European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday May 10,1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 17 suns burst Phoenix stuns la. Pistons blazers Roll by the associated press Inglewood Calif a the Phoenix suns and Cotton Fitzsimmons no longer have a Cloud Over their Heads at the forum in Inglewood. Fitzsimmons in 16 years of coaching for Kansas City Atlanta and san Antonio As Well As Phoenix was 0 for 37 when taking those teams on the Road to play the los Angeles lakers. The suns also had a futility record losing 21 consecutive games at the forum since 1984. But it All came to an end tuesday night As the suns held los Angeles without a Field goal in the final vhf minutes and beat the lakers 104-102 for a 1-0 Lead in their Best-of-7 Western conference playoff series. _ unheralded Center Mark West carried the suns with 24 Points 16 rebounds and seven blocked shots in 47 minutes. Quot Mark West was an unbelievably dominant Force a Fitzsimmons said. Tom Chambers of the suns scored 26 Points As he also ended a personal losing Streak against the lakers a 0 for 8 in playoff games. A a it a a thrill a he said adding still another compliment for West . Was not prepared for Mark  the lakers contributed to their own downfall scoring just one Point in the final 3 37 of play. Magic Johnson made one free throw to put the lakers just two Points behind with four seconds remaining then intentionally missed the second free throw. But Kevin Johnson rebounded and time ran out James worthy and magic Johnson had 22 each for los Angeles. Johnson also had 14 assists for the lakers. A we did what we had to do with the other players on their team but Mark West was the key a magic said. A we did t count on him performing like that a _ the loss was the lakers first in the opener of a second round series since 1980, when they were beaten by Seattle. Los Angeles came Back however to win the next four games. In the loss to the suns Orlando Wool ridges jumper gave the lakers a 101-98 Lead with 3 37 left. Then they did no tuba playoff celtics fire Rodgers a Page 19 at the suns performance. A this is the Way All the games Are going to be against Phoenix a competitive a he said. Trail blazers 122, spurs 112 Portland Ore. A Terry Porter and Clyde Drexler keyed a 24-8 third Quarter outburst As Portland beat san Antonio to take a 2-0 Lead in their Western conference semifinal series. Porter finished with 27 Points and 7 assists while Drexler had 22 Points As the blazers won their fifth playoff game in As Many tries. Terry Cummings scored 33 for san Antonio and David Robinson added 31. But 17 of Robinsons Points came after Portland built a 20-Point Lead with 1 41 left in the third period. The Best-of-7 series shifts to san Antonio for game 3 thursday night. An 11-4 run to end the second Quarter gave Portland a 63-55 halftime Lead then the blazers took control of the game with a devastating third Quarter. Led by the tenacious defense of Porter and Drexler and the shot blocking of Wayne Cooper Portland outscored the spurs 24-8 to Start the Quarter opening an 87-63 Lead with 4 25 left in the period. Cooper had four blocked shots in the period including a memorable one against a stuff attempt by Robinson. Drexler scored 11 Points and had two steals while Porter scored nine and had three steals in the Quarter. Robinson led a spurs comeback that narrowed the margin to 105-96 on Cummings 16-footer with seven minutes to play. But Porter hit a 20-footer and Jerome Kersey Sank two free throws to boost the Lead to 13. San Antonio Cut the margin to nine three times in the final minute but Portland hit seven of eight free throws to stay out of danger. ,. Kersey added 20 Points and Buck Wile g vunl11 Malc Joh non a Frk hams 16 for Portland. Pistons 112, kicks 77 throw with four seconds remaining after thursday nights second game of the Best-of-7 series the teams switch to Phoenix for afternoon games saturday and sunday. Despite the Long winning Streak at Home and the lakers 4-0 sweep of Phoenix in last years playoffs los Angeles coach Pat Riley said he Wasny to surprised Auburn Hills Mich. A the pistons had no trouble going from Layol to playoff against emotionally drained new York the pistons apparently benefiting from a week Long Layoff got 10 Points see Aba on Page 23 Isiah Thomas floats to an uncontested two Points tuesday in Auburn Mills Mich. Messier sets oilers even with Blackhawk Munif it a Avn Gret Kvin the regular season scoring Chicago apr Mark Messier showed Why he a a finalist for the no la a most valuable player award scoring twice and adding two assists tuesday night to Kad the Edmonton oilers to a series tying 4-2 Victory Over the Chicago Blackhawk in game 4 of the Campbell conference finals. The Victory enabled the oilers to regain the Home ice advantage they lost when the Blackhawk won the second game in Edmonton. The Best-of-7 series shifts Back to the North lands coliseum on thursday night with game 6 scheduled for Chicago stadium on saturday  cup playoffs the oilers sparked by Messier a one of three finalists for the Hart trophy a made the most of their opportunities in the first period outs Cong the Blackhawk 2-1 despite being out shot 11-3. Messier helped set up the games first goal at 15 02 of the first period feeding Steve Smith for a slap shot from 55 feet that was tipped in by Glenn Anderson during a Power play. The oilers Captain the runner up to former team mate Wayne Gretzky in the regular season scoring race made it 2-0 at 17 25 when he outraged everyone for a Loose puck and beat Greg Millen on a breakaway. In the second period. Messier set up Craig Simpson and got another breakaway himself at 14 06 to score his eighth goal of the . 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