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Tougher teams awai
Metcalfs hurting Ags
By BRANDON BERRY
Sports Writer
The Texas A&M men’s basketball
team has been concerned with bro
ken teeth, cartilage and bones
through their first seven games.
However, when A&M takes on Oral
Roberts University in Tulsa, Okla.
Saturday night, it will be entering
the meat of its schedule.
Following Saturday’s game, A&M
plays in the Gator Bowl Tournament
in Jacksonville, Fla. (against No. 5-
ranked Georgia Tech in its opening
game) and at the Sugar Bowl Tour
nament in New Orleans (against
Pittsburgh of the highly competitive
Big East Conference in its opener).
The Aggies won’t play in the
friendly, if not empty, confines of G.
Rollie White Coliseum until they
open Southwest Conference play
Jan. 2 against Baylor.
“This is probably the hardest non
conference schedule we’ve ever
played here,” A&M Coach Shelby
Metcalf said. “We’ve played in some
tough tournaments before, like the
(Great) Alaska Shootout and the one
up in Indiana, but the tournaments
we’ve scheduled this year are all
tough places to win. You could play
great basketball and still lose both
games.”
So far this season, the Aggies have
been more worried about losing
bodies, not games.
On Wednesday, sophomore for
ward Fred Burton and junior guard
Steve Vandiver quit the team. Bur
ton wanted to concentrate on aca
demics while Vandiver wanted more
playing time and a program more
suited to his style of play.
1
“Steve (Vandiver) is a good stu
dent and he’ll go someplace and
play,” Metcalf said. “He didn’t have
the quickness that we need from our
guards and that limited his play
time.”
The losses leave A&M with just 11
players on the team, three of which
are walk-ons, and only eight of
which are healthy.
Two of the available players are
recovering from nagging early-sea-
son injuries — forwards Winston
Crite and A1 Pulliam with a sprained
ankle and pulled knee ligaments, re
spectively. Forward Mike Clifford is
playing with two reinstated front
teeth and a pinched nerve in his
shoulder.
Reserve center David Thompson
and back-up point guard Cary Lewis
already are out indefinitely with bro
ken hands.
At one point in the Aggies’ 88-60
victory over Prairie View A&M last
Wednesday, Metcalf used an all
walk-on backcourt (Derrick West
brook and James Pitts), with another
on the wing (Paul Crawford).
“If there’s been a bright spot in all
of this, it’s got to be Paul Crawford,”
Metcalf said. “We wouldn’t have
used him as much as we have this
season if Winston and A1 hadn’t got
ten hurt.
“Paul’s a good athlete with great
jumping ability, but he’s had to make
the transition from a 6-(foot)-5 high
school post player to a perimeter
player. He’s a very smart student,
but he hasn’t had time to learn court
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Pitchers Tom
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son as were theii
starting rotation
Russ Swan.
However, the
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the Aggies an i
A&M’s Don Marbury (3) currently leads the Aggies and theS(<
west Conference in scoring by averaging 26.5 points a game.
de
sense yet.
“Taking nothing away from Paul,
he still has to prove himself. He has
to show that he can perform in a big
game, that he can make a critical
shot in a critical situation.”
Crawford will probably start at
forward for the Aggies against Oral
Roberts if Clifford isn’t back at full
strength. Crite and senior center
Jimmie Gilbert, who has shown
more scoring ability this season, will
complete the A&M front line.
“I don’t know of a center in (the
Southwest Conference) that I’d
trade Jimmie for,” Metcalf said. “I
haven’t seen that guy up at Arkansas
(Andrew Lang) yet, but of all the
centers coming back from last year, 1
think he’s the best. Anderson at
Houston might be better offensively,
but I know Jimmie’s the l>est
fensive center in the conference.
“He’s the huh of our defense. 1 he
other guys can gamble so much (de
fensively) because they know he’s
back there.”
The Aggies haven’t been able to
gamble as much as they wanted to
defensively because of the lack of
proven depth. Foul problems have
already proven costly to A&M in
losses to Alabama-Birmingham and
Tennessee.
Offensively, turnovers have been
the most glaring weakness in the Ag
gie oflense. Guard Don Marhury’s
one-on-one baseline drives and
Crite’s inside strength and jumping
ability have been somewhat ham
pered by an inability to get the ball to
them consistently.
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When Kenny Brown (A&M’s lead
ing scorer last season) took his long-
range jump shot to the NBA a year
ago, the Aggies apparently lost and
gained. They lost his point produc
tion and scoring ability in the
clutchm but they gained a more-bal
anced, shot percentage-oriented of
fense.
And an increased exposure to the
3-2 zone defense.
“We can expect to see that (zone)
defense until we prove we can beat it
or shoot over it,” Metcalf said. “Last
ing staff.
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last year is that
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