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Speed comes slowly to Stanford. (Insider).(Stanford University, basketball)

The Sporting News

| February 04, 2002 | DeCourcy, Mike | COPYRIGHT 2002 Sporting News Publishing Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

It is a few minutes after Stanford again has claimed Pauley Pavilion as its own, this time defeating UCLA with feet rather than forearms, and someone is compelled to ask Mike Montgomery how it feels to at last coach a team blessed with speed. This is the sort of question he never heard while turning the Cardinal into a national power, and yet he is ready with a smidgen of his sweet sarcasm.

"I guess you haven't seen us run wind-sprints" he says.

Montgomery can laugh because his team's perimeter quickness no longer is laughable. Guard Julius Barnes and small forward Josh Childress have liberated All-American shooting guard Casey Jacobsen and are ...

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