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Show Williams' jumper beats Jazz The Utah Jazz were just five ticks of the clock to sweeping a series for the first time in franchise history. Reggie Williams, however, had other ideas. with 1.9 seconds left Williams connected on a to give the Denver Nuggets an 83-8- 2 victory over the Jazz Sunday night in Denver. The loss means the Jazz now have to come back to Salt Lake City for Game Five, set for Tuesday night at the Delta 21-foo- ter Center. Moments before Williams game-winnin- shot, Karl g 30-fo- Sunday when Pippen, pilloried Friday's game, returned to score 25 points with eight rebounds and six assists, leading Chicago to a 3 victory, tying the series at 2. Pippen got a few boos upon 95-8- other. "I think you all were the only ones worried," Pete Myers told reporters. "You all did all the writing. This is a team. We have responsibilities like a family. I had no doubt Scottie was going to come out and play well." introduction but was cheered wildly thereafter. As long as he helps beat New York, Bulls fans will forgive him mutiny, embezzlement or kicking the lantern over in Mrs. O'Leary's shed. "This team has mdny lives," M lI u IT nf II II Iff 1 1 Said Steve Kern "He got introduced, the crowd goes nuts. All of a sudden, it's Game 4...I don't think anybody on the bench men. tioned it" tired of the were Maybe they afterlate as As Saturday subject noon, Jackson told ESPN, "Scottie was muddled. He thought he was the team." Also, the Bulls had more to worry about than their embattled star, such as the end of their season. in the series, they Down, saw the Knicks take a 12-- 0 lead with Riley's new lineup. he Tired of playing catch-up- , took punchless Anthony Bonner and slumping Hubert Davis out of the starting lineup and put John ng 2-- 1, Starks and Charles Smith back in. With Greg Anthony replacing the suspended Derek Harper, the Knicks were back to their lineup before Riley's March shakeup, when he ended a slump by taking them on an impromptu gambling excursion to Reno, Nev. Desperate for scoring all season, Riley is running out of ideas and recy IO (r I I O to 3-- cling old ones. Starks scored oh a driving layup off the opening tip. Smith hit a on the second possession. Pippen's first shot, from 18 feet, was a brick. The Knicks scored 12 points while the Bulls were going zero for six. They had come back to trail, 16-17-foo- ter 8, when Pippen picked up his second foul and sat down, to be l, replaced by his former Toni Kukoc. arch-riva- The Bulls kept on surging. with the offense as deftly as Pippen, had five assists by halftime. The Bulls had the lead by the end of the first by quarter and were up, halftime.lt was 66-4- 7 early in the third quarter and 79-6- 5 going into the fourth. For the first time in the series, the Knicks couldn't mount a closing rally and Riley the game went home to Kukoc. running 53-4- 1, re-dr- aft plan. "We have to gather our forces and take a good, hard 'look at our defense and what they're doing to our offense," said Riley. "They totally flattened us out." Said Patrick Ewing: "We lost We went south. ... I'm disappointed we lost this game. This series should be over by now." Who should have won by now is a matter of perspective. In a series in which the Bulls are supposed to be underdogs, they have led going into every fourth quarter by an average of 11 points. They have had leads of 15, eight, 22 and 19 points in the third quarters. The Knicks' only successful technique for stopping them has been to wear them down physically and try to get them to wilt under the pressure. The Knicks still have their advantage, but they will play one more game without Harper. Sunday, Anthony went 42 minutes, shot two for 13 and home-cou- rt turned the ball over four times. It was late in last spring's Game 5 that New York's Smith had those four layups blocked, turning the series in Chicago's the Bulls' favor. History can't keep repeating itself, but he had better be ready. astest ways I 44 4 i ' first-roun- 15-foot- er win." Pippen would say only: "I put it behind me. I apologized to the team and to Phil Jackson. 1 don't think I have to apologize to anyone else." The other Bulls, still working on their togetherness, said it had been just been a game like any after pulling himself out of ot nt happen to this team over the years and they've continued to troversy, lose two games, go home unhappy. It happened a year ago around Michael Jordan's jaunt to Atlantic City, N.J., and it happened again er Neither Utah nor Denver held a lead that was larger than three points in the final quarter. The Jazz rallied from a three-poideficit in the final minute on a by Stockton and the shot by Malone. John The Jazz shot only 43 percent to Denver's 46 percent for the game. The offense did not get into gear until the third "Sometimes you grow closer out of the things that happen to ball clubs and individuals, to bring them together even closer. "Tension brings weird experiences to people." Said Knicks Coach Pat Riley: "The perception of other people was it was hectic. For them, it could be normal "There's been a lot of things come here, stand idly around while the Chicago Bulls' star extracts himself from latest con- 17-foot- changes. said Bulls Coach Phil Jackson. come CHICAGO Scottie. home. See if this sounds familiar The New York Knicks win two games, a at two games apiece and beat Knicks Bulls even series BY MARK HHSLER Los Angeles Times one-poi- nt lead. On to give the Jazz an 82-8- 1 the possession, every Jazz player touched the ball' before Malone delivered with :04 on the shot clock. The Jazz had one last chance to win it, but Jeff Hornacek's shot was off the mark. As with every game in the series, this one was close the entire way. The game featured 16 ties and 15 lead Malone hit Special to the Chronicle quarter when the Jazz outscored the Nuggets 24-2-0 to take lead at the end of three quarters. a Malone, despite a poor shooting night from the field, led the Jazz in scoring with 20 points. He was followed by Stockton with 19, Tom Chambers with 16 and Horaacek with 12. Denver was paced by 21 points from Williams and 17 from LaPhonso Ellis, who turned in another big fourth quarter with 10 of those points coming in the quarter. Robert Pack added 17 off the bench and Bryant Stith added 12. 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