Show I i Passes and Pivots Si i The Utes took two on the chin chinat chinat at nt Logan in last weeks week's series It Itis Itis is Js hard to explain how a 1 team that Utah beat twice at Salt Lake should turn around and handily win two from the Redskins To tell the truth though the two losses sustained by the Utah was not unexpected The were set for the Utes while the series w was was s regarded as an anticlimax anticlimax anticlimax max by Utah after the hard games of the ICy Y 1 and the Bobcats In Fret this writer had privately picked the to do that very thing but hut it sc seems ms that it i is this columnists columnist's luck that all his predictions predictions predictions which become true are predicted predicted predicted pre pre- in private When hen the five man defense style of ball bun came into popular use Vadal Vadal Va Va- dal Peterson perfected a type of oi five man zone defense which was the envy of all the coaches This defense was so good that the coaches had to find a counter move to thwart its purposes This was I I accomplished by the simple expediency expediency expediency of having a man do an imitation imitation imitation imi imi- tation of a statue in a far corner of the court until the Utes Utes' abandoned abandoned abandoned the zone defense As the zone defense was intricate to learn naturally the th Utes could not cope advantageously with their opponents opponents opponents I in the to man-to-man style which they had only practiced periodically periodical periodical- ly while the other teams had practiced practiced it almost exclusively This little story thus tells the ups anc and downs of the Utah basketball this season The downs started in the second B. B Y U. U game and has continued continued continued con con- until this past Aggie series But it is our modest hunch that Vadal Peterson before the next casaba season comes again will have hatched up some other scheme to keep the other coaches awake nights Mr Passes and Pivots is going to beat the gun and pick his all division basketball team before the theother theother other ther critics warm up The honor team includes three Montana State players one Utah man and one B. B Y U. U player Here is my selection selection tion First Team RF Brinley Brinley LF Thompson Thompson C. C F. C.-F. F. F Ward LG Goodwin RG R.G. R.G. Breeden Second Team L.- L. L.-F. L. Dixon F. Dixon B. B Y U. U O. RF 0 Ward Ward Montana Montana C. C Smith C. Smith Utah Cooper B. LG Cooper B. B Y U. U RG R.G. RG R.G. Watkins R.G. Watkins Watkins Utah Utah I |