FRIDAY; DECEMBER 9, 1966 'T'MME MICHIGAN DAILY THE MICHIGAN DAILY Inconsistent Cagers Hope To Rebound with at By HOWARD KOHN You say that you get the hee- bie-jeebies everytime someone mentions deadline and that you see footnotes in your alphabet soup? You say that you haven't seen daylight for seven days and seven nights and that you wouldn't leave your typewriter unless Moses came down and smashed the Command- ments on top of your seven-day overdue paper? You say that you haven't seen The Daily since all the radicals marched over and seized control of the administration (or was it just the building) and that you didn't know basketball season was even here? You say that you have seen The Daily and you still don't think the season is here-at least not for Michigan?. Flashy Falcons After upsetting fifth-ranked Houston Monday night in Yost Fieldhouse, the Wolverines trip- ped down to Bowling Green and fell flat 90-83 Wednesday night for their third loss in four starts. Dave. Strack's cagets haven't exactly been the hottest craze since hoola-hoops. But after three years among the .nation's leaders Strack was ready for the splintery task of rebuilding. It was all right with his strategy to play high-ranked teams in the first three games. Vicious Circle After the two losses in rebel country, he said only, "It's pain- ful but we're learning." After the win over Houston, he said simply, "This is really sweet; it's great. But we still need to learn." After the second-half collapse at BGU, he reiterated, "We're back to learning the painful way. "It's not that we're not improv- ing. In the last two games, we've made about the same number of mistakes as the team we played. But we still have our weaknesses, still need the consistency. "When we get behind in a game or things start going bad, we don't play as a team. Everyone tries to take the burden of get- ting us back ahead on himself. That's an admirable attitude, but it doesn't win ball games. "We have to have more team- work when the pressure is on," he stresses. Davidson-Saturday Michigan's next chance will be against Davidson in Yost starting 1:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon. Da- vidson, unbeaten in three starts, received votes but didn't finish in the Associated Press' Top Ten this week. "All I've heard about them is that they're a heck of a good ball club," said Strack yesterday after- noon. Strack gave his, cagers the day off, after playing four games in seven days, but will stage an extensive practice today in prep- aration for the Wildcats. Davidson Coach Lefty Driesell exchanged last year's All-Ameri- ca Dick Synder for an $1800 video- tape machine (made in Japan)- which is the coaches's answer to the instant replay camera -- plus a junior pair, of backboard trou- ble-shooters. Driesell's video-tape setup, com- plete with camera and eight-inch TV set, "cuts out the expense of buying a lot of movie film. "We study the films, show them to the boys and erase the tape," he explains. "We especially use the replays at halftime during the games, and if we ever get in a specially tight situation we could call time out and show the guys the tape." So far, with 6'9" Rod Knowles and 6'10" Tom Youngdale up front: hounding the boards, Driesell has little excuse to call timeouts. Knowles, coming off a sopho- more year in which he averaged 19 ppg, has been especially im- pressive again this year in both shooting and blocking shots. Still Behind Michigan, outbounded by a su- per-unbelievable 80-49 margin Duke Stats against Houston, narrowed the gap but still trailed BGU in rebounds Wednesday. With Knowles and Youngdale on patrol ,the Wolverines may be hardpressed to spy a stray re- bound. "We haven't gotten into the habit of going back to cover the boards on a shot as much as we should," explains Strack. Center Craig Dill picked off a season high of 19 against the Fal- cons, but forwards Bob Sullivan ever defense we do use, we're go- ing to play it hard," emphasized Strack. Win a Few, Lose a Few Strack also pointed out that Michigan's 37 per cent shooting average from the floor in Bowling Green was its worst in the short steason. "Stewart, for instance, way ta. rg those same 15-foot jump- ers from the corner that worked so well against Houston-and was missin .. . and you can't afford to miss i .ts like that." h" :,aid. after Davdson, Mh'g aces B'i;r r s 8 p.m. on M nidy reve- ning, also at home. Ltist year. the Wolverines an into Bit 'ei on t;e n:ght after Duke had wrung nt an Overtime victory at Cc,) Hall a.«, t?;O.ped an upset, Butler coach Tony Hinkle has a senoor-studded cast, headed by Bill Brown and Ed Schilling, com- ing back. two former NCAA finalists of 1965 "No, I really haven't thoug will square off in the second round. jabo t playing them yet." "Right now, I have enough Lew Alcindor, T1" monarch problems without worrying about college basketball scored 56 poi Alcindor and UCLA," Jaughed in his sophomore debut last Sate Strack. day against USC. Alcindor's coa Johnny Wooden, revealed yest NBA Standings day that the giant target of' nation's cagers had been injur NBA by "an unintentional kick in 1 Eastern Division game" but would be ready to p W' L Pct. GB against Duke tonight. Philadelphia 24 21 .923 - Boston 18 5 .783 41/,Scores New oYrk 13 15 .464 12 Cincinnati 9 13 .409 13 Baltimore 5 22 .185 19m COLLEGE BASKETBALL Eastern Division x-San Francisco 17 9 .654 - x-St. Louis 11 12 .478 41., Detroit 13 15 .464 5 LosAngeles 10 16 .385 7 Chicago 9 20 .310 91/2 x--Late game not included. YESTERDAY'S RESULTS Chicago 132, Baltimore 120 St. Louis at San Francisco (inc) Houston 89, Southwestern La. 81 Texas Western 67, Pan American (Tex) 65 Creighton 91, Wichita 88 St. John's (NY) 77, Holy Cross 60 Memphis State 63, Rice 54 Temple 92, Scranton 68 Lehigh 73. Franklin & Marshall 58 Miami (Fla.) 86, Mount St. Mary's Slippery Rock 97, Alliance 95 DENNIS STEWART r'} iL'":'}:1.4,} 4.:11 k+.xa.:.. : ' 2".: ';:, a d"' " ,' ' :: ;: ' , " ';t; 1 ,,. ; '''. ^ " .' ' i .. ;.". l 3 J 1 ,l l I l Dill Sullivan Pitts Stewart Maxey McClellan Bankey Adams Maundrell Edwards Montross Delzer Totals Golden Riedy Verga Kolodziej Chapman Vandenberg Lewis McKaig Wendelin Liccardo Claiborne Lind Barone Kennedy Totalt MICHIGAN DUKE MICHIGAN G F R 9-15 3-3 2 7-18 3-6 4 4-7 3-7 10 4-17 3-4 5 4-8 1-1 0 1-2 1-1 0 1-6 0-0 2 0-3 1-2 3 0-1 0-0 1 0-0 0-1 0 0-1 0-0 0 0-0 0-0 3 30-79 15-25 30 DUKE' G 12-15 7-10 7-19. 4-12 4-5 3-4 2-5 1-1 1-3 1-2 0-1 0-1 0-1 0-5 F 1-1 4-4 3-3 2-3 0-1 1-2 1-2 0-1 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-2 0-0 R 2 14 1 8 8 4 10 1 0 2 0 0 7 P 'P 2 21 3 17' 3 11 3 11 3 9 0 3 1 2 1 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 19 75 PT 2 25 0 18 1 17 4 10 3 8 1 7 4 5 1 2 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 20 96 iI ' BOB SULLIVAN and Dennis Stewart again finish- ed with mediocre 10 and seven to- tals, respectively. Guilty?! "Stewart is probably more guil- ty of not covering the boards than Sullivan," points out Strack. "Stewart could be and should be the team's best rebounder." Knowles is the leading scorer and rebounder for Davidson through its first three wins. in addition, 6'3" soph guard Dave Moser "is potentially the best guard at Davidson," according to Driesell; and backcoui't partner WayneHuckel,-also 6'3" and .a On Thursday, Dec. 22, Ohio first-year man-led the freshman University comes to Ann Arbor team in scring. with another experienced quint in- cluding four starting seniors. Driesell doesn't have any sen- Michigan vs. UCLA" iors on the team and junior Bob- After Christmas, Michigan e- by Lane, a starter last year, quit A ro tAsinhegHoli- to concentrate on his grade aver- grou's at Los Angeles in the Holi- age. But Davidson was:still a co- day Clascic there. In the first favorite with VMI for a repeat ti- round draw. Michigan plays Geor D I A M 0 N 0 R I N G S tle in the Southern Conference. gia Tech--also with four starting seniors. 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