From: edrury@3cpu.rain.com (Ed Drury)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.basketball.pro
Subject: Blazer Report
Date: 5 Nov 92 00:29:42 GMT
Reply-To: edrury@3cpu.rain.com (Ed Drury)
Organization: Garden Lane Software


        Mon Nov  2 12:50:04 PST 1992
        
 Portland played their 7th preseason game last night, their second 
with  out defense and as a result their second  consecutive  loss. 
This time to the Sacramento Kings in ARCO arena. The game was also 
the  Blazers  7th game without Clyde Drexler.  Portland  came  out 
sluggish  and  fell  behind very quickly.  Again,  they  were  not 
getting  back  on transition and reaching rather  than  moving  in 
their  half court defense. When Wayman Tisdale knocked  Strickland 
to  the floor with a little over 9 minutes to go in the  game  and 
the  officials  appeared unconcerned,  Cliff  Robinson  seemed  to 
have  just  the  right  words for referee  Jack  Nies  who  tossed 
Robinson  in a heart beat. That set a tone which  ultimately  gave 
the  Kings  51 trips to the line with 7 of them  due to  technical 
fouls including one illegal defense call.

 Portland  seems to have stopped looking at a variety  of  players 
and  devoted  attention to getting the rotation of  the  following 
eleven  players  who will be joined by Clyde Drexler to  form  the 
opening day roster :

Name       G Min FGA FGM   FG%  FT FTM  FT%  REB FOULS A TO  S PTS
Porter     1  30  12   6  50.0%  8  8 100.0%   5    1  4  1  0  21
Duckworth  1  34  14   7  50.0%  2  1  50.0%   8    5  1  4  3  15
Murray     1  14   4   1  25.0%  3  1  33.3%   0    2  1  1  0   3
Robinson   1   8   6   2  33.3%  0  0   0.0%   3    1  0  3  0   4
Williams   1  30   6   3  50.0%  2  1  50.0%   9    5  1  0  1   7
Kersey     1  31  13   7  53.8% 10  7  70.0%   9    4  3  1  2  21
Elie       1  28  13   3  23.1%  3  2  66.7%   5    5  1  2  2   8
Johnson    1   8   3   0   0.0%  2  2 100.0%   2    1  0  1  0   2
Strickland 1  36  14   6  42.9%  4  4 100.0%   5    4  6  6  1  16
Bryant     1  17   7   2  28.6%  2  1  50.0%  10    1  0  0  0   5
Smith      1   4   0   0   0.0%  2  1  50.0%   0    2  0  0  1   0
===================================================================
Team       1 240  92  37  40.2% 38 28  73.7%  56   31 17 19 10 102

 The Blazers cut Marcus Kennedy, Lamont Strothers and Elliot Perry 
yesterday  and  played  their eighth preseason  game  against  the 
Charlotte  Hornets in the Hall of Fame game in  Springfield  Mass. 
This  was  Clyde's first game back since his knee surgery  and  he 
played somewhat tentatively avoiding hard cuts and power take  off 
moves. Although his jumping ability was practically absent and his 
game  showed  some rust, he was able to score 17 points,  make  12 
assists  and grab 4 rebounds in 30 minutes. Portland won  a  close 
game 124-118 behind the clutch shooting of Terry Porter who scored 
30 points.
    
    Charlotte      34  23  31  30   118
    Portland       35  33  27  29   124
    

Here's the stats for this week :

Name       G Min FGA FGM   FG%  FT FTM  FT%  REB FOULS A  S PTS PPG
Porter     2  68  24  14  58.3% 22 20  90.9%   9    5  7  0  51  26
Kersey     2  64  23  14  60.9% 16 11  68.8%  16    8  6  4  39  20
Drexler    1  30  15   5  33.3%  6  6 100.0%   4    5 12  2  17  17
Strickland 2  61  24  10  41.7%  8  5  62.5%   8    4 15  3  25  13
Duckworth  2  57  23  12  52.2%  4  1  25.0%  15    9  1  3  25  13
Williams   2  62  13   8  61.5%  9  6  66.7%  16   10  2  2  22  11
Robinson   2  42  16   8  50.0%  4  3  75.0%  10    2  2  0  19 9.5
Elie       2  46  19   9  47.4%  3  2  66.7%   9    6  2  3  18   9
Bryant     2  18   7   2  28.6%  2  1  50.0%  11    1  0  0   5 2.5
Murray     2  17   6   1  16.7%  3  1  33.3%   1    3  1  0   3 1.5
Smith      1   4   2   1  50.0%  0  0   0.0%   0    2  0  0   2   2
Johnson    2  13   4   0   0.0%  2  2 100.0%   3    1  0  0   2   1
====================================================================
Team       2 482 176  84  47.7% 79 58  73.4% 102   56 48 17 228 114

And the roster for opening day :

No. Player             Pos   Ht.   Wt.  Age     College
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2   Mark Bryant        F     6-9   245   27     Seton Hall
22  Clyde Drexler      G     6-7   222   30     Houston
00  Kevin Duckworth    C     7-0   280   28     E. Illinois
17  Mario Elie         G     6-5   210   28     American Int.
4   Dave Johnson       G     6-7   210   21     Syracuse
25  Jerome Kersey      F     6-7   225   30     Longwood
31  Tracy Murray       F     6-7   228   21     UCLA
30  Terry Porter       G     6-3   195   29     Wis-Stevens Pt.
3   Cliff Robinson     F    6-10   225   25     Connecticut
54  Reggie Smith       F    6-10   251   22     TCU
1   Rod Strickland     G     6-3   185   26     DePaul
52  Buck Williams      F     6-8   225   32     Maryland

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