Friday, February 14, 1992
The Battalion
Page 9
Golden State
shuts down
Spurs, 109-94
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -
Chris Mullin scored 25 points and
Sarunas Marciulionis 21 as the
Golden State Warriors shut down
David Robinson and defeated the
San Antonio Spurs 109-94.
Thursday night.
Robinson had 14 points and
16 rebounds, but took only nine
shots. With teammates helping
out, Tyrone Hill held Robinson to
two points and one missed shot in
the second half.
Willie Anderson and Terry
Cummings each scored 18 points
for the Spurs, who managed 40
points after halftime, shooting
42.5 percent in the second half.
Hill had 17 points and Tim
Hardaway and Billy Owens 16
each for the Warriors, who were
was 10 points under their NBA-
leading scoring average, but
allowed 20 points under their
league-worst average for points
alllowed.
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Long-awaited Aggie victory sounds sweet
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nd Vicky Gait^oiiig (- 0 wa tch a Texas A&M basketball
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^ame. The last time I witnessed an A&M
dctory at home was December 20,1990, so I
mtered the hallowed hall for the Aggies' game
i lor the Lady! x exas Southern with quiet enthusiasm. I
versity_of Ho; .gj. courtside last season as A&M lost
leartbreakers to Texas and Baylor. I was in
Houston when the Cougars' Derrick Daniels
sank a 21-footer with six seconds left to put the
Aggies away.
Much worse, I was there when the program
came to a screaming halt. The team returned
only four players from 1990-91 and the coach
was forced to leave in shame.
Enter Tony Barone.
The man marched into College Station
preaching discipline and high academic
standards for his team. While it was
understood it would take a couple of years to
build a contender, victories would follow in
the steps of these two ideals. No one could
imagine that by the middle of February there
would only be three wins and a 12-game losing
streak.
The team has suffered twice the heartbreak
of last season. Seven losses have been by less
than six points. Late leads were lost to
inexperience. A close, hard-fought game
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I embarrassing loss to Tdxas Tech -- a team of
lesser talent than the ,l C6ugars. There was also
the horror of the gas leak at Baylor.
When Barone signed on to revive this
"sleeping giant," he didn't bargain for
drudgery of a 3-16 start. I expected to find a
coach that had a hard time bringing
enthusiasm to a team so downtrodden.
What I witnessed was the laying of the first
block of a solid foundation. When a team gets
down, the hardest thing to do is to get back up.
Look no further than the Dallas Mavericks and
this becomes all too clear.
The Aggies jumped on TSU from the outset
and never trailed. There were moments when
the Tigers looked like they might get back in
the game, but this time A&M slammed the
door shut.
I watched in appreciation how Barone
yanks players out to let them know he's not
pleased with their performance. That's the
respect Barone commands from his players. If
he doesn't get it, the player pays the price.
Starters David Edwards, Anthony Ware and
Shedrick Anderson have all felt the sting of
sitting on the bench for long spells this season.
It's apparent Edwards fears BSfbne's
wrath. During timeouts after an Edwards -
miscue Thursday night, he would take the
farthest route possible around other players
and coaches so he wouldn't have to walk past
Barone on his way to the bench.
Discipline, respect, education -- these are
all part of Barone's blueprint for successful
basketball at A&M. A victory over an 11-12
team from the Southwestern Athletic
Conference isn't going to magically turn this
team around, but it's one of those blocks to the
foundation that Barone is building.
Solid coaching is what makes a team with
good players a great team. Duke, Barone's
alma mater, is a perfect example of this quality.
Perennially, the Blue Devils challenge for the
national title. The magic is they don't do it
with superstar players. If you don't believe
that, name one NBA superstar from Duke.
That's not a crack at Duke, it's the ultimate
example of good coaching.
That's the mold that Tony Barone is
creating here at A&M.
A record of 4-16 is a long way from the
Final Four or even a conference championship,
but it's a start, and it also ends a horrendous
losing streak.
Give Coach B time, he'll conjure up
something good out of the ruins of Aggie
basketball. And the same goes for you. Coach.
Give the throngs at A&M time to figure out
what's going on at G. Rollie, they'll come
around.
In the meantime, it sure was nice to hear
the victory bells from Albritton Tower
cascading down the walls of Rudder Tower
into the MSC fountain after a basketball game.
I don't want to even begin to think how long
it's been since that's happened.
Douglas Pils is the editor of The Battalion and
covered A&M basketball during the 1990-91 season and
the hiring of Tony Barone.
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got to look at this game tonight
and see how he made us win the
game."
What a more conservative
Edwards did was play with
caution. He refused to take
chances, and made the decisions
that gave A&M the opportunity to
win the game and break a 12-
game streak of frustration.
"He turned the game around
for us in terms of the things he
did," Barone said. "None of
which were of the spectacular
variety. They were very sound
plays. He didn't have to take it
behind his back or between his
I legs to win."
Edwards played all but two
minutes of the game and scored
' 18 points. He also handed out
1 nine assists and kept his turnovers
to a minimum. More importantly,
he reestablished himself as the
leader of the A&M team.
"I just had to reevaluate
myself as far as winning,"
Edwards said. "I've been doing a
lot of things for myself and not for
the team."
Through the Hurley article,
Barone showed Edwards that he
cared about his success. Through
his performance Wednesday, the
point guard showed his teacher
that he had listened to the lessons
he had been given throughout the
season.
"People think that David and I
are chewing at each other and
that's not the case at all," Barone
said. "I want him to be good and
he's been very cooperative.
"I thought he played a really
good game tonight."
For Edwards, Thursday's win
simply proved that the Aggies
were capable of more than a 12-
game losing streak.
"We don't have any All-
Americans on our team or
anything like that," he said. "We
play a lot of good teams and we
play hard.
"When we walk off the court
We still have our heads held high
because a win is a win and a loss
is a loss."
Listen carefully..
The A&M basketball team huddles around in the Aggies' game against Texas Southern,
coach Tony Barone Thursday during a time out A&M broke its12-game losing streak, 75-67.
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