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Page 12^116 Battalion/Thursday, September 29,1988
U.S. chokehold is gone;
archaic rules are at fault
By Doug Walker
Assistant Sports Editor
Tuesday’s loss by the United States Olympic basket
ball team to the Soviet Union made journalists around
the world note the end of American dominance in in
ternational amateur basketball.
Unlike the 1972 Olympic basketball final, in which
the Soviets won after getting a third chance at making a
last-second shot, the Soviets defeated the American
team fair and square on the court this time.
It was only the second American loss in 52 years of
Olympic basketball competition. It left me with the
same sick feeling I get when I see film of the loss in the
Munich Games of 1972.
In the loss at Munich, the United States was done in
by a controversial ruling by international basketball of
ficials which forced two replays of the game’s final three
seconds and snatched a gold medal from the Ameri
cans.
The latest loss brings to mind a question that has
been floating around amateur athletics for the past few
years: Should the United States send professionals to
the Olympics, and should the government finance ath
letes in sports such as track and field?
A move in the right direction was made a few years
ago when the United States began allowing track and
field performers to accept money for appearance fees
at major track meets around the world.
It seems that if the United States wants to win in
these competitions we must learn to play by the same
rules as the competition. America should send a basket
ball team of paid professionals to the Olympics.
This team could be either a team of NBA all-stars or
the NBA champion of the Olympic year.
Soviet athletes in all sports compete as paid profes
sionals while most American athletes competing against
them in these amateur sports festivals struggle for
funding ofany kind.
Soviet team members are paid by their government
to play the sport and have been together as a team for
several years.
Coach John Thompson’s team did a fine job in the
Olympic tournament and would have won the game if
forward Danny Manning had contributed offensi
Manning, college basketball’s player of the year,dj
score in the game against the Soviets.
Even though a bronze medal is nothing to
ashamed of, the Americans should be expectedtoi
the gold every four years in this sport. Americahal
greatest basketball league in the world — the NBA,
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champion to compete as the U.S. team.
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championship series in June, take a month off,
gin touring against a team of NBA all-stars likethea
rent Olympic team did.
Perhaps the team could also be bolstered by addit
player, or two, from another NBA team toshoreupi
problems with depth. After the long reg
schedule and playoff games the team may
lems with fatigue and injuries. Adding a playerl
Larry Bird or Michael Jordan would certainly solve
problem.
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many cases, the same people may be receiving Ob
gold medals over and over again.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP)
Maybe this basketball glasnost is tak
ing things too far.
Look at the facts. When Soviet
coach Alexander Gomelski met the
media Wednesday after the Soviets’
82-76 humbling of the U.S. basket
ball squad, did he credit Mother Rus
sia or Marxist-Leninist doctrine for
the victory?
No.
“United States basketball and
NBA basketball helps my country,”
said the short, gray, grandfatherly
Russian. “I am very happy, and
thank you, United States basketball.”
Thank you, United States basket
ball?
Gomelski was talking about the
National Basketball Association, a
decidedly capitalist outfit that has
given comfort and aid to the Soviet
team.
The Soviets have played exhibi
tion games against tne Milwaukee
Bucks. The Atlanta Hawks toured
the USSR and trained with the Sovi
ets in the United Sates.
The Hawks have even spent draft
choices on Alexandre Volkov, Rai-
mondas Marchulionis and Valeri
Tikhonenko in hopes the Soviet gov
ernment will let their stars play in
the NBA.
The Portland Trailblazers, with a
first-round draft interest in Arvidas
Sabonis, took in the 7-foot-3 Russian
and supervised the therapy on his
ruptured Achilles tendon.
Sabonis was doubtful for the
Olympics before he got NBA care.
He paid back the kindness with 13
points and 13 rebounds against the
United States on Wednesday.
At the post-game interview, U.S.
Coach John Thompson noted the
Sabonis recovery with some irony.
“He’s been working hard all sum
mer, and he’s improved ... against
America’s finest,” said Thompson,
who has been critical about the
chummy relationship between the
Soviets and the NBA.
“I don’t see it as a form of collabo
ration,” he said. “Several NBA teams
helped us, too. We lost. The NBA
didn’t. We understood the circum
stances under which we were play
ing. Because I agree or disagree,
that’s totally different from blam
ing.”
Thompson wasn’t so subdued a
few months ago when he com
plained that the use of U.S. sports
medicine to heal Sabonis was like
Benedict Arnold handing the British
the keys to the fort.
“I see Sabonis as being a fulfil
lment of Lenin’s prophecy: The cap
italists are selling the Communists
the rope they can hang us with,” he
said at the time. “We are in direct
competition with them, and to pre
pare Sabonis to play against us just
isn’t right.”
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U.S. loss to U.S.S.R.
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not isolated incident
BAY
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) —This
is not 1972, and this was no fluke.
The 82-76 loss to the Soviet Union
in the Olympic basketball semifinals
Wednesday was the fourth straight
failure in major international tour
naments for U.S. men’s teams so ac
customed to ruling the world.
And, according to the coach who
will play the Americans for the
Olympic bronze medal Thursday
night (Thursday morning EDT),
there is good reason: The Ameri
cans are behind the times.
“The U.S. is a very young, inex
perienced team ... and they paid the
penalty for preparing the team
within the United States,” said Aus
tralian coach Adrian Hurley.
The 1987 World University
Games and the World Junior Cham
pionships both meant silver medals
to Yugoslavia’s golds. The Pan Am
Games were a showcase for Oscar
Schmidt, the shooter from Brazil
who flew back with a gold medal
while the United States again ac
cepted silver.
But the loss to the Soviet Union
came in the Olympics. The only
blemish on the U.S. basketball re
cord in the Games had been a loss to
the Soviets in 1972 that was so
tainted the silver medals were never
accepted — they remain in a bank
vault in Munich.
There was nothing tainted about
this Soviet victory. The United States
was beaten by a team that was never
bothered by the Americans’ most po
tent weapon — pressure defense —
and a team whicn showed there is no
substitute for international experi
ence and competition.
Hurley said the U.S. team should
“get out of the country and play un
der international rules and with in
ternational referees. That talent isn’t
enough. You’ve got to play.”
Well before the Olympics^
U.S. coach John Thompsonrai
ing people that the system
select the team was out of date,
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competition with U.S. collegeki
hall teams,” Soviet coach Alexi
Gomelski said. "We playedone,]
ago against Milwaukee Buds
recently against Atlanta Hawk
“United States basketball,
basketball help my country
happy. Thank you, United
basketball.”
The United States did makei
at the Soviets on Wednesday^
within two points midway
the second naif after trailingl|
just after halftime. But the So ^
held off all challenges and
United States was faced withtiit|
sihility of no medal, let alont
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“I think they gave all theycw
represent their country and I
that’s all their country can affl
ask of them,” Thompson said
came here to win the goldmedi
were extremely disappointed
didn’t, but you get in it with
portunity to win and thepossi
of losing.”
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however. This tournament
probably the last played under!
where NBA players are
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J ust as it was for so many yeas
But is Thompson supposed to act
like a diplomat or a general? That is
the heart of the question facing U.S.
sports officials and fans. Are the
Olympic games a battle for world-
wide.basketball hegemony or an ex
change of friendship and the fur
therance of international sports?
In a world where President Rea
gan promises to share Star Wars se
crets once we figure them out, is
John Thompson out of step
Yes, said Glasnost Go#
whose basketball is muchbetteid
his English.
“The United States and
Union organize good contacti»
tic, economic, in sports,” It
“All country, all people, very
for this friendship. Peopled
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