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The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, April 30, 1998
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The gestures are even, the series is not.
A little more than 4 minutes remained in Tuesday night's Heat-Knicks opening-round playoff game when Miami's Eric Murdock
Hostility underscores Heat-Knicks matchup
Commentary
sank a snot and then, while heading back up court, quickly drew his index finger across his throat.
Players gesture bump and slap in NBA Playoffs
Associated Press Sports Writer
By Jim Litke
The gesture was premature New York
made one last run and whittled that 9-point lead to 87-83 with 55.9 seconds left. But Murdock could barely contain himself. He was in that much of a hurry to pay back Chris Childs for the same kind of symbolic throat-slashing the Knicks guard performed after he made a big shot in the closing moments of New York's win in Game 2.
"It was something that was stupid. I shouldn't have done it," Murdock said after Miami won 91-85 and claimed a 2-1 edge in the best-of-5 series.
"I got caught up in the emotions of the game, and it was something that just happened, and I'm sorry it was caught on tape," he said.
Maybe he couldn't help himself. Plenty of fans, however, could be forgiven for assuming the gesture was intended for them. Because that, no doubt, is how a very large number of them felt after investing nearly three hours in a basketball game that only the most disaffected hockey fans would have found
entertaining.
Before the Heat and Knicks were through, there was more whistling inside Madison Square Garden than at an outside construction site in midtown Manhattan in a week. In between, there
Riley; Seems to prefer a rougher version of basketball
was an almost endless sequence of pushing, shoving, clutching, grabbing, hacking, slapping, bumping and grinding — 61 fouls in all, nearly split down the middle.
Maybe a tough town needs a tough team — New Yorkers excuse what the Knicks play as "city ball." And so maybe Miami had no choice but to play tough, too. But maybe not. In fact, not even close.
The common denominator, of course, is Pat Riley, who coached in New York before fleeing to Miami, the same Pat Riley who figured out soon after leaving Los Angeles and "Showtime" behind that his future as a coach would depend as much on terror as talent.
The artist that lurks in every NBA coach would love to have a team that plays with brilliance on both ends of the court. But the pragmatist that resides within every coach also recognizes the talent that enables a team to do that—a Magic Johnson, whom Riley coached in L.A., or a Michael Jordan or Larry Bird — is in very, very short supply.
And so what Riley set out to do, first in New York and later in Miami, was fill out his roster with whatever bruisers and hulks, bouncers and punks he could find, then tell them every opposing player who drives the lane threatens their manhood.
A New Yorker who watched the resulting pinball game in the paint
Tuesday night said it reminded him of something former Boston Celtics center Bill Russell used to say. Russell was one of the best defenders ever and never shied away from physical play. But he always made an important distinction: Contact was a part of basketball, but the collisions were the point of football.
That distinction appears wasted on Riley, not to mention Knicks coach Jeff Van Gundy who, after all, apprenticed with the master during his stay in New York. Both seem to prefer a kind of NASCAR on sneakers to basketball. And so the inevitable crackup came to pass in last year's playoff, when New York's Charlie Ward and Miami's P.J. Brown touched off a melee that led to five Knicks being suspended over two games and the Heat coming back to win the series.
That's what accounts for the hostility that seethes just below the surface every time these teams meet, let alone in the supercharged atmosphere of Madison Square Garden at playoff time. All that colliding may produce close games thick with tension and drama. But speed and grace and athletic ability, when they show up, almost seems like a coincidence. The rest of the time, the most compelling reason to watch is to see whether the big wipeout takes place and who gets caught up in it.
That's the appeal of auto racing, not basketball. But that's what the Heat and Knicks are selling. Anybody who doubts that should have been in the locker room Tuesday night when Miami guard Tim Hardaway, a good guy and one of the few real talents on either team, got caught up in the act.
Told about Murdock's mock throat-slashing, Hardaway replied,
"He did that?"
But instead of disgust, there was only admiration in his voice.
"Shoot, I wanted to do that," Hardaway said. "I'll do it Thursday."
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