npr collect, sports desk, aukx okla. city times, okla. city, okl.

kansas city, moss dec. 28... " we played
one of ow worst games BEX maybe our worst " said doyle
parrack, okla oma's brown-haired young basketball coach, who
wasbx “‘goloredo baptised rudely into £hax + hig first big sewn
tournament tuesday , 08=69»
ss we made so many mistakes in tle second
half moaned ths new sooner boss, who had watched his club roll
to a hl~3h intermission lead. " we Lost our high postmen
post-man : joe king ( King plays high in the oc |
deep near the goal in a double-post) » and sumidattx didn't run
our single -post offense wa 1 at eidta®
that was the sooners'chief bresikdown
aftes they got away from the barrier swiftly. they led as |
much as 10 points in the first half and king shutout jim rangios,
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scorer f£uxv kva vivx through the first 13 minutes.

-" we should have won or nis when we had
that 10-point lead “ , parrack reflected. they hit better the seconi
half , but we let ‘om by playing poorly. whe you don't run your
offense oo you made defensive mistakes . we did a poor job of
folding bac« on their post-man. ,

~ " you might say we siseehensy game the first
half mxthoirs t the second half, "
7 parrack's ippvatian: of the post defense
Was accurate. george hamah, the 6-7 senior who has suceeded

_ burdette haldorsony collected 18 of his 28 poimts in the final

- 20 minutes. it was , by far, the biggest night of his career.

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