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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Damon Stoudamire saved Portland after
Scottie Pippen, Rasheed Wallace and Arvydas Sabonis
fouled out.
|  | | Portland's Scottie Pippen strips the ball from Donyell Marshall during Thursday's game. |
At 5-foot-10 the smallest player on the court, Stoudamire scored
nine of his season-high 32 points in overtime, including the
winning jumper, as the Trail Blazers beat the Utah Jazz 103-102
Thursday night.
"With all those guys fouled out, the team looked to me to make
the difference," Stoudamire said, who recovered to hit the
deciding basket with 0.4 seconds left after Utah's John Stockton
had knocked the ball away.
"I beat John but he poked the ball out and it hit Danny
Manning's leg. It bounced right back to me and I just put it up. I
had no time to think."
It was Portland's fourth straight victory over the Jazz, which
also has lost four in a row at home for the first time since the
1992-93 season.
"The play didn't come off the way we planned ... but once the
ball came back to Damon he knew exactly what to do with it. He just
put it right in the hole," Portland coach Mike Dunleavy said.
The basket allowed Stoudamire to redeem himself after fouling
Stockton on a driving basket with 4.8 seconds left in overtime.
Stockton made the free throw to complete the three-point play and
Utah led 102-101.
That was set up when Portland's Dale Davis was fouled with 11.5
seconds to go but shot an air ball on his first free throw attempt
and then missed the second.
Pippen had 22 points and Wallace 21 as the Blazers picked up
their seventh victory in nine games. Wallace has scored at least 20
points in eight consecutive games.
"Damon played great for us and he's really been taking games
over at the end. Tonight he stepped up and played like an
All-Star," Pippen said.
Both teams are 20-10.
"We're struggling here, there's no doubt about that but we
would have won the game if I would have made my free throw shots,"
said Utah's Manning, who missed two free throws with the score tied
at 92 and 39.7 seconds remaining in regulation. The Jazz shot
22-of-36 from the line, including just 14-of-25 after the half
Bryon Russell had 20 points, Donyell Marshall 19, and Karl
Malone 18 for the Jazz. But Malone shot just 5-of-16 from the
field.
The Blazers have knocked the Jazz out of the playoffs each the
past two years.
"We were afraid to go in there and make a play, because we
worried about mistakes we had made. Consequently we missed free
throws and turned the ball over again," said Utah coach Jerry
Sloan, whose team had eight turnovers in the fourth quarter.
Stoudamire hit 12 of 18 shots and helped force Stockton into
five turnovers.
With six points from Malone, the Jazz began the fourth quarter
with a 10-0 run and led 87-77 with 7:51 remaining. Portland didn't
score until Pippen's 3-pointer 4:30 into the final period.
But the Blazers didn't fold. Stoudamire scored four points to
spark a 10-1 run that tied the game 92-92 with 2:09 remaining in
the fourth quarter.
"They dominated us until we made that run in the fourth
quarter. We dug down and hung in there until things started to
swing our way," Stoudamire said.
Portland made a charge in the third quarter after falling behind
70-57. Pippen's 3-pointer, quick steal and pass to Stoudamire for
another 3-pointer capped a 13-3 run to make it 73-70 for the Jazz
with 2:17 left in the third period.
Two unlikely scorers helped Utah to a 53-46 halftime lead. Olden
Polynice had 10 points in the first quarter and Marshall had 11
points in the second quarter.
Game
notes
Quincy Lewis, who had not played in Utah's last four games,
got his first career start because John Starks was suspended for
Thursday's game for violating team rules. ... Polynice, who
averages only 5.4 points a game, scored the Jazz's first eight
points of the game. ... The Delta Center was filled to capacity for
just the fourth time this season. The Jazz have lost three of the
four sellouts.
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RECAPS
Milwaukee 107
Cleveland 89
Boston 112
New Jersey 111
Orlando 102
Detroit 96
Dallas 105
LA Clippers 96
Minnesota 88
Atlanta 81
Portland 103
Utah 102
Chicago 105
San Antonio 104
Toronto 94
Denver 93
LA Lakers 115
Phoenix 78
Sacramento 91
Charlotte 87
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