inbound pass and made his
first free throw. He missed the
second attempt which was re
hounded by Los Angeles for--
ward Kurt Rambis, whose 92-
foot shot at the bu/./er missed In
less than a foot.
In the Nov. 30 version of the
game, Nixon hit a jump shot
with one sec one! remaining to t ie
the game at 1 1(5-1 1 (5 and sc nd it
into its first overtime.
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Mavericks defea
Utah Jazz,
United Press International
DALLAS — With the play
offs put off until at least next
year for the Dallas Mavericks,
coach Dick Motta is spending
the last few games of the sea
son looking toward the fu
ture.
And Elston Turner’s fu
ture seems awfully bright.
Turner, who began the
season with an assortment of
injuries, has been only an
occasional contributor this
season — averaging a modest
14 minutes a game and just
3.5 points per contest.
But on Wednesday night
Turner demonstrated the
attributes the Mavericks ex
pect of him.
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licit in the final ntoitm
the period.
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Turner played 24 minutes
against the Utah Ja/./., and in
the fourth quarter scored
nine points and put at least a
partial stop to the streak
shootinu of Darrell Grif fith.
Turner limited Cti 4and
just one basket during ation
seven minutes of did jtes —
quarter. BsAi
Dallas was in a p jthe\ m
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In addition, the second-
year guard pulled down six
rebounds and came up with
five steals in helping the
Mavericks to a 10(5-99 win
over Utah.
game losing streaktkiBrve ;
earlier this week, mnday
It was only the second time
in six tries Dallas had man
aged to whip Utah this season.
"AH you can do against Dar
rell is to overplay him anti
deny him the ball,” said Tur
ner. “That's what I tried todo.
A lot of times they didn't set
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good basketball lean,'|
Motta. “1 was hopind
38 (wins, whichtneiln
i cached Wednesday j
1 fiat’s 10 more wins It
sear and it is a nkew
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pet live, though. Ten
w ins were against iw
(Houston and San D<!
had a weaker divisi
year."