European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Knick style game goes rockets7 Way by Howard Ulman Houston a the Houston rockets won the opener of the Aba finals 85-78 wednesday night in the kind of game the new York kicks wanted. The Low scoring game featured plenty of defense and the rockets who had been off for eight Days were Able to hold the scrappy kicks who pull off another playoff comeback. The rockets had a 77-65 Lead with 8 53 left and that dwindled to three with 2 13 remaining but a free throw by Hakeem Ola Juwon who had 28 Points and a Dunk by Otis Thorpe who had 16 rebounds built the Lead to 82-76 with 1 02 remaining. Patrick Ewing led the kicks who closed out a Tough seven game Eastern conference final against Indiana on sunday with 23 Points and Charles Oakley had 12. The second half was the lowest scoring half in finals history As the kicks out scored Houston 32-31. The previous Low was 69 by Syracuse and fort Wayne in 1955. The rockets scored their second fewest Points of the playoffs against the team with the a bad a Best regular season defense. It was the rockets playing new York style defense holding the kicks to 34.1 percent shooting. A we were playing a great defensive team and our defense had to carry us to fight. It was like an old football game played in the game 2 of the Best-of-7 series is tonight 3 . Get saturday on an radio and to in Houston with new York scheduled to play Host to the next three games. The game was billed As a Battle Between centers Olajuwon and Ewing who finished with 10 and nine rebounds respectively. A a in a just so Happy. That a one step toward the right direction a Olajuwon said. Down the stretch Ewing pull his team to Victory the Way he did in the clincher against Indiana with a followup stuff that gave the kicks the Lead for Good with 26 seconds remaining. A jumper by Hubert Davis Cut the hol son Lead to 82-78 and when Robert Horry missed a 3-Pointcr with 38 seconds left new York had a Chance. But Ewing a 3-Pointer with 27 seconds to play rimmed out and Houston finished the scoring with a free throw by Vernon Maxwell with 21 seconds left and two by Sam Cassell with 7.4 seconds remaining. A it was the kind of game that we wanted in the second half a new York coach Pat Riley said. A i thought our defense began to Wear on them but when you get this far and work this hard you be got to make shots we had the ability to win this game tonight if we could have just stepped up and made the kicks Cut into the rockets Lead As Ewing stayed in the game after getting his fifth personal foul with 5 19 to play. His centers in Akcam Olajuwon left and Patrick Ewing lock horns in game 1 wednesday. Lucas joining 76ers? Houston apr san Antonio spurs coach John Lucas was to resign thursday and will become coach of the Philadelphia 76crs, a Houston television station unidentified sources Kyrc to in Houston reported that Lucas upset Over the spurs Board of directors hesitancy to keep him another year has submitted his resignation. The station also reported he will take the coaching Job in Philadelphia. Basket with 4 31 to go Cut the Lead to 79-73. Horry missed two free throws and Anthony Mason came up with a three Point play for the kicks to make it 79-76. The rockets Are 9-2 since losing the first go for Gin draws no. 1 Post for Belmont new York apr go for Gin the Early favorite at 9-5, Drew no. 1 Post position thursday As seven horses were entered for saturdays Belmont stakes the third race of the triple Crown. Go for Gin Winner of the Kentucky Derby and Tabasco cat the Preakness Winner will be the Only two to Start in All three of the big races for 3-year-ods. Also entered were Strodes Creek Brocco Ulises Mathos and signal tap. Neither Mathos nor signal tap ran in the Derby or Preakness while Strodes Creek Brocco and Ulises skipped the the stars and stripes ports _ a i for no tit or wire to. M a n june 10,1994 Page 40 owners prepare War two games of the Western conference semifinals to Phoenix. Against new York they be won six straight at Home and eight of their last 10 games Overall including this season�?Tswinsof94-85 and93-73. Preakness after running in Kentucky. Strodes Creek is the second Choice at 5-2, and Tabasco cat and Brocco Are 3-1. Tabasco cat Drew the no. 2 Post. Then from the inside it will be signal tap Mathos Ulises Strodes Creek and Brocco from wire reports Cincinnati it looks like baseball players and owners Are set to go to War again. Owners in an Effort to show their Unity voted unanimously wednesday to require a three quarters vote instead of a simple majority to approve a labor agreement during a strike. Donald Fehr head of the major league baseball players association called the development a a ominous and a extraordinarily a it would allow eight owners to perpetuate a dispute a Fehr said from Washington. A that is not a step in the right direction. Its people preparing for owners voted unanimously to give negotiator Richard Ravitch the go ahead to present a salary Cap proposal to the Union. He will make the proposal tuesday in new York and the unions executive Board will meet thursday in Chicago to discuss it. Ravitch said thursday the change in the voting requirement was meant to Send a message that owners Are serious about the salary Cap plan. A the Issue in done a eyes should not be one of the symbols a Ravitch said. A it should be a what a his proposal a All this War talk i guess makes Good Reading but it does no to help the game. What would be constructive is for him to make a the owners three Day meeting concluded thursday with owners announcing that the percentage of minorities employed in the front offices of the 28 clubs remained Flat at 17 percent. Using figures compiled in april and comparing them with figures released in december 1992, the percentage of minority minority department Heads among the clubs increased from 7 percent to 10 percent and the percentage of on Field staff increased from 20 percent to 22 percent. A Many clubs either downsized their operation or certainly Haven to hired Pec pie a executive Council chairman Bud Selig said a a there a is very Little changeover in aloes Budig Cincinnati apr Gene Budig is moving towards a new Challenge and an old love. Budig 55, was unanimously approved wednesday As the american eague a seventh president succeeding Bobby Brown. He has been a College director for 22 years a the last 13 As Chancellor at Kansas a and a member of the Kansas City royals Board of directors for one year and one Day. The bespectacled Gap toothed professor will begin a five year term As Al president aug. 1
