Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 200, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 April 1985 — Page 7

Houston guards more awesome than twin towers

By WILLIAM R. BARNARD AP Sports Writer Guards Lewis Lloyd and John Lucas, not the Houston Rockets’ young and heralded front line, are the reason they are even in their playoff series with the Utah Jazz. In Friday night’s 14-point defeat to the Jazz in the opener of their first-round National Basketball Association series, starting guards Lloyd and Lionel Hollins managed only 19 points. On Sunday, the Rockets got 27 points from Lloyd and 18 from Lucas, who was making his first start since his suspension for drug use last December, en route to a 122-% victory and a 1-1 series deadlock. “I was ready tonight. I came out fired up,” said Lloyd, who surpassed his firstgame total with 16 points as Houston took a 63-43 halftime lead. “I knew if we were going to win I’d have to hit jumpers, and

Marion, L&M have two all-stars

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Basketball Jeff Grose will join Lefon Bowens and Jay Teagle of tourney champion Marion on the 1985 Indiana high school boys’ All-Star team. Trester Award winner Todd Graf of state runner-up Richmond was also named to the 12-man team that will play Kentucky in the annual two-game All-Star series in June. Grose, a 6-foot-2 guard from 1984 state champion Warsaw, was named Mr. Basketball 116.7 points a game to lead the Giants to a perfect 29-0 record the first unbeaten campaign in Indiana basketball in 14 years. The 6-10 Teagle, out of action part of the season with an injury, finished with a 12.7 average. The 6-8 Graf was a 15-point-per-game scorer for the Red Devils, who reached the championship game for the first time before falling 74-67 to Marion. Graf later received the Indiana High School Athletic Association’s annual Trester Award for mental attitude. The only other school besides Marion with two players on this year’s All-Star team is L&M, with 6-5 Tony Patterson and 6-6 Jeff Oliphant. Patterson averaged 23 points a game and Oliphant came in at 22.9 as the N0.3-ranked Braves went 28-2 for the season. The highest scoring member of the AllStar team is Bellmont’s Kip Jones, who finished with a 30.1-point average and will be a freshman teammate of Patterson next fall at Purdue. The 6-7 Jones, the two L&M players and Grose were all first-team selections in this year’s AP All-State voting. The fifth member of the AP first team was also named to the All-Star squad by the sponsoring Indianapolis Star on Saturday. He is William Ware of Indianapolis Ben Davis, a 6-2 guard who averaged 21.9 points a game. Rounding out this year’s All-Star team are 6-3 Billy Butts of Muncie North, 6-3 Michael Smith of South Bend LaSalle, 5-9 Reed Crafton of Lawrence North and 6-2 Gary Goode of Frankfort. Among other college choices by the AllStars are Northwestern, by Grose; Michigan, by Butts; Notre Dame, by Smith; Indiana, by Oliphant; Colorado State, by Graf; and Illinois State, by Teagle. New Castle’s Sam Alford, whose son Steve was the 1983 Mr. Basketball, will

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that’s what I did.” In Sunday’s other playoff games, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Detroit took 2-0 leads in their best-of-five series. The Bucks beat Chicago 122-115, the 76ers routed Washington 113-94 and Detroit defeated New Jersey 121-111. The sites of Sunday’s games change on Wednesday night, with Detroit at New Jersey, Houston at Utah, Philadelphia at Washington and Milwaukee at Chicago. On Tuesday night, Boston will take a 2-0 lead into Cleveland and the Los Angeles Lakers will have the same margin going into Phoenix. In two series tied 1-1, Denver will be at San Antonio and Dallas at Portland. The Rockets’ game plan was to run, thus negating the shot-blocking and intimidation of 7-4 Jazz center Mark Eaton.

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coach the Indiana boys’ All-Stars and will be assisted by Warsaw’s A 1 Rhodes. Miss Basketball Jodie Whitaker of Austin and

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“They knew they had to get their fast break going and therefore Lloyd became involved more,” Eaton said. “We accomplished our goal and that was a split. We felt we controlled the big men, but their outside shooting was uncontrollable.” The Houston front line of Ralph Sampson, Akeem Olajuwon and Rodney McCray scored 19, 16 and 16 points, respectively. Pistons 121, Nets 111 Isiah Thomas scored 29 points and reserve forward Terry Tyler tallied all of his 16 points in the fourth quarter as Detroit rallied to beat New Jersey. The Pistons led 64-59 at halftime after Thomas ended the second period with a three-point basket from beyond the midcourt line. But the Nets outscored Detroit 31-23 in the third period to take a 90-87 advantage into the final 12 minutes.

the rest of the girls’ All-Star team were announced two weeks ago. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The Indiana high school boys' All-Star rater for the 1965 basketball series with Kentucky June 15 and June 22: 1. Jeff Grose, 6-2, Warsaw, 27.9 ppg. 2. Tony Patterson, 6-5, L&M, 23.0. 3. Billy Butts, 6-3, Muncie North, 25.1. 4. Michael Smith, 6-3, S.Bend LaSalle, 22.3. 5. Reed Crafton, 5-9, Lawrence North, 17.0. 6. Kip Jones, 6-7, Bellmont, 30 1. 7. Todd Graf, 6-6, Richmond, 15.0. 8. Jeff Oliphant, 64, L&M, 22.9 9. William Ware, 6-2, Indpls Ben Davis, 21.9 10. Jay Teagle, 6-10, Marion, 12.7. 11. Lefon Bowens, 6-5, Marion, 16.7. 12. Gary Goode, 6-2, Frankfort, 27.2.

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Then Tyler took over in the fourth quarter. His three-point play with nine minutes left gave the Pistons the lead for good at 95-94. Albert King led the Nets with 27 points, while Buck Williams had 23 and Micheal Ray Richardson 22. Bucks 122, Bulls 115 Terry Cummings scored 30 points, Sidney Moncrief added 25 and Paul Pressey 22 to pace Milwaukee’s balanced attack against Chicago.

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The Bucks broke away from a 95-95 tie with BV 2 minutes to play on consecutive backets by Cummings, Pressey and Craig Hodges. The Bulls never got closer than three points thereafter. A fight nearly broke out between Woolridge and Moncrief wih 50 seconds left in the game when Orlando Woolridge was fouled while driving to the basket. Chicago Coach Kevin Loughery was hit with a technical foul for his protest of the call.

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Michael Jordan led Chicago with 30 points, while Woolridge added 26. 76ers 113, Bullets 94 Andrew Toney, who missed the final four games of the season because of an ankle injury, hit 13 of 22 shots from the field and scored 31 points in Philadelphia’s romD over Washington. Jeff Malone, who left the first playoff game with a wrenched back, scored 30 points to lead the Bullets.