From: terry@garfield.Stanford.EDU (Terry Wong)
Subject: Warriors beat Sonics
Keywords: Warriors, Sonics
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 19:48:37 GMT

Sorry for the late post, but I was out of commission for a while.

The Warriors defeated the Sonics easily 114-102 on Friday, Oct. 30th
in San Jose.  The Warriors led the whole game, leading after the first
quarter 23-15, at the half 55-46, and after the 3rd 92-73.
This was the Warriors' 6th preseason game and the Sonics 8th and last
preseason game.

The starting lineups were:
		Warriors		Sonics
point guard	Tim Hardaway		Nate McMillan
off guard	Jeff Grayer		Ricky Pierce
small forward	Billy Owens		Derrick Mckey
power forward	Byron Houston		Shawn Kemp
center		Victor Alexander	Benoit Benjamin

Chris Mullin was given the night off.  Nelson was booed for not
playing Mullin.

Both teams played aggressive defense.  Coupled with
a lot of foul calls,  the game in the first half was played very
sloppily by both teams.  The Warriors exploded in the 3rd quarter
led by Hardaway and built up a 25+ point lead.  In the late
3rd and the 4th quarters, the Sonics (Johnson,
Payton, Barros, Cage, and Paddio)
closed the point spread playing against the bench 
(Jennings, Houston, Sprewell, Gatling, Tolbert) of the Warriors.
Payton and Barros with 3 3-pointers did most of the scoring.

The difference in the game was the swarming defense of the Warriors
and the large number of turnovers suffered
by the Sonics.  The Sonics had 32 turnovers for the game and
39 fouls.  As the turnovers and fouls mounted, the Sonics lost their 
composure resulting in 5 technicals and 2 ejections (coach Karl and
McMillan).  Overall, the Sonics looked surprisingly bad and disorganized, 
considering this was their last preseason game.        

It was my first chance to see Byron Houston, and while he had a lot of
trouble scoring (0/6 fg, 3/4 ft), he demonstrated tough defense, and
a lot of speed and quickness.  He
primarily played against Kemp and in the 1st quarter stole the ball twice
while fronting Kemp in the paint.   In fact, Kemp was frustrated the whole
game and was a non-factor, eventually fouling out in the 3rd with 3/9 fg
and 3/9 ft for 9 points.

Karl demonstrated his lack of confidence in Payton by starting McMillan.
Payton played poorly for the first 2 1/2 quarters and was badly
dominated by Hardaway.  He picked up almost all his 17 points after
Hardaway retired for the game in the 3rd quarter.

Alexander had a very good game at center shooting 6/6 from the floor,
including an 18 foorter, for 12
points.  Owens had a tough shooting night, looking very uncomfortable
shooting the J, and from the free throw line.  Owens demonstrated a
one-handed free throw style.  Overall, he was 3/9 floor and 6/14 from the
line for 12 points.  However, he also had 13 rebounds.  
Hardaway was the dominant player for the Warriors scoring 23 points, mostly
against Payton.  

In the battle for starting off-guard, Grayer showed he has a strong
slashing attack to the hoop and is a good rebounder.  However, Sprewell was
the better player overall. He showed a nice outside shot plus a good
passing game.   

Jennings also had a good game with 14 points although he had 3 turnovers
late in the game to allow the Sonics to close the score somewhat.  

With Houston and Owens getting most of the playing time at power
forward, Gatling played most of his minutes at backup center 
and did well, scoring 11 points.

Hill started the 3rd and got into quick foul trouble and sat down for the
rest of the game.

Game totals:
Seattle:
		fg/a	ft/a	tp
Kemp		3/10	3/9	9
McKey		3/6	4/6	10
Benjamin	2/4	2/2	6
McMillan	1/2	0/0	2
Pierce		0/3	2/4	2
Payton		7/16	3/4	17
Cage		4/6	4/5	12
Barros		9/16	0/0	21
Johnson		6/14	3/5	15
Paddio		4/6	0/1	8
King		0/1	0/0	0

Warriors:
		fg/a	ft/a	tp
Houston		0/6	3/4	3
Owens		3/9	6/14	12
Alexander	6/6	0/0	12
Grayer		2/5	1/2	5
Hardaway	7/12	7/9	23
Sprewell	5/11	3/5	13
Buechler	4/6	2/3 	10
Lister		1/1	2/3	4
Jennings	4/7	6/8	14
Hill		1/3	0/0	2
Gatling		4/4	3/5	11
Tolbert		1/3	0/0	2
Stevenson	1/2	0/0	3



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