| North Carolina at Maryland, 1984 (Jordan - Len Bias) |
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January 12, 1984
This was a vintage N. Carolina - Maryland
matchup featuring players like Jordan, Len
Bias, Sam Perkins, Kenny Smith, Brad
Daugherty and more.
Bias had a great first half scoring 16
points. Finished with 24pts and 4rbs. (24pts
was his career-high at that time). Perkins
was with 26/12.
Jordan scored 21 and he was a monster on the
boards with 12 rbds (7 off). He also had 2
blocks and at least 4 steals that I put in
the video but could be even more.
He came up with all the big points, rebounds
and the steal at the end of the game. And of
course, he has his famous dunk at the buzzer.
There were also 2-3 questionable calls on
Jordan plays which I also included.
Post game notes & quotes
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Two 'Madmen' in Blue Put Md. in Depression By
John Feinstein, Washington Post Staff Writer
13 January 1984
The game was over, Michael Jordan and Sam
Perkins had seen to that. But Jordan wasn't
quite finished. The ball was loose at center
court, then he had it with no one blocking
his path to the basket. In about two strides
he was past the foul line, his 6-foot-6 body
uncoiling, the ball seemingly at his knees as
he rose above the rim once again.
North Carolina's reserves were on their feet
in anticipation. "We knew it was coming,"
Matt Doherty said.
He was right. Jordan, sailing through the
air, the ball cupped in his hand, twisted his
body, brought the ball from far behind his
head and, wham! slammed it through the hoop
as the buzzer sounded.
"I wasn't really showing off," he pleaded a
few minutes later, a guilty grin written all
over his face. "I was just trying to cap off
the victory." But, he admitted, "It was fun."
Most of the game was not that much fun for
the top-ranked Tar Heels. With 14,500
spectators in Cole Field House roaring, with
Len Bias and Adrian Branch shooting more like
demons than turtles, Carolina had its hands
full for 34 minutes.
"Then those two madmen took over," said
Maryland's Mark Fothergill.
"Showtime," added Carolina point guard Kenny
Smith. "It was their show."
The madmen putting on the show were Jordan
and Perkins. One year ago in Cole Field
House, the Terrapins humiliated the Tar
Heels, 106-94, blowing them out on a night
when Perkins and Jordan didn't look
all-state, much less all-America.
Last night, they got even. Perkins did it
with 26 points and 12 rebounds, playing with
intensity that surprised even his teammates.
Jordan, who is intense about a card game in
the dorm, was everywhere, with 21 points, 12
rebounds and what will be remembered here as
the dunk.
"I think Sam's heard the people saying stuff
like he's lazy and he's determined to prove
how wrong they are," Jordan said. "He's been
doing it all year."
Doherty agreed. "In the second half, Sam hit
a layup and got fouled and he started jumping
up and down and shaking his fists in the air.
I had to stop for a second and say, 'Is that
really Sam Perkins?' I don't know if he's
doing that consciously or not, but it sure is
working."
Perkins has been casual about his new-found
intensity. "I'm just trying to work as hard
as I can," he said. "Tonight, I thought I did
a good job inside, but I want to do more, to
dominate in there as much as I can.
"They blew us out in the second half in here
last year and we know what a good team they
have. We wanted to show them that we're
pretty good, too."
They did. While Perkins was constantly
controlling the inside, Jordan seemed to come
up with every loose ball. He had a little
trouble controlling the ball on the fast
break a couple of times and had to come out
in the first half to get a sore knee iced.
But when it came down to decision time,
Jordan soared.
"I just felt the momentum building inside me
as it got to the end," he said. "I like that
time of the game."
It was 57-56 when Jordan went to the hoop
with 6:06 left and was fouled. He made the
first free throw, missed the second but
grabbed the rebound. He cut to the base line
and sank a reverse layup to make it 60-56.
Herman Veal missed for Maryland and Jordan
came around a screen, spun to his left and
hit an 18-footer. It was 62-56 and the
Terrapins never caught up.
"They don't think about taking over at that
point," Doherty said. "They just do."
"How do you stop Jordan?" Bias asked
rhetorically. "I don't know, how about
putting four guys on him?"
"That was just an average Michael Jordan
dunk," Fothergill said, rolling his eyes.
"I've seen him do more spectacular dunks
during summer games. Of course, average
Michael Jordan is better than just about
anything you'll see anywhere."
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UNC Beats Maryland; By Michael Wilbon
Washington Post Staff Writer
Those who argue that two great players can't
make a team No. 1 in the nation obviously
haven't seen enough of North Carolina
all-Americas Michael Jordan and Sam Perkins.
Jordan had the presence of three players at
times last night, shooting, stealing and
rebounding in surreal sequences. His 21
points and 12 rebounds, and Perkins' 26
points and 12 rebounds, enabled Carolina to
remain undefeated with a 74-62 victory over
Maryland in packed Cole Field House.
The Tar Heels, all-Americas or not, held no
big edge until the final minute. The
Terrapins, for the most part, played like a
team ranked fifth in the country. Sophomore
forward Len Bias, with a career-high 24
points, and Adrian Branch, with 19, at times
matched the splendor of Perkins and Jordan.
But it was Jordan who scored five straight
points to turn a 57-56 lead into a 62-56
margin with five minutes to play. Jordan made
the first of two free throws, then hustled
incredibly to save his miss on the second
shot. After scoring inside for a 60-56 lead,
he followed Herman Veal's miss with a
twisting, lean-in jumper for a six-point
lead.
After Maryland (10-2, 1-1 in the Atlantic
Coast Conference) had pulled to 63-62 on a
bank shot by Ben Coleman with 2:03 remaining,
Perkins made two free throws for 65-52. Bias
missed a jumper, Jordan rebounded and the
game, essentially, was over.
Maryland held a 43-40 lead with 14 minutes to
play after a jumper by Branch, who took over
the game after intermission. The Terrapins
had a chance to move ahead by five when
Coleman made a steal, but he tried to dribble
downcourt and shoot off the run and missed
badly.
Perkins dunked at the other end for 43-42.
Another big sequence came with eight minutes
left, when Branch forced a shot. He missed,
and Perkins came down and scored on a
three-point play for a 55-52 lead for the Tar
Heels (11-0, 2-0). "I thought I was going to
draw a foul, but I shouldn't have made the
move, anyway," Branch said.
"When we had that (three-point) lead,"
Maryland Coach Lefty Driesell said, "we
should have slowed it down and worked for a
real good shot. But we made a couple of
hurry-up moves that cost us."
Or as freshman guard Keith Gatlin said more
succinctly, "We did some silly things at a
crucial point in the game."
As well as Perkins and Jordan were
rebounding, every Maryland mistake at either
end was magnified. The Tar Heels outrebounded
Maryland by seven, and scored on nine of 19
offensive rebounds. Maryland, unofficially,
scored on only two of 12 offensive rebounds.
Even North Carolina Coach Dean Smith was
forced to use a rare superlative. "Perkins
and Jordan were great," Smith said.
It seemed Jordan and Perkins were there for
every important basket and rebound. "They did
what the great players do," Driesell said.
Jeff Adkins, who shared time with Veal and
Bias trying to guard Jordan, had talked
Wednesday afternoon about how Jordan beats
teams with second effort more than anything
else.
"You know he's going to the offensive
boards," Adkins said last night. "You can
block out if you want, and half the time, he
still gets the ball." Jordan and Perkins each
got seven offensive rebounds.
Of the often-unaggressive Perkins, who hasn't
played especially well recently against
Maryland, Branch said, "I've never seen
Perkins play as hard."
Also determining the outcome was UNC's
defenses -- man-to-man in the first half,
zones in the second -- that kept the
Terrapins shooting from outside.
Center Coleman scored only eight points, and
made just three of 10 shots. "When he gets
eight points and Perkins gets 26, there's a
big void," Driesell said. "I don't know what
the problem was, but he didn't have one of
his better games."
Nine of Bias' 11 baskets came from outside,
as did at least half of Branch's eight field
goals. "We're usually an inside team and this
is the first game we've played predominantly
from the outside," Branch said. "It was fine
for a while, but it hurt eventually. When you
get into a jump-shooting pattern with a team
that's going inside, the jump shooters lose
nine out of 10 times."
Both teams played fairly well defensively,
especially in the second half when the Tar
Heels shot 49 percent and Maryland 46
percent.
Driesell, despite slapping Smith's hand at
the end of the game instead of shaking it,
seemed to have calmed considerably 15 minutes
after Jordan had thrown down a
"rock-the-baby" dunk -- one for the ages --
to end the contest.
"It was a good, hard-fought game," Driesell
said. "I'm looking forward to playing them
again (Feb. 19 in Chapel Hill). If we can get
some better play out of a couple of people
and make some adjustments, we'll be right up
there. I don't like losing to North Carolina
any time, especially on our home court. But
we played the No. 1 team pretty well for 39
minutes."
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| MEDIA BIAS: "Murdered by Mumia?" press conf. UNEDITED |
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This video features a question from a local
filmmaker about media bias against Mumia, at
the "Murdered by Mumia?" press conference
held on 12/04/07 in Philadelphia, that was
organized by Journalists for Mumia Abu-Jamal.
While largely a response to the new book
"Murdered By Mumia" written by Maureen
Faulkner and Michael Smerconish, the press
conference was also used to present the new
crime scene photos which were discovered in
2006 by German author Michael Schiffmann
(co-founder of Journalists for Mumia) while
working on his new book "Race Against Death".
This version only features this question, but
the full version of the press conference can
also be viewed here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4368
831604559244212
The panelists, in order of appearance were:
Hans Bennett, David Love, Dave Lindorff, Linn
Washington Jr., and Pam Africa.
Two days later, NBC's Today Show would
spotlight the newly discovered photos on
their segment about "Murdered By Mumia,"
viewable here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FsL3rjXpl4
Also, be sure to read the Dec. 4 Reuters
article about the press conference:
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/i
dUSN0454988720071204
For more information about the press
conference, including complete audio, please
visit: Abu-Jamal-News.com
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