European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday april 1, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 21 sports no. 1 lady longhorn a photo Clarissa Davis is held up by Texas team Mcaa women s basketball championship mates after the lady longhorns Defeated Davis scored 24 Points and was also Southern California 97-81 sunday for the named the tourney s most valuable player. 76ers overcome injuries 8 cagers to nip Mavericks by the associated press Philadelphia the 76ers were badly out manned suiting up Only eight players for their game with the Dallas Mav Ericks. Eight was enough. Charles Barkley and Rookie Terry cat ledge made up for the absence of Phila Delphia s three biggest players centers Moses Malone and Clemon Johnson and Forward Bob Mcadoo and the Short handed mixers edged the Dallas Mavericks 114-113 on sunday in Aba action. The 76ers also were missing guard an Drew Toney out for most of the season with a foot injury and Forward Bobby Jones Groin injury. Barkley who is becoming one of the most awesome forces in the game played All but one minute and had 32 Points and a career High 25 rebounds. Catledge scored a sea son High 29 Points. You be got to believe otherwise it s a waste of time Barkley said. You can t worry about what you Don t have you be got to do the Best with what you do have. I feel great now because we won he said. But i m exhausted. In another two hours i Don t know How i la probably better than Malone who has an Eye injury and the rest of the Philadelphia wounded. The 76ers led 112-103 with 57 seconds remaining but Dallas scored seven straight Points. Detlef Schrempf and Dale Ellis connected on jump shots and Ellis stole the Ball and scored a three Point Basket with 28 seconds left making it 112-110. Philly s Perry Moss scored on a Layup with five seconds to go and a three Pointer by Dallas Derek Harper with two seconds left closed the scoring. Philadelphia led by As Many As 24 Points in the third Quarter. Julius Erving contributed 24 Points for the mixers. Rolando Blackman and Harper each had 22 Point for Dallas. When i got to the locker room i could sense from everyone that they really believed they were going to win mixers no Roundup coach Matt Guokas said. This is the problem teams have when you play a club that is missing key people noted Dick Motta coach of the mavs. You seem to Lack the concentration you need to win. Philadelphia is so in other Aba games sunday lakers 124, warriors 117 Inglewood Calif. Kareem Abdul Jabbar the Aba s All time leading scorer had 16 Points to pass 35,000 for his career. Abdul Jabbar reached the 35,000 Milestone on an awkward left handed Hook shot from about eight feet away with 4 09 remaining in the third Quarter. He has 35,004 Points and is playing in his 11th season with the lakers and in his 17th season in the Aba. James worthy led the lakers with 34points. Guard Eric sleepy Floyd paced Golden state with 28 Points and 12 assists. Celtics 122, nets 117 Boston new Jersey climbed Back into the game after falling behind by 22 Points in the first half. But Larry Bird s 40 Points Kevin Mchale s 24 and 21 by Rob Ert Parish were too much for the nets. Boston which has won 11 consecutive games improved its league leading record to 61-13 with its 27th straight Home Victory equalling the record set by the Minneapolis lakers in 1949-50. With a 36-1 Mark at Home the celtics can establish a new re Cord on wednesday night against Detroit. Otis Birdsong led the nets with 26 Points and Mike Gminski added 24. Supersonics 103, suns 89 Seattle Gerald Henderson hit eight straight Field goals scoring 20 Points for Host Seattle. It was a costly defeat for Phoenix which fell two games behind san Antonio in the race for the final playoff spot in the Western conference. The suns have nine games left. Larry Nance scored 20 Points for the suns. Wooden saw churn s potential As coach by Hal Bock Dallas a before he recruited the Lew Al condors and Bill Waltons who created a College Basket Ball dynasty at Urcla coach John wooden had a guard at the school a one year starter he really liked. He was a very spirited player wooden said. He was not great from a technical standpoint. He was Heady so inquisitive but not in a critical Way. He wanted to know Why you were doing things. He was born to be a wooden was right about Denny Crum. Crum s tour of basketball benches took him from High school to Junior College jobs to wooden s assistant at Urcla. Finally he landed in Louisville where he guided the cardinals to the final four for the fourth time in the last seven years this season. I was t at All surprised at his Success wooden said. When he came Back As my assistant he had grown in so Many ways. The Only problem was that he seemed too critical too demanding. The players came to me and asked me to get him off their backs. He had to develop when wooden retired Urcla brought in first Gene Bartow and then Gary Cunningham As coaching Succes sors. The third candidate was Larry Brown who joined Crum at this year s final four with Kansas. I had not met him before he was hired wooden said of Brown. I thought he did a Fine Job but it was better at that stage than it is now because they were still getting the material. He was sort of an unsettled person at the time. He seemed to be looking for Greener Brown left Urcla after two years to coach the professional new Jersey nets before returning to the College ranks at Kansas in 1983. This weekend s final four appearance was not his debut at that level though. In his first year at Urcla Brown took the team to the title game before the Bruins were beaten. The Mcaa Champion that year was Louisville and wooden s Heady sex guard Crum. Wooden said he thought that when he had him As a player Crum s knowledge of the game made him coaching Prospect. But it would have been a mistake for him to become. A head coach right away wooden said. He needed time because of his temperament. He believed in himself and that was Good. We d have Strong discussions but he realized Only one of us could make the decisions. You Don t want a clone who s going to inflate your ego. You Don t want a yes Man As an assistant. He was very spirited very competitive. Still is really if you play him in cribbage and for his part Crum warmly recalls his Days at Urcla first As a player and then As wooden s assistant. We Are All products of our environment and my relationship As a player and a coach under coach wooden has had a lot to do with whatever Success we be adhere he said. Over the years you always change some things that you do such As x s and o a but the philosophy and the Basic principles that you use come through the systems that you come up with. Coach wooden would say basketball is a game of conditioning fundamentals and team play. That s what we be lived by Here. So whatever Success we be had he certainly gets some of the
