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Orfe Twn Ctytytr Qryfrpw, Sgwdqy. fftVygry 3 lEJiu i SlJ V--LJ V. -J Also in this section: TV, COMICS 4 -if. Roy Gault Craft TimM vrn tfrtor 4 slow night )j in the middle There must have been some tons and daughter explaining at halflime: "Gee, Dad. Thu Isn't really wbat Pac lO basketball is all about" And, "No, Dad, They don't give refunds." Things picked up in the seomd half for a Dads' Weekend crowd of 10.157 at Gill Coliseum last night, but consider the plight of Dave Cowens: The player-coach of the Boston Celtics had come to Corvallis to determine whether or not 'James Donaldson, the 7-2, 180-pound Washington State center, would look good in Celtic green.

i 7 i A3'l "WV I AJl' -S i A-' W-' men away from the basket, leaving 65 Dwayne Allen to go against HI Bryan Rison or J-li Clyde Huntley in close to the basket. Suddenly, it was the Beavers who had size advantage: Allen shot J-for-7 from the floor missing only a 15-foot shot from the baseline that he ordinarily wouldn't attempt to shoot and when he. wasn't scoring be was setting up Johnson for bis 23 points and Mark Radford for hi 14. "We got Inside them all night," said Miller. "Their guys are big, but if you can move them out it opens things up, and you can take the ball to the bucket." The difference between the first half and the second half was that the Beavers waited for an opening In the second half.

In the first half they blundered impatiently into the Cougars bands. "Against Washington State, you've got to wait," said Miller. "In the second half we did a better Job of waiting. We'd take the ball to one side, then piddle around with it and their defense would take It's normal drop, then we'd come back around with it to the other side. We reversed the ball back to the opposite side, and that's how we got all our shots in the second half." J'L -C4 1-- -H'? "AA-Ar 'Ss A -A'.

-A George Raveling gestures with his right hand as he talks to guard Clyde Huntley. Washington State head basketball coach Partfir-lt CMlcmre iStlM nrt4 it pimlktfl) Cougars run afoul, 66-52 Oonaldton He didn't even look good In Cougar maroon. Oregon Stat held Donaldson and HI Stuart House to one field goal each, got them both in foul trouble, and sent the Cougars on their Way to Eugene with a 66-52 whipping. Donaldson blocked three shots and grabbed five rebounds, but he looked like he'd have been terribly out of plac with Bob John Havlicek and a 24-second clock. Donaldson isn't a BUI Russell, or even a Dave Cowens, and Friday night be wasn't even himself.

Credit the Beavers for that. lie averages 11.2 rebounds per game and gets most of his points by funneltng In the errant shots of his teammates. But the entire Washington State team got only Jous-petnt off the backboards last night none by Donaldson. fit Mm "Anytime you can neutralize their effectiveness on the boards, you've done a good Job," said OSU Coach Ralph Miller, whose Beavers more than neutralized Donaldson and House. "We did a good Job of keeping them off the boards and of denying them the ball." Oregon State put pressure on House and Donaldson by getting the ball in deep to Steve Johnson, and both The House and The Hotel had two fouls by the time the game was eight minutes old.

A House bad three by halflime. and Donaldson had four after eight minutes of the second half. Then the Beavers pulled the Cougar post" 'J f' A' Slow tempo The Cougars were determined to keep the game at a snail's pace the score was 23-20 OSU at halftime and they hoped to make the Beavers try to hurry the action. "We tried to force things In the first half, and we tried to make some ridiculous bounce passes into the post, which I didn't appreciate." said Miller. "I have a HI post who ran hardly touch his knees, and he doesn't expect to get the ball down there, but we make a bounce pass inside and expect him to catch it." By slowing down In the second half, the Beavers actually scored more often.

The Beavers shot only .454 (10-for-22) in the first half, but hit .607 17lor-28 in the second half because they got better shots. "People haven't shot well against Washington State this year because WSU play a slow-paced game, play good defense, and makes you think, "Gee, we'd better shoot the bail," said Miller. When the Beavers became less concerned about shooting and more concerned about passing, the shots came. First half fumbles And the Beavers handled the ball better in the second half after overcoming a case of fumblitis. "it was Just a matter of watching the ball.

until it hits your hands, said Radford. "It wasn't really their great defensive pressure. We Just weren't catching our passes. We were dropping 7 1 "The ball was slippery," said Allen. "I like to put stickum on my hands, but sometimes you get too much and it gets on the ball.

Then you get some moisture on the ball and it really gets slick. That was part of it, and part of it is that I pass the ball so hard that people have a hard time handling it." Part of it may also have been fatigue, which reduced the Beavers' concentration. "I was fumbling it some, and I think it was because I -was tired and my reactions were slow," said Johnson. "We had a tough week of practice, and 1 was tired tonight." Whatever the reason it's a good thing the Beavers held onto the ball, moved it around, and shot it when they got the opportunity in the second half. The Beavers stayed in the hunt for second place in the Pac lO by defeating the Cougarsr and Cowens based on what he saw will no doubt stay in the hunt for a draf table center.

I pet. .11 a S4 l'SCH4-l I 4 SB OKKtiON STATE (111) I I IMr I 1 Ariaxu 113-11 SM Wt AnnxuKUUIlS-lir .42 WaxhinKtonilO-U) 7 .417 SH SUnlonl lO-lli 4 7 alilumi i VI7 10 331 I "They tried all their big people on him, and we had them in trouble," said OSU Coach Ralph Miller. Raveling wouldn't disclose why he went with a man-to-man rather than with a zone defense. His response to the question, "Why?" was simply, "I really don't know." When asked if he would do it the same way if he could do it over again, he responded. "I guess we'll have to wait until next season to see," "They played man-to-man, but they played it like a zone," said Miller.

"They pressured with their three people outside, but they zoned underneath with the two Big a Raveling wasn't his usual talkative self after the loss, which dropped the Cougars to 8-5 in the Pac-10 and advanced the Beavers to 9-5. "We were mentally ready," he said, think they (the Beavers) just played good (in the second half)." The Cougars trailed only 23-20 at halftime, but Raveling chose to keep Donaldson on the bench at the beginning of the second half, and OSU took the ball to Johnson for a jump hook, a layup and a three-point play on a layup. So Raveling, trailing 30-24, got Donaldson back in the game. Four minutes later the Beavers had streaked to a 40-27 lead, and with 12:06 remaining Donldson went back to the bench with his fourth foul. It was the type of game you'd expect from the two top-ranked defensive teams in the Pac-10.

'X' (: tx 10.. Oregon State's Ray Blume "We just played the defense with intensity and tried not to worry about the offense," said OSU guard Ray Blume. "What got us the lead and kept us ahead the whole time was intensity on defense." The game was ragged in the first half. "It was a very intense game, and I think we tensed up a little bit," said Miller. "It showed more in the first half, but in the second half" we spread out a little more and got points off the movement in our offense." "We didn't play as good as we're capable of playing on offense, but I think it was due to their defense," said Blume.

1 were in foul trouble trying to play defense on us, and we whipped the ball around better in the second half," said OSU's Dwayne Allen. "House and Donaldson don't move that well, and we got the ball to Steve (Johnson), and he got a lot of shots." Johnson was 3-for-f in the first half "and 7-for-U in the second half;) The Beavers kept WSU's guards from penetrating which had hurt Oregon State in Pullman and that went a long way toward neutralizing the Cougars' offense. "Every time (Bryan) Risen got his nose around us and peneterated, they scored," said Miller. "You can them as long as you keep him on the perimeter because a lot of their action with their big people comes off his ability to penetrate. When you neutralize him in his penetration you hurt their offense." Risen is only 5-11, which puts him at a disad- (Continued on page IS) Av It rC if' lAi -I.

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