^Tuesday, May 1,1990
The Battalion
Page 11
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UM; LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The
v itliiRord that Thirty Six Red will win the
IJ rtioBentucky Derby doesn’t come
Hraight from the horse’s mouth.
tftlAlt does, however, come straight
:t tbifrom the mouth of a man close to the
. onif “Yeah, I said that,” trainer Nick
mloslto said Monday.
f-5j What Zito said was if Thirty Six
frit Rfd won the 1'/s-mile Wood Memo-
Mo|lal, he would win the 1 ‘/4-mile
o wiifflerby on Saturday at Churchill
it iiilowns. Thirty Six Red won the
Wepood on April 21, holding off
t. Burnt Hills by a head.
a», “He’s earned his shot,” the 41-
Wipar-old New Yorker said. “He’s got
coufie credentials.”
ecomB Thirty Six Red’s victory in the
'e 35-one-mile Gotham April 7 and his
pediBn in the Wood put him in the sec-
wid echelon of Derby contenders
fthind unbeaten Mister Frisky and
JrintBtcc-beaten Summer Squall.
P Helping Zito’s confidence is the
lyverfact that Thirty Six Red is the only
in fi®ie of the 17 Derby probables to win
had i : tuider Derby weight of 126 pounds,
line !■ The highest weight Mister Frisky
hop carried was 122 pounds in winning
Ke Santa Anita Derby on April 7.
thisaiThe highest impost for Summer
DawSguall was 124 in his victory in the
of [hGU-furlong Hopeful last year. He
ts an®rried 122 in finishing second in
turdsthe seven-furlong Swale on March
!p.
I In the Wood, the son of Slew
BGold was second behind pace-set-
ting Burnt Hills, never worse than a
| pngth back, before surging into the
■ad in the upper stretch.
1 Thirty Six Red, ridden by Mike
ze o# 1 ' 1 * 1 - held a head margin over
odarflurnt Hills all the way through the
niekfr etch -
I The colt, bought for $92,000 by
s “5 u p Giles Brophy at the 1987 Keene-
| “inland fall yearling sale, posted two
1( j [vSeconds and a third in five starts as a
■year-old.
DouJ H e didn’t have any physical
;a t problems,” Zito said. “He was just
i c bo,^manageable. He was his own
Ty^.Wi-rst enemy, but he showed signs of
H m: ,J Thirty Six Red scored his first vic-
J havaD * n h‘ s second start at 3, winning
[ Y a seven-furlong maiden race by two
mgths on Feb. 6 at Gulfstream
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_ilavs must duplicate ’56 Pistons, ’87 Warriors to
remain alive in NBA playoff series with Portland
Watching and waiting
ESPN/Collegiate Baseball
Team
Record
1.
Miami, Fla.
45-6
2.
Stanford
42-9
3.
Arizona State
42-13
4.
Arkansas
43-9
5.
Texas
43-14
6.
Florida State
40-10
7.
Georgia
41-10
8.
Southern Cal
34-17
9.
Loyola Marymount
38-12
10.
Oklahoma State
39-14
11.
Southern Illinois
38-8
12.
Wichita State
40-11
13.
Lousiana State
39-14
14.
North Carolina
40-10
15.
Iowa
31-11
16.
Creighton
39-14
17.
Mississippi St.
35-16
18.
Clemson
37-14
19.
Houston
40-19
20.
UCLA
32-19
21.
Fullerton State
26-19
22.
UC Santa Barbara
35-14
23.
Maine
30-14
24.
Texas A&M
42-15
25.
Georgia Tech
38-15
The Texas A&M baseball team must keep an eye
out for this weekend’s competition. The outcome
Battalion file photo by J.Janner
of the series with Arkansas will determine the
Aggies’ fate for a post-season tournament bid.
| DALLAS (AP) — The only rally
ing cry the Dallas Mavericks have
lent in their playoff series against the
Portland Trail Blazers is, “Fort
Wayne, Fort Wayne.”
■ The Fort Wayne Pistons re
bounded from an 0-2 deficit to win a
1956 opening-round series, while
the 1987 the Golden State Warriors
did the same thing. They are the
only teams in NBA history to rally
from two losses to start a series.
■ “We can do it,” Dallas coach
Richie Adubato said, “but we’ll have
to rebound better.”
Portland coach Rick Adelman is
optimistic about ending the series in
Dallas.
“I’d like to win it on the road,” he
said. “It’s important for us to end it
as soon as possible. I think the
Denver-San Antonio series is going
to go more than three games and I’d
like to get a few extra days off. Our
series has been real physical.”
The Trail Blazers have beaten the
Mavericks twice in Portland by
scores of 109-102 and 114-107 in the
best-of-5 series, which resumes
Tuesday at Reunion Arena.
The Blazers, who haven’t won a
playoff series since 1985, feel they
were nervous in their first two games
at home.
“I think we were really tight,”
guard Terry Porter said. “We knew
we had to win at home and we’ve
been a little sluggish. It may help us
now to go to their place.”
Adelman agreed. “I think we may
play a better game,” he said. “We
may be a little looser.”
Portland, the NBA’s top rebound
ing team, had a 47-33 rebounding
edge in the first game where they
got 24 points off 20 offensive re
bounds.
On Saturday, the Mavs squan-
Rockets
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lied from a 2-0 deficit to win a five-
iame playoff. The Fort Wayne Pis-
JOn beat St. Louis in 1956 and
Golden State beat Utah in 1987.
p “I don’t deal with odds, I just
jbiow what we can do,” Chaney said.
rWe had some good moments, we
Kst didn’t carry it all the way
lirough.
8 “But we are home now. I’m not
Slighting the Lakers, but we know
these baskets and we feel comfort
able in our arena.”
The Rockets have won three
straight games and eight of their last
12 games against the Lakers in the
Summit.
|| Los Angeles has gained the series
tn • • •
Tijerina
(Continued from page 9)
playoff spot in the Western Confer-
jtfice.the Rockets might be the most
pmgerous No. 8 seed in NBA his-
|>ry. The Los Angeles Lakers can at
test to that.
In their first two games at the Fo-
itm, the Rockets have enjoyed huge
lads over the Lakers, who had the
NBA’s best record this year. But
ftey haven’t been able to nail the
jfeme down, and have fallen apart in
Be final minutes.
1 That’s where the home court ad-
Bntage comes in.
' The Mavericks limped to Port
land, then have been blown out twice
P front of hostile crowds. Both
Houston and Dallas face elimination
with their next loss, but at least the
lockets have some hope, however
Bint it may be.
■ Only two teams in history have
come back from an 0-2 deficit in a
edge by double- and triple-teaming
Rockets center Akeem Olajuwon.
“Every time he had the ball, there
were three Lakers around him,”
Thompson said. “Michael Jordan
can’t score with three guys on him.
“We weren’t daring their other
guys to beat us. We just hoped that
they wouldn’t beat us.”
Olajuwon scored 11 points in Sun
day’s loss, although he had a triple
double with 10 blocked shots and 11
rebounds.
“We’re probably better at double-
and triple-teaming centers than
most team,” Thompson said. “I’m al
ways smaller than any center we play
so we work on it a lot.”
Olajuwon isn’t concerned about
his low scoring, although Chaney
said his center needs to take at least
20 shots a game. He got 15 Sunday.
“If I were scoring more, someone
else on our team wouldn’t be scor
ing,” Olajuwon said. “It’s all about
balance.
“If they are double- and triple
teaming me, Tm going to hit the
open man, and concentrate on de
fense and rebounding.”
Both teams held closed workouts
in The Summit Monday.
“We worked on a new wrinkle to
try to break him (Olajuwon) out,”
Chaney said. “They doubled him
real well in Los Angeles.”
The Lakers did such a good job
on Olajuwon that Chaney accused
them of playing illegal zone defense.
“He’s just working the media,” Ri
ley said. “We play very aggressive
double team defense and we play
within the confines of the rules.
“He’s just looking for an edge.”
best-of-five series.
Dallas can look forward to return
ing to the friendly confines of Reun
ion Arena. The Mavericks’ only
problem, however, is that the Trail
Blazers find the placejust as cozy.
Portland swept all four games be
tween the two clubs this season. That
includes two blowouts at Reunion
Arena. All this spells only one thing.
An early vacation for the Mavericks.
The Rockets aren’t in the same
boat, however.
They won both games this season
over the Lakers at the Summit. And
they’ve shown they can play on the
same court with the defending West
ern Conference champions.
All they have to do is find a way to
free center Akeem Olajuwon.
Olajuwon averaged 24 points a
game during the regular season. But
through two games in Los Angeles,
he’s scored only half that. Los An
geles extended their first-round
playoff winning streak to 20 games,
dating back to 1984.
A victory Tuesday night will give
them 21. It will also give Houston
management some time to think
about what kind of deals it wants to
make in the offseason.
The Lakers’ Pat Riley became the
all-time winningest playoff coach in
NBA history with a 100-42 record
after Sunday’s win over the Rocjcets.
His series counterpart Don Chaney
guaranteed the series would be sent
back to Los Angeles.
Get ready, Jack Nicholson.
“To give an idea of how positive
we are, we know we can win in our
building,” Chaney said. “Our guys
know these baskets, and we know
this arena. This is home to them.”
It may have to be more than home
to them. It’s going to have to be a
miracle factory. That’s the only
thing the Rockets will need to pull it
off.
dered a 15-point first half lead as
Portland grabbed 21 offensive re
bounds and got 35 points for its ef
fort.
In both games, Dallas had its
chances but were unable to over
come the Blazers.
“We just haven’t been able to
come up with the big rebound, big
bucket, or big steal when we need it,”
Adubato said.
In Game 2, Dallas trailed by four
with 40 seconds to play after Derek
Harper hit two free throws. But Dal
las failed to produce in the clutch.
Portland’s bench also hurt the
Mavs. Backup guards Danny Young
and Draven Petrovic combined for
22 points in the second period as
Portland overcame a 38-23 deficit.
Petrovic ended up with 14 points.
“Portland can rebound, run, and
has shown a good bench,” Adubato
said. “But we’re back home now.
The home advantage makes a big
difference.”
A victory by the Mavericks would
force a fourth game at Dallas on
Thursday, with a fifth game, if nec
essary, set for Saturday.
Portland won 59 games in the reg
ular season to finish second in the
Pacific Division to the Los Angeles
Lakers.
Trail Blazer rookie reserve for
ward Cliff Robinson is expected to
play Tuesday, despite his arrest
early Sunday outside a Portland
night club. He was charged with
three counts of fourth-degree as
sault and one count of disorderly
conduct after allegedly hitting a po
licewoman.
The lone bright spot for NBA
teams in Texas thus far has been the
Spurs, who are manhandling the
Denver Nuggets in their first-round
series. But even that won’t be a cake
walk for Larry Brown’s Spurs, who
haven’t won in Denver’s McNichols
Arena in more than four years.
So, three Texas teams find them
selves in troubling situations. The
Spurs lead 2-0, but face two tough
games in Denver. The Mavericks
trail 2-1, and shouldn’t be alive after
Thursday. The Rockets trail 2-1,
and are relying on a guarantee by
their coach that they’ll win the next
two games against the Lakers.
They shouldn’t be alive after
Thursday either. But at least the
Rockets and Mavericks can look for
ward to one thing. In a couple of
days, they both will be able to start
their offseasons right in their own
backyards.
Home sweet home.
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