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I... BY GEORGE!
George Hastings
Basketball season . .
..Orr can smile
DURING ALL the basketball hoopla of the past two weeks,
with Michigan going on to the finals of the NCAA Mid-east
regional and then the long-awaited match-up of the two giants,
North Carolina State and UCLA, in the semi-finals, a vote taken
by the basketball writers and broadcasters of the Big Ten was
somewhat obscured.
But for Michigan head basketball coach Johnny Orr, it was
a vote which meant a great deal. For only a year after what
he admits was one of the low points of his life, Orr was named
the Big Ten's Coach-of-the-Year.
Anyone who knew John Orr during the year prior to the
opening of the 1973-74 basketball season must realize how sig-
nificant that award, symbolic of the great season the Wolver-
ines had this year, must be to him. When his team of the year
before began its swift descent from the top ranks of the country
to a second-division finish in the Big Ten, Orr became the target
of a stream of criticism and abuse that would try any man. Orr,
for a year, became a different man, a depressed, withdrawn,
nervous individual devoid of his normally delightful wit.
But Monday night at the annual Michigan basketball bst,
hometown Wolverine fans got a taste of the old Johnny, a happy,
humorous guy. As he did a week ago at Tuscaloosa, Orr had the
audience in stitches, spinning stories in his southern Illinois
drawl, poking fun at himself and his team, and laughing robust-
ly at his own lines on everything from expense accounts to
superstars.
"I told my guys to go out and live it up on the expense
account this year," he joked, "because either I wasn't gonna be
back next year or else we'd have had such a great year that
Canham wouldn't care how much we spent."
He talked of the UCLA game, where "I knew we were in
trouble when the referee asked for Bill Walton's autograph." He
kidded about "making appointments" to see his present and past
superstars, and mentioned the time "Campy called me in to his
office and told me that 'Coach, you just sit back and relax, we're
gonna make a great coach out of you."'
Then he explained why he wasn't going to let his efferves-
cent assistant coach Bill Frieder talk at the bust. "Hell,"
drawled Orr with a grin, "if we got him up here to talk he'd go
on all night and we'd never be able to shut him up."
All in all, the performance was a fitting climax to a season
that has done a lot for Orr, and the standing ovation he received
was a well-deserved one. The coaching job done with this year's
Michigan team by Orr and his assistants Frieder, Jim Dutcher,
and Bird Carter was a truly magnificent one.
Picked for about an eighth-place finish in the Big Ten, the
Wolverines went on to win the title, defeat Notre Dame in the
Mid-east regional, and finish an outstanding 22-5. Those who wit-
nessed the team performance this year knew that it was not only
an extraordinary group of players, but a well-coached one.
At the bust Monday, that group of players got together for
the last time of the year and passed out the individual awards for
the season. The Rudy Tomanovich Award for the most Im-
proved player, which really could have gone to anybody on the
starting five, was voted to guard Joe Johnson, who came back
from an inconsistent sophomore season to quarterback the team
to victory.
The Bill Buntin Award, given to the team's most valuable
player, not surprisingly went to Campy Russell, who gathered
in the trophy with a long arm and thanked everybody in sight,
especially "Billy Ayer and Don Johnson, for working me over
in practice."
Finally, Orr announced that the Basketball Writers Assso-
ciation had released their All-American picks, with Russell on the
first team. This sent the capacity crowd at Weber's into another
ovation and will also send Campy to Las Vegas for five days to
collect the award.
And, oh yes, the BWA also announced Monday their choice
of Coach-of-the-Year for the nation. By two points, the award
went to Al McGuire of Marquette. But from this vantage point, it
could just as easily have gone to a happy, funny guy named Orr.
TKO IN SECOND:
Foreman
By Reuter
CARACAS, Venezuela - Heavy-
weight champion George Foreman,
showing tremendous power with
both hands knocked out challenger
Ken Norton with a barrage of
punches in the second round of a
scheduled 15-round fight at the new
Poliedro Arena last night.
SHOWING NO effects whatso-,
ever from a reported knee injury
that for a time yesterday had left
the status of the fight in doubt
the 224 pound Foreman wasted
little time in finishing off Norton
once -he stunned his opponent with
a left hook about mid-way through
the second round.
Another left-hook sent the chal-
lenger crashing into the ropes near
Foreman's corner. Although he
quickly bounced up from a seating
position on the lower rope strand,
referee Jimmy Rondeau ruled it a
knock down and gave Norton a,
mandatory eight-count before mo-
tioning the boxers to continue.
Another left-hook stunned Nor-
ton, who appeared dazed, and
Foreman went after him with a
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flurry of lefts and rights
head and body.
A tremendous left-hook
chin spun Norton sideway
right-cross sent him spraw
his back.
NORTON STRUGGLED t
and made it to his feet
count of eight. But the ch
fell into the ringpost of
corner and referee Rond
naled that he was stopj
fight.
The referee ruled that
was unfit to continue and
a technical knockout. T
was 2:00 of the second rot
Foreman was a 5-2 fav
drops N
his relatively easy victory made
the bookmakers look good as he
scored the 40th straight win in a
perfect professional career.;
Norton, who gained the title]
chance after splitting in two bouts1
against former champion Muham-
mad Ali in 1973, now has a record
of 30 victories and three defeats.
Norton, outweighed by 12 pounds
at 212 held his own in the first
round. Both boxers were wild at
to the the start, missing frequently.
THE CHALLENGER fought con-
to the fidently in the opening round, giv-
s and a ing no hint as to what was to hap-
ling onto pen to him in the next chapter.
In the second round, every punch
thtForeman landed to head or,
to get up body made Norton grimace.
at the The impressive performance of '
iallenger sheer punching power by Foreman
his own was reminiscent of the way he de-
eau sig- stroyed Joe Frazier and won the
ping the title in January 1973 at Kingston,
Jamaica.
Norton Foreman's ponderous blows had
called it Frazier on the floor six times be-
he time fore the referee mercifully halted
und. the slaughter at 1:43 of the second
orite and round.
orton
The 25-year-old champion, from
Hayward, Calif., now can look for-
ward to earning possibly the big-
gest purse in boxing history when
he defends against former cham-
pion Muhammad Ali in Kinshasa,
Zaire (formerly the Belgium Con-
go) in the fall.
The contracts for the Foreman-
Ali fight have purportedly already
been signed.
The terms guarantee Foreman
and Ali purses of $5 million each.
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Piston
By GEORGE HASTINGS
Special To The Daily
DETROIT-The Detroit Pistons
ended their finest National Bas-
ketball Association season ever
last night on a winning note,
downing the Atlanta Hawks 109-
108 in a thriller at Cobo Arena.
Four straight free throws in the
final O s e c o n d s sandwiched
around a crucial Atlanta turn-
over gave the Pistons their vic-
tory, which left them with a
final season mark of 52-38, sur-
passing by seven wins the pre-
vious best mark by a Detroit
team.
The Pistons, finishing third in
the NBA's tough Midwest Divi-
sion but possessing the fourth
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best mark in the NBA, will open
the playoffs on Saturday after-
noon against the second-place
Bulls in Chicago.
Bob Lanier and Don Adanrs
were the clutch charity line
shooters for the Pistons, who
were forced to make a late
comeback to defeat the Hawks
after the visitors pulled out to a
100-95 lead near the end of the
contest.
With 20 seconds left, Lanier
drilled in his two free throws to
put Detroit ahead, 107-106. Then
Herm Gilliam, driving the lae
for Atlanta, lost control of the
ball and saw it sail out of bounds.
When the Hawks fouled Adaris
with 13 seconds left, he calmly
Ia wks
dropped in two more free shot:,
putting the game out of reacn.
The win needn't have been so
narrow for Detroit, however, as
the Pistons took advantage of
some very good defense along
with tough inside scoring and
rebounding by Curtis Rowe to
take a big 52-35 haiftime lend.
But the Hawks found their cf-
fense in the third quarter, tak.
ing advantage of some lenraargic
Detroit play to score twu more
points in the third peri d than
they had in the first two com-
bined to cut the margin to 81-72.
Atlanta, playing withut st:'r
forward Lou Hudson and with
Pete Maravich sitting of the
bench most of the secctnd half,
kept coming on strong to take the
ledmidway through the fut
stanza, at 90-89.
With usual benchwarmers John
Brown and John Wetzel leading
the way, the Hawks moved out
to a five-point advantage, but
could not hold it in the face of a
strong Detroit onslaught in the
final minutes.
Lanier with 25 points, Stu Lantz
with 21, and Dave Bing with ^0,
topped the Piston scoring. Mara-
2 vich was high for Atlanta with
22, despite playing only six min-
utes in the last two periods.
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Minnesota 23 33 16
St. Louis 24 37 11
Pittsourgh 25 38' 8
Ciliternia 13 50 9
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Yesterday's Games
Montreal at Vancouver, Inc.
Minnesota 5, Los Angeles 1
Yesterday's Games
Detroit 109, Atlanta'108
New York 117, Philadelphia 90
Capital 126, Boston 108
Houston 119, Buffalo 96
Milwaukee 118, Kansas City-Omaha 98
Chicago 104, Cleveland 98
Portland at Golden State, inc.
Seattle at Los Angeles, Inc.
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