Iskander Muffles the Top Gun as Glendale Draws Away, 63-49 : High school basketball: He holds Pasadena’s Guyton to six points and Dynamiters stay unbeaten in Pacific League play.

The prospect of guarding the opposition’s best scorer every game would probably be enough to give Glendale High senior Tamer Iskander nightmares. If he weren’t getting so darned used to it, that is.

Save the nightmares for his opponents.

Iskander held Pasadena’s Donald Guyton--considered by some the best player in the league--to six points Tuesday, keying the Dynamiters’ 63-49 Pacific League victory--their first at Pasadena since 1988.

“Everybody said, ‘You’ve got to cover Guyton. You’ve got to cover Guyton,’ so that’s all I was thinking about,” Iskander said. “Coach (Bob Davidson) told me he was going to put me on the shooters this season and just to not let them shoot. So I didn’t let them shoot.”

Like an annoying fly that you can’t kill no matter how much you swat, Iskander was all over Guyton, who came into the game leading Pasadena in scoring with an average of 20.1 points. He was held scoreless for the first 22 minutes.

Of his three baskets, two came well after the game was decided.

“They certainly were very conscious of him,” Pasadena Coach Bill Duwe said of Guyton. “Every time he went somewhere, someone was already there. Obviously he’s a marked player, but he’s been facing that all year.”

Iskander scored only three points, but he added eight assists when unstuck from Guyton.

When Guyton managed to shake Iskander loose, there was 6-foot-3 junior James Fuller, who played strong defense inside along with scoring 15 points and grabbing eight rebounds.

Ramon Jose led the Dynamiters (14-4, 2-0 ion league play) with 18 points, including four of six three-point shots. Jose made two of his three-pointers during a critical stretch late in the third quarter and early in the fourth.

Pasadena (11-7, 1-1), which trailed throughout, pulled to within 36-34 on a three-point shot by Josh Sadler, but Jose countered with one of his own, launching a 20-6 Glendale run that put the game away.

“We always shoot better when we start to get our confidence,” Fuller said.

Duwe, whose team was a slight favorite for the league title as the season began, said that stretch was where the Bulldogs lost the game.

“We were right there, then something happened to our basket and we couldn’t put a ball in the ocean,” he said. “Every kid (on Glendale) shoots the ball really well. We’d make a three, then they’d come back with a three.”

Glendale has opened the league schedule with victories against Crescenta Valley and Pasadena, teams that swept the Dynamiters last season. They will play Muir, the only other serious competitor for the Pacific title, on Friday night at Glendale.