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Show @ Scoreboard D4 @ Susiness D5 @ Financia! Markets D6 The Daily Herald Wednesday, May 22, 19 Magic perfor: vanishing act Jazz face tough road past Seattle Socan the Jazz find the right tunes to beat the Sonics in this Western Conference series? At home, Utah should (must) win two games Friday and Sunday Anything short of that is disaster. But, wow, in the memory of Pete Maravich, Utah choked downa golden opportunity that last game. Howoftencanthe Jazz get Shawn Kemp manning the bench and Gary Payton hobbling around and taking massage rests while leading by eight going into the fourth in Seattle” Ouch, that Monday outcome vacuumed,er, um, that other word The homecourt advantage is so hugein these seven-gameplayoff Series. It was imperative the Jazz break up the oddslike they did By RICK GANO AP Sports Writer CHICAGO half by Trailing in the 18, the Chicago vk at all like the at won 72 regular games and trounced Orlan opener of the Eastern nce finals. lost admitted turned to a ful d sent their double ense at Magic center e O'Neal. What followed were bad passes, nissed shots and total of Orlando's offense nly the Magic’s lead went nore quickly ength-of-thecourt dribble and acrobatic =! Dick - Harmon esday night and the t dless to say t was a very ffic alt basketball game for us to oach Bran jost by 38 in the Sidelines with a win against San Antonio in the second round. It makes it an entirely different ballgame. According to NBAstatistics, here are the keys to winning asenes * Getting a jump: The team that wins the first game has gone on to win 188 of 239 (.787) best of-sevenseries. * Serieslength: It’s hardto pre dict how long a series will last, but of the 239 best-of-seven senes 3-88 victory ressiveness on ooking to pass e Balls trapped ballhandlers |, forcing the ) pass He'd hurt first half points, Chicago's Michael Jordan (23) drives past Orlando's Shaquille O'Neal (32) and Brian Shaw (20) during the fourth quarter Tuesday. Jordan led the Bulls with 35 points in a 93-88 Chicago win wit played thm in the way the ball into Shag.” said Jordan, who had 35 poin after winning his fourth Award. “But once we were put that press on, they lost idity. It takes a lot of energy the press. When we were d poinis, we had no choice O'Neal, whohad 36 poi 16 rebounds, hit a short h give the Magic a 64-46lez 6.17 left in the third quarte Then camethe collapse Orlando missed 1! of | had five tumovers and Jord: nine points to spark a 26-5 ( run. That gave the Bulls ¢ point lead. Orlando came ba regained the lead, but ne poiseit had earlier in the gary “We had a lot of tumovers,”” O'Neal said. “"Y was doubled, | just had tc the ball and shots w Anyume you ha that, man, you jus of the ball But they (th will fall at home. No need t now.” Eleven of the Magi turnovers came in the secor Penny Hardaway, the other star, had 38 peints 1. But he was limited to day night on 6-for-15 shox he managed to get off « fourth-quarter shot “L told myself I pick wrong day, the biggest 9 not be ready toplay, And it the victory,” Hardaway said Games 3 and 4 arein ( on Saturday and Mond: Magichopeto be bolstered return of Horace Gran missed Tuesday night's gar a hyperextendedleft elbow played in NBA history, 72 have gone the limit, with 27 four-game sweeps. cantin a best-of-seven series, with teamswith the advantage having won 177 of 239 (.741) times + Comeback drama: No team in NBA history hasever bounced back from a 3-0 deficit to win a best-of-se ones. Five teams (Boston, 1968; Los Angeles, 1970, Washington, 1979, Boston, 1981: Houston, 1995) have rebounded froma 3-1 deficit. Seven teams (Boston, 1969; Los Angeles, 1969 Baltimore, 1971; Portland, 1977 Chicago, 1993, Houston, 1994. Houston, 1995) haverallied from a 2-0 deficit to win aseries TheJazz are in a position to join the ranks of the 2-0 come back teams, but it will be tough and they must win in Seattle wherethey just got blown out by 30(on tiredlegs), then blew a fourth quarter lead(on poor offen sive execution downthe wire) @ FRANKLIN ALL-STARS: The Mormonprepall-star team, whichincludes someof the best basketball players in the West, will play in Reno. Nev.. this weekend. Ledby Irvine (Calif) Woodbridge High senior Chris Burgess (6-1 ¢ team will be playing without Provo’s 6-9 Mekeli Wesley. The big Bulldog is in American Samoathis week playing for a Samoan all-star team. Says Franklin coach Ron Dodson about Burgess, who is ranked as the No. | power for ward in high school: “He’s a com bination of Michael Smith and Steve Trumbo as fur as scoring and rebounding. tie has worked meand In my opinion heis the best LDS basketball player, at this stage of his career, that | have ever seen.” @ CYBER NBA: Thele internet website NBA.COMrece in 4A tourney action Y BOB HUDSON he Daily Herald Assistant Sports Editor OGDEN After giving up a lead-off homerun, Provo’s Bryce Barnes settled down Tuesday might Barnes allowed just four more hits in stoad 3 ver East in the 4 “baseball nent at Serge B. Simmons t seems like it wakes us up give up an early-inning run.” said Provo coach Vance Law ‘Sometimes Bryce starts slow. It was niceto see himsettle down The Leopards’ Bryce Geyer blasted an 0-2 pitch over theleft tield wall to give East a 1-0 lead. Austin Stowe followedwith a sin gle and stolen base before Barnes got the Leopards out Provo took control in its half of thefirst. Ken Hardy Tim Law and sectilice fly gave the Bulldogs a 2 1 advantag East took advantage of a walk and two Provo errors to te the gameat 2-2 in the top of thesec ond Provobuilt a 4-2 leadinits half f the inning, Matt Thornton Buzz lose 9th-inning lead again ly got anadditional link for basket By TONY REYNA ball fans whoare online. The new addition is FINALS.COM, or more appropriately addressedas: hup//www.finals.com, The new Site is sponsored by the NBA, NBC,Starwave Corp., and ESPN Enterprises, Inc. Duringthe first week ofthe NBAplayoffs, the NBA.COMsite got 2 million hits Special to The Daily Herald per day. FINALS.COMprovides live player chats, photos, post-game audio commentary, multimedia and merchandising. DSMAKER’S PICKS: According to USA Today ,Las Vegas oddsmakers have made Utah a $-point favorite in Friday's Game 3 with Seattle in the Delta Center. The game, which has a 6:30p.m. tipoff, will be televised live on TNT. Comméniary, messages and questions to Dick Harmon may be sent via e-mail at Sports itsnet.com. SALT LAKE CITY — The Salt Lake Buzz may want to appeal to the Pacific Coast League to have their games shortened to eight innings For the fourth timeintheir last six outings, the Buzz blew a ninth- inning lead in falling to the Tacoma Raniers 8-3 Tuesday night at Franklin Quest Field Andif not for a lucky break in Monday night's game against the Raniers, Salt Lake would|have lost another lead and another game in the final frame. “We're just into a little spell right now with our bullpen,” said Salt Lake manager Phil Roof. “When you've been burnt a time or two there's a little uncertainty that starts to surface and right now we need to get some confidence » (See BUZZ, Page D2) opened with a single and Jesse Clark doubled. Hardy drove in one run with a groundball. Law’s dou ble drove in the other The Bulldogs went ahead 5-2 in the third when Tejada doubled and Barnes and Jared Ayoso followed with singles, That scored Jeremy Frampton, who was running for Tejada. East closed to 5-3 in the urth Brian Moore opened withasi He moved to second on M York's groundout and came home on Dave Gray's single. After that, however, Barnes sailed throughthe East lineup. He allowedjust onehit and one walk overthe final three innings Provo picked upits sixth runin the fourth without bencfit of a hit Hardy walked and stole second He took third on Law’s fly ball to right, then scored on Stringham’s sacrifice fly to center The Buildogs capped the scor ing in the sixth. Thorton opened with a double. Clark then swatted the ball downthe first base line. The Leopards” York misplayedthe ball andall hands were safe. Hardy followed with a mam. moth home runover the rightfield (See PROVO,Page D2) Daily Heraid Photatioh Provo's Bryce Barnes, on the ground, is called past at homein a close decision Tuesday in Ogden. The Bulldogs won their 4A tournament game with Eos 3. Prove was scheduled to play Tooele earlier | for Payson pro By ROD COLLETT The Daily Herald Associate Sports Editor PAYSON Hard work and can often make the dif- between success and fail2 highly competitive sport such S golf But there's no substitute for “RAW TALENT.” Gladstan golf course assistant pro Tracy Zobell accomplished Since tuming pro four ye ago, he has steadily improved | the pointthat he's considered ov of the up and consing stars of t! Utah PGA Section. At the recent Spanish Oaks Open, Zobeil put t ot 70-71-141 and while be tir ished in the top 10, his competi tive scores from just a few years ago have dramat ally. He qualified the Nike Utah most everything at Payson High Classic last year, a ie 10at School(1987-89) as an athlete — 71 GolfCourse. letters in footbali, baseball and basketball — but he found a different challenge on the golf course Zobell, 25, that he golf until after high sct 1 never played pass, Zobel soon realized the Playing high school There was nosixth man off the golf,” Zobell admitted. “The first bench, nobig bodies blocking up me I ever up a golf club front when he dropped back to Was when T Syabt Bile unnerving thought that if he were to succeed in his new profession Years. everything depended on his ability to conquer a golf course. a. “p i aid : : |