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Wednesday, March 7, U
Mickens ‘Mr. Windex’ for Cougars
HOUSTON (AP) — He doesn’t
have any videos, isn’t on the front of
any cereal boxes and doesn’t wear
his own shoes.
No, Darrell Mickens doesn’t have
anything in common with Michael
Jordan, though a few of his team
mates will tell you otherwise.
The quiet, reserved Houston for
ward is one of the most explosive
basketball players in the Southwest
Conference.
And no one knows him.
No one outside of the state of
Texas, that is.
The 6-foot-5 Mickens burst onto
the Houston scene four years ago
when he won the slam dunk contest
at the “Texas Shootout.”
Three years later, the former Pa
ris, Texas high school star is making
a name for himself in the Southwest
Conference.
As was the case in high school,
Mickens leaves most people in awe
with his ability to “fly” through the
air. He’s four to five inches shorter
than most forwards he matches up
with. He can do any slam dunk in
the book and is becoming noted for
a dunk few NBA players can do.
Mickens’ top dunk comes off re
bounds. He’ll soar above and in one
motion stuff the ball through the
hoop before others have had a
chance to react.
“You see guys that can jump really
high, but he’s got some ability to go
along with it,” said University of
Houston coach Pat Foster. “There’s
a lot of guys who can jump, but this
guy’s a good basketball player along
with it. That’s the a key to his suc-
Houston senior Kelvin Smith said:
“I haven’t seen anybody who can get
up like that. When he puts his mind
to it, he can go get every board he
wants.”
The junior has earned the nick
name “Mr. Windex” for his superior
play on the boards. He collected 21
rebounds during the team’s win over
Texas in late January and is always
near the backboard.
“He charges the board hard and
does a lot of things really well,” Fos
ter said. “You combine that with the
ability to leap and you’ve got a great
player.”
Of his leaping ability, Mickens
says: “Some people make a big deal
out of it, but to me, it doesn’t seem
that I’m jumping that high. Some
times it scares me myself, but there’s
other times when I don’t feel that I
get up that high. But my teammates
tell me I do, so I guess I do.”
Mickens started to turn a few
heads the first time he ever dunked
a basketball, in the eighth grade. He
led Paris to a 28-6 record his senior
year in high school, in 1987, and he
was named the district’s most valu
able player.
He was selected one of the 10
players for the North in the summer
high school all-star game, and he
boarded a bus in Paris after mid
night one Friday night for the 296-
mfle trip to Autry Court on the Rice
LTniversity campus in Houston, site
of the Texas Shootout.
Photo by JayJanm
Houston forward Darrell Mickens (33), seen here
in the Cougars 100-81 victory over Texas A&M
last week, is expected to lead UH in the Soutli-
west Conference Tournament this weekend.
“I rode the bus all that night and
got in around 8 (a.m.), came in and
got a shower and then went to some
kind of breakfast and then went and
played,” Mickens said. “I didn’t even
get to sleep before I played.”
“It was real horrible, but 1 had a
lot of fun. I did pretty well in the
games and everything. It was worth
the trip,” he said.
After weighing his recruiting op
tions, Mickens picked Houston over
the University of Texas.
Houston was closer tq Paris than
Austin, he said. Plus, he didn’t want
to be playing in the shadow of his
close friend, Carlton Cooper, who
was already with the Longhorns. He
also liked the basketball tradition of
the Cougars.
Mickens, who is Houston’s sixth
man off the bench, has adjusted his
game only slightly since high school.
He still soars above the rim, but he
does so while coming off the bench.
Foster said Mickens is plenty good
enough to start full time, but he
doesn’t want to tinker with things
while Houston is on a winning streak
that now has reached 11 games. The
Cougars last lost on Jan. 22.
“He’s good enough to start. He’s
good enough to play for a lot of peo
ple. The big thing we need to do is
look at more ways to get him more
minutes,” Foster said. “But we’ve got
a lot of players. We’ve got a number
of players that can play different po
sitions.”
The UH coach added, “I think we
need to keep doing what we’re doing
and win ball games.”
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race by beating Texas 84-79 Mon4
night, and the Cougars will face Rut
in the first round of the post-season
tournament.
Mickens said:
“I hope we can win the Southwest
Conference tournament. It’s been
awhile since Houston has done that.
We’ve finally gotten to the point
Mickens wants another shot ail
SWC regular-season champ Arkanj
sas, which wort both games againsl
the Cougars in conference playanci
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HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston
Rockets will not be fined for chang
ing a box score that temporarily gave
Akeem Olajuwon a rare quadruple-
double, NBA vice president Rod
Thorn said Tuesday.
“Let’s just say it’s been resolved to
the satisfaction of the league,”
Thorn said.
druple-double, a feat accomplished
only two other times in NBA history.
Rockets coach Don Chaney and
media relations director Jay Gold
berg reviewed film immediately af
ter the game and discovered the
10th assist, they said.
it,” Thorn said.
Chicago’s Nate Thurmond had 22
points, 14 rebounds, 13 assists and
12 blocked shots on Oct. 18, 1974.
San Antonio’s Alvin Robinson had
Olajuwon led the Rockets to a
129-109 victory over Golden State
Saturday with 29 points, 18 re
bounds and 11 blocked shots.
He was awarded nine assists in the
original box score, but the Rockets
later released a revised box that
showed him with 10 assists for a qua-
Thorn reviewed the film and dis
allowed the quadruple-double. He
said it was the league’s prerogative to
make any alterations after a box al
ready has been distributed.
“If you want to make that type of
change of something that is of im
port to us and our record-keeping,
then we should have some input into
20 points, 10 assists, 11 rebounds
and 10 steals on Feb. 18, 1986.
The Rockets said the uncredited
assist for Olajuwon came with less
than six minutes to go in the first
quarter on a basket by Buck John
son.
The league disagreed.
“I just think records are a big part
of our game and how you are per
ceived 15 or 20 years from now,”
Thorn said. “There have been so
few people who have done that (qua-
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druple-double), you don’t want t( day on I t
have it tainted in any way.” that if carr
Thorn said the proper procedutt there’s lit
would have been to contact tk could rerr
league office and ask for a review, uled.
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box score is distributed, the league!
office is responsible for making the-,
change if it is deemed necessary. tlat<1 than
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Chaney said there was little thejj
Rockets could do.
“We have to defer to the leagues!
decision,” Chaney said. “Whatthe'l
think is an assist and what we thinkisS
an assist must be two different!
things.’
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