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2010年12月31日 星期五
Healthy juniors help Holy Cross to big win
BINGHAMTON – Thursday afternoon’s fifth-place game was the last time Holy Cross would take the court together in 2010. But instead of an end, it felt like a beginning.
For the first time this season, the Knights looked whole. Though senior forward Marcus Hopper missed much of the Queens school’s dominant 70-51 victory over Mesa (Ariz.) in its STOP-DWI Holiday Classic, juniors Mairega Clarke and Will Davis were omnipresent. In just their fifth game of the season because of injury, the two combined for 22 points, Clarke added 10 rebounds and Davis handed out four assists.
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Holy Cross' Will Davis scored 12 points in the Knights' 70-51 rout of Mesa (Ariz.) in the fifth-place game in the STOP-DWI Holiday Classic in Binghamton, N.Y.
"It was a confidence booster, definitely,” said the 6-foot-3 Davis, one of the better sophomores in the city last winter.
Davis, who underwent offseason knee surgery – which cost him the entire preseason and the Knights’ first six games – had a hop to his step and sank a pair of 3-pointers. He provided an immediate spark with nine first-half points. Clarke was just as important, if not more so, filling the void left by Hopper off the glass and by blocking three shots.
"Right before the league season, they needed something to give them confidence, to show, 'OK, I'm back, I'm as good as last year, nothing has changed,'" said Conti, who led Holy Cross with 28 points and 12 rebounds and earned all-tournament honors.
Cross was unable to slow down Mesa star Jahii Carson, who went for 36 points -- he did need 25 shots to get there -- and set the tournament scoring mark with 109 points, breaking the previous record of 100 set by Charles Jones, then of Bishop Ford, in 1992. But his teammates managed just 15 points otherwise and Cross' lead never got into single digits in the second half.
Holy Cross coach Paul Gilvary gave much of the credit to Conti and the two juniors, Clarke and Davis. Their presence changes everything for Holy Cross (8-3). The two make the Knights more versatile and not quite as reliant on the perimeter because the 6-foot-5 Clarke can score in the paint and Davis can create off the dribble. Cross can actually go somewhat big with Clarke, Hopper and Conti up front and Davis at shooting guard.
Gilvary planned to use Davis more on Thursday because he’s such a good defender and Holy Cross was facing Carson, one of the best guards in the country. Then when Hopper went out, Clarke was needed even more. For the first time since the two returned, they didn’t show any rust.
"It was nice to see," Gilvary said. "It's not a question of talent, it's not a question of injury -- they're healthy. They are both good players. It's just a matter of them getting back into the rhythm of things."
The win was significant for the Knights, even if fifth place might not sound like much. Their only loss of the tournament came to Imhotep Charter (Pa.), the eventual champion. Holy Cross was right there against the two-time Philadelphia Public School champs but wilted down the stretch. Afterward, Conti talked about needing to get tougher and it seemed like the message was received. They rebounded with a come-from-behind victory over New Rochelle and blistered Mesa, one of the top teams from Arizona.
"Everyone's confident right now," Conti said. "It was a very imporant win -- even though it's not a championship -- because we played a very good team with probably a McDonald's All-American."
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2010年12月30日 星期四
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Edouard Vuillard - Self-Portrait, Aged 21, 1889
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Hard work paying dividends for Blueshirts
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Talent is the X-factor in the NHL that puts teams over the top in the playoffs but during the course of the 82-game grind of the regular season, work ethic trumps all.
And this is where the Rangers, needy when it comes to upper echelon skill, are making their living this year.
This is where the Rangers are making their stand and their statement, off their commitment to getting down and dirty, to blocking shots, to competing in the tight areas of the ice. They are continuing to at least try to play the game the way Ryan Callahan plays it even with their inspirational force out of the lineup for two weeks and going on eight.
"We feed off Cally, and the way he plays is contagious, but at the same time, we haven't changed our approach," said Brandon Dubinsky, whose empty-netter sealed last night's 3-1 victory over the Devils at Prudential Center. "We're not going to replace Ryan Callahan any more than we were going to replace Gabby [Marian Gaborik] and the way he scores goals when he was out, but we're not going to change our focus or our style.
"We're not a pretty enough team to do that, anyway."
John Tortorella faces a delicate balance in coaching this team that rarely dazzles, but always seems to be in the midst of some 5-2 or 8-3-1 stretch of winning hockey.
There is no doubt that, as the Rangers coach has said repeatedly after last week's promotion of Mats Zuccarello, that the Rangers need to layer talent on top of the foundation of work ethic they have laid this season. It is, however, more critical that the Blueshirts continue to dance with what has brung them success through the first half, and that means in-your-face hockey with a hard forecheck and a cycle game to keep the puck down low.
"I don't want to change the mindset of the hockey team or the identity we have created with our play below the hash marks, but I think if we're going to get better it's incumbent on us to add more talent," Tortorella said, while explaining why he is committed to giving Zuccarello the opportunity to prove he belongs.
But Tortorella isn't going to insist on pounding a round peg into a square hole. After opening with Zuccarello on the first unit with Gaborik and Derek Stepan for the second straight game, the coach switched off during a first period in which the Rangers lost too many battles and spent way too much time in their own end.
Reaching back to his baseline, Tortorella shifted Dubinsky into the Norwegian neophyte's spot on the top line while giving Zuccarello just three shifts in the second and two in the third as the Rangers improved their play. The rookie played 7:56 (2:05 on the power play) in his third big league match.
"I just wanted to change lines and see if there was something else," said Tortorella, whose team was outshot 16-5 in the first period. "Plus, I always had it in my mind to come back to Dubinsky-Stepan-Gaborik.
"Zuke didn't seem comfortable in some spots, I thought that Sean [Avery] gave us some good minutes so I wanted to bump him up," he said. "It wasn't one particular thing with [Zuccarello]."
When it got down to it, the Rangers turned it around because of the work of their blue-collar laborers. That's who they are. That's what they are.
Neither they nor their coach should forget it.
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2010年12月29日 星期三
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2010年12月27日 星期一
Analysis: Khodorkovsky verdict confirms Putin's grip on power
Analysis: Khodorkovsky verdict confirms Putin's grip on power
The convictions of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, his former business partner, come as further confirmation that Vladimir Putin still holds the reins of power in Russia in spite of ceding the presidency to Dmitry Medvedev.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky is likely to stay behind bars for a long time Photo: AP
By Roland Oliphant in Moscow 4:45PM GMT 27 Dec 2010
Before the verdict there was some speculation that Mr Medvedev, who took over as president while Mr Putin became prime minister, would allow Mr Khodorkovsky to be freed. He had begun his presidency vowing to fight "legal nihilism", and has often spoken about the need for an independent judiciary.
It would have been a powerful sign of his commitment if the court had thrown out the Kafkaesque charges against Mr Khodorkovsky, which amount to an allegation that he stole all the oil his company had produced. It would also have made a nonsense of the original conviction for evading taxes from selling that oil.
At times too during the trial it seemed like the defence would win. Several high profile figures, including a former Putin trade minister who is head of the Russia's largest state-owned bank, testified to Mr Khodorkovsky's and Mr Lebedev's innocence. They were also absolved by their auditors, PricewaterhouseCoopers.
In the end, the semblance of true process was, as an American diplomat wrote in a leaked embassy cable last November, like putting "lipstick on a pig". The political reality is that powerful people are determined to keep Mr Khodorkovsky behind bars. This is partly because they fear a challenge to the redistribution of assets that followed Mr Khodorkovsky's downfall. More generally though, Mr Khodorkovsky's incarceration has become harder to overturn as it has become a central part of the narrative of Mr Putin's political career.
The ruthlessness applied to the destruction of Yukos is no less important to Mr Putin's macho image than photo opportunities with tigers or shots of him swimming in Siberian rivers. Letting Mr Khodorkovsky go would be seen as a sign of weakness, not clemency.
Most Russians have little love of the fallen oligarch. This second conviction and the apparent absurdity of the charges is unlikely to damage Mr Putin or Mr Medvedev, who has made no secret after all that he values continuity with the previous presidency above reform.
Whatever sentence is eventually handed down this time, Mr Khodorkovsky must contemplate the possibility that he will not be released as long as Mr Putin is in charge. If Mr Putin chooses to stand for president again in 2012 and serves two six-year terms, as he would be allowed to do, that day will be a long way off.
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