European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. November 24, 1994 sports the stars and stripes Page 33 suns wait As Berkley recuperate Bymel Reisner Phoenix a Charles Barkley finally Able to come off the injured list will have to wait a Little longer before re joining the Phoenix suns. The Star for Ward has missed alanine of his team s games this season because of a pulled a stomach muscle. Of tuesday the suns said Barkley will sit put wednes Day night s Home contest against Tholos Angeles clip  is still recuperating Ardwell see him when Barkley he s healthy coach Paul Westphal said. He could not say when Barkley will re. Turn v. Everybody always wants a timetable and then you feel like you have to stick to it Westphal said. None of it mean anything. When the Guy s ready hell play and there s no telling when he  Barkley practice saturday and Sun Day. He had said he expected to play Hibits onoame Barkley averaged 19.1 Points and 7.9 a rigorous Back strengthening program rebounds while the suns went 8-0 during which sent him to training Camp Rejune preseason. Barkley strained a lower a rated.  Nominal muscle in mid october but it Well continue to do the treatments did not hamper his play until the last sex and hopefully he s ready on the weekend _ a.  a a a Fri Ujj do pro monday night against the jazz and trav eled to Salt Lake City. After the morning shoo around though he said he was to sore to perform Well. I m probably about 90 percent bar Kle said. Barkley did not practice tuesday an the team said he had a medical appoint  he could not be reached for com ment a a / a v " Trainer Joe Proski said the injury has improved from a bad to mild Strain. The two specialists that checked him a Tal a a�4 Jal a an me t j Mam 4k if not on the East coast trip said pros the suns started their Day to Day id looking toward Home games saturday count before the nov. 4 opener an placed him on the injured list six Days and three games later mandating a fur ther five game sit Down that was sup posed to end monday night against Utah. The jaw won 106-91,leaving the Sun with a 6-3 record. Phoenix was 1-5 with out Barkley in 1992-93 and 89 in 1993 94./ no one on the suns suggests Barkley i thinking about retirement a subject the 1993 Aba map discussed almost daily out ruled out a hernia so i d say its just a last season while he stroked with backs Cess he said. / the one pain caused by a bulging disk. Day to Day process thing with Chuck is that he has to get Back in shape because it s 22 Days that and sunday that precede a seven game Road trip. Dan Majerle averaging 20.3 Points in Barkley s absence said it makes sense Tobe prudent with this kind of injury. Your abdominal have got a lot to do with your movements especially the Way he plays with the Force that he play with he said. Any Type of movement like that can aggravate it so we just want to make sure nes Back at 100 percent. There s no sense in him Rushing it an being injured All year  added Ainge i know How bad Charles wants to play. But hopefully Barkley consulted with specialists Lis Jinai tend to the entreaties of teammate. ,. J t he has t done any thug and he s not Dali Namee who Tow going to get in shape  if he retired at 31 and in late june began he frustrated he wants to  Aba by the associated Pressas a believer in the Law of averages Portland coach . Carlesimo did mind that his Trail blazers were next in line for the undefeated Houston  people Are going As Good As they Are you know it s got to end some time Carlesimo said. You just Hope you can hang around and be  Trail blazers spoiled the rockets 9-0 record tuesday night and ended Houston s 23-gamenovember winning Streak. Clyde Drexler who missed the previous two games witha right ankle injury scored 30 Points As Portland won 102-94."it was a Victory that not Many teams get Drexler said. Not Many people beat them in their own building. We did it in the fourth Quarter and thais enc our  was a Good Road win for  Drexler backed by 29 Points from Clif Robinson As the blazers turned around an 04 Mark last season against the Rock ets said pregame factors did not enter into his  was no extra motivation be cause of their Streak Drexler said. Still rockets coach Rudy Tomjanovich found the defeat difficult to accept i have to admit i be been spoiled he said. Our team has been great very focused. I m proud of them but it hurts to lose a Home game when weve won Romany Tough ones on the Road. I feel no Relief. I thought if we played our game we should  in the Aba it was Cleve land 112, Minnesota 79 Atlanta 102, Philadelphia 99 Milwaukee 116, boston94 Charlotte 102, Golden state 98 Seattle 104, new Jersey 97 and chicago105, the los Angeles clippers 93. Houston got 27 Points from Hakeem Olajuwon and 20 from Vernon Maxwell. The loss was the first for the rockets inthe month of november since a 108-99 setback to the Utah jazz on nov. 28,1992. Last season the rockets were 14-0 i november and won their first game in december before experiencing  tuesday night the Trail blazers outscored the rockets 15-9 in the final5 21 As Houston s shooting went cold. Tomjanovich was ejected with 1 46 to play for screaming at referee Terry Dur Ham. Cavaliers 112, Timber wolves 79 seven Cleveland players were in Dou ble figures and the Cavaliers collected 37 Points off turnovers while handing Minnesota its worst loss this season. Mark Price led Cleveland with 17 Houston s Hakeem Olajuwon goes Well above the Basket to Block a shot by port land s chef Robinson tuesday night Points and Tony Campbell had. 16.bobby Puls and Chris Mills scored 15 each. The visiting Timber wolves losers in nine of their 10 games got 14 Points but Only three rebounds from Christian laettner. Eight of Minnesota s loss shave been by double figure margins. Donyell Marshall added 13 Points for Minnesota a 115-85 loser to Houston on nov. 5. Hawks102,76ers99 Stacey Augmon scored 23 Points including a Short jumper with 11 seconds to play As Atlanta kept Philadelphia Imless on the  loss was the fourth in a Row on the Road for the 76ers. The Streak is seven dating to last season. Atlanta won for just the third time in 10  led 98-97 after Willie Burton hit a Layup for the last of his 22points with 1 40 to play. Grant Long tied the score with a free throw with 1 17 left before Steve Smith gave the Hawks the Lead for Good with two free throws with46 seconds remaining. Cookie Blaylock had 15 Points and 11 assists for Atlanta Shawn Bradley had 16points and 10 rebounds for Philadelphia. Bucki116,cehlcs94 Todd Day had 23 Points and Yin baker20 As Milwaukee used a Strong second half to end Boston s three game winning  -., Baker playing at the Hartford civic Center for the first time since he at tended the University of Hartford scored 14 Points in the second half. Glenn Rob Inson added 17 Points and Eric Murdock activated monday alter missing seven games with an Eye injury came off the Bench to score 15.rick Fox who missed the past two Eames with a hip injury returned to theneus and paced the celtics with 16points, All in the second half. Dino Radja added 15. Dominique Wukits who played with his right leg taped up after straining his hamstring m the first Quarter scored 14.the Bucks trailed 49-46 at the half but outscored the celtics 31-12 in the first 9minutes of the third Quarter. Hornets 102, warriors 98 Hersey Hawkins scored seven of his 18points in a decisive fourth Quarter stretch helping Charlotte hold off Golden state. The warriors were trying to set a Tea record for consecutive Road victories at the Start of the season. Charlotte tried to help by being whistled for four technical fouls two in the fourth Quarter for Ille Gal defense and a third in that period on the  state literally gave away its shot at five straight Road wins commit Ting 20 turnovers. Two of those came in the last two minutes and the warriors Al Lowed the hornets to open a Small advantage that led to the Victory. Bulls 105, clippers 93 Ron Harper scored 21 Points again this former teammates and Chicago ran off 18 straight in a decisive fourth Quarter rally. The clippers 0-10 remained the Aba s Only wingless team after squander ing a fourth Quarter Lead for the second straight name. They led by eight Points inthe third Quarter and were ahead 82-78 heading into the final 12 minutes. Supersonics 104, nets 97 Gary Payton scored 26 Points handmade consecutive layups during a late 6-0 run that put the Seattle ahead to  Kemp added 22 Points and 17 rebounds for Seattle. 1994 boxing a tournament hot i s us k december 3.  in s so i  Urs in s2/-4dm 11 i Idle \ 111 a?4 i a cilia is i k Budweiser body Huml