European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Portland holds off Utah for 3-1 Edge Salt Lake City a Portland coach Rick Adelman says he s not cocky about owning a 3-1 Lead Over Ulah and heading Home for what could he an Aba playoff clinching Victory. A it s a tremendous win for us on the Road it puts us in Good shape in the series. But its a Long Way from Over a Adelman said of the Trail blazers heart thumping 104-101 Triumph Over the jazz on sunday night. The blazers can wrap up the Best of seven series in tuesday night s game 5 in Portland. A jazz Victory would Send the matchup Back to the Salt Palace on thursday with game 7, if necessary saturday in Portland. The blazers Yho led by 14 Points lakers beat warriors to Rule series Oakland Calif. A the los Angeles lakers hounded the Golden state warriors defensively and pounded the Ball inside sunday to take control of their playoff series with the warriors. Sam Perkins scored 27 Points and the lakers moved to within one Victory of reaching the Western conference finals for the ninth time in 10 years with a 123107  that was our Best defensive Effort of the season a said Byron Scott who added 21 Points and a career High 11 rebounds. Quot we talked we communicated it was our Best Effort in terms of knowing where everybody was on the.  a. The lakers used a 16-3 spurt including i i consecutive Points and held the warriors to one Field goal in a Span of 5 48 Early in the fourth Quarter to shake free of the warriors and open a 3-1 Lead in the Best of seven series the lakers will Host game 5 tuesday night. Quot we done to want to prolong it a said James worthy who shut Down Chris Mullin for the second straight game. Quot it s not Over until we win four games.�?�. Magic Johnson had 21 Points and 11 assists and the lakers made 36-of-47 tree throws. The warriors committed 34 fouls against their bigger opponents As the lakers exploited their . Perkins made to-of-13 shots and seven of in free throws. Mitch Richmond scored 26 Points. Tun Hardaway 22 and Sarunas m arc in lion is-20 Lor Golden state. Mullin stayed in a slump for the warriors going scoreless in the first half and finishing with nine Points on 4-for-i3 shooting. Since scoring 41 Points in Gate 2, Mullin is eight for 27 with 22  sports Pavin wins Atlanta classic in playoff a Page 22 braves beat bucs in Battle of no leaders a Page 26 a a splinter inspires rangers not red sox a Page 26 american cyclist leads tour Dupont a Page 27 going into the fourth Quarter sunday weathered a 17-2 jazz run to regain the Lead in the waning seconds and hang on. The Lead changed hands 18 times in the wild fourth Quarter. ,.karl Malone who scored 12 of his 3i Points in the final period had Given Utah a 101-100 Lead with 43 seconds to play before Clyde Drexler 20-footer put Portland Back in the Drivers scat. After nailing a 17-footer with 36 seconds left Drexler stole Malone a pass inside to Thurl Bailey on Utah a next Possession. Terry Porter hit a pair of free throws with 13 seconds to play and bombs by John  Malone fell Short As the Horn sounded a this is a team that does no to quit and i think we really showed that Quot said Porter who finished with 20 Points. A a a Drexler finished with 15-Points, ii rebounds and 10 assists. Quot it feels great to win but. Our work is not done yet. Behave to keep the pressure on them a he said Kevin Duckworth who went into the game with a 10.8 scoring average had 10 of his 30 Points in the fourth Quarter and finished with 11 rebounds for the blazers. Utah coach Jerry Sloan credited Portland a fast break and offensive penetration. A we did no to do a very Good Job of stopping them a he said. Jeff Malone who had 23 Points for the jazz admitted that coming so close and still losing was hard to handle. Quot now we have to go up there and win a he said. The stars and stripes ports May 14,1991 b Page 28 magic Juhn on  past warriors Rud Higgins on drive to the Basket. Ltd Walt Morrissette staff writer Frankfurt Germany Tony bakery a 2 Yard touchdown run capped a 98-Yard third Quarter drive that allowed the Frankfurt Galaxy to get away with a Jll-3 world league of american football Victory Over the Birmingham fire on sunday night Frankfurt stayed alive for a wild card playoff berth going inti a european division showdown at Barcelona Spain next sunday. But it happened mainly because of the inept Birmingham offence which managed Only 95 total Yards despite having great Field position throughout the game. That five play 98-Yard drive was Frankfurt a Only sustained offence As it compiled 320 Yards total offence in spurts. The Galaxy improved to 6-2 in front of yet another club record crowd of 28,127. Noisy Wald station fans. The turnout broke the record of 25,269 set against Montreal two weeks  Fop Aba defender new York a Detroit a Dennis Rodman the top defender on the a bad Stop defensive team was named the leagues defensive player of the year today for the second straight season. Rodman received 51 of a possible 96 votes fro Rii a nationwide panel of sports writers and broadcasters. David Robinson of san Antonio finished second with 18 votes followed by Milwaukee Salvin Robertson with 15, the 6-foot-8 Rodman was the leagues second leading rebounded with a 12.5 average and led All Detroit regulars in Field goal percentage at .493. But once again it was his drmanic defense that set the tone for the two time defending champions. A a Quot. A a a Rodman helped the pistons hold the opposition to 96.8 Points per game lowest in the Aba in 16 years. The five year Veteran often. Guarded the opposing teams Best offensive player whether he was a guard Forward or Center. A a he a a machine a Detroit coach Chuck Daly said. A the is incredibly Active. He a got a nose for the Ball and he has a work ethic like no one else in the  Rodman said it took him a while to realize that he could make his Best contribution As a rebounded and defensive specialist. A Isiah Thomas straightened me out after my first year a Rodman said. A the told me i would not get to shoot As much As i did in College so i should try to be something other players weren to. I decided to be a role player and do the Little things to help us  Rodman a teammate Joe Dumars received three votes for the defensive award while Houston Shakeem Olajuwon and Portland a Buck Williams each got two votes. Receiving one vote apiece were new Yorkus Patrick Ewing Utah a John Stockton Dallas Derek Harper and Chicago a Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen. Rodman was also the first repeating award Winner since 1983-84 when Milwaukee a Sidney Montcrief won the. Award in consecutive years. Utah s Mark Eaton is also a two time Winner having won the award in 1985 and 1989.Over fire _ Frankfurt won despite dropped s by Galaxy quarterback Mike Perez continued dropped passes by his re ers despite Galaxy kicker Tom w hands missing Field goals from 40 an Yards out and despite Perez a full away a snap at his own 31 with 13 ones left. _ that gave Birmingham Quarter Brent Pease two More shots to tie that 3 score with no timeouts. But p missed Stacey Mobley with 07 Sho see Galaxy on Pagi