From: trradrx@canctr.mc.duke.edu (R.CLOUGH)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.basketball.college
Subject: Duke Smokes High-Five America, 105-82
Date: 19 Nov 92 15:24:11 GMT
Reply-To: trradrx@canctr.mc.duke.edu
Organization: Duke U. Med. Ctr., Durham, NC


 Duke deep-sixed High Five America last night, 105-82.  This year's edition
of High Five was much more talented than last year's, featuring several 
talented Russian players, two of whom were 7-footers.  Ex-Purdue star Troy 
Lewis started at off guard and scored 22.  Ex-Notre Dame legend David Rivers
started at point and had a terrible game, with erratic passing and worse 
shooting.  On the whole, High Five was 8-19 from the three point line, which
is how they kept the score semi-respectable.  With their size and skills,
High-Five was a good preseason test.  Their coach was the legendary Alexander
Gomelsky, the Russian Olympic coach on several occasions.
  On Duke's end, Grant Hill was spectacular.  He had 24 pts on 12-17 shooting,
had 8 rebounds, 5 assists and three steals.  He really stepped up to pick up
the scoring slack when Duke's outside shooting was spotty.  Everyone else
was good to average.  Bobby Hurley led the team with six assists and had 13
pts, but he missed all three of his three pt attempts.  T.Hill is still being
slowed by his knee, but had 15 pts and six rebounds.
  Duke blew out to a big lead in the first half, leading by 22-7 early on.
High-Five managed to pull within six at 30-24 late in the half, but Duke
recovered to take a 15 pt halftime lead.  Then Duke came out in the 2nd half
and went on a 15-0 run to put the game away. However, High-Five didn't quit,
going on an 11-0 run of their own, behind Troy Lewis and insane shooting
(23-24 footers!) from Furch. Coach K substituted early and often, mixing
matchups for different effects.  Walk-on Kenny Brown got in at the last minute
and was very jittery.
 
 Boxscore:

Duke:

G.Hill 12-17, 0-0 = 24; Lang 5-9, 1-2 = 11; Parks 5-7, 1-1 = 11; 
 Hurley 3-10, 7-8 = 13; T.Hill 6-11, 3-4 = 15; Clark 1-6, 2-2 = 4;
Meek 2-6, 7-9 = 11; Blakeney 1-6, 2-2 = 5; Collins 3-7, 0-0 = 8; 
 Moore 1-4, 1-2 = 3; Brown 0-1, 0-0 = 0 
   Totals 39-84 (46%), 24-30 (80%) = 105

High-Five ("Hi, Five!") America:

Uspenski 2-5, 0-0 = 4; Murzin 3-9, 1-1 = 8; Okunski 5-7, 2-2 = 12;
 Lewis 9-20, 1-1 = 22; Rivers 0-3, 2-2 = 2; Pichuk 2-6, 2-2 = 6;
Butler 2-5, 0-0 = 4; Furch 8-18, 1-2 = 21; Mulchanov 1-1, 0-0 = 2
   Totals 32-74 (43%), 9-11 (82%) = 81

-3pters: Duke 3-17 (G.Hill 0-1, Hurley 0-3, T.Hill 0-2, Clark 0-3, Blakeney 1-4,
Collins 2-4); High-Five 8-19 (Murzin 1-1, Lewis 3-6, Rivers 0-2, Pichuk 0-2,
Furch 4-8)
-Rebounds: Duke 51 (Parks 10, G.Hill 8, T.Hill 6); Hi-5 35 (Okunski 8)
-Assists: Duke 18 (Hurley 6, G.Hill 5); Hi-5 13 (Lewis 3, Furch 3)
-Total Fouls: Duke 14, Hi-Five 23

Positives:

 **Rebounding** Parks had some trouble at first dealing with two seven footers,
but he had an excellent second half.  Meek showed that he has regained much
of his leaping ability, and boxed out well. On one sequence, G.Hill missed a
three pointer, got his own miss, and scored.  Lang is turning into a dominant
offensive rebounder.
 **Transition Game** Fueled by Hurley's court vision and Parks' excellent 
outlet passes.  Duke attacked the basket constantly, resulting in a high number
of foul shots.
 **Interior Defense** Even with two big men, Hi-5 was stuffed all night.  Parks
and Lang did a great job of patrolling the lane, and G.Hill had a nice blocked
shot.  Tony Moore also did a good job when he was in. His hustle alone will
earn him some playing time, and he has great agility.
 **Shot Selection** For the most part, players made the extra pass to the open
man to get the best shot.  Despite all the misses from 3-pt range, almost all
the shots attempted were good ones.

Negatives:

 **3-Pt Shooting** 3-17 says it all.  Collins showed his range in the second
half, nailing two shots.  This must improve, and I'm sure it will.
 **Perimeter Defense** Duke consistently underrated the range of Lewis and 
Furch, as they were left open for much of the night.  Granted, no one thinks
to guard a guy when he's shooting 24-footers, but you don't leave him open at
that range when he's proven he can hit them.  
 **Ballhandling** Shaky, except for Hurley.  Clark, Collins, G.Hill and Blakeney
had erratic evenings, leading to easy steals for Hi-5.  And they didn't put
all that much pressure on the dribble, they were just alert. 

Surprises: 
-Meek.  His foul shooting (7-9) was the main area he needed to 
improve, because that's were the bulk of his scoring opportunites will lie.
He played well as a backup to Parks.  He'll be an excellent role-player.
-Collins: His ballhandling was shaky, but I was very pleased with his defense.
His defensive style is frenetic, to say the least.  
-Lang: Not a surprise, really, but he had been struggling a bit in practice.
He had solid rebounding and defensive performances.  Another important role
player.

Disappointments:
-Clark: Although he played great defense, his shooting and ballhandling were
terrible.  He may get more time with his improved defense.
-Blakeney: Erratic all-around.  Sinking lower and lower in the rotation. 
	Robert Clough, DUMC (though still not speaking for them)
"Don't worry about the missed free throw, Christian.  We all make mistakes."
--Richard Nixon to Christian Laettner, after he missed the front end of a 
one-and-one with one second left, playing Arizona