3 The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, November 22, 1978-Page 9. . .:full court PRE.S _ - l I Windsor warmup.. . .. .tryout camp By JAMIE TURNER SOME IMPRESSIONS on 128-77: One wonders how much a slaughter like the one seen in Crisler Arena Monday night helps the Wolverines prepare for the coming season. Johnny Orr said after the game that his charges needed the break of playing someone else for a change instead of beating up on each other in practice. But Orr also said that Michigan wasn't able to do some of the things that it wanted to do because of Windsor's helpless position. After all, running a man-on-man press when you're ahead by forty would have been a bit on the sadistic side. Perhaps the reason for the contest was that Don Canham somehow felt that an intra-squad scrimmage wouldn't draw the 10,012 that showed for the massacre. I wonder why? Seriously though, Orr has to be happy with the way that the Wolverines ran away with the contest early, looking as if they were in mid-season form. Certainly Mike McGee looked that way, scoring 51 points on anything from lay-ins to twenty-foot jumpers. The sophomore from Omaha is going to be the main beneficiary of Phil Hubbard's return, and appears to have become quicker defensively. Rookie favorite From the "Don't you look like. . ." file: Yep, the name's Garner, Thad. No relation to Thompson, Joel - but it was hard to distinguish that fact as Garner became a crowd favorite after only ten minutes had been played. Besides the physical resemblance, Garner can leap small buildings in a single bound, as he showed with his double whammy-3601-reverse-over-the- head-slam-dunk. This is not to say that Garner has won a starting job away from senior Alan Hardy. The 6-6 forward is also known for hurdling great heights and finished the night outscoring Garner 14-11 in an equal amount of time. Orr is likely to alternate both men until one totally outplays the other . . . some- thing not particularly likely to happen. Hubbard for the Heisman. Alright, a slight exaggeration, but the warm standing ovation that Hubbard received when he was introduced and again when he finished for the night, is indicative of how the Michigan basketball fan feels about the 6-7 center forward. Everyone knows by now that for Michigan to have a shot at the Big Ten and National titles Hubbard has to rebound fully from the 13-month enforced vacation due to knee surgery. Hub's return has affected the entire team, just as Orr had hoped. Hubbard's experience coupled with that of Tommy Staton's gives needed leadership to the Wolverines, something that will be needed when Windsor is replaced with the likes of Alabama, Louisville, Ohio State and MSU. Though he struggled in the first half with only four points and three fouls, Hubbard came on in the second half and showed the quick inside moves that Michigan wants out of its center. Orr would have preferred to have played Hubbard more than the 20 minutes allotted, but you've got to play other guys in a game like that. i i :a. Battle for obsM 1 .S It was a bit of a surprise to see Marty Bodnar starting at guard instead of Johnny Johnson, who Orr said would've started had the season begun three weeks ago. Bodnar is thought to have the best jump shot on the team, and with defensive specialist Staton at the other guard, the Wolverines need an outside shooter. But it was Johnson who put on the shooting demonstration, canning seven of the eight shots he attempted. Bodnar made the only two shots he tried, but didn't play much in the second half after being kicked in the thigh. So Johnson has probably moved back into the shifting second guard spot. Now the Wolverines head into Thanksgiving break with high hopes and a eighth-place national ranking. Their first real test will be against Central Michigan in the opener at Crisler November 30, the Chippewas coming into town tabbed as Mid-American Conference favorites. It won't get any easier either, as CMU is followed up with Alabama, Louisville and Dayton - the last two on the road. That will be when we find out if Windsor was really a laughing matter or a money-grabbing waste of time. I Daily Photo by BRAD BENJAMIN TOMMY STATON PUTS-the ball up over two Windsor players, Stan Korosec (50) and Wayne Allison (54), as he scores two of his 10 points. The Wolverines ran the Windsor team off the floor in a 128-77 exhibition rout Monday night. ROSE SIGNING WITH PHILLIES YanKees to sign John By The Associated Press NEW BYThAs-aTePew York Evening Journal reported yesterday. Yane e YshavR alled Nt thy te Yrk In a copyrighted column by Sports Yanke pes calledenwhatorth teraEditor Hal Bodley, the newspaper major press confreence for this mor- discounted any such effort by the Reds ning andoare expecen to aher To my when Rose and the team return today signing og from an exhibition baseball tour in Joihn who played out his option with Japan. the Los Angeles Dodgers last season, The 37-year-old third baseman, who was the Yankees' No. 1 choice in the hit .302 for the year and tied a National s t etynkhceinth League record by hitting in 44 con- Nov. 3 re-entry draft and their top secutive games, entered the free-agent target in the free agent market place. draft at the end of the season after his The 35-year-old left-hander, 17-10 two-year contractexpied. with Loss Angeles last season; was The paper said Phillies President selected by the maximum 13 teams in Ruly Carpenter would not say how the draft and his attorney, Robert much Rose is being offered, but admit- Cohen of Los Angeles, said yesterday ted it is more than Mike Schmidt's that he had narrowed the field to three yearly salary. Schmidt just completed clubs, naming two of them, Cincinnati the second year of a six-year contract and Kansas City. paying a reported $550,000 a year. J'ohn would be the second free agent Katz added that there was "nothing to sign with the Yankees in 10 days. in the works" with Cincinnati and said New York picked up veteran pitcher Rose would make a decision within 10 Luis Tiant on Nov. 13. At that time, days." Yankees president Al Rosen pledged that the team, which previously had signed free agents Catfish Hunter, Reggie Jackson, Don Gullett, Rich Gossage and Rawly Eastwick for millions of dollars, would remain active "You know me well enough," Rosen told newsmen. "I don't stop." John supplied one of baseball's most dramatic comeback stories after un- dergoing delicate tendon transplant surgery on his pitching arm in 1974, He sat out the entire 1975 season, recovering from the operation which saved his career. Then, hurling with what baseball people called a bionic arm, he posted 47 victories in the next three seasons for the Dodgers, helping them to two straight National League pennants. * *' Rose a Phillie WILMINGTON - Free-agent Pete Rose will sign a three-year contract with the Philadelphia Phillies worth nearly $2 million before the end of next week, barring a last-ditch effort by the Cincinnati Reds, the Wilmington S SCORES NBA New York Knicks 96, Detroit 79 Golden State 115, Philadelphia 105 Milwaukee 123, Portland 93 Phoenix 110, Cleveland 108 GRIDDE This is it. Today is the last day to hand in your Gridde picks, as these for- ty games close out another successful Gridde season. So get your picks to 420 Maynard by 5:00 p.m. tonight or you'll miss out on the last chance to grapple a tasty two-item pizza from Pizza Bob's. One small note. Game twenty-five has been deleted because it was a repeat of game thirty, and that's kind of dumb. What else is there to say? You've been great and enthusiastic Gridde selectors this year, as we always received more than 95,000 selections each week from all over the world. Congratulations to all winners from this year, and may the best crystal ball win the last pizza. Sayonara. PICKS 24. Syracuse at Miami (Fla.) 26. Grambling at Southern U. 27. Brigham Young at Hawaii 28. S.W. Louisiana at McNeese State 29. Tulane at Louisiana State 30. Baylor at Texas 31. DAILY LIBELS at Ohio State Lantern OTHER GAMES November 24 32. Pittsburgh at Penn State December 2 33. Texas Tech at Arkansas 34. Auburn at Alabama 35. Long Beach State at San Jose State 36. Holy Cross at Boston College 37. Brigham Young vs. Nevada-Las Vegas (at Tokyo). 38. Army vs. Navy (at Philadelphia) 39. Vanderbilt at Tennessee 40. Miami (Fla.) at Florida 41. Texas A&M at Texas .. _ _ 1. MICHIGAN at Ohio State (pick score) 2, Iowa at Michigan State 3. Purdue at Indiana 4. Minnesota at Wisconsin 5. Arizona State at Arizona 6. 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