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DALLAS (AP) — Familiar terms
ich as “banger” and “leaper” and
lard-crasher” don’t seem appro-
iriate in describing Roy Tarpley, the
•alias Mavericks’ 7-foot, 244-pound
kie power forward.
He rarely knocks people from his
ith. When he jumps — he blocked
1 shots in two games last week — no
one tries to measure his vertical leap.
id when someone knocks him to
the floor, the building doesn’t
liver.
“The guy just has a knack for the
"1. Somenow he just flits around
ider there,” Dallas Coach Dick
lotta said. “Sometimes he doesn’t
even jump, but he’s just there. It’s
like you’re walking down the street,
imething falls out of the sky and
ids in your hand and it’s a dollar.”
Tarpley set a Mavericks rookie re-
ird with 20 rebounds in Dallas’
1^3-117 victory over Milwaukee re
cently. NBA statisticians project Tar-
Bey would average 20 rebounds if
te got extensive playing time each
that could rival the original and still
unmatchable model, Wilt Chamber-
lain.
Tarpley is no plodder. Although
he describes himself as a “banger,”
he dribbles behind his back, throws
behind-the-back passes, launches
successful three-point shots and dis-
“At every level, people
have always told me not to
do certain things, but I al
ways tried them anyway.
Sometimes they worked,
sometimes they didn’t.
You always need to keep
expanding your game.
You can’t be one-dimen
sional. ”
— Roy Tarpley
“I’ve always been able to tip the
:n it,’ ~~
ball and catch it,” Tarpley said. “I’ve
always had those abilities. I can hus
tle and get the loose balls. I’ve always
had a knack for the ball.”
If Tarpley’s gracefulness and fl-
sse could be grafted into James
naldson’s 7-2, 277-pound power
me, the result might be a scoring,
•bounding, shot-blocking machine
plays an ever-growing assortment of
layups. And this isn’t showing-off-
before-praedee stuff. This is prime
dme.
“He’ll take some shot out of the
blue that you wouldn’t put up in a
school yard,” Motta said. “He put up
a jump hook from 20 feet against
Milwaukee after I’d just finished tell
ing him to use the 24-second clock
every dme. Then the shot goes in.
The guy just gets the ball and does
something with it. I don’t know how
he does it.”
Tarpley, who has averaged 9.8
points, 11 rebounds, 3 blocked shots
and 52 percent shooting from the
field during his past 143 minutes (six
games), gets constant reminders
about shot selection — his coaches
encourage dunking — and his other
occasional fits of flamboyance.
“At every level, people have al
ways told me not to do certain
things, but I always tried them any
way, ’ Tarpley said. “Sometimes they
worked, sometimes they didn’t. You
always need to keep expanding your
game. You can’t be one-dimensio
nal.”
Born in New York City, Tarpley
has made a nomadic study of the
game that became his profession.
Fearing the effects of a city-wide
strike by coaches and teachers in his
hometown, he accepted his grand
mother’s invitation to begin his high
school career in Mobile, Ala.
Ironically, the future Big Ten
Player of the Year for Michigan and
first-round draft choice by the Mav
ericks was cut from the varsity his
sophomore year. Despite a junior
season with the first team, an uncle
suggested that Tarpley could fur
ther improve by spending a summer
in Detroit.
Sam Washington, who identified
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“I had to prove myself there,”
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from Michigan has to prove them
selves. If you could play, you had to
go to St. Cecilia’s.”
After being unanimously selected
as “Big Ten Player of the Year” after
his junior season at Michigan, he was
the logical nominee for “College
Player of the Year” and first pick in
the draft as a senior.
But he underwent arthroscopic
knee surgery in October 1985, cut
his hand on a backboard and had a
long bout with the flu. Those com
plications lowered his statistics, and,
coupled with several underclassmen
turning pro, made him the seventh
player picked in the draft.
Motta generally gives rookies ex
posure during the exhibition season
and takes it away when people start*
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“But he’s running the court now
and I don’t have to hide him quite as
much on defense as I did before,”
Motta said. “He just gets the ball. He
seems to know where the ball is all
the time. He’s improving and he’s
willing to work. He should get better
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