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Panthers to correct mistakes
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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.
In three months during the
1994-96 campaign, Brown, 28,
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