European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Bulls suns grab wins in playoffs by the associated press despite an embarrassing missed Dunk by Michael Jordan the Chicago bulls did no to miss a Chance to take command of their playoff series against the new York Kricks. Jordan scored 32, Points and Scottie Pippen rebounded from a poor performance with 26 As the bulls beat the kicks 94-86 saturday at Madison Square Garden to take a 2-1 Lead in their Best of seven series. The bulls led 48-39 in the second Quarter when Pippen stole the Ball passed to Jordan for a breakaway. But Jordan a Dunk attempt bounced off the Back of the rim and went out of Bounds at mid court. �?o1 was trying to take the rim Down a Jordan said. A i just came Down too  inspired by the play the kicks Cut the bulls Lead to 51-50 at halftime. The kicks took a three Point Lead Early in the second half on jumpers by Mark Jackson and Patrick eng but then new York lost its shooting touch. The kicks made 4 of 15 shots and scored Only 10 Points the rest of the third Quarter while Jordan scored nine and helped the bulls grab a 71-64 Lead. A that was the key to the game for us getting the momentum Back a Bull coach Phil Jackson said. In Phoenix Dan Majerle and Jeff Hor Nacek hit 3-pointers during a 10-0 fourth Quarter spurt that lifted the suns Over Portland 124-117. The suns Trail in the series 2-1 Steve Burtt inserted into a three guard lineup to give Phoenix better Ball handling hit three free throws and Tim Perry added one in the final 30 seconds to preserve the Victory. Hornacek led the suns with 30 Points while Perry added 27 and Majerle 25. Clyde Drexler scored 37 Points for Portland. The stars and stripes May 11,1992 Page 28 Phoenix won even though centers Andrew Lang and Mark West failed to get a rebound. The suns were out rebounded 4634. The suns have been virtually unbeatable at Home this season going 39-5, including saturdays win and two victories Over san Antonio in a 3-0 first round sweep. A a it a a mental thing a said Portland Center Kevin Duckworth whose strength in the Middle put three Phoenix players in foul trouble. Hornacek said the suns need to win game 4 monday night then break through with a Victory in Portland. But Portland coach Rick Adelman said Phoenix should be ready for a War next time. A the pressure is still on them. If you re going to count on the Home court advantage you re going to be in trouble a said Adelman whose team was 24-17 on the Trail blazers Clyde Drexler encounters tight defense from suns Kevin Johnson Road during the regular season. Ewing scored 27 Points for the kicks on saturday including 13 in the fourth period. But Down the stretch he twice yelled at teammates for not getting him the Ball More a if something needs to be said or done ill do it a Ewing said. A this was a big game and its a big series and in a trying to get us to the next  Pippen held to six Points on 2-for-12 shooting in game 2. Scored 12 Points in the final Quarter before fouling out with 2 07 left. The bulls carried a couple of impressive winning streaks into game 4. They have won an Aba record eight straight playoff games on the Road and seven in a Row at Madison Square Garden. On sunday it was Cleveland at Boston Utah at Seattle and Chicago at new  even series with celts in of Boston apr Larry Nance hit three Long jumpers in overtime and the Cleveland Cavaliers spoiled the return of Larry Bird with a 114-112 Victory Over Boston sunday ending the celtics 20-game winning Streak at Boston Garden. Nance scored 32 Points Mark Price 24, Brad Daugherty 20 and John Williams 18 As Cleveland evened the Eastern conference semifinal 2-2 with game 5 scheduled on the a avs court wednesday. Even Bird could not save the Day for Boston missing a. Layup with 2 seconds left that could have sent the game into a second overtime. Cleveland which had lost 11 of 14 previous games at the Garden and was 2-31 on the parquet floor since Bird broke into the Aba in 1979, blew a 13-Point third period Lead then battled Back from a 5-Point deficit in the fourth Quarter. Regulation ended 103-103, and Wil Liams missed two free throws with 8.2 seconds remaining and Reggie Lewis shot at the Buzzer was partially blocked by Craig Ehlo. The celtics argued vainly that Lewis had been fouled on the shot. Price put Cleveland ahead to stay with a jumper from the Side 14 seconds into overtime. Nance followed with two Long jumpers around a Boston free throw. Bird who had been out since april 3, scored 4 Points on l-of-5 shooting. Mets dump la. On Homer in 9thinside sport Norris stops Taylor in 4th Page 21guerrero sets indy records a Page 22o Neal May sit out paper reports a Page 27 by Bill Plaschke the los Angeles times new York with their offence reduced to a whisper and their defense causing More grumbles the los Angeles dodgers played another game saturday that was t Worth talking about. It was t another one run loss but that a Only because there were two runners on base when Dave Magadan hit a two out Home run in the ninth inning to give the new York mets a 5-2 Victory. It was the dodgers seventh loss in eight games. The game also marked the third time see pages 26 amp 27 for other weekend baseball in two games that dodger pitchers walked Home a run. This time it was starter Bob Ojeda who walked four of the first seven batters and was trailing 2-0 without giving up a hit. Mitch Webster tied it at 2-2 in the eighth inning with his first Home run the dodgers second Homer in their last 251 at bats. But the dodgers should not have gotten their Hopes up. They were 0-12 in games they trailed after seven innings and Are now 0-13. The Metsy first ground Ball slipped out of shortstop Jose Offerman a hand leading to a run and their last grounder stuck in Lenny Harris Glove and led to the loss. It happened with two out in the ninth inning and Bill Pecota on second base. Dick Schofield hit a slow grounder past Pitcher Roger Mcdowell. Harris charged and grabbed the Ball but could not get it out of his Glove in time to throw out Schofield who was credited with a single. Three pitches later Magadan blasted a two strike pitch nearly 400 feet. Stanley cup playoffs Bruins sweep series a see Page 25_