European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday april 2, 19b7 the stars and stripes Page 21 prep Pickin s j. Message for 3-Pdint shot stay away something came across the sport desk thai does t please me the National High school federation announced that effective next year its Basket Ball Leims will use the three Point play like the Lime clock of lord Don t let that Ever come to be Tor the preps Era the three Point shot punishes a team for getting ahead. A team works diligently to build an eight Point Lead works the Ball around with Sharp passes Good dribbling and Superb Ball handling Only to have some Bloke throw up a wild if in Gocs. I get three semblance to a Basket Ball shot. 1 confess to being a traditionalist but the three Point Basket has cheapened basketball anybody and his Uncle can throw the bal goal Ward and Hope it goes in. That Haj been proven Many times this year on the College level. I would t be surprised if i who played Only a Little bit of High school basketball Many Many years ago could manage a decent percentage heaving away. That s not what or Naismith had in mind when he nailed his peach Basket to his garage to these Many years ago. If there should be a three Point Basket it should be in a Layup situation when a basketball player is trying to get a rebound and go Back up for a score with tour Guys hanging All Over him and the official standing by. That sounds ridiculous does t it while i m voicing opinions on basketball i d like to go into another stupid change the Rule of last Possession. If that in t unfair nothing is. An underdog team is playing its Best game of the year and has the Best team around in difficulty. The underdog gets to within two Points and there s Only a minute left and it forces a tie up. Whoops sorry buddy but the Ball goes la the big Guy. Tough but you re going to have to give them the Ball foul them and Walun the free throws and he other team s Lead build up. No matter if a 6-10 Guy is jumping against a 5-11, or even 5-7, player there always exists the possibility that the tip May go awry a teammate of the smaller player might gel perfect position and get the Ball the Ball May be lipped out of Bounds or something Els might occur. If there is any element of Chance it should not be removed by the official looting his whistle and hand ing the half to the team that has the Possession Arrow pointing its Way. Then there s the Lime clock. What non basketball that is. The situation Here is even More ridiculous. The 12-Point smaller underdog team has a six Point Lead with 6 18 remaining or any time. Tor that matter and it has to go for a Basket when the Odds of rebounding a missed shot Are overwhelmingly against Success the shot misses big Moe gets the carom and what do you know All of a sudden it s a four Point game. And All of a sudden the Lille Guy has been taken out of the game maybe i be become basketball stir crazy. I think i la take a few Days off and go golfing. Track and Field burst upon the Dodds scene with a flourish last weekend despite the Blus Tery Damp weather. Eight Mccols were on the Agenda and we received Calls from All but one. Actually it was two according to the original schedule. The Mecl at Augsburg was called off. All of the teams except Karlsruhe were Able to Hook on at another site and quadrangular became Hcan goals As the coaches at hosting Sites graciously welcomed i Host out on a limb. As a result we have the first edition of the 19s7 stars and stripes Honor Roll Sec Page 20. Some winning efforts were impressive consid ering the elements. Some Irack slurs Are nuking their Only appearances on the Honor Roll. Thai s because the Honor Roll recognizes Only winning limes and since some of the upcoming meets won t have the elite going head to head second place finishers this week will be posting wins and etching their names on the list. It did t take Long for the Rick faster Jason Biko confrontations i mentioned last week to Start. Baum Holder and Wiesbaden competed at Frankfurt and the two runners collided in the 1,500 and 3,000 me ices. Baum older s Jasler won both races turning the former in 4 05.3 and the latter in 9 06,4. Wiesbaden s Beko won the 800 meters in 2 07.1. Stuttgart s Mike Beh Rendl hid a 2 07.9 clocking in the 800 Al Ramstein Only three boys and two girls find their names lopping More than one event. Jaster is up there with his two distance victories. Frankfurt s Allen Perry tops the Field in the 200 meters and 110-meter High hurdles. Wilbure s Rich Ard Williams had the Best Marks in the 300-meter intermediate hurdles and High jump. Hahn s Char Lonc Johnson had the Best Marks in the 100 and Long jump and Fulda s Mildred Caw Thom is right up there in the 400 and 300-meter hurdles. Gardner Home win army doubles Pir Masens Germany Bob Gard Ner of Heilbronn rolled a 256 while teaming with Eringen s Barry Home for the men s doubles Crown wednesday in the Usa eur Bowling championships. Gardner Home gave Vii corps the title Wilh a 2421, the women s title went to the 21st support come team of Beth Muench and Dawn Johnson. They teamed for a 2102. Gardner he All events Leader through 12 game at 2345, followed his Toumey High 256 Wilh identical 193s to finish his first series wednesday at 642. The All army Bowler came Back Wilh games of 201,188 and 211 for a 600 series Horne fourth in All events with a 2268, opened the doubles with a 210 247-210667. The High series of the tournament. He followed with a 155 169-190514. Chris Cantley of Karlsruhe and Arthur Derrick of Mannheim took second with a 2309. Bill Frazier of Stuttgart and Dennis Bull of Schweinfurt claimed third at 2278. On the women s Side Zwic Bruecken s Muench rolled a 1052 on series of 196 156-171 523 and 206-166.157529. Johnson an All army Bowler out of Karlsruhe rolled 1030 on series of 169 158-219546 and 159-179-166504. Second place went to Kathleen Sulli Van of the Netherlands and Mary an Drews of vog Lwi a who combined for 2045. Susan Hugi l of Wuerzburg and Toni Darden of Ansbach bowled third at 1996. The tournament was to finish with the singles event thursday. Knight likes his hoosiers joining Penn state on top new Orleans a coach Bob Knight says his Indiana basketball team struck a blow for the Good Guys in College athletics by winning the Mcaa championship just As he believes Penn slate did in football. I think it s great that two teams with High graduation rates and no recruiting m the same season said Knight after capturing his third National title. Maybe people will look Al thai an Sav Weli a 1--can  if icy can do it that Way so amphora Indiana s Keith smart fires game Winner. Over Syracuse s Howard Triche Knight takes Pride in Indiana s adherence Loncala s rules and his insistence that student athletes fulfil the first part of thai description. A pleases me tremendously for the kids and for our system the coach said in the afterglow of Indiana s 74-73 Victory Over Syracuse monday night in the Mcaa championship game. I m obviously a target for a lot of criticism for one reason or another some justified and some not and Here we have three different sets of kids with three championships. Our record has been pretty Good in the tournament and what thai Means to me is pretty Good testimony hat we re doing things he Way they should be  he said that by winning the College fool Ball title Penn suit Dia the same. The lust couple of regular season games i was rooting for Penn stale and Jot Palerno to win inc football  Knight relaxed his philosophy some what when he allowed transferee Junior College players to join his team. In his 16lh season til Indiana inc 1984 olym Pic Gold medal coach realized that Junior College players could provide the instant help thai was needed if lie hoosiers were to stay competitive. Keith smart one of those players was inc most valuable player in Indiana s Victory. He figures prominently in Knight s plans for next season. After third ranked Indiana 3d-4, Defeated no. 10 Syracuse Knight talked As if he could l Wail to get going again even though Steve Alford a two Lime All american guard will no longer a around. I can t Wail to Sec Keith smart at Point guard As a senior said Knight of the 6-foot-1 Junior. Smart scored 21 Points including the game Winner a 16-foot Comer shot with five seconds ice. He look Over when in appeared the orangemen 31 -7, were on their Way to their Fisl National title before an Mcaa record equating crowd of 64,959 Al inc super Doc. Thai is before smart scored 12 of Indiana s last 15 Points. He made nine of 15 from the Field and added six assists and five rebounds. If it goes in it s my shot smart said of his game Winner. It s a pickup game  what it did was put Knight in select company Wilh coaches who have won More than two Mcaa crowns Urcla s John wooden 10 and Kentucky s Adolph Rupp four. Despite Knight s dislike of he 3-poin goal Rule the Long Range shot played a major Roc in inc Victory As it has All season. Alford the steady Marksman who made seven of 10 3-Poinl Iris against Syracuse was supposed to Lake Indiana s final shot but Syracuse s defense made the Wii its look elsewhere. Keith s Man kind of came to me a Lille and he smart fed the Ball inside Lifard  Thomas flipped it Back and he hit  Syracuse tried to Call a Liocam hut the officials did t cull in until the Cluck ticked off to one second left. We discussed it at the scorer s table referee Jody Silvester said when the timeout was picked up there was one second