From: terry@garfield.Stanford.EDU (Terry Wong)
Subject: Warriors beat Clippers
Keywords: Warriors, Clippers
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 19:58:14 GMT

The Warriors closed out their exhibition season on Monday, November 2nd
by beating the Clippers 122-116 in Reno.  The starting lineups were:

Position	Warriors		Clippers
1		Tim Hardaway		Mark Jackson
2		Latrell Sprewell	Ron Harper
3 		Chris Mullin		Ken Norman
4		Billy Owens		Danny Manning
5		Victor Alexander	Stanley Roberts

Tyrone Hill was scheduled to start at center for the Warriors but sat
out with a bruised thigh suffered in the previous night's win against
Charlotte at El Paso.
Larry Brown also stayed home, allowing assistant R. C. Buford to run the
team.

The game was extremely close.  Neither team had more than a 6 point lead
at any point in the game.  The scores by quarter were:
quarter		Warriors		Sonics
1		25			27
2		52			52
3		89			85
4		122			116

Both teams took the team fairly seriously.  Both teams played
sloppily in the first half, but the pace and crispness of both teams
picked up in the second half.  In particular, Hardaway and Mullin got hot
in the third, while Gary Grant got hot for the Clippers.
For the first time in the preseason, the Warriors played 
their regular season finishing lineup 
Hardaway, Sprewell, Mullin, Owens, and Gatling.  The Clippers countered
with a small lineup of Harper, Norman, Manning, Jackson, and Grant.

The star of the game was Chris Gatling who dominated the fat Clipper
centers with his speed and quickness.  He looks much more comfortable at
center than at forward.  He was particularly impressive when he 
came out of nowhere to dunk a missed shot by an out of control Hardaway
streaking out of bounds.

For the Clippers, Manning, Jackson, and Grant all looked sharp.
They looked gigantic at times with Stanley Roberts, who looks well over
300 pounds and tremendously out of shape, John Williams, who only
looked slightly smaller and wore a huge knee brace, and Elmore Spencer,
at over 7 feet and 270 pounds.  Williams especially showed some nifty moves
under the basket.  Williams also showed a soft shooting touch.  In one play,
he scored a reverse layup maneuvering his bulk quickly around Owens, 
leaving Owens with a surprised look on his face.  Though the big
guys did get some easy shots under the basket, they really did not
dominate the smaller Warriors.  In fact, the Clippers only outrebounded
the Warriors 40 to 39.  The Warriors took advantage of their 
superior quickness at the offensive end.
The Clippers were much more dangerous to the Warriors when Charles Smith
was in the lineup.

In the battle for the starting off-guard of the Warriors, both Grayer and
Sprewell played well, but Sprewell showed a better shot.  Sprewell also
showed he can rebound collecting 6.

Owens looked very sharp and played a lot of minutes at point forward.
He also collected 11 rebounds.
	
Here were the final stats:
Warriors:
		fg/a	ft/a	tp
Mullin		6/9	4/5	19
Owens		5/7	4/8	14
Alexander	3/6	5/8	11
Hardaway	4/11	5/8	13
Sprewell	6/10	3/4	15
Grayer		3/6	1/2	7
Lister		1/1	0/0	2
Houston		3/7	2/4	8
Jennings	2/3	0/0	5
Gatling		7/10	7/7	21
Buechler	3/5	1/2	7

Clippers
		fg/a	ft/a	tp
Manning		7/18	3/3	17
Norman		9/15 	2/4	20
Roberts		4/4	3/8	11
Harper		5/12	4/5	16
Mark Jackson	3/10	3/4	10
Spencer		2/4	1/2	5
Grant		7/9	3/3	17
Williams	4/6 	0/0	8
Jaren Jackson	1/1	0/0	2
Vaught		4/5	0/0	8
Woods		1/1	0/0	2



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