European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday May 29. 18.6  stars and stripes Page 17. Sports of coach spurs san Antonio Texas a Bob. Weiss in assistant coach with the Dallas Mavericks since their inception was named head coach of he san Antonio spun tues Day and promised to bring the team s tans an exciting Brand of basketball. We re going to open la up a Little More. I think the team has some people on it that Are Beur in a running game. I think that s one thing up front that we can say we re going to do Weiss said at a news Confer Nee. He declined to speculate on any specific changes saying the got a lot of Homo work Todo r la will be the first head coaching Job in he Aba for Weiss 42, who just completed his sixth season As assistant to Dick Malta at Dallas. I. Cotton Fitzsimmons was fired april 23 As. San Antonio s head coach after the spurs finished he regular season at 33-47 and were eliminated in three straight games in the first round of the Aba playoffs by the defending Champion los Angeles lakern., Fitzsimmons had been coach of the spurs Tor two years posting a 76-88 record. Al the time file Simmons dismissal was announced. Spurs owner Angelo Drossos said he club was in need of new  "1 Hope the slide has stopped i did t say they were on a slide but i Hope that it has bottomed out Weiss said. He said he doubts he will be Able to turn around the spurs without some help. If you could make a Lucky Trade a Lucky draft you never can Tell what could Hap pen he said. Weiss said he has not made a decision on whether to keep assistant coaches Don Busey and Gary fit Simmons the son of he dismissed coach. Portland hires Bucks Schuler to reports say Portland Ore. A Mike Schuler an assistant coach of the Milwaukee bocks for the past three seasons will replace Jack Ramsay As head coach of the Portland Trail blazers to Portland television stations reported tuesday. Trail blazers officials scheduled a news conference for wednesday morning but the National basketball association club would not confirm the report that Schuler had been hired. Schuler 45, met with blazers owner Larry Weinberg and the team s executive vice president. Harry Glickman tuesday in los Angeles. Koin to quoted Siu Nman a former Portland official who now works for the Bucks As saying Schuler had informed him that he had reached an agreement to be come the blazers coach Kew to also reported that Schuler had been hired. Schuler was the second Aba assistant coach interviewed by the blazers. The other Dallas assistant Bob Weiss was named head coach of the san Antonio spun tuesday. Weiss was interviewed by Weinberg and Bucky Buckwalter director of player personnel for the blazers last Friday in los Angeles. Boston views second game As most important of series Boston a with three straight games at the Houston Summit coining up next week the Boston celtics believe thai thursday s second game in Boston Gar Den is the most important of the Aba finals. We have 10 win this one no question about it said Larry Bird who had 21 Points 1 assists and eight rebounds As Boston won the Besl of seven series opener 112-100 monday. If we win we know that the worst thing that can happen is that Well get Back to Boston for the sixth  Bird recalled that he celtics won last year s championship series opener 148 114 Over the los Angeles lakers lost the second game in Boston 109-102. Then lost the series in is games. We would have won the series last year if we had won game 2," Bird said. If we win on thursday we feel like Well be in Complete control. Boston coach . Jones who has complained about the 2-3-2 Home court format in the finals since last year agreed with Bird Aboul the significance of thursday s game. The second game is the most important Jones said. We have to win to keep the a Mccour advantage. The rockets need a win Here to have a Chance to go Home and win  the celtics lost Only one Home game All season and a Victory thursday would Ive Ihm 40 consecutive borne wins till they say they arc not overconfident. You feel invincible after you win at Home but before the next game marts you remember a Loi of limes when he games were close that you could have lost Bird said. You realize hat you. Should be Happy to gel the win and not be cocky Aboul  we Don t have a sense of invincibility at  Jones said. The first Samc was a Good indication of that we had to scratch it out. We had 10-Poinl leads see Boston on Page 22 for saturday s running of indy 500 rain May cause parking problems by Doug Richardson Indianapolis a the rain that forced postponement of the Indianapolis 500 has complicated plans for handling the Large crowd expected at saturday s running of lie race. Officials said the continued wet weather forecast for wednesday and thursday could restrict parking near the Indianapolis motor Speedway making it difficult for fans o Gei to the Speedway or Park inside lhe2w-Mileoval. The infield is a sea of mud and if we Don t get a break in the weather we be got a big problem said state police colonel Donald d. Cox. If fans can t get to a Park ing place they just Back up for  Bili Burgan police chief for Cie City of Speedway said i Don t think Many of these parking lots can be resurrected by saturday. We May have to look at the restrictions on on Street parking and maybe waive some of  traffic and parking problems could be complicated by curtailed mass transit serv ice. Metro the Indianapolis bus system might Hove to run at reduced Levels Sal urday said director of marketing Beverly Guidara. We re no sure yet. Well have to figure Oul a that we can put out she said. R on sundays and holidays it have reduced lev Els. But on a saturday we run a regular schedule so 1 Don t know How Many buses we can gel to serve the  she said the by service followed a race Day schedule monday when rain washed out the race for the second consecutive Day it certainly Cost us she said we had a full complement of buses but we hauled Only about 100  officials predicted the saturday crowd will be Down from the estimated 350,000 fans who showed up for the scheduled run Ning of the race sunday we think the crowd will be smaller but it will still be pretty significant said Cox. Even if you lose 20 percent you still have a big  Speedway officials and local businesses Are bracing for another crush of fans. We be been gelling some Calls for Fri Day and saturday said Bryan Gray an employee at the Sheraton Marten House Hole. We expect a lot More  race tans will have to pay Lido for a room Friday or saturday 135 More than the regular rate at the hotel. Gray said. Bruce Matson an employee at the How Ard Johnson s motor Lodge near the track race fans Jeremiah Baumgardner heft and Andy Kipp of Cincinnati. Surfing on Large puddle in infield of Indianapolis motor speed1 said we love it. We plan an blowing 3 lot of people s budgets. Jug Eckert owner of Jug s catering said the extra race Day is a  we take care of about 50 of those corporate suites and those kind of people will go again said Eckert. He said the number of infield parties under rented tents Proba Bly won t be As As great saturday. Eckerl said his company always stocks enough food to Cater meals on a second race Day. We always have a plan 8 in Case it  David Cassidy director of concessions a i Iway the track said the crowds sunday and monday wiped out supplies ill Concession stands. Anytime you have a rain delay it s Good for business a said. Al this Point we really have nothing but we re ordering and by saturday Well be Back to where we were  staffing the 100 track owned Concession stands could be a problem Cassidy said. We re going through now to try to find How Many people we have. They All work someplace else. They just Moonlight Here to see indy on Page z2