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Show J ii;n f fVhrtlH111 ..imitF Hot-Shooi- snl i r . Stc e i. !i I n i Vj.i if j k .7 : V i iter Nuttc I ).i linl his said lu llin' filni'sil.A n ili.'il Ins Irish urri' te,id in ill 'I sumi I BEND H iixli i n- D.tV' t ili with i i Ii I l I 12 it 14-- lead to 22-- overall, never goi closer Ilian lo alter hat They 'hot so well." I'te Coach I. win Archibald said " lial w,m the key They shot very well and we didn't I Concerning Stioman's performance. ol ii by (tali The Irish ended tip hit t tng 63 rent Ii on he he hi lint before I helps started snhst il nl inn with la minutes hit Notre Dame w as firing at a 7a pel ent ( lip I'tah. on the other ha m shot on Is 32 pm a eni Ii mu Ini J shots l Stro-mai- tali now nn k il 3td-2- hall to build a I ' lai ihi three-minut- I 'tali 99 n.i its must the ripening unit "f thf 'tin li t season 'I hat s a si.oi nl ttn games lie The key to this one was Nutt c Itames shool my .III in w I i M in hi' m .ii aii'l U a ,ii iinihr lie I tcs loll in Illinois loss sim li ,1 i,iiijrfgiii.iBM'giit!iTa'ftlaii3n0itIfiVAfitfHiii'' 0Uty)&& Archibald said. Well, he got 21 'hots He was just missing them. Hey. .leiry s played well for us recently Maybe Notre Dame's had something to do with it And maybe Jerry I piessme pul some pressure mi himself tonight For the I tes. Kelv in Upshaw started at point guard for the fust time all year and he responded with a game-hig17 points, although he managed Jii't four in the first half lake Stioman Manny Hendrix added 12 lor the L'tes t door h Most notieeabK l ie Jerry Stimoan had an nil nitdit Strmnan who's been averaging 27 pond' while shnuimn ' 4.4-2- ' wen-gettin- I them 94-6- 4 That s (or sure In the first hall which ended with Nut re field goal ai Dame leading the Irish Int tempts Noted Archibald. Usually we hold teams to 41 or 42 percent Hut not lately Wc haven t been getting that good effort on defense " It lelt good to be batk in the lineup and playing so lose to home." said I'pshaw a Chicago native Hut wc didn t play very well I hey took advantage of our sie and they played teal well We d.dn shots lelt the l ies I'pshaw. who made decent shots against the bigger r It Hut (hey just wouldnt fall." he said "Stromaii got some good ones and I missed three layups my sell W e v c " gotta make those kind ol shots t. didn and Utah however its toad record this season dropped to In all. five Notre Dame players reached double figures and Phelps didn't use anybody more than 24 minutes Harlow and Hicks, a reserve guard. Donald Koval and reserve renter Gary Voce chipped in with 11 points anti Tim Kempton added 111 T don't think Utah is that bad." Kempton said alter-ards. "They have a couple of good athletes who can definitely shoot the ball lake Stroman. Even though we did a good job on him ti night, you can see he's a good pla yer I just think we played well. We were patient on id fense. W'e got good shots and we made them when we took ( I l.i Itisli. mm seven n noes. dm lied Stimnari made only plavcd good position Ilian In tiiall defense knew I think diet scouted us teal well 'aid iniihlnt keep it going all year I figuted I d tun into a team that would scout us and do some things to stop me hat team turned out to be Node Dame, whiell scored span ol the eight straight points during a i 111..' la't Ii mil hey r I tin inn, the ain.st the a And mi I i pen mil a pnints Mi'simi .in iiini ,hi il Nutrc Dame .Hiked Mill ill III!' rniililM put 14 inllil-ni ll mil Ktll Bar low anil Sent II n 4 s en mile Hi a 91 lit .ii mu i mi hi II in ni In' I'ti's ,ii In' r .mi ( in I p1 Notre Dame Drills Utes, mg I 1 rtirMWrrjg f1 -- I'lu-lpsthough, lelt the l'tes caught his talented team at the wrong time four days attci a tough 72 til loss to top ranked and unbeaten North Carolina . - our concentration and intensity was the Phelps said But. coming off that loss to Carolina. I thought we might play well I just think Utah caught us at a bad time "I said earlier this week we were ready to drill somebody. And we did. It just happened to be Utah They are a better team than that They are a better team than 22 " percent shooltng He hesitated I just think we dominated the boards, we shot well and we played pretty good defense." Phelps continued "I thought this game, really, had nothing to do with Utah or how they played I thought it was a matter ol us placing well " 1 thought key. " or Hceorcled Scores call sorl I Ural Section C January Thursday Morning .'50, 198(5 2;7-20- 2: 6 Page Jazz Jinx Dies With Big Bang Coaches Tab Dantley Dantley Leads Team Over Stunned Sixers NBAs Top Scorer Joins All-- ars St By L.ex Hemphill Tribune Sports Writer Adrian Dantley found out Wednesday that the Western coaches have some respect for him after all By a vote of the 12 Western Conference coaches. By Lex Hemphill Wedneswas to named day Dantley r team, one of seven reserves All-Sta- If? on the whom coaches had to vote This was the first time since he r came to Utah that Dantley's fate had rested in the hands of the coaches. His five previous selections came by the votes of the fans. Earlier this week, Dantley expressed reservations over whether the coaches would add him to the squad "You hear the coaches say so many things about me." Dantley was musing Monday "I wonder sometimes because every time we play against certain teams, they're always complaining about me. like. 'Adrian gets away with this. Adrian gets away with that It makes me wonder il thev reallv like you." All-Sta- 107-10- All-St- Wednesday morning he got his answer. Dantley. who finished seventh among Western forwards in the fan balloting that was announced last r team tor weekend, made the the sixth time in his seven seasons with the Jazz The only time he has missed was the 1982-8season, when a wrist injury limited him to 22 games and ended his season in December Dantley. who entered Wednesday s game as the NBA's leading scorer with a 29 scoring average, joined his scoring rival. Alex English of the Nuggets, as selectees to the team Wednesday, after both of them finished behind starters Ralph Sampson and James Worthy in the fan votAll-Sta- ing Others added to the Western team Wednesday were centers Akeem Ulajuwon and Artis Gilmore, guards Rolando Blackman and Clyde Drexler. and Johnson The in All-Sta- Dallas on a m Marques guard-forwar- Game will he played Feb 9. at 11 2d S11nd.1v. MST Tribune Sports Writer The Jazz told a different Philadelphia Story Wednesday night. After losing 12 straight times to the 76ers. a drought that encompassed six years and one day. the Jazz ended their jinx with a cymbal crash the Sixers. Another Salt Palace sellout crowd of 12,472 watched the Jazz slow down a rampaging Philly team that had won 18 of its previous 21 games before falling flat in this game in what 76er Coach Matt Guokas called "by far our worst effort of the year." It was the first time the Jazz have beaten the 76ers since Jan. 28. 1930. when the Jazz prevailed. Adrian Dantley, who had 20 points in that one and 30 more in Wednesday's game, is the only current Jazzman who played in that victory and he said he didn't remember it. He'll be able to remember this, if only for the reason that it came on the same day that he was named to the team and on the same night that he moved past Bob Cousv into 25th place on the NBA career scoring list with 16.393 points The 76ers. who played and won in Seattle the previous night, did nol have the look of an energetic team jn this one. They had a lead in the first seven minutes and then struggled the rest of the way. As the Jazz's Mark Eaton said. "I heard a lot of huffing and puffing when we were playing." The Sixers managed just 39 percent shooting and turned the ball over 26 times in an unimpressive outing Charles Barkley, who entered tiis game with performances, typified the Sixers' from the field game, as he shot and collected only seven points and six rebounds before fouling out with six minutes left in the game. Moses Malone, who led the visitors with 21 points, didn't get to the foul line at all in the first half, a rarity since he leads the league in free throw attempts and since he made an NBA 1985-8from high of the line the last time these teams met last month. He had a flurry of three baskets in a span of a minute and a half midway through the third quarter. but other than that, he didn't have a major effect on the game. "I thought the officials Jack Madden and Terry Durham culled a pret-SeColumn 107-8- the conference's 'fT Information Call 2:17200 All-St- T thief at work? Jazz guard John Stockton (12) reaches in and slaps ball away from Philadelphias Moses Malone A itjone Stoff Photo bv AI Hartmann as Malone tries to get shot away Wednesday night during 5 NBA victory over Sixers at the Salt Palace. Utahs 107-8(- 15-- 6 Duo Guides Jazz Home Green-Stockt- on By l.ex Hemphill Tribune Sports Writer The little guys were back in tandem for the Jazz Wednesday night guards John Stockton and Green, who have rarely played together this season, were together on the floor for the last nine minutes and SO seconds of the Jazz's 107-8t victory over the Philadelphia 76ers at the Salt Palace The Jazz had lost their last 12 in a row to the 76ers before Wednesday night, but in the last three meetings Fie two between the two teams games last season and the one last month in (hilly), the Jazz were in position to win. only to told in the fourth quarter Jazz followers could be excused for remembering those games Wedneslead day night, when the Jazz's after tliree quarters was shaved to on six straight points by rookie Point Hickey long-sough- 77-H- 79-7- Terry Catledge in the first couple of minutes of the fourth quarter. The Jazz, called a timeout, and then they inserted Green into the game to join Stockton. They made sure there was no fourth-quarte- fizzle. r What the duo did was make sure the game's tempo stayed at a fast pace, so that the Sixers, who played the night before, would just get too exhausted to mount a comeback Green-Stockto- I think we can create a lot of problems for people." said .Stockton. "They're a team that's on the road, and a good way to wear them out is to " pressure them Stockton says that he cun actually conserve energy and pressure on defense more effectively with Green on the court, explaining. "If my man firings it up the court and I'm dogging him the whole wav. then I don't have to bring it up the other way, because we've got Rickey." Sedale Threatt ward spot, while and Perry Moss, played the and then Cheeks, handled the point. That's not too much height for Green and Stockton to overcome. 3 d Stockton had his best game since Green replaced him in the starting lineup seven games ago. He had li joints and 12 assists. He had a total of 29 assists in his two games this season r Mauagainst the 76ers and rice Checks, who had only three assists in 37 minutes against Green and Stockton Wednesday. "We knew they had played last night." said Green, who had a poor shooting night (2 for 8) but picked up four steals at the other end. "We tried to pick them up early and wear them down. We just tried to keep a lot of pressure on them." Jazz Coach Frank Layden said the Sixers are a team against which the Jazz can get away with the small-guaralignment. The Sixers went the fourth quarter with starting guard Julius Frvtng back at his small for back-to-bac- Still, the question persists. Can it work against bigger guards0 All-Sta- "I think even against bigger guards it might help us," said Stockton, "because teams are less likely to put their guards on the rebounding line with us in there because of the threat of the fast break " d Nonetheless, it's unlikely the Jazz small-guaralignment unless the opposing team uses a smaller guard line like the 76ers had in the fourth quarter. The conditions were perfect for them Wednesday -a helter-skelte- r game that featured 48 turnovers (26 by the 76ers). The small guards. Green and Stockton, created much of that havoc. will use the d k 6 e 1 C-- Aggies Evolve Into Passive PC A A Pretenders, Not Contenders a One must assume that a college student on scholarship is going lo go to tin- max to proieet that monetary stipend which ol ourse. the majority ol collegians do nol have access to Athletes on scholarship are under discus ston here college basketball players More specifically, some of the athletes w ho comprise the Utah State University basket ball team are going to be put under the microscope today Weve got a classic case ol the hasketball folderoo going on in Cache Willey, a scenario the fans of the Aggies and the slate s taxpayers hardly deserve This might he the best hunch of student athletes you've evet seen Idotilknow Irate Their first print it v. natuiallv. is ,1 positive academic record t But like the rest ol the folk' .Mound Hie eon Aggie basketball progiain Hi" biggest in the irmid teams is Ot cern present More specifically, the shadows u a 2 5 Iactl IC Coast Athletic Asset latum log ate qmcklv enveloping what seemed mho necks agot like eonleienee tournament a cinch berth at the L A. Forum March 6 8 "Were not playing with gusto." an exasper ated Coach Rod Tucller tcasoned after last 11 post-seaso- Aggressiveness That translates into neck's patnlul. 61 til1 loss at Partite te just dou have a leadei snmeone w tie w ants to step for ward and take charge n tins team. sighed Tucller We've got to find one Foul games m a row at home starting Thursday night against Cal-I- i will make or break our season." vim Tucller opined r 6-- 7 ' that way Let's dissect a particular statistical category that might define this seventh edition ol fueller basketball Let's ignore Aggie field goal shouting, winch would certainly be hard to deletul at 4)7 percent Or push defense aside, if you will, with the Ags' giving up nearly eight mote points a game Ilian llirv score iH2B to We wont win 7.3D Tueller lias admitted many defensive awards up lu ie If we're going to discus, gusto 01 l.iikol Id s take a peek at persdial louts and dts qualifications The Aggies haven't had much gusto". e aggressiveness! or manv louts ic disqualifi cations) And that, in one observer s humble opinion is why the Ags are getting knocked around the citizens I'CA A like second-clast 6-- 6-- 6 Indeed And it nei'dn knock- never-neveland It's ing a few folks into knock or get knocked This Aggie team has the potential to push and 205 pounds. opponents around Grant's and and 210 pounds, Conway's Bell is and 215 200 and Johnson is tie candidate Greg Grant has three disqualifications and sophomore point guard Kevin Nixon has fouled out three times Each has Both cases are understandable as any minutes as twice almost many plased other Aggie But where, one must ask. are the Aggies' three biggest players - the inside muscle" How many times have junior Dan Bell, forward Danny Conway anti center Mike John son fouled out in bouncing around the opposi turn in the paint? A total of one - Conway Who's kidding who0 Someone's sure to fire a olf a rebuttal salvo asking what good is a player on the heneli with five fouls0 What good is a player on the bench with no fouls" For those of you who may have quit ing the Aggies and their 10 losses in ings. there have been games when pretty well neutralized good teams But this Ag team is an enigma For the win at genuine Vegas. Fresno, San Jose (80-6(82-7home two weeks ago) and overtime win at home) outings, there have been the debacles like the loss in Logan to doormat Barbara and last week's dreadful reversal at Stockton to HOP 6 66-5- Cal-Sant- a follow16 out- To put it another way. it's been tenacity one night, tentativeness the next. they've with a The Aggie basketball team has most asthree suredly been through a days since returning from Central California bruising, physical approach Take UNLV. for example, and the double overtime loss at the Thomas and Mack Center Jan 2 The Aggies had 30 fouls that night, nine more than Vegas, and three players fouled out. USU darned near beat a team that, -wise, is probably two or three times be- was a must It It's almost as important as boning up lor late January classroom exam a talent- tid Hi, mi Hie Ags Fresno State at Selland Arena about as often as Halle;. s fnmit streaks within earthly view. A wi'i-.itui the Ags had Fresno hy the throat and let Coach Boyd Grant's club off the hook Nathan tScooter) Grant had 13 points in that game - his best of the season - and he had four fouls He was scrapping lor all he was worth No other Aggie had more than two I". w hd fouls 'Hu- c the Bulldogs lose Because in the next 10 days, the 1986 has ketball fate of candidate Grant and his colleagues will bo determined in a PCAA hnmestand at The Spec trum four-gam- e There's some heat m the Cache Valley kitchen. And if the Aggies, who have, at times, acted like pantywaists. don't know how the thermometer works, they'd belter high-lai- l it through the backdoor Or. these scholarship players arc going to Hunk basketball t k |
