European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 31, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday. March 31,1989 the stars and stripes Page 25 commentary Cool hand Duke lands a hot Hill 77ir i Ava if a ivf3. Lit Albert Siclin Vitzer Turnia Iriti time. Tina fur Thomas Ili to in sink his left handed to Laura Jui Hirw. I Mali. 1 i United states leads i Tawi Hal 2-0. And Liis it Nln Silay night throng at Mannheim s Benjamin. I run tin spurts Arena warms in the Teri Rahlf Rump. If this . Team feels destined to capture inc Alboff Schweitzer title. Thomas Hill is a 6-foot-4 reason. He Lopes lip the court Ullh the air of a Guy headed for Duke University. He shoots with the sure eve of a Bookie which he underscored Wilh an slur it game against Germany monday. The Man is simply a Duke dude or will be when he Hils inc Durham . Campus in August. For now. Thomas Mill is a senior from Lancaster High school in Texas showing his stuff to 14 other coun tries Iii he Schweiz scr tournament. Time i 5s. Sllitti to is Teai ii in shot. I m not sure Duke knows How Good a player they re gelling said . Couch Dick Mccann. All of out players work hard but along the Way he has been Laughl How to play Duke recruited said . Assistant coach turn Kaiser because lie s fundamentally Strong. They Clon i have to spend a lot of time leaching him those ii Raj t hey sure Don t have to Tench him How. To look like a Winner. The Duke look. The Danny ferry look which you can see when Duke faces scion Hall in saturday s Mcaa semifinal ome i Sun them in persons Iid Hill who milled inc Duke Lanius last fall i knew they d win it All. They have hat Confidence to know they la be a Success at whatever they doll 4t. I Lili irks a Iii Ier i Mif shot then feeds Calvin it Yeti. A future \ Illa Nofa pm hirer. Fur a Lilli Sicaja Hill was Reading Jane Eyre when i interrupted him at the . Team s hotel in Mannheim. He s a Dookie. Will right. The University with the 100-per cent graduation rate among basketball players not Only recruited a guard who averaged 24 Points and 13 rebounds Lac last two years but also a Reader with a 3.6 Grade Point average obvious ill it s a great academic inst Ilion Hill mind when asked Why he chose Duke. And program is similar to our High school s. The transition won l be As difficult. They play hard nosed defense. When they touch Lefloor everyone works hard. They re unselfish Ever one can 9 is. lire length if the Mirt Anil scores. Bucky Fox then completes the Tiric Point / fur an is-13 is. Trait. A Texas High school player going in Duke it s rare. The last one to Pul thai off was Well who when Duke s sports information office was asked that question it basically gave this answer that was so Long ago it would Lake All week to find the answer. And Cyl this 17-year-old does t consider him sulfa texan v h ill was bom in los Angeles. 11 is Fallier Thomus or. Won the Bronze Mcdon in the 110-meter High hurdles at the 1972 Munich olympics clocking13.48 to Rod Milburn s Golden 13.24 and be came an assistant athletic director at various schools. So the Hills moved around 10 new York City Arkansas and Lancaster outside of Dallas. Thomas or. Lives with his Mother a government worker in Dallas and brother Kevin a 15-year-old Sophomore guard with a straight a average she spill from Thomas or. Olio recently became assist ant athletic director at the University of Oklahoma. Hill says neither Parent pushed him toward Duke. And since his father is in the College sports business no Recruiter could bamboozle him time in the half i a. Titt to Mvi and hits Ariit Garrott. The Jj-29 North Carolina and Syracuse wooed Hill Early. Kansas and Mcpaul entered the Hill contest Lacr Duke joined the fray two Summers Ngo Bob Bender a Duke assistant coach painted the Golden picture of Blue Devil basketball. Ferry the Senio Slud showed Hill around Campus. Then the Boss Mike Krzyiewski closed the Deal. Hill Calls Krzyzewski Dowtin to but How to discern Between Down 10 Earth and under a Rock you really can t Tell who s telling the said Hill. But if you have a gut instinct go with Yourin Sincl. My feeling was he s a human being. He cares about his thirteen seconds to half time. Llull Nail a Winner from the right Wing. The an fenian -25 Catl stands through intermission. Hill did t have to see a Duke game in person to know where he wanted to play College Hall and study business. Preseason practice was Good enough for him As for those legendary Dyke fans said Hill i be heard about them. Those kind of fans you want Thomas Hill disarms Yugoslavia s Fronko Sikic. To have them on v our Side him soon will 11 ill please them i uni As fast As . Teammate Zan Mason will produce Bis numbers for Urcla. Kaiser figures Duke will work Hill into the How slowly like it did with fern.7 Mii i to30. Hill s steal troth Hon \ l a Ai of of a i 7 , s Duke said a Lyre you Dun i pet Hinl much exposure in Texas la col it by working hard. If you do Good for your High a thou scouts conic out in Mailer where you arc. He s a Good said Yugoslavia s Mirko Pavlovic. "1 in should be Marc aggressive and take More shots yugoslav i assist in coach Tomii Markouc said when we started preparing Tor hits Jialih we knew Many things Aboul. Him he s n Good shooter and Good rebounded. We did All the defensive things we had to do against him1 Hill Whitac i j Points. Rii Tike his ii Avi r age 5.0. Tram loan rat till Lii Zhuk Anim t untied slam nil win is fit left r Uhuru or night s2-xo Victory wire Ovic a Liui raft stands Santl counting. On Vitili Wiesbaden beats Baum older in series opener byte Boivin. Senff Wriler Baumi older West Germany Bruce Willis would have liked the Way the vacs Badin eagles beat. 1 he Baum Holder bears in the opener of the v corps men s basketball championship series thursday night. There were enough crashes and Bangs under the Basket to rival the action in Willis latest movie As the eagles flew on inc wings of n Hoard control game and a die hard Man to Man defense to tree the bears b6-g9. We Don t particularly care for the zone Wiesbaden Center Lamar Oden planned Alicr the game if we re going to a Down we want to die hard instead it was Baum older s Jimmy Das is and the Resl of the bears who a Cal crashing Down to a 1-0 deficit Inthis Best of three series Davis Baum older s leading scorer and one half of the bears inside Poer came was rocked rallied and rolled into a 2-for-u Effort from the Field although the other half of the heart Power Fine electric Clyde Harp Lul for 16 Points nobody else on the bears could pick up the Slack for the absence of Davis scoring punch and his intimidation game underneath. V corns finals the bears actually stayed close for three quarters of the game even Lead ing of the end of the first half 33-32 when Derrick Lee came in and popped a three Pointer for his Only bucket of the game. There were 11 Lead changes i Jhc first half and five ties while the. Front lines tried to bulldoze each other , Bui in the second bears game proved c got out of our game plan too soon. Our game plan is me and Clyde Down Tow and we went to Lac outside shot too but with Davis in foul trouble and suffering through an 0-for-the second half the bears really had no other Choice to try to get Back in the their outside shooter William Bolden could hit Only i of 5 from out Side the line. Even so Russill agreed with dims. There was five minutes left an they were Down by 16," Russell said. Instead of going for iwo they tried to gel it Back fast Wilh the three Pointer and i think they went to it Loo soon. The bears ill have a Chance to get in Back sunday at Wiesbaden with me second game of the series scheduled for i . And the if necks Ary to Fol Low
