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Show _The Salt Lake Tribune SPORTS Friday, June 4, 1999 Tempo, Control NHLPLAYOFFS PLAYOFFS CONFERENCE FINALS ASTER CONFERENCE i eres 1) Tears Toenday. Mss 25 Battal Trot Thurs. Yay £5 bata ToewsED on Mea, May 31 Will Determine Avs, Stars Bout THE ASSOCIATED PRESS of DALLAS — Thefirst six games the Western Conferencefinals have beenas much aboutstyles as they havescoring goals. So with Game 7 looming to night, the Dallas Stars and Colo: ore 2 Daa Dra iuffalo for the Stanley Cup. In this series, there have been se many tempo changes and switches of momentum,” Dallas forward Jamie Langenbrunner It's going to come down to the Avalanche are an offen- -minded bunch who try luring epponents into a wide-open game » daring teams totry outskating outshooting them. The inherent pressureofa sev- cath gameis somewhat to Dallas wdvantage. Players tendto bete titive for fear of making the sea- tle vending mistake, thus slowing game's pace vlorado Coach Bob Hartleyis «ninghis playersnottofall into { trap. Wedon’t play cautious,” Hart- }.y said. “Dallas plays for breaks and is very opportunistic. We ve to use our speed to our ad- PORTLAND. Ore. — Tim Duncan didn't win the MVP award many people thought he de- served. He didn't even finish second teammatespreparedfortonight's ence finals. After all. the two Priy ay 28 Sunde. May38 players who finished ahead of him in the MVP voting. Karl Ma- Dallas 4 oloradyat Dallas 3 ——— THL PLAYOFFS TURNER CUP Fivais the team that sticks with it the and keeps battling the h irdest, The Stars play a plodding, defensive-oriented game with an umphasis on tight checking. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Game 3 against the Portland Trail Blazers in the Western Confer ridv Avalanche knowthat which- ‘ver team can control the tempo the longest likely will be playing Spurs’ Duncan Thinking Blazers, Not MVP He seemed hardly to care though. asheand his San Antonio WESTERN CONFERENCE Th % lone and Alonzo Mourning, are finished for the season Duncan andthe Spurs are two victories away als. That means from the NBAFina lot more than any MVP award, hesaid “I'd rather be right here right now, I'll tell you that.” Duncan said. “I'mvery happywiththe po sition that I'min right now Hout6. tnd Torstey May25 Orlando $ Howton 2 Thursday, May 2 Houston 6 (randt Saturday May 29 Houston 5 Orlando 4.77 “Torna, Joe | Orlando5 Houston 4. (7 day. Jeo3 (Oran 3, Houston 2 sen uy fan 5 (rao Hason, 630 pm year.” Duncan gives himself an aver- age grade so far in the Western Conferencefinals, even though he has averaged 22 points and 11.5 rebounds per game and shooting 61.5 percentfrom thefield as the Spurs took a 2-0 lead in the best- of-seven series. San Antoniois 4-0 on the road in the playoffs, and the Spurs are one of three teams to beat the Blazers in Fortier this season PACERS-KNICKS PURCHASE, N.Y. — Patrick have to decide what's best for our teamin Game 3 my ring,” Ewing said. “They're wasall the way down to third Elie said. “I understand those donwill keep Ewingsidelined for the rest of the postseason But we had thebest recordin the league. We won all the big games we needed to win, and Tim was a Pacers, tied at one gameapiece, big part of that. 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