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About Netters' Triumph

RICHARD PEARL

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trategy? Detroit
Pistons coach Chuck
Daly would have loved

it.
There was homecourt-
advantage strategy, "nice-
guy/in-your-face" strategy,
David-and-Goliath strategy
— you name it, the North
American Netters of Detroit
had it in becoming cham-
pions of the Gus Macker 3-
on-3 basketball tournament
June 24 at Gaylord.
And David Golde, age 33,
Harry Glanz, 32, and Fred
Cohen, 42 — the Netter trio
which won the open-division
title in its first attempt
—believe they are the only
all-Jewish Detroit-area team
to capture a title in the his-
tory of the popular city-
streets-style cage classic.
"Harry and I have played
in B'nai B'rith basketball for
10 years and Cohen has
played in the Jewish Com-
munity Center league and
none of us ever heard of any
all-Jewish teams winning a
Gus Macker," said Golde, a
West Bloomfield resident
whose fish-net manufactur-
ing firm in Detroit sponsored
the team.
Thanks to the weather, go-
ing one-for-one in tourney
attempts meant having to go
five-for-five in games played
and won in a single day.

Mother Nature nearly
eliminated the Netters' self-
styled "homecourt advan-
tage." Like Daly's Pistons,
who win often at home, the
Netters saw Golde's cabin
near Gaylord as providing a
more home-like, restful at-
mosphere than a motel
room. But Saturday's rain-
out ruined their plans to
study, in the cabin,
videotapes of their first two
games filmed by Golde's
wife.
Instead, the trio found
themselves in an 8:30
a.m.-to-8:30 p.m., day-long
Sunday tourney, with two of
the games in their 16-team
novice division — the
tourney's largest grouping
— coming back-to-back.
"We'd check out the other
guys on the other teams
before each game," said
Glanz, a mortgage banker
from Birmingham. ' .W.e'd
talk to them, find out where
they were from, what they
did, get them relaxed, show
them we were regular guys,
things like that."

But the Netters' "nice-
guy" psyching strategy only
lasted until the game began.
"When we got on the court,
we'd put our game faces on."
That's when the fun began.
With the 5-foot-11 Glanz's
ball-stealing, shot-blocking
and rebounding leading a
Piston-like defense and he
and the 6-1 Cohen, a Sylvan
Lake physician, hitting
baskets from near half-court,
the Netters would set up
their "mini-Vinnie": Golde.
"Golde is only about 5-8,
but he's built solid, like the
Pistons' Johnson," said
Glanz. "But because he's a
sort of little guy, the other
team puts their little guy on
him. So we dump the ball
down low to him and he goes
to work on the guy for four or
five points. He head fakes;
he fakes passes around the
guy — he has some very good
faking moves. It's very
difficult to stop him."
"It was real, real
physical," said Golde.
"There was a lot of bumping
and shoving. There were
about four teeth loosened
and two bloody mouths — on
the other guys."
When other teams put
more defenders on Golde, he
moved outside and Glanz
and Cohen moved inside and
scored. "We had a clear ad-
vantage because the others
didn't know we could play
inside," said Glanz.
The closest game the
Netters had was a 15-12 vic-
tory.
So high were the players
after the triumph that, in-
stead of staying at the cabin
overnight, they drove the 3 1/2
hours to Detroit. "And we
still couldn't get to sleep,"
said Golde.
The Netters plan to com-
pete in the Port Huron (Aug.
11-12) and Rochester (Aug.
25-26) Macker tourneys. El

Jews, Baseball
Is Tiger Topic

Dr. Peter Bjarkman, an
English professor at Purdue
University, will speak on
"Six-Pointed Diamonds and
the Ultimate Shiksa:
Baseball and the American-
Jewish Immigrant Experi-
ence" during the Detroit
Tigers Museum's four-day
"Baseball Extravaganza" at
Domino's Farms in Ann Ar-
bor. There is an admission
charge.
Bjarkman, who will speak
at 7:30 p.m. July 22, pre-
sented the same talk earlier

