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Show B4 The Salt Lake Tribune NBA PLAYOFFS Tuesday, May8, 2001 Karl Wants More Balance From Cassell gery to repair torn ligaments in his right shoulder. Today's Games Charlotte at Milwaukee,6 p.m. Mivaukoe leadssrs 1.0 Sacramento at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m. Las Angeles lads sores 1.0 NBAannounced. Raptors’ Clark Fined sive flow that will be very difficult to handle.” Cassell said he wasn’t going to Clark hasbeen fined $7,500 for the Raptors’ 96-93 Game1 victory over the 76ers on Sunday in go into any gamethinking about throwingice at spectators, the Philadelphia. Toronto Raptors forward Keon The incident occurred during KINGS AT LAKERS — GAME 2 PREVIEW Despite Game 1, Kings Won’tDouble Shag “Yeah, probably,” Sacramento center Vlade Divac said when asked if he will play O'Neal LOS ANGELES — The Sacra- straight up in Game2 ofthe bestmento Kings seemed a confident «of-seven series tonight at Staples Center.“He's goingto scorehis 30, bunch Monday, and they don’t ap40 points. “If we do haveto makelittle ad- defend Shaquille O’Neal, who had said the Kings don’t want to lose victory in Sunday’s openerof their second-roundplayoff series. “Hehadto step up his gamein- credibly to get the win, which he did,” said Sacramento’s Chris Webber, who had career playoffhigh 34 points in losing cause. “Therestof their team is going to haveto step up at sometimein the series.” O'Neal and his: teammates: expressed the opinion that the massive Lakers center wasn't given the defensive attention he’s usually given in Game1, certainly a questionable strategy against the NBA's defending champions. “Tt really doesn’t matter if they doubleand triple me,” O'Neal said Monday. “I'll teammates: look for my “The thing is, I'm on a mission to do what wedid last year as a team. They fouled me onetime and it wasn't.ca'led. That made me mad, and w over.” en get mad, it’s all The Kings simply believe they can do a betterjob in several areas, including their defense on O'Neal. sight of O'Neal’s teammates. “He had a great gameyesterday, partially it’s because Vlade and| ich flew onto the ‘court screaming that a flagrant foul called on Danny Ferry are big guys and he made us look for a hard foulon Howard — was unfair. like little guys,” Pollard said. “There is no one player in the league whocan stop him.” “We knew tonight, because of what happened last game, theofficials wanted to Eleven of O'Neal’s 21 rebounds came at the offensive end, and keep control,” many didn’t just come into his “We've got to put a body on him,”Pollard said. game, was 2-for-14 from the was “too inactive, too field and had nine points and 11 rebounds. in defending O'Neal. “We were allowing him quick Though they managed to position,” Adelman said. “Once he gotit, it was over. Even when he. didn’t get great position, we were close within eight points in the final quarter, the Mavericks were rocked by Duncan and Robinson's aggres- allowing him roomto operate. sive defense, if not the un- “Wecan playa lotbetter,let’s put it that way. We were right in the game,it’s not like we lost by limit that.” DALLAS Nowa Howard, whostarted the Kings coach Rick Adelman said “Whenthey allow our two primary scorers to get as many points as they did, they're going to try to Popovich Spurs 100, Mavs 86 GAME 2 said. “If anything happened atall, they were going to call it.” hands. Lakers coach Phil Jackson said he couldn't comment on what the Kings were goingto do, but added: the regular season, shot 4- a for-9 andscored 10 points. for good shortly after coach Gregg Popovich was ejected late in the first half. Popov- Scot Pollard, Divac’s backup, his te of-13 from thefield and had 19 points. Steve Nash, who averaged 15.6 points during @ Continued from B-1 havetosetbetter screens.” passive,” had 24 points on 8-for-24 tie 44 points, 21 rebounds and seven blocked shots in the Lakers’ 108-105 shooting, and Dirk Nowitzki, who went 11-for-12 from. ‘the free throw line, was 4- usually hostile atmosphere. “All that doesis light the fuel to the oven. Unfortunately, the oven didn’t get lit,” Howard said. “I didn't Kim D. Johnson/TheAssociated Press. play well tonight. | hope we The Sacramento Kings said they would not changestrategy in guarding Lakers center Shaquille O'Neal, who scored 44 points and had 21 reboundsin their opening game against the Kings. His teammates joined him in a poor night of x ee justments, not about Shaq. We Defeat Cold Mavericks 34 percent. Michael Finley Rit pear to have too manystrategical changes in mindfor the Los Angeles Lakers. Andthat includes the way they shooting as theyfinished at aaeegheBootveonsaaR sfz e iae THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS Spurs tie j i fle a eceo-sEsen> BY JOHN NADEL Tim Duncan goesupto shoot against Dallas’ Howard Eisley (9), Shawn Bradley, center, and Calvin Booth. fifty play. If Sam could get 15 [points] and 12 [assists], you'll see an offen- IndianaPacers forward Austin Croshere had. arthroscopic sur- San Antonio leads seis20 getatela would be the best game he could Croshere Has Surgery 's Game San Antonio 100, Dallas 86 sexrasia 33 Soeeeesse ose Boetsonme-a—> ghe~= Cassell averaged 18.2 points and 7.6assists in the regular season.In five playoff games,his scoringis up (21.6) andhis assists are assist gamealong the way. That 82 of 124 votes from a panelof media members. z Faire g Engberg? S3ss So this team needs meto score and be aggressiveoutthere, and I'm goingto do that.” “Sam can be a pivotal part of this series, and it doesn’t haveto be scoringall the time,” Karlsaid. “Td like to see Sam havea 12- A0f57FG] said Monday. “Every timeI got 15 assists last year, we'd alwayslose. sell played more like a point guard than a shooting guard. San Antonio Spurs center David Robinson won the NBA g 8 et 8 2 g 8 See eecessSra in the openeroftheir Eastern Con- [=F Robinson Wins Honor Sportsmanship Award, receiving e kee’s 104-92 victory over Charlotte ference semifinalsfeels his equilibrium is just fine. “We won Round1. We're up1-0 right now,so I thinkit is,” Cassell inside-out performance in Game1, Karl wondered whathis team could do in Game2 tonightifCas- zg Butthe point guard who had 20 points andfour assists in Milwau- eepereyyeyyi £ off balance from Sam Cassell. passing more andshootingless. i NBA NOTES down (5.4). 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