European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 20, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Thi stars and St Wplf s sports of. Rockets scorch celtics 119-84 Aba by the Antoc Lalta part Houston the Houston rockets held the Boston celtics to a franchise Low 29 Points for a first half during their Sec Ond consecutive Blowout Victory 119-84thursday night the celtics trailed 45-29 at the half eclipsing the 30 Points they scored in the first half against Milwaukee on nov. 13, 1990. The Rock ets getting a career High 18 Points from Carl Herrera had Defeated philadelphia149-111 on tuesday night. The rockets made 58 percent of their shots to 38 percent by the celtics. Reggie Lewis led Boston which score just eight Points in the second Quarter with 21 Points. The celtics franchise worst for a Quarter is six Points. Boston s second Quarter matched a Houston re Cord for the fewest Points allowed in a period. In other games thursday spurs 103,76ers 98 san Antonio Dale Ellis hit club record tying four 3-Point shots in the fourth Quarter on his Way to 24 Points and san Antonio beat Philadelphia for its15th straight Home Victory. Overall the spurs have won nine of their last 10 games and 24 of 28 under coach John Lucas. San Antonio s last Home loss was a one Point setback to Golden state on dec. 28. David Robinson added 19 Points and13 rebounds for the spurs. Mersey Haw Kins 33 Points led Philadelphia which lost for the eighth time in nine mixers now have lost seven in a Row in san Antonio. Jazz 105, Bucks 94 Milwaukee Karl Malone had 26points, and John Stockton 20 and 11 assists As Utah used two second half spurts to beat slumping Milwaukee. Blue Edwards who came to the Buckwith Eric Murdock in a Trade last sum Mer that sent Jay Humphries and Larr Krystkowiak to the jazz led Milwaukee with 25 Points. Frank Brickowski added20 Points for the Bucks who have lost seven of their last nine games. The jazz won for the fourth time in it last five Road games. 121, Kings 114 Minneapolis Christian 28 Points and 16 rebounds and Chuck person and Micheal Williams made key 3-Pointcrs Down the stretch for Minnesota. Williams who missed the previous two games with a bruised Heel had 27 Points and 11 assists. Person added 26 Points As the Timber wolves used their Best scoring night of the season to win for just the Sec Ond time in their last eight Home games. The Timber wolves shot 56 percent from the Field and made 40 of 46 free throws. Lionel Simmons scored 24 Points and Wayman Tisdale and Spud Webb had 22 apiece but the Kings still lost for the10th time in 11 games. Suns 131, Hawks 119. Phoenix Richard Dumas scored career High 32 Points Charles Barkley had a triple double and Phoenix move within a game of tying a franchise record of 19 consecutive Home victories. The suns who have 18 in a Row in the new America West Arena will have to wait until feb. 26 to tie a Mark set in two other seasons. Phoenix is on the Road for two games before returning against Utah. Barkley got his 14th career triple Dou ble with 25 Points 16 rebounds and 12 assists. Dominique Wilkins had 27 Point Sand Moosic Blaylock 22 for the Hawks. Trail blazers 105, lakers 103 Portland Ore. Terry Porter driving Layup with 27.1 seconds to go provided the winning Points As Portland came from eight behind in the final 3 23.james worthy scored 26 Points and passed the 15,000-Point Mark for his Ca reer but the lakers could t hold off a late rally sparked by Porter and Clyde Drexler. Los Angeles led 99-91 when . Green Sank a 17-footer with 3 23 remain ing. But Drexler hit two 3-pointers and Porter one As Portland outscored the lakers 14-4 the rest of the Way. Drexler scored 20 Points eight in Chelate rally including two free throws that tied the game at 103-103 with 1 11 remaining. Cliff Robinson led the blazers with 21points. Kevin Duckworth added 16 Points Utah s Karl Malone goes to the Basket with Milwaukee s Anthony Avert hanging on. And took a crucial rebound away fro Green with 45 seconds to play. Clippers 108, bullets 95 los Angeles Loy Vaught came off the Bench for 20 Points and a season High 14 rebounds As los Angele clinched a winning record at the All Star break for the first time in the history of the clippers. Parvis Ellison and lad Radford Smith scored 17 Points apiece for the injury depleted bullets who lost their fifth consecutive game. Larry Stewart scored eight of his 16points in the fourth Quarter four of them during a 10-2 surge that sliced an 18 Point los Angeles Lead to 105-95 with 1 48 to play. But the rally ended Whinstanley Roberts Sank one of two free throws and added a slam Dunk in the final 71 seconds. Supersonics 131, warriors 116 Oakland Calif. Seattle s Der Rick Mckey scored a season High 30 Points on 12-of-16 shooting. Ricky Pierce added 25 Points and Eddie Johnson 22 for the Somes who Are 3-0 against the warriors this season including two victories in Oakland. Golden state s three game winning Streak ended despite a season High eight players reach ing double figures. Arizona extends winning Streak to 16 by the associated press Tucson Ariz. The nation s longest major col lege basketball winning Streak is at 16, thanks to pres sure defense. Arizona 18-2, 12-0 in the Pac-10 stifled the 3-Pointgunners from Arizona state and Chris Mills scored 25 Points in 24 minutes on ll-of-20 shooting As the no. 4wildcats rolled to a 116-80 Victory wednesday night. Mills added 16 rebounds and was joined by four teammates in double figure scoring. Arizona shot 52.3 percent in setting a school record for Points against its in state rival which was held to 40.3 percent from the Field. The Sun devils have fallen 10 successive times a Tucson. This place has such a reputation a lot of teams come in Here fearing a Blowout Arizona coach Lute Olson said. And if they re fearing it it s going to Hap other games wednesday night no. 12 Utah 87, air Force 61 Salt Lake City the utes easily grounded the Falcons behind Star Josh Grant who had 15 Points and 15 rebounds. Utah 20-3,13-1 in the wac is 13-oat Home. Utah s backcourt of Jimmy Solo and Byron Wilson combined for 35 Points and held the conference s High est scoring backcourt of Otis Jones and George Irvin to11 Points. College basketball we did a really Good Job on Jones and Irvin said Soto who scored a team nigh 18 Points one More than Wilson. We kept switching on them and it really caught them off guard. No. 18 Tulane 75, 70 new Orleans Tulane 19-4, 8-1 in the metro held off Charlotte at the free throw line in the second half after going almost eight minutes without a Fiel goal. Pointer Williams who scored six Points on foul shots during that stretch made his Only 3-Point Baskett Stop the cold Streak. Carlin Hartman led Tulane with 21 Points. Andredacis paced with 18 Points All on 3 pointers. The 3-Pointer Pointer hit was the big shot of the game Davis said. That broke our backs. It really Hurt us. We weren t the same after no. 19 Massachusetts 96, Buffalo 67 Buffalo the minutemen eased past out manned Buffalo for their 2th straight Victory. Once the front liners had staked the minutemen 18-4 to a55-25 halftime Lead against the bulls 5-18the re serves got their Chance. All 13 players on the Massachusetts roster including two walk on got extended playing time. We got a lot of people in coach John Calipari said. At this Point in the year you re looking to get people Happy and to get morale up. Right now Morales pretty no. 21 new Orleans 84, Lamar 73 n new Orleans the visiting privateers 20-2,14-0 in the Sun Belt Rode a sensational Effort by Ervin Johnson who scored a career High 32 Points and grabbed a school record 27 rebounds. Uno led by Justine Point at halftime then pulled away hitting 5l per cent from the Field and holding Lamar to 37 percent. We never lost our composure Johnson said. We wanted to take Good shots every time Down and try to limit them to one shot. We knew if we were going Towin the game it was going to be on the defensive others Northeast Louisiana 20-4,13-1 clinched the South land conference title with an 85-80 Victory Over Texas san Antonio. Cleveland state beat Illinois Chicago 67-64, clinching. Is a tie or the mid continent conference Vikings 17-4,12-0 ran their winning Streak to 11 games and can secure the conference Crown by beating Valparaiso at Home saturday night. A second half Bench Clearing incident in a game be tween Kings Point and Manhattan Ville resulted in the referees ejecting All but one Reserve from each team. No punches were thrown in the altercation
