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Show Page C7 Sunday, January 21, 1996 THE DAILY HERALD, Provo, Utah ftfe; pinhf fn linn By DOUG FOX ALT LAKE CITY This summpr in Atlanta they will be Olympic teammates on Dream Team HI, no doubt leading an American assault on the gold medal, but Friday night in Salt Lake City they were on opposing and it showed. sides 29-1- Hor-nac- i Stockton and Hardaway staged and surprisingly testy backcourt battle in the Jazz's victory, ironically the exact same score as the Magic's win in Orlando earlier this season. Though they play the same positidn, Stockton and Hardaway couldn't be any more different in style, and philosophy than if their Iast'names were Clinton and Gingrich. Stockton is short and quick pass first and shoot second, and while Hardaway nuts and bolts is talj and athletic, equal parts scorer and passer, and smooth and 1 Ex-BY- U spirited 1 si : .f I fk d. "It's two diferse players. You know John is a gfeait player and is going to walk outlof.a Jazz uniform and right into the;Hall of Fame and he's certainly efie of the greatest guards to the game. And I think in Petiy Hardaway we have one of guards to play thsjomerging great ' ' em-pla- ' 'iBuj they have contrasting stjtev Penny is great down in the port,' a great athlete and he has the siewhereas John is a much better athlete than people give him credit 111-9- His game is more the mental game combined with being a great player. They're two great players antvhey go at each other. That's what you expect when two are pitted against ealt other like that." ltk. Magic wasted no time in pwirrig 'Hardaway up on Stockton Fwday-nightAnd while the 6-- 1 Sfircfcton givesup ,six ;,r inches jn height 'to Hardaway, he gave up no inches without an effort in the low fo A1I-play- . 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First They .shared Team honors last season on the guard line and they shared the Delta Center floor Friday night, but watching Utah's John Stockton; point guard of the present, and Orlando's Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway, point guard of the future, it was apparent that they unless of course share little else it is. finding a way to help their All-NB- three steals and five turnovers. Hardaway totaled 19 points, nine assists, three steals and four turnovers. could double team. And while Perhaps more telling, however, V Safe ft t . Hardaway did get many of his was the difference in the foiirth" he also the Jazz in While were the points working quarter. lJ post, W J' I 6 in the became increasingly frustrated outscoring the Magic final period, Stockton went throughout the course of the conthe field for nine points and with from battles verbal into test, getting the referees, Stockton, Jeff three assists. Hardaway disapand Adam Keefe. peared, going 3 from the floor, And while Stockton may be scoring one point and carding only regarded as the best pure point one assist. "I think Anfernee got it going guard to ever play the game, following Friday's trench warfare early," said Utah's Hornacek, "but i ' Hardaway inferred that "pure" Stock got it going late. They're may not be the best way to both players that when they put describe his smaller counterpart's their minds to it they can do basigame. cally anything they want. They "Every time I play against have the ball in their hands a lot so John, it seems like we always get they're able to create a lot of into it most of the time, especially thinas. They're both great playdown here because a lot of the ers." TOOL TIME: star things he does to me I don't really 4 said "It's appreciate," Hardaway. Andy Toolson was back in a Jazz one thing to be out there playing uniform, having rejoined the Jazz the game, but I figured tonight he earlier Friday on a y conwas trying to play me dirty. He tract. Toolson, who was cut earliwas trying to get away with some er when Greg Ostertag came off things. And once the ref calls fouls injured reserve, was asked back -: ;on him he tries to do it even hardto fill the spot vacated when er. So I got mad just like he got Chris Morris went on the IR. mad and then everybody got Toolson, who recently could be . m 4 v. ViCV- .y involved." found playing in a city league And just what was Stockton game, jumped at the chance, even doing to annoy his future Olympic though his tenure appears to be short-liveteammate? "It was the way he was playing "It's a little weird, but I guess me in the post," said Hardaway. I'm just feeling they have to have a "You know, the knee in the back, 12th man," said Toolson. "When the two hands in the back, you just they put a guy on the IR they have have to be in the game to know. to fill in with somebody and I This is the first time it has ever guess it makes me feel good that got this bad; all the other games it they called me. But it's just 10 has been the same thing, but we days and I realize that. I'll just try just keep playing through it that's to.do the best I can while I'm here all." , and then try to move on when it's But come Olympic time, over." be The ironic thing about the bygones - will probably whole situation is that by getting bygones. "I'm sure it's going to be waived and Toolson will alright," said Hardaway. "When make more money than if he had we get on the same team,, you remained with the Jazz the entire know it's going to be an aweseason. ' Pndtd by tester Muranaka some group together. I'm just "That's what's funny," he said. seaNBA In Center. in Delta Stockton of one this the classic the Here, attempts' to' pass the matchups going to go out there and play as "When they told me that I just ball around the defensive effort of Hardaway. The went Utah's John son, Stockton, right, against I hard as can and represent my laushed." Orlando's Anfernee Hardaway Friday night at the Jazz won the game, When quesSHAQ-FU- : country." tioned about his flagrant foul late REVISITED: You know how the in the game on Keefe, Shaquille matchup turned out, O'Neal said he was going for the but what about the stats from the ball and it certainly wasn't flay battle? Hard- grant. "If I wanted to flagrant foul away got things going offensively early for the Magic, with scoring somebody, they wouldn't get up. I and assists, while Stockton was promise you," he said. When it was pointed out that mainly dishing the ball off. By; Keefe almost didn't get up, O'Neal ' game's end, however, Stockton as ev clearly won. the battle responded, "He ran into a . wall, denced by the Jazz win. Stockton what can I say?" finished with 15 points, 17 assists, How about, "I'm sorry?" post. Stockton battled for position all across the key, fronting the 6-- 7 Hardaway and forcing the Magic to pass over the top where the Jazz The Daily HeraTd Executive Sports Editor riniiisf ! f225TO!BZjl 7595 5 P22S75R Vl 1 U, n.. ''l 72.95 P?;575R15. 1 ' 95 ' ' ' -- - : I 18560R14I .ojr )$MMM Hall I an fracnmc I II HH II III nncXOSIC PXvt.'.fm 1856J314 RH 1 1 I K 1 I i I IS LT24y7R16....102.M IT245(75R,6..-..B.- Ck iOOODli'-ms- - I sZc- - I (7jn?9 nt' KJ J iSj O E l- -i 1 AV(3 J '- V f -yP ( 7f 3T I I I ill I M , RETtsRj gn mum 8T65KR1 Nor. 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