| Show SPORTS r Standard-Examine- E It’s 'ZZyjZDUTAH staff - SALT LAKE CITY Houston forward Robert Horry is averaging 14 points a game this season Unfortunately for the Jazz that's about what he’s averaging against them Horry was held to just two points when the Jazz won in Houston last week but he made perforup for it with a mance Tuesday “I felt pretty good tonight” said Horry “The shots just kept falling and my teammates kept putting me in a spot where I could get it up there” The Jazz held Houston stars Hakeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler to a combined shooting in the first half but led by just three at halftime The difference was Horry who scored 13 points in the half Olajuwon and Drexler combined for 28 points in the second half- - and Horry kept scoring too and the Rockets overcame an deficit early " 8 of 10 shots inmade Horry ' cluding 5 of 7 from the line 25-poi- nt - nt GAME Houston 103 Utah 100 Cal-Sta- el the real Utah Jazz team Is it: A The team that has been eliminated from the NBA playoffs by the Houston Rockets the past two years B The team that blew a lead in the fourth quarter against the Rockets last Thursday yet still managed to win the - and at Houston 3 game no less C The team that rolled to a first-ha1 lead against the Rockets on Tuesday at the Delta Center holding Houston’s ously unbeaten 5 in a 63-3- stayed hotThursday against the Rockets with nine points and five rebounds in an active 39 minutes KEY STAT: Houston came into the game with an 0-- 4 record when trailing after the first quarter but won despite trailing 30-1-7 at the end 6f the first quarter PRIME TIME PLAYERS: Over thd past five years the Jazz are 10-- 6 in regular-seaso- n games televised by this year (They TNT but just in games on sister station are ' ’ : e TBS) ‘D’ UP: In the first two games of 1- -2 1- -1 the season Seattle and Portland both shot 51 percent against the Jazz but no team has approached 50 percent since Opponents are shooting 42 percent over the past seven nnes HAND: Stockton has had at least 12 assists in each of the past eight games NIGHTMARE: Antoine Carr’s only basket the past two games buzzer came after the third-quartsounded Tuesday and did not count 112-10- lf 1) then played “Our press was effective at man-to-m- an the beginning of the game” Creer said “It threw them offguard and set the tone for the game Northridge is a good team but one that plays in spurts They’ll play good for a period of time and then stop for a minute We have an advantage of being able to run get the ball inside and shoot the ball from the perimeter” RANDY HOLLIS Sports Editor Clyde Drexler to just four first-ha- lf e NBA points and Finals MVP Hakeem Olajuwon to shooting in the first two-tim- half D The team that squandered its early lead fell behind by six points with less than six minutes left and then battled back to grab a 100-9- 7 lead over Houston with a minute remaining Tuesday night yet still managed to lose when the Rockets scored the last 0 decision six points in a E All of the above If you said “E" then you are correct and will receive a free bottle of blue hair dye from Dennis Rodman - as soon as the Utah Jazz win the NBA championship Don’t hold your breath In a scenario that was mysteriously similar (and most frustrating) to that of six months ago -May 7 1995 to be exact - the Jazz first rallied then fizzled down the stretch to lose to the Rockets OK let’s keep things in their proper perspective: It was after all only a regular-seaso- n game one of 82 the two teams will play during the course of the 1995-9- 6 campaign albeit between two teams which were tied for the Midwest Division lead entering Tuesday night’s showdown Olajuwon and Drexler stepped up down the stretch and showed why they are “Dream Teamers” past and present - Drexler played in the 1992 Olympics along with Karl Malone and Jazz teammate John Stockton Olajuwon will join Stockton and Malone on the “Dream Team” next - Olajuwon hit four free throws in the final 3:15 and it was his short hook shot that put the with 141 Rockets ahead seconds remaining' Drexler drilled a grabbed a key rebound and hit two free throws during crunch time BY THE 101-1- QUARTERS 1st quarter 00 CHRISTINE JACOBSStandard-Examine- r Jazz guard John Stockton attempts to dish the ball off around the Rockets’ Hakeem Olajuwon in Tuesday night’s game ROAD BLOCK: “Well I think they showed why they’re the world champions” Utah coach Jerry Sloan said of the Rockets “They hung in there and we panicked a little bit when they started making their shots “They’ve got a great team We feel like we’ve got a great team too but we’ve got to be able to execute and do things properly and not lose our concentration” Indeed while “The Dream” and “Clyde the Glide” came through in the clutch this time Malone and Stockton did not The Mailman didn’t deliver during the final 312 minutes as he disappeared from Utah’s offense -- just as he did during the decisive Game 5 of last year’s d playoff series with the Rockets Instead Greg Foster - yes Greg Foster - carried Utah’s offense in the final two minutes He scored on a driving dunk shot but badand then hit a missed another long jumper ly with the Jazz still ahead 100-9- 7 And Stockton for all his dynamic efforts to bring the Jazz back in the final period as the crowd noise reached playoff pro first-roun- 20-foot- er portions committed a critical turnover when he threw the ball away with fewer than 10 seconds remaining as Utah was working for the last shot trailing However Houston coach Rudy Tomjanovich refused to find fault with Utah’s performance “I have a great deal of respect for them” he said “They play the game the right way “I can’t evaluate somebody else’s team I can only evaluate our team But I have the utmost respect for their system It’s very similar to ours We’re both great execution teams who get the ball in the hands of people that can make the plays “When they beat us at our place we gave them way too many easy baskets” Tomjanovich said “They played well at the end of the game Stockton and Malone made big plays down the 101-1- 00 stretch” This time though that didn’t happen And as great as Stockton and Malone are the Rockets are wearing a couple of NBA championship rings And as we all know the Jazz are not Randy Hollis is sports editor of Standard-ExaminYou can call him at 625-426-0 the er Utah 30 Houston 17 Horry who had just two points Scores Houston’s first five nt ' Jazz From ID 2nd quarter against Houston and once at Jazz start the quarter with shooting and three turnovers and StockRockets cut lead to 8 scorton’s 21 footer ends Olajuwon’s dunk ing drought cuts lead to 44-4- 1 and Mario Elie’s layup puts Houston up 47-4- 6 34-2- -- 3rd quarter Houston 33 Utah 32 " Stockton’s fourth foul means he sits on the bench the last 7 12 minEven with Stockton the utes Jazz start out 2 for 9 but hold onto (he lead Chris Morris and Russell come up with steals and scores on consecutive plays for a 4 lead 61-5- and Horry’s three-poiplay cut Jazz lead to 4 Olajuwon misses free to throw to tie but hits a Phoenix) “I feel comfortable” Russell said “It feels good just to help the team to go out there and do the things I’m capable of doing” Houston’s victory Tuesday 5 loss to the avenges a Jazz last week The difference? 112-10- Once again the Jazz built an early lead but this time lost their poise when the Rockets started attackline ing them from the The Jazz led 9 early in the second quarter but Robert Hor 34-1- Jazz retake put Rockets up lead on offensive foul and technical on Olajuwon 76-7- 5 4th quarter Houston 23 Utah 18 Jazz go scoreless for the first 4:46 missing first six 'hots and StockRockets take 87-8- 2 leaa ton’s one-han- d push from 14 out ties at 92 and Malone’s jumper from line puts Jazz just inside the with 7 12 minutes left UP 94-9- 2 Greg Foster dunks over Olajuwon for 98-9- 7 Jazz lead then hit a but Houston scores the last six: points er attempts to rally the Rock- ets 5-HUS- “We feel like we’ve got a great team but we’ve got to be able to execute and do things properly and not lose our concentration if shots they make a few which they did” Sloan said “We lost our concentration and we didn’t execute on the other end for awhile We started standing around and that’s what caused us a lot of problems” The Jazz also had their worst shooting night of the season making just 384 percent of their shots And they also played without backup point guard Jamie Watson whose injured ankle may be more serious than nally thought origi- BOARD 1 U yymv M BLKSREB STEALS 3 JAZZ ROCKETS 11 47 39 8 7 SCHEDULE mMmiBsax Thursday: DENVER 7pm Saturday: GOLDEN STATE 7 pm Monday: CHARLOTTE 7 pm Home games in CAPS NBA refs likely to return to work Monday nt 65-6- better production from those players” The Knights’ Carrie Tarrant 10 points scored a team-hig- h Layton 42 W Jordan 33 At Layton Elaina Kimmel and Christy McAtee led the Lancers past the Jaguars Kimmel scored 15 points inand cluding two McAtee wasn’t far behind as she added 14 points with three “They put on a shooting clin- - The Associated Press NEW YORK - After being locked out for more than two months the NBA’s regular referees may be officiating games as early as Monday The new labor agreement was expected to be signed today with a precise date set for their return In the meantime the referees will be undergoing physicals and a brief refresher course on rules 6 vote the referees on By a to accept a convoted Monday tract offer from the league that was less lucrative than what they wanted The NBA said the referees 27-2- 1c for us today” Layton coach Van Price said “We moved the ball well and they took the open shots” Layton jumped on the will not get retroactive play for the games missed since the lockout begp The referees haven’t been paid since er Soon to be gone are the placement officials re- most of whom came from the Continental Basketball Association And for most players it won’t be any too soon “Even though we beat ourselves the refereeing was horrendous” Heat center Alonzo Mourning said after Monday n game in night’s which a fight broke out between the Celtics’ Pervis Ellison and Heat rookie Kurt Thomas Miami-Bosto- V “They shouldn’t be able to call a high school game It’s sickening what they do They blew the whistle too much I thought there was an echo in the building” Under the five-yeagreereferees would ment first-yemake $75000 this year and $99000 in the final year of the deal not including money for ar ar playoffs Veteran officials would be paid $211000 this year and $278000 in the final year The league has claimed the raises would make NBA officials the highest pu 1 in sports but the referees said th?y would not 4 Jag- uars early shooting out to a 80 lead Sophomore Stacy Jensen from West Jordan nailed two toward the end of the quarter to cut the lead to 12-- 6 The Jaguars scored five straight points early in the second quarter to make it a game That was as close as West Jordan would get Layton ran nt one-poi- off seven straight points to make it 3 at halftime Layton (3-- 1 overall) increased its lead to 0 at the end of the third quarter thanks to McAtee and Kimmel The duo scored all but two of points in the period in21-1- 35-2- Lay-ton- ’s cluding three West Jordan started to make a comeback toward the end of the game as Jensen reeled off nine points for a 2 run but it was too little too late Jensen ended up with a 22 points including game-hig- h three -- 9-- South Summit 61 Ben Lomond 45 At Ben Lomond High the 23-- 9 in the fourth quarter and fell to the Wildcats “We stopped running the offense and they got some steals by playing good defense” Ben Lomond coach Clyde Moore said “They kind of blew the game open in the fourth quarter and we dropped our defenScots got outscored sive intensity” Katie Parker and Cheryl Bright scored 10 points each for the Scots 3 overall) (1-- Lehi 47 Morgan 45 At Morgan the Trojans held a advantage in the fourth quarter but let it slip away en route to their first season loss The Trojans did not respond to Lehi’s defensive pressure late in the game and were outscored “ 16-- 8 in the final quarter 10-poi- nt to switched “They (defense) on us and we didn’t handle it very well” Morgan coach Neil said man-to-ma- n Car-rig- an Standard-Examincorrespondents Josh Smith and Jared Page contributed to this report er Fremont stretches winning streak to four By JARED PAGE Sancferd-Examin- ef correspondent PLAIN CITY - Had the Silver Wolves faced nearly any other member of Region 2 on Tuesday night Fremont would have been lucky to escape with its unbeaten preseason record intact Instead the played host to turned back the Region 2 with boys Basketball half and free-thro- w 14-of-- 16 shooting in the fourth quarto' dropped the Cavemen in a nonleague game that saw the Darts a three-poi- overcome halftime nt deficit Silver Wolves “Our intensity was higher the Highland and second half the kids knew they black sheep of had to win” Davis coach Jay d a Welk said “We had to go to a 5 victory in boys basketball 3 zone the second half after action at Fremont High SchooL playing some and “I’m glad we’re winning” zone We needed defensive help said Fremont coach Reid New-e- y on the baseline against their “but we still have a long way size American Fork was to go" playing outstanding defense in A miserable shooting perforthe first half they were in our mance by the winless Rams face” combined with Fremont’s stingy The led 26-2-3 at defense left Highland with just halftime Cavemen (3-- 1 Davis but overall) seven points in each of the first 52 percent in the shot two quarters and put a second and outscored half wedg between the two teams American Fork 7 in a half-hearte- 2-- man-to-m- ry made five of his first six TLE In addition to his defense Russell is averaging 117 points 43 rebounds and is shooting 63 percent in his three starts (twice Houston 30 Utah 20 The Darts’ victory margin could have been even greater had Davis not missed a lot of easy inside shots Megan Jensen despite being saddled with foul trouble still 15 points scored a game-hig- h Jill Adams added 14 points Wendy Dale dropped in 12 and Amy Fonnesbeck had 1 1 more points for Davis “Our big scorers have been Megan and Wendy with some of the other kids starting to produce” Creer said “Our bench is not as strong as I would like it to be but it will be The kids that came off the bench did OK today but we still need to get 51-3- against the Jazz last Thursday Karl Malone's three-poiplay puts Utah Jazz make 8 of first 1 1 iip 10-- 5 Russell hits shots for 18-- 7 lead for 23-1- 2 lead girls bas- “I didn’t expect to beat Northridge this badly” Davis coach Chimane Creer said “I knew Northridge had won both of its games but I still didn’t quite know what to expect We must have caught them on a bad night” Davis (3-- 0 overall) threw a fullcourt press at the Knights (2-right from the outset zone and switched to a 16-po- int year- er Northridge non-leag- ue ketball mismatch Tuesday 103-10- te Playing the Darts is like taking a blast from a double-barrshotgun You never know which side of the gun is loaded Getting double-figur- e scoring from four players undefeated Davis High blew away previ- - K BEST PLAY: The Rockets get three straight shots in one scramble but the Jazz challenge all three including blocks by Bryon Russell and Felton Spencer John Stockton rebounds and feeds Spencer for a festvbreak basket SIDELINE MOMENT: Sonny Allen the former Nevada-Ren- o coach now scouting for Golden State joking with referee Leon Wood a former star at Fullerton that he doesn’t get to shoot any more BEST HECKLE: After an official called a questionable offensive foul against the Jazz a fan yells “Enjoy your last week” TURNING IT ON: Bryon Russell - LAYTON u- - GlRLS BASKETBALL : staff Standard-Exarrwi- if you would us please By TOM McEACHIN Standard-Examin- By DENNIS LARSEN can) Tell if youof thepossibly following is t - Balanced scoring powers Davis win early but Jazz need to step up Rockets go to hot hand -- Horry 30 Wednesday December 6 1995 (ll-of-2- an 1) 10-poi- nt by halftime Beyond that Fremont (4-- 0 overall) played just well enough to stay in front of the obviously inferior Rams before closing out the contest with a 0 run 6-- Highland’s poor showing against Fremont was enough to chammake the 1994 state The Rams only cringe pionship category Highland performed very well in against the Silver shootWolves was ing Unfortunately for the Rams Fremont did it better from Highland netted the foul line while the Silver Wolves more than tripled that efproduction with an fort at the line Fremont also dominated on 5--A free-thro- w f-6 18-of-- 23 the boards outrebounding the Rams 1 in the outing Jake Brian led the Silver Wolves’ offensive charge with a 17 points Highgame-hig- h 29-1- land’s Scott Giles finished with 12 points Davis 65 American Fork 54 At Kaysville energized by a piv- f-5 first-perio- - - Taylorsville 85 Layton S3 At Taylorsville 29 points from Chad King and 18 by Brooks Smith wasn’t quite 5 enough for the Lancers Layton dered a (3-- five-poi- 1 nt overall) squanlead after the first quarter and bypassed a chance to put the Warriors away early with a from the free-thro- w effort line in the opening half The Lancers countered with a performance from the foul line in the second half but fell short in 10-of- -ll their late rally Davis High 42-poi- nt 26-1- otal fourth quarter Davis High’s Tyler Finlinson 22 points scored a game-hig- h on shooting hitting d shots Ben Warden added 15 points his first time in double figures in the last three games with six rebounds and three steals Center Ryan Prince coming off of an ankle injury saw his most extensive action of the season and scored seven points second Standard-Examinstaff writer Dennis Larsen contributed to this reporu er |
