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Page 12/The Battalion/Tuesday, March 8, 1988
Rockets, Mavs prove to be Ba
pretenders to L.A.’s crown
By
The Dallas Mavericks, who
warmed up for Sunday’s game in
Reunion Arena against the Los An
geles Lakers were the hottest club in
the NBA.
In fact, never in the history of the
franchise had the Mavericks had a
fever quite like this one, winning 11
games straight.
The Mavs
boasted the
second best
record in the
NBA, and
led the
league in re
bounding,
while hold
ing down
the league’s
No. 2 spot in
defense.
Reunion
was just
cooling off
from Friday
Curtis L.
Culberson
Sports viewpoint
bringing down Maverick fever seve
ral degrees.
Just a few weeks ago Houston fans
had that same we’re-gonna-beat-the-
Lakers feeling only to be dissap-
pointed.
The improved Sampsonless Rock
ets had more firepower, but not
enough to stop the NBA’s dominat
ing force from the West Coast.
Since December, I have said the
Lakers will repeat as NBA cham
pions. Each time I make this claim I
am accosted by some Maverick fan
or a Rocket rowdy who claims this
time the home team was going to
knock off Magic and friends.
Others who love their Texas
hoopsters, but realize the supremacy
of tne Lakers, try to appeal to my
emotions.
“Hey, don’t you like the under
dogs?”
“You traitor, root for the home
night’s game when the Mavericks
launched the Rockets to defeat in an
emotional win for the Mavs.
Dallas fans, if not all Texas basket
ball fans, were teetering in anticipa
tion of the showdwon with the
Lakers.
The Mavs were sizzling, they were
at home and everyone has been say
ing how Dallas has all the tools to
beat the Lakers. Many even predict
the Mavericks will be the team to
knock the Lakers out of the playoffs.
Right.
The Lakers on Sunday showed
Americans and Texas basketball
fans once again why they are the
World Champions and why they will
repeat again this year.
L.A. stuffed the Dallas 108-97
team.
“Aren’t you tired of the Lakers?”
They cite these and many other
reasons why I shouldn’t be such an
avid fan of Los Angeles.
I usually support the home team
and I’ve never considered myselg a
fair weather fan.
cian to figure out who you shoi
put your money on.
• 2. I do like the underdogs
sometimes. I’m rooting for the Ai
g ies in the SWC post-season basksj
all tourney. I rooted for TeamUSl
in the Olympics and I pulled for
intramural team in the Class Bpi
offs. Unfortunately, all the hurnfj
just led or probably will leadtodi!
pointment.
• 3. And speaking of dissappon
ment, I was a diehard Dallas Coi
boys fan, pulling for them to the
game. I cheered, I bet money
then 1 cursed and went broke. Cej
tainly, the Mavericks and the
ets aren’t doing as bad as theCci
boys but their cnances of beating
Lakers in the playoffs are about
good as the Danny White’s chanttj
of winning the MVP.
• 4. I hate the Boston Celtisl
The Lakers have proven they hai
the team to beat them. And
haven’t totally forgiven the Rocki
for choking against them in the IS!
championship series.
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After some deep thought I mused
my Lakermania was the result of
personal taste and a series of psycho
logical traumas:
• LI barely broke even with my
roomate on this season football wa
gers. Like most college students, I’m
a little short of cash and I need to
make the basketball season betting as
lucrative as possible. The Lakers
have won 80 percent of their games
— you don’t need to be a mathemati-
more.
Besides, the I-akers don't onk
win, they look good doing it. They'll
is nothing quite like the poetic hai 3artlcl P a
mony in a Laker fastbreak. Hi! l ext V e
look-off by Magic and then the It
hind-the-back pass followed by ii Appio
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its best. ;
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Anyone who’s want to root fot
big winner this spring, I inviteyouit
join me in a dose of Lakermania.Ft
those of you who are still hopingt(
Mavericks or the Rockets will win
all, I’ll be the first to tell you, “Itok
you so."
Tech ends season of frustration,
posts worst SWC record since ’57
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LUBBOCK (AP) — A season’s
worth of frustration showed when
Texas Tech Coach Gerald Myers
was slapped with two technical fouls
within seconds of one another.
For several minutes during the
season-ending game Sunday against
Arkansas, Myers protested vocife
rously a charging call against senior
forward Greg Crowe. Arkansas
scored four points off the resulting
foul shots en route to putting a dis
mal ending on a disasterous regular
season for the Red Raiders.
With an overall record of 9-18,
Tech posted its worst record since
1962-63, when the Raiders went 6-
17.
Tech’s 4-12 seventh-place confer
ence finish was another worst-ever
milestone: its poorest SWC mark
since the Red Raiders joined the
league in 1957.
And for the first time ever, the
Raiders failed to win a single game
on an opponent’s home court.
After such a forgettable season,
Myers said Monday he knows what
ails his program: “I figured that out
a long time ago. We’ve just got to
work on recruiting.”
Under Myers, Tech has had only
one other losing season, an 11-20
year in which just eight players fin
ished the season.
Myers became the third-winning-
est coach in conference history this
season, winning his 300th. But it
took him five games to get from No.
299 to No. 300, which came Feb. 20
in a 68-58 victory over Texas Chris
tian.
The Raiders made four more out
ings after that, but failed to add to
Myers’ win column.
“They’re down but they don’t get
down as far as just quitting and giv
ing up,” Myers said of his team,
which has only one senior.
The season isn’t likely to end on
an upbeat note as the Raiders face
21-9 Baylor, which beat Tech by 60
points in two meetings this season,e|
the first round of the SWC tourmj
ment Friday.
“We’re probably playing tht|
toughest team we could drawinBavi
lor as far as us matching up witll
Baylor,” Myers said. “Baylor isjustl
team we haven’t been able to plaf
well against."
The Bears handed Tech itswonl
loss in the history of the schooil
March 2, a 91-49 walloping thal
eclipsed a 102-65 drubbing by Ne>|
Mexico in 1974.
The worst the Raiders had beeiS
beaten by an SWC opponent was!
points, by Rice in 1959 and againlnl
T exas A&M in 1960.
As the season wore on,
seemed to grow despondent. After;
four-point loss to Houston Feb. II
he said: “Maybe we’ve both been fail
ures — they’ve (the players) beer
failures as students, I’ve been a f
ure as a teacher.
“That about what it amounts to.
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Beaumont may get
CBA basketball team
BEAUMONT (AP) — Three
years ago, a Houston businessman
who tried to bring a Continental
Basketball Association team to Beau
mont failed because he couldn’t
match his ambition to the realities of
finance.
Beaumont nearly got that CBA
team for the 1985-86 season, a re
markable feat during one of the
city’s worst experiences — the invest
ment loss to ESM Government Secu-
basketball. You’d be in a unique
class,” Drucker said.
“Having a CBA franchise would
make you highly visible. The track
record of pro sports is that they are
’ magnets for other businesses,”
Drucker said.
He said Beaumont is a good mar
ket and he is impressed by the ef
forts of John Gorman, the city’s con
vention facilities director.
rities.
Much has changed since then.
Beaumont has recovered about
three-fourths of its investment
money. Citizens met recently in a
second economic summit in which
they heard promises for the future
because people today dared to
dream.
The CBA again is knocking on the
door. Its former commissioner,
James Drucker of Philadelphia,
owns an inactive franchise and wants
to place one in a city for the 1988-89
season.
He doesn’t need investors as
much as he needs an enthusiastic
community involvement in the team.
That translates into advance sales of
2,000 season tickets for the team,
which would play 27 home games in
the Civic Center.
At an average $7 price for one
ticket, or $189 for season tickets, it
multiplies to $378,000 worth of com
mitment to bring the CBA to Beau
mont.
Drucker has visited other cities
and narrowed his list to five so far —
Fayetteville, N.C.; Salina, Kan.; Al
bany, Ga.; Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and
Fargo N.D.
He said he can include Beaumont
if its residents are interested.
“I think the time is right for low-
cost entertainment that appeals to
the masses,” Gorman said.
He said the city can bring promo
tional and administrative support to
the effort and provide the team with
a “developmental lease” for the
arena, which he described as “better-
than-usual” rental rate.
Gorman said the effort to bring a
CBA team to Beaumont is worth
while because the Civic Center could
make money, Beaumont would get
national exposure on the ESPN tele
vision network, and convention-
goers in Beaumont would have an
other attraction.
“We need to find people to partic
ipate. We’d be ready to go to work
on selling season tickets right away.
We could make a doggone serious
run at it,” Gorman said.
The CBA plays in 12 cities and the
league sends many of its players —
more than any three college confer
ences, according to its literature —to
the National Basketball Association,
which plays in 23 cities.
“That’s 35 cities with professional
When the effort three years ago
failed, the city had already taken or
ders for about 250 season tickets,
and Gorman still has the names and
addresses of people who received re
funds.
Beaumont Mayor Maury Meyers
said a key consideration for both
sides is profit, as well as giving the
franchise the greatest chance for
success.
“At this point, I’m anxious to visit
with him (Drucker),” Meyers said.
Gorman said he didn’t think a
CBA team would detract from the
Lamar University basketball pro
gram and that it might help it be
cause “like businesses create more
business.”
Sacramento
fires Russell
after bad start
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP)
— Bill Russell was relieved ofhis
coaching duties with the Sacra
mento Kings Monday and re
placed by assistant coach Jerry
Reynolds, a move aimed at “chan
ging the direction of this club,”
the team’s ownership announced
Russell, 54, who has a seven-
year contract with the team, was
transferred to the Kings’ front of
fice, where he will serve as vice
president in charge of basketball
operations, said Gregg Lukenbill,
general managing partner and
part owner of the club.
The action was part of a sha-
keup of the team’s top manage
ment which also resulted in a re
duced title for the man who
brought Russell to Sacramento,
former team president Joe Axel-
son.
When Russell was named
coach of the Kings last year, it was
with the understanding he would
be on the bench for 2-4 years and
then move to the front office.
But Russell said Monday, Lu
kenbill initiated the change. Rus
sell said the two discussed the
problems with the team and
agreed it was time for a change.
The 17-41 Kings have the
fourth worst record in the NBA,
ahead of only the Golden State
Warriors, the New Jersey Nets
and the Los Angeles Clippers,
and tied with the Phoenix Suns.
“Every time we lost a game, it
was a real hard kick in the stom
ach,” Russell said, flanked by
Reynolds and Lukenbill at an
Arco Arena news conference.
“I don’t sleep after we lose and,
you know, I’ve had a lot of sleep
less nights,” he added.
Russell said his new duties will
allow him to “spend a lot of time
looking at other teams, looking at
the college ranks for possible
players.”