From: trradrx@canctr.mc.duke.edu (R.CLOUGH)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.basketball.college
Subject: Duke in the Maui Invitational (late)
Date: 4 Jan 93 01:29:28 GMT
Reply-To: trradrx@canctr.mc.duke.edu
Organization: Duke U. Med. Ctr., Durham, NC


 Sorry for the lateness of this report, as I was on vacation for a week and
a half.  Duke won the Maui Invitational Tournament in convincing fashion, 
winning each game by an average of 22 points.  Bobby Hurley and Anfernee
"Gamera" Hardaway were co-MVPS, with Hurley getting 26 assists to 6 turnovers,
and Hardaway averaging 30 ppg.  G.Hill, T.Hill and LSU's Geert "Geert" Hammink
also made it to the all-tourney team.  The Duke players (Hurley included) felt
that T.Hill was the real MVP, with his insane scoring and boardwork the last
two games.

Game 1: Duke Exorcises the Blue Demons, 89-73.

 This would be the closest game of the tourney, as DePaul's Tom Kleinschmidt
kept them in the game early, and Terry Davis kept them in late.  Duke had 
gotten to Maui late and missed a practice, which made them look a little 
sluggish at times.  DePaul is an athletic team that gave Duke some trouble,
and their quickness enable them to get open on the perimeter and get 21 three
point attempts, nailing 8.  Duke was never really threatened though, opening
up an 11 pt halftime lead to a 20 pt advantage.

	MIN  2FG-A  3FG-A  FT-A  RB/O  AT TO ST BK FL  PTS
G.Hill   35   8-10    0-1   6-7   8/2   2  5  5  2  1   22
Lang	 28    1-5    0-0   1-2   8/1   1  3  2  0  2    3
Parks	 30    7-8    0-0   2-3   5/3   0  1  0  2  2   16
Hurley	 35    1-3    4-6   5-7   3/1   8  5  1  0  1   19
T.Hill   30    4-7    0-3   2-3   3/1   0  1  3  0  1   10
Clark    15    4-5    0-0   2-2   1/0   2  1  0  0  2   10
Meek  	 12    1-1    0-0   0-2   2/1   0  1  0  0  2    2
Blakeney  5    0-0    0-0   0-0   3/0	1  3  0  0  2    0
Collins   8    1-2    1-2   2-2   2/0   1  0  1  0  1    7
Moore     2    0-0    0-0   0-0   0/0   0  0  0  0  1    0
TOTALS: 200  27-41   5-12  20-28 37/10 15 20 12  2  15  89 
(FG%: 60)    (66%)   (42%) (71%) 
DePaul  200  21-42   8-21   7-12 26/12 16 16  6  0  20  73
(FG%: 46)    (50%)   (38%) (58%)

Player by player, briefly:

%%G.Hill: Great game.  Most remarkable sequence: DePaul brings ball upcourt.
Hurley slaps the ball away, and it bounces toward G.Hill.  However, he has
his back to the ball.  Suddenly, he turns around, grabs the ball, starts 
running, dishes it to Hurley, who flips it over his head and back to Grant for
a two handed jam.  It's as though G had radar sense or something.

%%Lang: Clang, went his shots.  But he ripped down rebounds with a vengeance.
Helped hold Terry Davis to 6-16 shooting.

%%T.Hill: Off game, with the exception of a thunderous dunk towards the end of
the game.  Played adequate defense, but really improved over the next two 
games.

%%Hurley: Threw his first bad passes all year.  Looked a little sloppy,
but still in control.  Playing very aggressively and confidently.

%%Parks: Best showing of the tournament.  Took advantage of his height,
made some easy shots.  Showed off his drop-step here and there.  His rebounding
still leaves much to be desired, even if most of the rebounds available came
from long range shots.

%%Clark: Turned 21, celebrated by scoring ten in only fifteen minutes.  Hit
the open jumper.  He's starting to become a factor offensively.

%%Meek: Looked slow and sloppy.

%%Blakeney: **shudder**.  How is it possible to record 3 to's and 2 fouls in
only five minutes?

%%Collins: Good showing, provided some instant offense, good defense.  

%%Moore: Played two minutes.

Duke Romps through the Dale, 96-67:

 Duke beat LSU by 29 in the second round of the Maui Inv.  LSU "coach" Dale
Brown inexplicably used a diamond-and-one defense in the first half, with the
one being Bobby Hurley.  As a result, G.Hill and T.Hill both had big days.
Thomas had one of the best games of his career, with 25 pts and 8 boards.
He operated almost exclusively in the paint.  Marty Clark and Chris Collins
came off the bench for 13 and 10 pts, respectively.  On the down side, Duke
centers Parks & Meek got folded, spindled, bent & mutilated by LSU center
Geert "Geert!" Hammink, who had 21 pts and 7 boards.  Hammink doesn't have
much speed or grace, but he does have a good understanding of post play.  
He scored more points against Duke than any other player the Devils have faced
all season.  Really.  
  Grant Hill shut down LSU's other big gun, Clarence "Hail" Ceasar, who went
1-8 with 2 pts, after scoring 18 against Div II wannabe Stanford.  5-7 guard
Paul Johnson was given the task of guarding Hurley 1-on-1, and did a good job.
Hurley had trouble with his quickness as Johnson scored 17 on him.  Tyus Edney,
take notes. (*) (although he had no problems doing it to Duke last year).

(*) Obligatory UCLA reference.

         MIN 2FG-A  3FG-A  FT-A  RB/O AT TO ST BK FL PTS
G.Hill    29   6-9    0-0   2-4   4/2  1  5  3  2  1  14 
Lang	  18   1-4    0-0   2-4   5/3  1  4  1  1  3   4
Parks	  27   4-7    0-0   1-1   5/3  0  2  0  2  2   9
Hurley    28   2-3    2-4   5-7   7/0  7  1  1  0  3  15
T.Hill	  28 10-11    1-1   4-4   8/3  1  4  3  0  2  25
Clark	  21   5-5    0-0   3-4   3/1  2  2  1  0  3  13
Meek	  13   1-1    0-0   0-1   5/2  1  1  2  1  2   2
Blakeney  16   2-3    0-0   0-0   0/0  2  0  2  0  2   4
Collins   13   0-3    3-4   1-2   2/2  1  1  1  0  1  10
Moore	   6   0-1    0-0   0-0   1/1  0  0  0  0  0   0
Brown  	   1   0-0    0-0   0-0   0/0  0  0  0  0  0   0
TOTALS:  200 30-47    6-9 18-27 40/15 19 16 14  6 19  96
(FG%: 64%)   (64%)   (67%)(67%)
LSU:     200 20-47   5-16 12-19 27/15 21 19 10  0 21  67
(FG%: 40%)   (43%)   (31%)(63%) 


That's Good:

%%Duke's rebounding.  Special kudos go to T.Hill and Hurley, who had over a
third of Duke's rebounds.  

%%T.Hill's play.  Knew he would be open with Hurley being guarded in a gimmick
defense, and he took full advantage of it.  LSU seemed unaware of his skills
in the paint, being slow to cover him.  His rep as a shooter allowed him to
drive by defenders all day long.

%%The bench.  Scored a third of Duke's points, and stretched the lead.  Clark,
Meek, Collins and Blakeney were all very active.  Clark just glided by
defenders the whole game, and got open for short range jumpers.  He missed
his first free throw of the year.  

That's Bad:

%%Center Play.  As noted above, Parks and Meek were outplayed by Hammink.
If they can't slow down Wright, Montross, Thompson, etc, that could be a trouble
spot.

%%Turnovers.  Too many of them.  Many of them have been travelling violations
on the Hills on attempted drives to the basket.  G.Hill can still be picked
off here and there if his concentration is waning.

Mission Impossible: Duke beats BYU 89-66.

 Duke defeated a very good BYU team that had narrowly defeated both Oklahoma
and Memphis State in the closing moments of both games.  BYU had size, depth,
good coaching and discipline.  However, they didn't have the speed to match
up with Duke, and couldn't get their perimeter game going.  In particular,
key BYU players Randy Reid, Shane Knight and Kevin Nixon combined for only
11 pts.  Bobby Hurley completely shut down Reid, forcing turnovers and a five 
second call.  
  Duke's Big Three were big once again, scoring 70% of Duke's points.  Despite
the fact that Hurley missed his first 8 shots, he was still in complete control
of the game, marking 11 assists.  His ballhandling and his floor vision were
superb.  He had two spectacular alley-oop passes to G.Hill, the first one
with a defender practically hanging from Grant.  Thomas was all over the
boards once again.
  BYU kept it reasonably close for awhile, with some snazzy shots from Nick
Sanderson, the team's quickest player.  Russell "Gary" Larson had some nice
shots over Parks, and generally outhustled him.  The same can be said of
Gary Trost.
  The bench was not all that involved in this game, but they had done their 
job earlier in the tournament by getting the starters as much rest as possible
before the final.  A nice experiment for the ACC and NCAA tournaments.
BYU is a very good team in a very good conference.  Despite a couple of recent
losses, I think they should win the WAC, a conference that might be the best
overall out west.  They'll add Shawn Bradley and Robbie Reid next year, and
should be really dangerous.

	 MIN  2FG-A  3FG-A  FT-A  RB/O  AT TO ST BK FL PTS
G.Hill    33  12-18    0-0   3-5   9/1   1  4  4  2  2  27
Lang	  23    3-6    0-0   2-4   3/0   1  1  1  2  2   8
Parks	  26    3-4    0-0   0-1   5/1   0  2  1  2  1   6
Hurley	  35   3-12    1-2   5-6   3/0  11  0  3  0  1  14
T.Hill	  36    6-8    1-3   6-8   9/4   0  5  1  0  2  21
Clark	  20    1-2    0-0   0-0   3/1   2  0  0  0  3   2
Meek	  11    1-3    0-0   3-4   4/2   0  1  0  0  4   5
Blakeney   6    0-0    0-0   0-0   1/0   0  0  0  0  2   0
Collins    5    0-1    2-2   0-0   0/0   1  0  0  0  0   6
Moore      3    0-0    0-0   0-0   0/0   0  0  0  1  0   0
Brown      2    0-1    0-0   0-2   1/1   0  1  0  0  0   0
TOTALS:  200  29-55    4-7 19-30  40/11 16 14 10  7 17  89
(FG%: 53)      (53%)  (57%)(63%)  
BYU:	 200  23-50    3-9 11-20   33/9 13 21  2  4 22  66  
(FG%: 44)      (46%)  (33%)(55%) 

 Tony Lang suffered an injury in this game after a blow to the head.  It was
thought to be a fracture to the orbital (eye) area, but studies taken so far
have been inconclusive.  Further studies will be done on the 4th.  He may have
to play with a face guard for awhile.
  Parks has not been playing very well of late.  He wasn't very involved on
either end his last couple of games.  He's been getting a steady number of
blocks, but has been beated and then boxed out too often.  
  Collins had a fine tournament overall, scoring 23 pts in 26 minutes of play.
He will be needed to provide some instant offense later in the season, and to
run the team for a bit.  He had three assists vs only one turnover.
  Happy New Year!
	Robert Clough, DUMC (though still not speaking for them)
"I still can't remember all the best things she said."--Bob Dylan
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