| Show I I I C2 The Salt take Taupe Saturday Kay 11 1991 at Home Jazz Blazers Ftwi Storylime: Jazz Must Win A final area of concern for Sloan heading nate Game 3 has been the Blazers' ability to string points together quickly la the opener Portland closed the third quarter with a 14-- burst that turned a three-poigame into as 82-0- 9 132 Game 2 the Blazers outscored the Jazz 124 sec-lioand 13-- 5 during two different three-minut- e of the third quarter That's alien their lead got just big enough "We've got to stop those spurts' 810213 said guess that's the word everybody's been using" If the 131azers snake it three in a row today there's another word that will be srking the nose Sloan was incensed think they're really going after biro: Sloan said46 I was upset at that one point because ! really thought they went after his bead instead of the ball That really bothers me" Still Sloan saw signs that the Jazz improved their physical tommitment in Game 2 The Diaztrs manhandled Utah in the Dpener when they owned a 5541 rebounding edge 'We were a little more competitive' be said 'but not as much as1 would like to see We have to be much more competitive to have a chance against this team And we have to be more physi l Midseason Tretat: cat When we're a physical basketball team we get to the free tbrow line more" when 'Stockton tried to set a pick underneath the basket and ended up on the floor Thee midway through the third quarter Stockton went to the basket Av ItS fouled by center Kevin Duckworth and ended up with a bloody Contlimed From C-- I if you play the way you're capable of playing actd if you compete Like the devil you have a lance So win the game no matter what else )1aPPens : 'You can't go into game concerned bow it's going to be officiated You have to say 'Row am I going to play Row am I going to execute Row I am going to compete!' Those are the important tthings that you have to worry abouSloan wasn't quite as gentlemanly when asked about the Blazers' tactics with it guard John Stockton Twice in Game I power forward Duck Lams knocked the Jazz's offensive catalyst to the floor Once be was called for a foul once be wasn't In Game 2 Williams again got Sloan's attention with 212 minutes left in the first quarter : 1 nt 3 tick-to-Backe- By EAU ns rs EP Lei Hemphill NBA Playoff Notes TRIBUVZ 114-E- Z Here we are two weeks into the playoffs and the Jazz and Trail Blazers face a weekend with One of tboae I Then they got blown out in Denver in Game 5 basic midseason deliaicies — Current Blazer Wayne Cooper who was the starting center on that Denver games The Jan and Blazers play each oth- team was asked about that situation and be answered 'In er Saturday and Sunday at the Palace and neither team is too happy that particular series I really felt it about it especially since none of the worked to our advantage But I think other three coderence semifinal se- this is a totally different scenario tories include back-to-bagames Mitally different team" chael's team gets three days off and Injwies: The Blazers bad three Larry's team changes a game time Thursday night but and Magic's team doesn't go back to they're players all expected to play in Game 3 back tut Clyde's and Karl's teams Saturday afternoon The three are well forget it Porter (contusion of the left Its natural for Utah and Portland Tely Kevin Duckworth ((tenquadricepl small-markto get tame paranoia dinitis iii kis knee) and Mark Bkryaut about this the logic being that it is Aright aukle sprain) deemed the least attractive of the Porter got hurt when he drove into four series and so is shoved into the Mark Eaton with seven miautes left in vacant TV time slots But it must be Game Z Adelman reported Friday remembered that the NBA did make "'Terry says he feels much better than both the 14sikers and the champion he thought be would today — Hope- Pistons go back to back in this round fully by tomorrow at game time bell last year and Chicago did it the year be feeling a lot better" before Duckworth at out Wednesday just don't understand it I don't practice to nurse his knee but it limit care what the rationale is'" counters ed him to 29 nainutes in Game 2 AdelPortland toad Bick Adelman man observed "'Re seemed to be The whole thing should be fair for ev- struggling getting op and down the erybody I don't care if there's large court We bad the lead and I thought TV markets or anything 'You've got we'd be able to bold him out But tight teams involved and they all when it got down to the end of the should have the same chance And I'm fourth quarter there was no way be not speaking just for ourselves but could play then Re had at too long for the Jazz twUsually that subsides after a day or in fact the Jau probab)y have two so he should be OK tomorrow!' snore of a beef than do the Blazers Bryant returned to the game foladvanAfter all it's their home-coulowing his ankle sprain Thursday and should be fine tage that is diluted by this scheduling The Blazers a much deeper team Numbers: the record Karl were 74 this year on the second day Malone's Just for effort from the k situations when both line in the second hiaf of Game 2 set of were on the road games NBA marks for free throws 5 till even if At may hurt the Jazz made playoff and in a half The old more than his own team Adelman record forattempted free throws made was 14 doesn't like the set-u- p And he has a shared by Jerry West (1965) and Mipoint chael Jordan (1990)The old mark for AA minor injury can really hurt free throws attempted was 17 shared your chances — for them and us— be by Jordan (1989) and Charles Barkley mean Terry Porter gets (1990) said kneed in the thigh last nightiThursWhatever maladies the Jazz have day If that would have happened foul shooting isn't one of them ISaturdayl I don't know what he Through six playoff games they are would have done Sunday It's those shooting $17 percent from the line type of things that are tmfair" (they shot 724 percent in five playoff Shades of '85: This series IE begingames last year) Malone's game Thursday has pushed him over ning to resemble another series in Jazz history: the 1985 80 percent for the playoffs (806) Jeff Western Conference semifinals Malone has made 13 straight against Portland and is at 1389 for tilt playagainst the Nuggets In that year the Jazz upset a more offs and Mike Brown has made 21 of n (913) — talented Houston team In the first 23 in the The Blazers' advertised three-poiround just as they defeated Phoenix shooting has been effective so far this year Then they played the Midwest Division champion Nuggets who Portland has made 9 of 17 from bewere 11 games better than the Jazz in hind the arc (53 percent) and Clyde the regular season (the Blazers were Drexler enly 32 percent from that nine games better than the Jazz this range during the season has been the big gun making six of eight season) This Day in the Playoffs: may 11 The Nuggets won the first game in a blowout at home and were 1986: The Milwaukee Bucks elimiforced into overtime before winning nated from the playoffs by PhiladelGame 2 Sound vaguely familiar? phia in four of the previous five seaThen the Jazz had to play Saturday-Sunda- y sons finally get revenge on the 76ers at home with a 113-11- 2 victory in Milwaukee They gutted out Game 3 but ran out in Game 7 of their Eastern Conferof gas and lost a close one in Game 4 ence semifinal series back-to-ba- ck back-to-ba- rounds Sweep ck Kersey Starts Blazers Up Hawkins' 3 Lifts Sixers to Win THE ASSOCIATED i' Charles Barkley said he read rdichael Jordan' s mind before Hersey g three-poiHawkins' shot Hawkins taking advantage trf Jordan leaving biro alone swished the three-pointwith 10 adimikds left Friday might in Philadelphia giving the 76ers a 9947 playoff victory over the Chicago Bulls who still lead the series 2-"1 told Hawk that 1 knew Michael Jordan like the back of my hand" Barkley said g On the play Barkley was supposed to drive for the basket Hawkins who was guarded by Jordan was a safety valve told Hawk That Jordan would leave him and go for me and go for the steal" Barkley said "I said 'Spot up for the three because Michael will go after me and you'll be open:''" 'That's exactly the way the play developed Barkley 'drove Jordan left Hawkins and Barkley whipped the ball to the Sixers' best perimeter shooter "The play was designed for Barkley" said Hawkins who finished with 29 points "1 was supposed to go to the corner Charles said I might be open" Jordan who scored 46 points said "The shot was a good shot 1 had to help out on Barkley but be kicked it to the corner I tried to get over there" Lakers 115 Warriors 112: At Oakland James Worthy scored 36 points as the Los Angeles Lakers cooled off the Golden State taking a 2-- lead in their Western Conference semifinal series The Lakers held Chris MI Ilin who shootscored 41 points on ing in Game 2 to 13 points as the missed 10 of 14 shots The 'Warriors who shot better than 53 percent in each of the first two games Continued From CI game You could say'Well I had 344 but it almost wasn't enoughTo not be :in there during the critical part of the game takes something away from it:" - ILI fact the critical part of the game :might have come earlier for Portland :if not for Kersey When he returued to the floor with 812 minutes left the :Blazers were up by 18 But in the 612 minutes from then until Kersey's : foul-omark the at the Blasers managed only 13 points Xersey got seven of them Frankly when he was on the floor night be carried this team 'Thursday : He sow finds himself the Blazers' :leading scorer through the first two games of the series with 51 points as be has continued the success he's had ove the last month of the regular sea' son and through the first-roun- d play-:oseries with Seattle -"Ile's been playing so well the :whole playoffs' said Blazers coach Adelman'He played well in SeHe's really been on a roll the attle - last six weeks of the season He's been :shooting the ball extremely well" Be made five of his baskets Thurs!day on outside jumpers And in the second half be also made his foul :shots After going just from the line through the first six quarters of this series Kersey went in the second half Thursday "The second half J talked to Walter Davis and he said they Ithe free :throws looked good and they were at the basket" said Kersey "Be said 'Follow through with them and just take the 10 seconds you've got up there and make sure you relax! tame out in the second half and that's "dial I did and I didn't miss any in the second half" 27 free has shot a team-hig- h throws in the first two games mainly because he's be so active in going to the basket and crashing the offensive boards And he's especially active at the start of the game going for nine points in the first quarter of Game 1 and 11 in the first quarter of Game 2 "'1 just come out and try to be as dive as I can right off the bat" said iCersey"A lot of guys they take two three four maybe five trips up the tourt before they really get into a mode where they get loose It doesn't take me that long When the ball goes up I'm ready to go" "He usually gets us going" seconded Adelman '"He always comes out ready to play Very seldom doyou see ereme not ready to play" ' And he'll be ready to play at tipoff Saturday He sees Game 3 as a pivotal one for the Jazz ' ''The third game is a game they almost have to win" said Kersey "And if we can come in here and win that game then they have to come back and play us on Sunday again and it's probably going to put a lot of doubt in their mind that they can beat us" Whatever the Jazz' s frame of mind will be for Game 3 Jerome Kersey mill probably be ready at tipoff 1?- ir:e 4 nt game-wituain- 14 0 -- eo 410' 0 404- 2 oo x et c 77 it - 0 — I er 0 game-winnin- — IAZI y 'I ff ' - -- rk4-- 0 THE ASSOCIATED it ‘41 i 7 - ) - - 4 '(4kc21C-"''4- ' 1 -- it d '4: )6'se"r 'ii: 0 rt krof k ' - - 4 1 1'''''''' n THE ASSOCIATED — played more aggressive defense Game 4 in the best-of-- 7 series is scheduled for Sunday The Laken who got 23 points from and Pittsburgh leads Boston hosts Game 6 Saturday aight in the other semifinal series The finals begin either Wednesday or next Friday In the nine finals since Minnesota's appearance Edmonton went six times winning the Stanley Cup in 1984 1985 1987 1988 and 1990 But through attrition trades and defections the Oilers have lost superstars like Wayne Gretzky Jan KUrri Paul Coffey and Andy Moog: the nucleus that remains from their glory years has dwindled and aged Edmonton finished at 500 during the regular season and its playoff victories over Calgary and Los Angeles were considered surprises n If Edmonton's success was somewhat surprising Minneso 3-- 2 Bobby Smith snapped a tie with 15:01 to play as the North Stars beat the defending NHL 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