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Show T B The Daily Herald Tuesday, January 28, 1997 Dick lCJ i 4 Harmon b pDws Sdnrotaglh Try s Utes up record to Imagine Y without Montague His tired body season. w ill UIVI 1 A . . X4-5- 4-- a heal- ing balm. The legs grow heavy. And Matt Montague's lungs bum long and late during a season in w hkh he must play a thousand minutes. . lie must run hundreds of miles. ' His feu scattered breaks mostly tome during timeouts, free throws and play s. The rest is work, quarterbacking the team, reading defenses, setting up plays and protecting the ball. Then it's time to play defense on the other end. Barring any crippling injury affecting his arms. legs, hands or feet, at the end of this, his freshman ear. he w ill be tlie only player on BVL "s basketball team to start every single rame. BYU year be What would without Montague at the point? "We'd he ..." interim coach Tony Ingje say s. "We'd be...." he pauses again. "Well. Oh my goodness. I don't even want to think about it. Things 1 could he guess. Or worse. We in a country with no Could he 6 ice in the water." 5-- v Vwta " ii ni w. t i vi Cv-Vs- T - yrT V''ic, 1 - s t I 6. " MOM A(;i K IS a passer, an assist artist. But on BYL's team this year, a squad struggling to score and ranking last in the WAC in scoring offend, it's lough. Still. Montague ranks fourth in the league in assists w jih 55 per game and first among the WAC s freshman point guards who include Mark Dickel of LN'LV and Stephen Woods of SMI . If Brum Ruffner were on this team. Montague would likely rank fim. Last y ear at Male High School in Louisville. Mnlague threw pass's to Tonv Driver, the best athlete in Kentucky, who will sign to play f trxball at Fknda State next month. The pa two years he al pass.d lo Kashad I I !man. w ho is plav ing at the Lniversin of Ijmisville. He also made passes to Doug Ova who is ji Mitrgjn State. Jason ( stx in who is in the CBA. and Danny Edlem. a guard a! Bellcimine. - .When lie averaged njore than 10 assist a game his senior year. Montague v.as picked to start ii tlie ken-tuc- k in games against teams from liklunx Ohio and Michigan. On tint team lie passed to i it Jin lamont Temple's 6-- 9 Barnes. Tennessee's 6-- Isaiali Dan Langhi of A'aiklerhdl and Auburn's 7 Damon I idihack. He is used to fluking assists to future NBA draft pkks. all-st- All-Sta- i:. HKS 9 playing with a sore slfcHjlJci. getting link- - relief. jikI passes in Jell Campbell. Jjjsim Wci.iaucT. I ric Nielsen. Lance AJsluKild and si u!lw fieshiik'n. He fell Kentuiky used to plav mg i a df.ii.' sitip. siik'Hiivj burnt ruh-V- r rukmg I.vlav lie ! 111 1 tali lochfuh siioav Ml. uijoki' Sjxvdo. and brvks Ihis ndenng Timpano-gt- a pail ol llfKigs. a piling a pallet of introduction baskeihall. hum college He's j nuiathon n,.m running m a licadnull iuelcd by a lump of I le tests w Ikt Ik topples off. "I le just radiates confidence." Incle said. "But it is a humble confidence, not egotistical if ckky He's fhc onlv player I've ever seen beat a conditioning drill by div mg on live ctwri. iIkii lying tliere exhausted. He fr ,ed like me atlcr an algebra class. "I ie lus a great athletic IO and he's a k.kT. Ihe difference between is siwnetimes a a capijin and a but a a situation, is politkal cajlain leader is tlx gin tlx plaversVrKm." M.itauc heads to the I'll in Albuquerque aixl tlxm U Paso this cck for his IKth and 19th starts. ' Ihc ta'jdmill continues. And the bearings continue lo heal up. to is TULSA Tulsa. t rest another or today, duly talk. The muscles ache. The vtre slioulder cries lijr NOW tonight." L'tali coach Kick Majerus is willing to share the credit for the No. 4 Lies" 52 percent to 34 percent shooting advantage over No. 2 f ' "A couple of those halls might have been tipped in by a higher power." Majerus said following I he victory Monday night 6-- 0 that left I'tah (1 Western Athletic Conference) in sole possession of first place in the WAC's Mountain Division. " I don't know if we got fatigued." Tulsa (I5-5- . coach Sieve Robinson said. '"We got lired of looking at them score points the whole night. They were like a machine." The contest had been expected to be a shootout between Llah star Keith Van Horn and Tulsa's Shea Seals. But Van Horn did not score in the first half and finished with 2 shooting, points on including two missed dunks. "No one can say Ltah is just Keith Van Horn." said Seals, who led Tulsa with 16 points but also did not score until the second half. "They have a complete team and they proved that Michael Doleac had 18 points and seven rebounds for Utah and Andre Miller added 17 points, eight assists and five steals. Caton added 14 points, going on The game was tied at 12 w hen Miller and backup forward Han-n- o Mottola combined to score all of Utah's points in a 13-- 0 run. Miller had nine, while Mottola hit two inside shots and made two big defensive plays. "We came out aggressively. I was looking forward to pushing the ball up." Miller said. "We kept running and running." at halftime The Utes"led 40-2- 9 and the lead never dipped below II. Utah opened the second half with a 2 run. sparked by four points from Doleac. "We came together as a team. We played one of our toughest games of the year mentally and physically." Doleac said. Seals cut the lead to 60-4- 5 with a basket with 9:46 left, but and added a Caton hit a free throw in a 0 Utah run. "Utah did a tremendous job all around." Robinson said. "It w asn't just one player and it wasn't just one end of the floor." SALT LAKE CITY (AP) II M.)jgue's 51 . AP photo Tulsa forward Michael Ruffin (51) is one jump ahead of Utah's Keith Van Horn (44) as he pulls down a rebound in the first half Monday. The No. Utes beat the Golden Hurricane 84-5- MIQL Coleman bads PHILADELPHIA AP Derrick Coleman is back in Philadelphia alter a weekend in Detroit with his familv. r Tlie former returned late Mon-dseveral hours after ihe Philadelphia 7(vrs fined him lor missing Saiurdav game in Detroit and Mondav's practice in Philadelphia. His agent said the club is wrong lo punish him and called the matter a All-Sta- a. "total misunderstanding." "Derrick asked for permission to fly to Detroit on the team charter to see his familv." Harold MacDonald said. "There is no basis for fining him." MacDonald said he called 76ers general manager Brad Greenberg on Monday afternoon to inform him of Coleman's whereabouts. The 76ers had said thev were unable Seals went "I couldn't get open. There really wasn't anv thing there because Ltah had a lot of guvs that stepped up," he said. Much of the defending of Seals was done by Ben Caton. who said. "We definitely focused on Seals before the game. We prepared to shut him dow n." "Caton plaved great defense." Majerus said. "I love Caton as a defender." Dim N BAY. Wis. (APi As (M i.liiiil Green Bay Packers fans siotki in frigid Lambeau I icld Mondav night to cheer the new world champions, light end Mark Chmura looked up to a darkened, snow filled sk and remembered a legend. "Vince. I know vou're listening. Your tropin is safe once again." C hmura shouted, triggering a huge roar from a crowd savoring the same kind of success thai former coach Vince Lombardi once enjoved. Ihe fans' had waited three hours almost ihe lime it lakes lo listen lo win a Super Bowl lo 3d minutes of speeches from their heroes who. in lum. praised them as ihe "creates! fans in ihe world." With ihe tock tunc "We Are The Champions" blaring across a I to contact Coleman, vv ho is sidelined vv ith an injured linger. "Derrick spent the whole day at the Detroit airport, but he was weathered in. He was trying to get back." he said. "I told (Greenberg). "Let's try to work this thing out." When Coleman didn't show for practice, the 76ers fined him an undisclosed amount. "Yes. I'm annoved. more than a little." football field covered with a foot of snow, the Packers returned the Lombardi trophy lo Green Ba for the first time since I96X. 1 win thanks lo Sunday's over New England in New Orleans. On a makeshift stage about where a goal post would normally stand, coach Mike Holmgren and general manager Ron Wolf hoisted ihe prie over their heads and thousands of cameras Hashed around the stadium to capture the memory. "Thai trophy is yours." Holmgren said. "I told the team I was proud of them. I loved them. And I wanl lo say the same thing to you guys. We couldn't have done it without you. Thank you for everything this season." ' I hi ( Hantum i a p1s nhr wi n mUi Daily llaaM i tJiimnist He i an Ik irat hrJ h i allmz expires Saturday. A decision could come Wednesday. Parcells claims he is free to coach any learn nevl season. Not vi. say s ow ner Robert Kralt. w ho contends the contract bltxks from working as a coach or in a similar job for any other NFL learn in IW7. Kraft has a cool relationship with Parcells but has said he wants to keep the coach. But if he decides to let Parcells go. a deci- - (Stf PARC EELS. Pae (14-- Hansen 5. Van Horn 5 12 Doleac 14 Mi'ier 17. Jack18 Caion 8 son 00 4 McTavish 0404 0 Mottola 5 2 Totals 4. Johnson 04 Johnsen 84 Utah 40. Tulsa 29 goals Tulsa 5 Gendron Crawford Thomp(Seals Giilin Cornwall Utah son Bennett Miller Van Horn Hansen (Caion TuFouled ReOOunds out None Jackson lsa 38 (Seals Rjfiin Bennett 5). UtaH 39 (Van Hc:n 9) Assists Tulsa 12 (Thompson 3). Utah 18 (Miller 8 Total fouls Tulsa 22. Utah 17. A 13.807. Hailti-n- in Miami i x MIAMI (AP) The New York Knicks made the Miami Heat angry, and the Phoenix Suns paid the consequences. Frustrated by Sunday's loss at New York, the Heat rebounded with record-settin- g shooting Monday night to heal Phoenix 125-9Miami shot 63.2 percent, a franchise record and the best effort in the NBA this season. The Heat's point total and margin of victory were team season highs. "We had fire in our eyes.'" said Tim Hardaway. who had 21 points and 10 assists in 23 minutes. "We wanted to show everybody how mad we were." "You could tell ihey were unhappy about that last game." Phoenix coach Danny Ainge said. "They took it out on us." The Heat had a secondary source of motivation: Magic Johnson. He sat near the Miami bench and received a standing ovation when introduced during a timeout.' "A couple of guys wanted to show him that they can play with him sitting ringside." Miami'coach Pat Riley said. In the only oiher NBA game Monday nighl. Golden State beat Vancouver 122-9The Heat made 48 of 76 shots, including 13 of 20 They broke the franchise shooting record of 62.4 percent set against New York in February 1990. The previous best performance in the NBA this season was by Indiana, which hit 61.3 pcrcent-a'- t 7. l (See PACKERS. Paue H7 H7l 58 UTAH rustrations 35-2- Par-cel- 2. Maldonado 16. Ruttm 11. 5. Thompson Gendron Plan 04) 0 0 Cravrford 0 Rodgers 3 Gillin 5 Coley 04 04 2 Bennetl OO 0 Totals 6 Cornwall 2. Cunningham 4 6- Drice for Parcells' future NEW ORLEANS (API our buses look the New England Patriots lo ihe airport the day after iheir Super Bowl loss. Two hours later. Bill Parcells left the same hotel in a white stretch limousine. Prophetic? ML commissioner Paul Tagliabue w ill decide if the coach is free to sphi with the learn for good. At the club's request. Tagliabue scheduled a conference call today with both sides in a dispute over Parcells' contract, which (15-5- ) Sea.s Suns pay rests with Tagliabue I 9-- Greenberg said. ' It's an unexcused absence and he'll be fined accordingly. But I'd like to get all the information before making a decision." Greenberg left little doubt Coleman's actions were unacceptable. "Obv iously. we're going through a rough season." said Greenberg. noting Philadelphia's 3 record. urj-wu- Bill 9-- Philadelphia Lombardi memory warms 60 ,000 fans (iKI 14-- 2 ls APpholO Green Bay's Reggie White salutes the fans at Lambeau Field day night as the city celebrated the team's Super Bowl win. Mon- (See NBA, Pae B7 |
