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Friday, January 15. 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Many overlook Oklahoma's defense, says Sooner coach
The Associated Press
When people look at Oklahoma basketball, Billy Tubbs wants them to see a team that has respect for everybody they play.
"We're not out to embarrass anybody but we are out to make people look bad, because if we make ourselves look good by making them look bad, that's the name of the game," the Oklahoma coach said. "If that wasn't the rule of the game, you'd be trying to play to get beat."
"We have respect and compassion, but when the game starts, it's war and we don't take prisoners. We start pressing and should end pressing. Sometimes we'll pull it off if we hit the numbers, but we shouldn't because the guys in there then have
to learn the full-court defense. And the reason they're playing at that time is because they have problems playing it," he said.
"It's all the full-court pressure," senior forward Dale Sieger offered as the key to success. "We just have so many people. If somebody gets tired, someone else comes in and the other team doesn't have that option. We come in with fresh guys and they have the same guys.
"Anytime you score a lot of points, people are going to say you're an offensive-structured team, and we are an offensive-structured team," Sieger said. "But the majority of our points are coming from our defense, the full-court pressure, things like that. But people kind of look past that."
and just look at the final score and see the other team in the 80s. But they still lost by 40, 50 points, so we can't be that bad of a defensive team."
Before the LSU game, which Oklahoma lost 84-77, the Sooners forced an average of 37 turnovers per game.
"When people pick up a gaze and see we scored 150 points, they think that, 'Wow, that's a great offensive machine.' But if you really watch us, we get a lot of points off our steals and that's forced by the defense," senior guard Ricky Grace said.
Junior guard Mookie Blaylock has 75 of the 222 steals, just 15 short of the school record for a season.
Grace and Blaylock played a year together at Midland Junior College.
"Blaylock puts a lot of pressure on the point guard and causes him a lot of trouble and that enables us to gamble a lot," Grace said.
and Tubbs said it didn't take any time for the players to get adjusted to each other or anything.
Tubbs will be as happy as Blaylock when the steals record falls.
"I love records. I'm intrigued by them and I love to set records," Tubbs said. "One game this year we had 76 points in the first half and that's a Big Eight record. But of course all the records we break are our own records. But we tied that record in the second half. I like that, but it would have been better if we broke it.
"My team at Lamar shared the
NCA4 score for points in a half with Artis (Gilmore) and that bunch from Jacksonville at 86. That's why I want 90 in a half now. I want that record. If somebody is sitting on a record, I don't care what the score is, they're going to play," he said.
On Saturday against Oklahoma State, Sieger tied his own conference and school record with eight 3-point goals, but picked up his fourth foul with nine minutes to play and left the game. Yet, with the game secure — the Sooners led 104-70 — Tubbs put him back in for 2:56 left. Sieger didn't get the record — he missed two 3-pointers — but it wasn't because Tubbs didn't give him a chance.
Oklahoma's big men are thrilled with the Grace-Blacklock backcourt.
"I think if not the best backcourt in the nation, they are number two or three," said forward Harvey Grant, the team's leading scorer and rebounder. "The things they have accomplished have helped myself, Stacy and Dave to get open shots inside. If they couldn't hit the outside shot, people would just collapse around us. Either one of them could score 20, 30 points a night and people are starting to realize that."
"When we said that guard do we want, we said Blaylock." Tubbs said. "If there was a draft, that's the guy we would have taken."
The NBA draft is definitely ahead for Grant, whose twin brother, Horace, was a first-round draft choice of the Chicago Bulls last year.
NFL replacements get pay but no play for Super Bowl
The Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS — Tony Adams, Pete Najarian and Jim Dick were members of the Minnesota Vikings replacement team which did not win a game during the strike. But if the Vikings continue winning, they and their former teammates will be in line for a $27,000 Super Bowl bonanza.
"I don't feel guilty. We didn't have a good team, but we worked hard," said Dick, 23, a former North Dakota State University linebacker. "We just didn't have a good enough team to win."
The 35 Vikings replacement players, along with members of the other playoff teams' replacement squads, will be paid half what the active players receive under terms of the 1982 collective bargaining agreement.
The replacement players won't get NFC championship or Super Bowl rings for watching the games on TV, but they will be Vikings director of public relations.
"You have to be with the club at the time the games are played," Swanson said from Tampa, Fla., where
the Vikings were preparing for Sunday's title game against the Washington Redskins.
So far, the replacements are assured of $9,000 — half of what the active players get for playing in the conference finals. Replacement players for the team that wins the SuperBowl will get an additional $18,000. Replacements on the losers will receive $9,000.
In order to be eligible for the Super Bowl paychecks, which are paid by the NFL, the replacements must have been on the roster for at least three games, said John Jones, spokesman for the NFL Management Council. The payments do not affect the money the actual team members receive, he added.
Dick, 23, who was working on a loading dock when the Vikings called him up, said he planned to save the money. "I'm not going out to buy anything big," said Dick, who started playing games as a middle linenbacket
The payment to the players is not without controversy.
"we resent it," said Steve Jordan,
player representative for the Vikings. "They came in and did everything possible to put us out of the playoffs and now they're getting paid for everything we did to get into the playoffs."
Najarian, who led the University of Minnesota in tackles three times, said the replacements deserve the money.
"The regular team lost to two of the three teams we lost to, so we can't hang our heads," said Najarian, a 24-year-old linebacker who plans to attend medical school. "All of us went out there and did the best we could."
The replacement Vikings posted an 0-3 record, losing to Tampa Bay, Chicago, and Green Bay by a combined score of 70-13. Their record was the worst of the four teams still in the playoffs. The Redskins were 3-0 during the strike, while the Denver Broncos and Cleveland Browns were both 2-1.
"We weren't blown out in any of the games," said Dick, who is returning to school this spring. "We could have won any of the games."
Browns ready to face Denver after 1987 defeat, owner says
The Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.-Art Modell, who threatened last spring to sell the Cleveland Brown's for NFL players went on strike, says he's having far too much fun to consider selling the team now.
"Right now, I have no plans other than to continue as we are doing," Modell said as the Brown's prepared for Sunday's AFC championship game in Denver.
Modell, 62, bought the Browns in 1961 and has since become one of the most powerful owners in the league, serving as the NFL's chief negotiator in contract talks with the television networks.
He is very much a hands-on owner, frequently visiting practices and consulting with coaches and team executives about such things as roster moves and game plans. Yet, he gives Coach Marty Schottenheimer the freedom and responsibility to make final decisions on most matters.
Modell is with the team in New Mexico this week, walking among the players as they practice at the
University of New Mexico's stadium.
It is that kind of close involvement that Modell says he is unable to give up.
"I did make a statement on John Madden's television program last March that I would seriously consider selling the club if we had another strike," Modell said. "That was maybe a little rash at the time. I'm enjoying being in the playoffs, and frankly I won't be satisfied until we win the Super Bowl. It's imperative to my own sense of well-being and accomplishment."
Modell's Brownis, led by running back Jim Brown, won the NFL championship in 1964 but have never been in a Super Bowl.
"I still have not won the big prize," Modell said. "We've won so many division titles and so many playoff games and still have not gotten to the crest."
That's not to imply that Modell would sell the team or turn it over to his son David, the Brown's.
marketing director, if Cleveland won the Super Bowl this year.
when I win a Super Bowl, I'm sure I'm going to come back and try to do like Pittsburgh and win two in a row," Modell said.
Modell surprised the Cleveland community at the end of this season's players' strike when he indicated that he thought David, 26, would become an excellent NFL owner someday.
since 2012, I always would say in an interview this week. "He's got a lot to learn and he's learning fast. But I could not become inactive and stay in the game. My nature doesn't allow me to play golf and go to the beach and watch the stock ticker. I would have to be active if I stay in the game. I would give more responsibility to David as he learned more.
"He loves the game passionately. But he realizes that I cannot be inactive. I kid him that with him around, I'll have to hire a food taster," he said.
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