1 : \ 2 TTF SPORTS/The Charlotte Post Thursday, August 22, 1996 Panthers to correct mistakes Continued From 8B players is partially responsible for breakdowns. It’s most pro nounced on offense, where the schemes are more complex. ' “We made a lot of mistakes, and those were the things that hurt us the most,” Philyaw said. Whenever you can’t get a good tempo going, it hurts you even more. We had a problem getting a rhythm going. We weren’t in sync.” There’s no need to panic, receiver Mark Carrier says. After aU, when the opening day roster is announced, nearly half of the people who started train ing camp wiU be elsewhere. 'The offense, which has looked out of sync, shoxild round into shape once some injured players retun to action. “This is preseason. You try to look at a lot of people, see who’s going to help your ball club,” he said. “It’s unfair to judge an offensive unit according to a whole game when you have a lot of guys going in and out.” “We want to win the ball game, but we’re going to wake up tomorrow and say it doesn’t affect our record,” Carrier said. We don’t dwell on that. You know this is a time of learning, a time of playing guys, trying to see who’s going to help this ball club. You know things are going to be perfect, so you expect those things.” 'The Giants offer Carolina a chance to right the ship before the season opener, linebacker Carlton Bailey said. Both teams play ph5rsical, hard-nosed foot ball with emphasis on the run ning game. It’ll be a good test. “The best thing about next week is it’s a physical ball club,” he said. “We’re going on the road and that’s the kind of team we want to have. We must be ready to play on the road. We’re going to come back this week, and we’re going to make some things hap- pen. “I know we’re better than the way we played (Saturday) and the way we played last week,” Carrier said. “I think the posi tive thing is the mistakes we were doing we can correct. We know what we have to do.” Barkley heads for Houston The Associated Press PHOENIX - Jerry Colangelo thought the Phoenix Suns were becoming predictable with Charles Barkley. “I personally have not enjoyed watching pur play for two years,” said Colangelo, the Suns’ president. “We became as predictable as I’d wanted not to become.” His team is anything but pre dictable now, following Monday’s announcement of the four-for-one trade that sent Barkley to the Houston Rockets for Robert Horry, Sam Cassell, Mark Bryant and Chucky Brown. Barkley averaged 23.2 points and 11.6 rebounds for the Suns last season - his 12th in the NBA. It wasn’t far off the 25.6 points and 12.2 rebounds he averaged in 1992-93, when he was the NBA MVP. But his 3.7 assists per game were off the 6.1 he averaged his first sea son. Colangelo said he and Rockets owner Les Alexander agreed on the trade Aug. 12 but kept it under wraps until Saturday. He disputed Barkley’s claim that the trade was carried out on his terms, saying Barkley had no input. The deal came together when Alexander agreed to part not only with Horry, Cassell and Bryant but Brown as well. The quartet of ex-Rockets brings youth, exuberance, defense and, in the case of Horry and Cassell, great out side shooting to a team featur ing none of those qualities in 1995-96. “I just like their abilities,” coach Cotton Fitzsimmons said. “A couple of these guys here were very high in steals, blocked shots. And we can do things we couldn’t do before.” Brown, a 6-foot-8, 215-pound forward, was an unlikely can didate until last season to be the centerpiece of the biggest trade this offseason. Phoenix is his sixth team in eight sea sons, not a CBA stop. 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