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Vol. LIX, Issue 865 www.daily49er.com Wednesday, May 6, 2015
DAILY 49ERCalifornia State University, Long Beach
News 2 DiversioNs 4, 11 opiNioNs 10 sports 12
See SPRINKLER, page 3
See RETENTION page 2
Dirtbags outslug Rebels on the road
Troubled waters
Trying to stay alive in the postseason race, the Beach picked up a much-needed road win.
Long Beach is enforcing stricter regulations on water usage.
By Oscar TerronesSports Editor
By Riva LuContributing Writer
The Long Beach State baseball team tied its season-high in runs scored when it defeated UNLV 12-7 on Tues-day at Wilson Stadium.
The Dirtbags (24-20) scored double digit runs for the third time this season on their way to improving to 6-11 on the road.
Junior infielders Alex DeGoti and Zack Dominguez led the way offen-sively. DeGoti went 3-5, including his first home run of the season. Domin-
guez also had a three-hit game, and drove in a pair of runners.
The Dirtbags hit three home runs against the Rebels’ (22-25) pitching staff. DeGoti, freshman designated hit-ter Brock Lundquist and first baseman Luke Rasmussen each went deep. Ras-mussen tied left fielder Zack Rivera in team lead in home runs with three.
LBSU junior-hander Ryan Cruz lasted only three innings, allowing five earned runs on six hits. Freshman right-hander Darren McCaughan took over for Cruz in the fourth and allowed a run over three innings.
UNLV senior outfielder Edgar Mon-tes had a big night for the Rebels of-fense, going 2-4 with his third home run of the season. UNLV starter Dan Skelly left the game after only two in-nings, and the Dirtbags scored all of their runs against the Rebels’ bullpen.
LBSU will travel to Bloomington to take on the Indiana Hoosiers in a three-game series starting Friday at 3:05 p.m.
People can now be fined for watering their lawns.
The Board of Water Commis-sioners declared an Imminent Water Supply Stage 3 Shortage this week, limiting the number of days that residents and business-es can water landscape in Long Beach.
“We have been using smart meter technology to take action on residents and businesses that have been wasting a lot of wa-ter and have not responded to notifications and changed their behavior during this unprece-dented drought,” Assistant to the General Manager of the Long Beach Water Department Kaylee Weatherly said.
The smart meter allows cus-tomers to view their water usage in five-minute increments to see how much water they are using, according to the Long Beach Wa-ter Department.
“This new technology is im-portant, because it is being used to help residents and businesses change their behavior and reduce heavy water use,” Weatherly said. “In some cases, it has been used to help customers correct their behavior or detect a leak without having to levy a fine.”
Weatherly said that in No-vember 2014, the Board of Water Commissioners declared a Stage 1 Water Supply Shortage that further tightened restrictions on water usage in Long Beach.
The new regulations state that residents and businesses can only irrigate their landscapes on Mon-days, Thursdays and Saturdays for 10 minutes per station per watering day, or 20 minutes if us-ing water-efficient rotation noz-zles before 9 a.m. or after 4p.m.
“The LBWD has created an app called ‘Report a Water Wast-er’ which allows anyone using the app or website to take pictures and report water wasters directly to the LBWD,” CSULB Sustain-ability Assistant Melissa Romero said. “They then follow up with all reports made.”
Romero said that the app is great because it creates a more effective way to enforce water re-strictions. That puts the power in the citizens because the LBWD does not have enough employees to send out 24/7 to make sure ev-eryone is abiding the regulations, he said.
Weatherly said that the app has helped them issue a fine to a business that violated four differ-ent water restrictions.
CSULB has implemented a Sustainable Master Landscape Plan that involves weather-based
BoBBy yagake | Daily 49er
Long Beach State defeats University of Nevada, Las Vegas on Tuesday. The Dirtbags outscored the Rebels 12-6.
Source: cSulB graDuation retention rate report
illuStration By amy patton
BaseBall
Chicano students in crisisA report found that Latinos are ‘lagging far behind’ in graduation rates.
By Madison MooreContributing Writer
As the first family member to at-tend college, Berenice Contreras had to learn everything on her own. From financial management to preparing to move to Long Beach, attaining a higher education was unfamiliar territory.
The CSULB Graduation and Reten-tion Rate report from 2014 found that 43 percent of Latinos who enrolled in fall 2009 graduated in five years, com-pared to 61 percent whites and 49 per-cent Asian Americans.
Contreras, a sophomore liberal studies major at California State Uni-versity, Long Beach, said that it was much harder to know what to expect from college.
“Although I was in college prepara-tory classes, I was not prepared for col-lege,” Contreras said. “It was a learning process that I was able to figure out on my own.”
Although more Latinos are meet-ing the basic requirements to graduate high school, they still “lag far behind in overall college readiness, enrollment and completion rates,” according to “The State of Higher Education: Latino Report” released by the Campaign for College Opportunity’s in April.
According to the report, although 65 percent of Latino undergraduates attend a California community college, only 39 percent will earn a degree, cer-tificate or transfer within six years, in comparison to 53 percent of whites.
“When one in two children under the age of 18 in California is Latino, one conclusion is clear: The future of our economy and the state will rise or fall on the educational success of Lati-
nos,” the report said. “To secure the economic future of California, we need to significantly increase the number of Latino students who are prepared for,
enroll in and graduate from college.” According to projections by the
Public Policy Institute of California and California Competes, the econ-
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omy should have about 2.3 million additional workers college educated workers by 2025.
“It is impossible to meet these work-force goals without significantly in-creasing the number of Latinos who go to college and graduate,” the Campaign for College Opportunities report said.
Many Latino students are having difficulty attaining a higher education due to lack of financial resources, ac-cording to the report.
Tuition and fees have increased greatly over the past decade, with the average total tuition and fees paid by resident undergraduate students at Cal-ifornia State Universities, Universities of California and California City Col-leges increased by approximately 150 percent since 2003-4, according to the report.
California voters approved Proposi-tion 209 in 1996, outlawing the ability to consider race, ethnicity and gender in college admissions.
The Campaign for College Oppor-tunity recommended that California’s public universities should be allowed to use race/ethnicity as a weighing fac-tor in admission qualifications.
“Latinos are substantially underrep-resented in higher education, especial-ly at the University of California,” the report said. “The state has broken its promise to provide quality education for all of its residents.”
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NUMBER OF YEARS FOR LATINO STUDENTS TO GRADUATE AT CSULB*
* Years to graduate based on students who originally enrolled at CSULB in fall 2009.
Source: cSuLB Graduation retention rate report
iLLuStration By amy patton
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3wednesday, may 6, 2015News
Tax Increases and the Laffer CurveWhat Your Teachers Will Not Tell you
Dr. George A. Kuck ([email protected])
The election season is here and already Democrats are saying they will increase the taxes on the upper 1% of the population to fund their programs. They assume that tax revenues increase linearly as tax rates increase. Use California as an example of what happens. Economist Laffer showed when you raise taxes past a certain point, government revenue falls (i.e., the Laffer curve.) If the tax rate is zero, the government revenue is zero. If the tax rate is 100%, most people will not work and so the revenue again will again be zero. This happened in the Massachusetts Bay Colony the first year and led to starvation and death during the winter. Any curve that connects the two points must have at least one maximum because there is tax revenue today. We can argue on where the maximum occurs. Dr. Laffer found the receipt maximum was somewhere between 30-40% for the tax rates. Proof? California tax returns with adjusted gross incomes of over $500,000 fell from 146,221 in 2007 to 98,610 in 2009. Do you think the tax rate of 39.4% federal, 13% state, 12% Social Security, and 3.8% Medicare (for a total rate of 68%) helped cause a decrease in the number of rich residents? Ask golfers Tiger Wood and Phil Michaelson who moved to Florida from California. Now for a test. What total rate do you think is fair? Do you think someone will expand a business and be able to offer you a job at this confiscatory tax rate? A communist joke was “The government pretends to pay us and we pretend to work.” Has that happen here? Think about your vote’s unintended consequences by using the critical thinking you learned at CSULB. Then vote Republican.
irrigation systems that only water plants when needed, Romero said.
“The system is an expanded re-claimed water system for irrigation and lawn conversions to drought tolerant landscaping,” Romero said.
According to the LBWD, resi-dents and businesses cannot wash their vehicles with a hose unless it has a water shutoff nozzle or device attached to the hose.
“People can conserve water by washing their car less or stop wash-ing it altogether and sign the dirty car pledge at lawaterkeeper.org/dirtyforthedrought,” Romero said. “There are so many things people can do to conserve water.”
Although Long Beach has always had permanent water restrictions in effect under its water shortage plan, the LBWD is making efforts to solve the present problems by cre-ating the app and enforcing stricter regulations.
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BALTIMORE— A 23-year-old man who dropped a gun that went off and caused an uproar at Pennyslvania and W. North avenues Monday was charged with a gun violation, police said.
Robert Edward “Meech” Tucker, was taken to a hospital but was uninjured in the incident, which happened one week after violent rioters looted and torched the CVS Pharmacy store on the same corner.
Police said they received a report that Tucker was carrying a gun at the corner at about 3:20 p.m., and saw him on a City-Watch camera “displaying characteris-tics of an armed person.” They called the police Foxtrot helicopter in case he tried to flee, then approached him, police said. He ran west on W. North Ave and “kept reaching and holding his dip area (front waistband),” police said.
He tossed the Ruger Blackhawk .357 handgun to the ground and it went off, police said. Tucker fell to the ground, where he was arrested as he “began to scream and carry on as if he was injured and/or shot,” police said.
Assuming Tucker had been shot by police, the crowd began to throw objects
including bricks and water bottles at the officers. The officers called for backup and a medic, who determined Tucker had not been injured but took him to the hospital “anyway to ensure he had abso-lutely no injuries,” police said.
Tucker was discharged from the hos-pital and booked, police said.
No phone number was listed for Tuck-er’s home, and no charging documents had been posted to the state’s online da-tabase Tuesday, so it was unclear wheth-er he had a lawyer.
State Sen. Catherine E. Pugh told The Baltimore Sun Monday that she had met with Tucker and his mother before he was booked to relieve the mother and calm community tension. Family members and many others at the scene Monday initially didn’t believe the police report that he wasn’t injured.
Gray, 25, died a week after his arrest from injuries sustained in police cus-tody last month, prompting more than a week of protests. Six police officers were charged in his death last week.—Colin Campbell,The Baltimore Sun
Views of Baltimore protests, police charges and prior cases in New York and Ferguson.
Percent saying each contributed ____ to violence and unrest in Baltimore
Wrong decision Right decision Don’tknow
Decision to charge officers in Freddie
Gray case (May 1-3)
People taking advantage to engage in criminal behavior
Tensions between the black community and police
Anger over the death of Freddie Gray
Poverty, lack of opportunities in some neighborhoods
Decision not to charge officers in Eric Garner
case (Dec. 2014)
Decision not to charge officer in Michael Brown
case (Dec. 2014)
Source: Pew ResearchGraphic: Tribune News Service
Percent saying each was
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Baltimore unrest poll
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Man who dropped gun in Baltimore is charged California
seeks to block inmate’s sex-reassignment surgery
LOS ANGELES—The Cali-fornia attorney general’s of-fice is asking a federal appeals court to block a judge’s order that the state immediately give a transgender inmate sex-reas-signment surgery.
In a motion filed Monday with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the state sought a preliminary injunction that would delay the surgery for Michelle-Lael Norsworthy, 51, born Jeffrey Bryan Norswor-thy, who began identifying as a woman in the 1990s. Norswor-thy was diagnosed with gender dysphoria in 2000.
On April 27, U.S. District Court Jon Tigar denied the state’s motion to stop Norswor-thy’s surgery.
The state argued in Mon-day’s filing that an appeal it has filed to Tigar’s order would be moot if Norsworthy gets the surgery before a final decision is made.
“Evidence showed that there was no medical or psychologi-cal need for immediate sex-re-assignment surgery,” the state said in court documents.
But according to Tigar’s ruling last month, Norswor-thy’s gender dysphoria would worsen if her hormone therapy is modified or discontinued be-cause of liver complications.
Tigar found Norsworthy is “suffering from irreparable in-jury as a result of the depriva-tion of her Eighth Amendment rights.”
In denying the motion, Tigar contended his ruling applies only to Norsworthy and can-not be interpreted to compel the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to perform surgical procedures on any other inmates.
Norsworthy is serving a life sentence with the possibility of parole for a second-degree murder conviction. Norswor-thy is housed at Mule Creek State Prison in Ione.
The CDCR filed a request to stay Norsworthy’s sex reas-signment surgery earlier this month after Tigar ruled her constitutional right would be violated if she was not allowed to undergo the procedure.
“Norsworthy has been treat-ed for gender dysphoria for over 20 years, and there is no indication that her condition has somehow worsened to the point where she must obtain sex-reassignment surgery now rather than waiting until this case produces a final judgment on the merits,” according to the CDCR’s request.
—Joseph Serna and Veronica Rocha, Los Angeles Times
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L ShowsocalThe death of Freddie Gray while in police custody and the ensuing unrest surrounding it have prompt-ed another round of musicians to speak out on the value of black lives and on racial issues in America.
Prince’s representatives confirmed Friday that the once enigmatic star would dedicate his forthcoming song “Baltimore” to the people of the city where Gray died. The track, which does not have a release date yet, will address various social justice issues, includ-ing the disproportionate killing of young black men in America.
At the Grammy Awards in Feb-ruary, Prince invoked the protest slogan “Black Lives Matter” while onstage as a presenter, adding his voice to the ongoing protests sparked by the killings of unarmed black men in Ferguson, Mo., and Staten Island by law enforcement last year.
Since the slaying of Trayvon Mar-tin in 2012, rappers and other music artists such as John Legend, Common and J. Cole have become more vocal about the need to reform a system that disproportionately finds people of color the victims of poverty, crime and what many see as an unequal justice system.
Veteran rapper-turned-comedic-actor Ice Cube recently tweeted out eerily similar photos of riots in Baltimore circa the 1960s and photos from today’s unrest, with the caption “Then and now.”
Perhaps one of the most outspoken critics, however, has been Killer Mike,
who has written another op-ed in Billboard about the crisis in Bal-timore. The Run the Jewels rapper published his piece, the second he’s written on the topic of racial injustice for Billboard, on the heels of the White House Correspondents’ As-sociation dinner, which he attended at the invitation of Arianna Huffington.
“I tweeted and Instagrammed so my fans could share this incredible night _ and as I followed social media, I saw that Baltimore was burning,” he wrote. “As I sat there and watched my timeline, I felt helpless, hopeless: ‘Here I am at this lavish event _ the most powerful man in the world is black, and people like him are being
killed by the citizens who are paid to protect them.’ I left the dinner numb.”
He goes on to talk about the unfair coverage the protesters in Baltimore received from the likes of Geraldo Rivera and Wolf Blitzer, “because they’re players in the game that sen-sationalizes and objectifies this in the worst ways _ I don’t trust ... that they want to see the change,” he wrote.
“I’m grateful to have been invited to the dinner,” he concluded. “But as I got into the car at the night’s end, and the driver played ‘Pressure,’ a song by me and Ice Cube, I could not help but wonder if this country will ever truly be what is promised in our Constitu-tion for people who look like me.”
Musicians add voices in protest
LLoyd Fox/BaLtimore Sun/tnS A mural of Freddie Gray is painted on a building on North Mount Street in Baltimore.
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C a m p u s V o i C eHow will you manage your stress
during finals week?
“The way I deal with stress, I try not to stress out, just try to relax.
If I can’t focus anymore then I just go run or just talk to some-one and have a conversation.”
—Analeah Paz, freshman kinesiology major
“I try to manage my time or I usually go to the gym to man-age my stress. I sleep most of the time. Whenever I know I
have a lot of things to do, I still sleep and I try to recollect my thoughts after that, then get up, make a to do list and I go
from there.”
—Crystal Javier, junior nursing major
“Honestly, I don’t let it get to me too much, I try to brush it off. But when it does get stressful, I try to take things one at a time. Whether its finals or papers—
which is a lot of papers— I just try to do things one at a time. Even if it’s all within one week, just knock it out little by little
and you’ll get there.”
—Nicholas Francisco, senior English major
“Luckily I don’t have finals as a masters student but when
dealing with stress I always tell myself at the end of the day there’s life outside of the uni-versity. I can tell myself in my stress, you’re not going to get this done but I think it’s about
putting it into perspective.”
—Chase Selby, MFA program for fiction
After decades of America’s incarcera-tion mania, U.S. Supreme Court Justices Anthony Kennedy and Stephen Breyer recently told a congressional committee in Washington that America’s criminal justice system is broken.
They stated that long, mandatory minimum sentences in correctional institutions are a terrible idea. Maybe, at long last, common-sense federal and state prison reforms will replace current policies of punishment for punishment’s sake.
But hold the applause. “Incarcera-tion’s Front Door: The Misuse of Jails in America,” a timely report from the Vera Institute of Justice, tells us that incarceration mania has spread well beyond federal and state prison systems. Each year more than 3,000 local jails draw millions of nonviolent persons into a judicial merry-go-round from which many never escape.
Jails in the United States, according to the Vera Institute, have lost sight of their original reasons for being “intended to house only those deemed to be a danger to society or a flight risk before trial.”
American jails have become massive warehouses primarily for those too poor to post even low bail or too sick for exist-ing community resources to handle.
While jails do hold people accused of serious, violent crimes, nearly 75 percent of both sentenced offenders and pretrial detainees, 51 percent whom are blacks and Latinos, are in jail for nonviolent offenses, according to the Vera report. In addition, jails are being used to punish people who don’t show up on time for hearings, don’t have the money to pay mounting fines and end up with a debt they can never repay.
The Vera Institute also states that America’s drug war filled both prisons and jails with nonviolent inmates. While only nine percent of the jail population was charged with a drug-related offense in 1983, by 2002 drug-related violations shot up to 25 percent. The average jail time between 1983 and 2013 went from 14 to 23 days. Many of those stuck in the system will serve repeated stints behind bars.
The Vera Institute reports that people landing in jail are likely to have a history of substance abuse, poverty, homeless-ness and mental illness – not violent, criminal intent. In fact, many jails are now serving as the community’s “de facto mental hospitals.”
The Vera Institute notes that jails “fill the vacuum created by shuttering of state psychiatric hospitals and other efforts to deinstitutionalize people with serious
mental illness during the 1970s, which occurred without creating adequate resources to care for those displaced in the community.”
Serious mental illness, we learn, which includes bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and major depression, affects an estimat-ed 14.5 percent of men and 31 percent of women in jail, according to the Vera report. On any given day, America’s jails hold about 731,000 inmates, less than one-half the number of federal and state prison inmates. But what sets jails apart from prisons is the volume and transient nature of their inmates.
The Vera Institute states that each year local jails admit nearly 12 million in-mates, 19 times greater than the annual admissions to state and federal prisons. In this way, jails provide 3,000 local gate-ways for nonviolent, small time offenders to acquire their fist “rap sheet.”
Like prisons, jails don’t prepare released inmates to successfully reenter society. In fact, the jail experience often makes it even harder for ex-inmates to find employment and housing, allowing the jailhouse revolving door to spin faster and faster.
Backing off from harsh federal and state mandatory minimum prison sentences is a relatively tame task. While serious reforms are just beginning and much remains to be done, the passage of new laws is a clear pathway to needed reforms.
Reforming the operation of 3,000 independent jails, however, is a wicked task and one that will call for thousands of local community leaders from coast to coast. These leaders must follow the lead of those municipalities already at-tempting to stop using local jails to mask unsolved social and economic challenges in their communities.
Until the political will and resources are available to effectively address the root causes landing non-violent, home-less and mentally ill offenders behind bars, the nation’s jails will continue in their shameful role as publicly financed and operated warehouses for the poor and the sick.
America’s jails need fixing
For several years the correctional system in the United States has been exploited, prompting the need for reform.
Ronald FRaseR Ph.d.Contributing Writer
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Revamping the junk food era
Left, Belly Bombz’s sliders, Asian-style chicken wings and garlic fries set a stark contrast to (right) Salud’s organic, cold-pressed juices.
As eating habits expand, the junk food era is being replaced with an appetite for extreme alternatives.
By AlexAndrA HuynHContributing Writer
As bankrupt and sleep-deprived college students devour their Doritos, new-age guilty pleasures like organic baked chick-pea chips, acai bowls and Korean tacos are shifting taste buds.
The junk food era is reshaping itself into a sleeker, more innovative conjunction on the west coast of health food trends and unique ethnic palates for businesses that have done a dual play on the norm.
“There’s different markets for different types of foods,” Albert Shim, owner of Belly Bombz food truck that frequents Long Beach, said. “There’s one for the health con-scious, which is getting really big; there’s fast food, there’s fine dining—there’s a lot of different categories.”
Despite the rise in awareness in healthy and sustainable food options such as the use of non-GMO products and paleo diets, Shim’s food truck business, which special-izes in fusion Korean style street food and wings, has not seen any changes in the three years he has been in business.
“We’re more of the cheat meal,” Shim admitted. “I understand that healthy eating is a big thing nowadays, but we in no way think that’s part of the market.”
A January Entrepreneur Magazine ar-ticle noted the contradiction of the culinary industry’s molecular gastronomy boom sharing a cab to the mainstream with the
farm-to-fork movement, alluding to the trend of chef ’s exercising extremes.
“We’re redefining on one hand, some of the typical junk foods that are being removed from the food landscape,” California State University, Long Beach nutrition professor Gail Frank said. “But I think they’re being replaced with specialty cupcake bakeries and gourmet burgers laced with half a pound of meat, three to four ounces of cheese, three to four slices of bacon and a special sauce that is probably high mayonnaise.”
The forward thinking allure of novel and unique creations that are not neces-sarily considered “healthy” has become a trend that has attracted foodies like David Nguyen.
“I got into the mindset a few months ago of the ‘look good, feel good’ saying,” the
senior finance student at CSULB said. “I was trying to eat more gluten free foods. I don’t even know what that means, but I just got into that mindset of ‘it sounds healthy, I’m going to eat it because I want to look better.’”
The increased awareness of healthy eating habits has also created awareness for consumers and businesses wishing to make a change on society’s health hurtling habits.
According to the National Restaurant Association, 71 percent of adults are trying to eat healthier at restaurants than they did two years ago.
“In America I feel like the trends have slowly started to turn,” Angela Almaguer, owner of Salud Juice in Long Beach, said. “It’s prevalent in certain businesses chang-ing their menu. The fact that McDonald’s is changing to sliced apples and salads are a
reflection of how we are changing as a so-ciety. The fact that there is a high demand for a company like mine, which is cold cut organic juice, shows a change happening.”
Around 2005 there was more of a move-ment to be conscious of the type of foods to be eaten, professor Frank said.
This gave birth to many eating habits such as the paleo diet—a high level restric-tion of the vegetarian diet that took a look back at the caveman eating behaviors, the gluten-free diet and a more green perspec-tive of eating that focuses on food produc-tion that restricts the amount of carbon dioxide it produces.
Since the demand for organic foods is low, organic farmers can be very hard to find and the prices are high, Almaguer said. She started her juicing business due to a health related death in the family.
“I did not go organic to benefit the busi-ness,” Almaguer said. “Going organic really affects the business; the organic product is very expensive and you don’t want to raise the prices on your customers a lot. From a business standpoint, it’s a very difficult choice to make, but it’s worth it.”
Companies like Long Beach’s Salud and Berlin Café are going fully organic, with owners looking at it from an ethical stance rather than a monetary stance.
“It is sometimes challenging, but it’s a good challenge,” Berlin Café owner Kerstin Kansteiner, whose menu varies depending on the availability of the farmer’s market, said. “We’ve had some cooks that wanted to cook here because they can do their own special steak. They get to do something new every time, for some that’s a challenge, for others it’s a welcome challenge.”
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There are 12 ways to defend a pick-and-roll, Cava-liers coach David Blatt said Tuesday.
From the outside, it appeared as if the Cavs unsuc-cessfully tried about half of them during Monday’s 99-92 loss to the Chicago Bulls in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals.
No matter how the Cavs tried to adjust their ap-proach, the end result was typically the same _ a wide-open shot for either Jimmy Butler or Pau Gasol around the perimeter.
Watching four defenders at times chase Derrick Rose around the court Monday left the distinct im-pression the Cavs’ plan was to prevent Rose from beat-ing them, but those familiar with the initial attack pri-vately insist that wasn’t the case.
“Some of it was some of our game plan and some of it was that we could’ve gave a better effort,” LeBron James said.
“But it wasn’t too much miscommunication at all.” Despite James’ claims, others with specific knowledge say the Cavs tried to change their defensive approach in the middle of the game and did a poor job of com-municating the changes.
As a result, both Tristan Thompson and Kyrie Ir-ving were guarding Rose at times while Gasol was left open. The same was true with Butler.
That surely was a big focus of Tuesday’s practice in advance of Game 2 Wednesday at Quicken Loans Are-na. “We adjusted and at times we were more successful and at times we weren’t,” Blatt said.
“We definitely didn’t do a great job in that part of the game [Monday]. No getting around it, and we have to do better.”
The Cavs’ defensive breakdowns led to multiple open shots for the Bulls _ and they didn’t miss. Of the Bulls’ 80 attempts Monday, 24 of them were classi-fied as “wide open,” meaning there wasn’t a defender within six feet of the shooter, according to the league’s tracking data.
Half of the Bulls’ shots were classified as “open,” meaning a defender wasn’t within four feet. They shot 61 percent on those “open” shots.
In their first-round series against the Milwaukee Bucks, the Bulls averaged 14 “wide open” shots per game and shot 44 percent on “open” shots.
“In our offense, anybody can shoot the ball,” Rose said Tuesday. “For me, it’s just making sure everybody is in the right spot so I can dictate the offense.”
The Cavs, conversely, struggled to get as many open shots and couldn’t make the ones they did. Fifteen of the Cavs’ 81 shots came without a defender within 6 feet. They only shot 33 percent (11-of-33) on “open”
shots. They consistently shot 30 or more 3-pointers during
the regular season with both Love and J.R. Smith in the lineup, but made just 7-of-26 3-point attempts on Monday. Still, Blatt and James both thought the major-ity of the shots from deep were the correct shots.
“I didn’t think that many of those 26 were bad shots,” Blatt said. “We’ve just got to knock ‘em down.”
The loss obviously leaves the Cavs in a precarious position entering Game 2. Another loss will put the Cavs in the unenviable position of having to rally from an 0-2 deficit on the road. They’ve already lost home-court advantage in this series, at least for now, but both
James and Blatt downplayed the importance of home court.
The home team lost Game 1 in three of the four cur-rent semifinal series. “Home court doesn’t guarantee you an extra game on your floor.
The only time it would guarantee you is if you get to a Game 7,” James said. “I’m looking forward to the op-portunity for us to get out there, obviously, with a game that we must have.
You can’t go down 0-2 on your home floor and go-ing on the road, so it’s going to be a tough challenge.”— Jason Lloyd Akron Beacon Journal
Defensive lapses weighing on Cavs
Hayley Thompson scored the clinching point in this year’s Big West Tournament against UC Santa Barbara and punched the 49ers’ ticket to another NCAA Tourney appearance.
The sophomore has been a part of back-to-back Big West champion tennis teams, and she’s had success in both singles and doubles competition.
The Irvine native, in addition to being receiv-ing honorable mention on the All-Big West singles team, earned first team All-Big West honors for doubles teams with partner Ebba Unden.
The Daily 49er caught up with Thompson ahead of the team’s weekend match against Virginia Tech.
Q: How does this year’s title compare to last year’s?It’s definitely different, [now] being a sophomore. We already experienced it last year, but it’s still different feeling. Clinching it at the end definitely meant a great deal to me.
Q: Why did it mean so much to you?Because of the feeling you get afterwards, like you just won the last point. It was in your hands pretty much.
Q: What were some of them biggest challenges this season?Having to [play unfamiliar] schools, competing against them. You never know what you’re getting into. We had a few tough losses, which we weren’t expecting. But we had to get over them and move on.
Q: Does it help or hurt you to play so such a tough schedule?It helps. It gets you ready for the next match. Even if you lose, it’s a great experience.What did the first team honors in doubles compe-tition mean to you?I was definitely excited. It was just a great feeling and a great moment with my team. [I was able] to enjoy it and celebrate it with them.
Q: What’s the difference between playing in sin-gles and doubles competition?I mean, it’s not that much different, honestly. You still have to go out there and compete and give it your best. It’s nice having partner out there with you, and relying on them as well as yourself.
What are some of the things the international players have taught you since they arrived?They just showed me some of their foods. The French girls have taught me a little bit of French. That’s pretty much it.
Do you feel like maybe at times you’re an out-sider since you’re the only American?Not really because Jenny [Hilt-Costello], our head coach, is an American, so I feel like at home with her. I guess [I do feel like an outsider] a little bit during practice. It’s not like everyone’s from the same exact place. They’re all [from different parts of Europe].
What’s it like playing with so many internation-al players?It has its ups and downs. I wish there were a few more Americans on here, honestly. But I learn dif-ferent things from them, and I get to try different foods that they make. That’s kind of fun. It was definitely hard at first because they didn’t speak English that well. They don’t know around here, so I had to show them everything. Americans [team-mates] would be nice as well, but [my teammates] are fun.
Thompson and the rest of the 49ers take on Vir-ginia Tech in the first round of the NCAA tourna-ment starting at 9 a.m. on Saturday in Los Angeles.
Thompson reflects on winning season
One half of LBSU’s top doubles team opens up about the season’s challenges.
By Oscar Terrones Sports Editor
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SoftballVs. UC Santa Barbara49er Softball Complex1 p.m.
Vs. UC Santa Barbara49er Softball Complex3 p.m.
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Women’s golfNCAA St. George RegionalSt. George, Utah7:45 a.m.
Women’s tennisVs. Virginia TechLos Angeles9 a.m.
SoftballVs. UC Santa Barbara49er Softball Complex1 p.m.
BaseballAt IndianaBloomington, Ind. 1:05 p.m.
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Phil Masturzo/akron Beacon Journal/tnsCleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James is shoved to the ground by Chicago Bulls’ Taj Gibson while getting position for a fourth quarter rebound during Game 1 of the Eastern Confer-ence semifinals on Monday, May 4, 2015, at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.
