TUESDAY, MAY 9, 2006
NBA
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 5B
Bowen's defense slows down Mavericks
David J. Phillip/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dallas Mavericks' Dirk Nowitzki, of Germany, keeps the ball from San Antonio Spurs' Bruce Bowen during the fourth quarter of Game 1 in the Western Conference semifinals NBA playoff game Sunday in San Antonio. Making up a 5-inch height difference with in-your-face face, Bowen got Nowitzki out of whack early, then got the ball out of his hands on the final play to help the San Antonio Spurs beat the Dallas Mavericks 87-85.
BY JAIME ARON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN ANTONIO — Hands pumping, feet moving, eyes staring straight ahead, Bruce Bowen wasn't about to let Dirk Nowitzki start the second round of the playoffs with the groove he had in the first round.
Making up a 5-inch height difference with in-your-face tenacity, Bowen got Nowitzki out of whack early, then got the ball out of his hands on the final play to help the San Antonio Spurs beat the Dallas Mavericks 87-85 on Sunday.
Nowitzki scored 20 points, but missed 12 of 20 shots and was 1-of-4 in the fourth quarter. The Mavericks went into the period leading by one, but scored only 13 points — two in the final 4:08.
"He earned his money tonight," coach Gregg Popovich said, "for sure."
Oh, the winning shot for San Antonio? Bowen hit that, too.
Bowen made a 3-pointer with 2:15 left that put the Spurs ahead 87-84. A free throw by Erick Dampier was all Dallas could muster the rest of the way despite being the team with much fresher legs.
Nowitzki averaged 31.3 points against the Grizzlies and worried that the long layoff might take him out of his rhythm.
The Maws had been off since sweeping Memphis out of the first round Monday, while the Spurs were playing 36 hours after knocking out the Kings in Sacramento.
He scored 13 points in the first half and felt pretty good about it. Then Bowen began playing what Dallas coach Avery Johnson called "bear-hug defense," and the big German couldn't break free.
He was 3-for-11 in the second half, getting to the line only once (missing one of two) and scoring only seven points.
"I had some good looks and missed some shots I usually make," said Nowitzki, who sometimes was covered by former teammate Michael Finley. "I had a decent rhythm in the first half, but I lost it in the second."
For Bowen, this helped make
up for a first round in which he didn't live up to his first-team All-Defense reputation against Sacramento's Bonzi Wells.
"You don't want people talking bad about you." Bowen said. "You get a little upset and your pride gets hurt a little bit."
Dallas' last possession began with 13.9 seconds left. Nowitzki got the ball on the right side, but Bowen was all over him, with Tim Duncan moving over to block his path to the basket. So Nowitzki threw a courtship pass to Iervu Stackhouse.
Manu Ginobli nearly intercepted it, but Stackhouse recovered. He could've driven for a tying shot, but instead stepped back into the left corner and put up a well-covered 3 that was way short.
Facing pretty much single coverage, Duncan got all three Mavericks centers to pick up two fouls in the first quarter. He scored 20 of San Antonio's first 38 points to keep the game tied midway through the second quarter.
"Somehow, if I had a little more on it, then maybe we'd have a different feeling right now," said Stackhouse, who led Dallas with 24 points. "We came in here with the right attitude, right energy, but we let them take the game."
Game 2 is Tuesday night and Dallas is likely to find a new way to cover Duncan before then.
The Mavericks tightened
things up at halftime, but Duncan still finished with 31. It was only the third time all season he's cracked 50.
Without his big start, the weary Spurs would've been in big trouble.
Duncan has a foot injury that's kept his scoring down. He also was well below his postseason average in the first round. So teammate Tony Parker said he wasn't surprised that Dallas didn't aggressively double-team Duncan.
"A lot of people have been doing that lately." Parker said. "That's a big mistake."
Both teams had been bracing for this meeting most of the season because of a flaw in the NBA's seeding system that forced them to meet in the second round, regardless of the fact they both hit 60 wins.
Neither team needed much
time to prepare for the other, anyway, considering all their connections — from Johnson playing most of his career for Popovich to Finley having spent the last nine years on the Mavericks.
"This was a very tough one," Ginobilli said. "It doesn't mean Game 2 is going to be any easier. They are going to come upset, so we've got to keep improving ... We can play much better."
Although Game 1 wasn't a thing of beauty, the close finish made for an exciting start to the series.
Parker scored 19 points, Ginoblii added 15 and Bowen scored six. Dallas' Josh Howard had 17, but 14 came in the first half, and Jason Terry scored 14.
DUKE LACROSSE
Duke releases official report
BY AARON BEARD THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DURHAM, N.C. — Duke underestimated the rape allegations against members of the lacrosse team in part because Durham police initially said the accuser "kept changing her story and was not credible," according to a university report issued Monday.
The day after the March 13 team party where a 27-year-old black woman claimed she was raped, Durham police told campus officers that "this will blow over," the report said.
Instead, more than a month after the party, a grand jury indicted two members of the highly ranked lacrosse team on charges of rape, kidnapping and sexual assault. The report was commissioned by the Duke president and prepared by Julius Chambers, a former chancellor at North Carolina Central University, where the accuser is a student, and William G. Bowen, a former president of Princeton University who is now head of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The report did say a female Duke police officer tried to calm and reassure the accuser at the hospital where she was taken by police hours after the party. The woman, the Duke officer said, was "crying uncontrollably and visibly shaken ... shaking, crying and upset." That behavior, the report said, "doesn't suggest that the case was likely to just go away."
The statements about the accuser's credibility were part of a major failure of communications between police and Duke's administration, the report said.
Defense attorneys have strongly proclaimed the innocence of the team and the two players charged, sophomores Reade Seligmann, of Essex Fells, N.J., and Collin Finnery, of Garden City, N.Y.
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