European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 25, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday March 25, 1988 the stars and stripes Page s3 commentary Baum fio Der Hanau face collision the Baum older bears and Hanau hot nets should cur wrestle mania. Thi n they could forget bouncing basketballs an Start bouncing Heads. Thai s via they want anyway in t it you know the Lium Holder basketball team. Bet Ter known As inc bad bears. And Hanau s hoop sters. Otherwise called the hunk to mils. If there Ever was a rivalry in army basketball this is it. Hanau heal Baum older for the 1962 usar eur championship. The bears returned the favor in the s3 if Karkur finals. Their meetings have been v corps hard Corr Ever since. You want dueling diatribes Garry Grant Chr Hanau Boxer who follows hit Hornli with loud loyalty jabs with this you know How Baughn Lorr Calif its Gyro he Hall of champions we have the Hall of to which Flyum Holder coach King Cooper coun ters thai s right because everything Over there i history. That the Nice stuff. Baum older and Hanau Haven t even reached inc final round in v corps and you can already hear the slams. Enter the Hanau locker room. The hornets have just dispatched Darmstadt Iri inc v corps Quarter i Nelv if they gel past wild Flecken this weekend and if Baum older boots Wiesbaden it la be a Homets cars v corps final. Hanau nearly ignores those minor obstacles. Hanau coach Al Williams begins diplomatically the Way they stand. Burn Holder is inc learn to when his hornets sting him for Lack of Confidence Williams revises his Outlook when we Are the team to that s our Mission gel Batum Holder. They make it chides Hanau guard Larry Don Wade. We re tin Loughm team in Usa heur As sures Gerald Davis the Hanau Forward who has just canned 41 Points in the deciding game a Darmstadt. We can boat Baum older. Baum hold or knows docs it the hears won at Hanau 105-101 two weeks ago 10 finish the regular season with a v corps pm 12-1 record. Hanau a Cal 8-5. The hornets sound like thai game meant Noth ing. They especially Buz when asked about that ear Era Forward Jimmy Davis he s a scrub spits the of rust ii omit of them All. Charles Bain. Ill Dunk in his face. Air fresh trial s my nickname will gel in says Williams turning in his Diplomat s Bajc we be 0 a Nuj Jib we can handle with what a ten and three a Diamond an six a Power outage nothing else works. When Jimmy Davis flexes. A Bucky Fox i Muscles and mean Start count on Baum older to grab a championship. That s what transpired five Yean ago. The big Forward scored 8 Points to help Baum order Over come a nine Point deficit and beat Hanau in Ausa eur game. Playing with his usual scorn Davis got himself circled Lor disdain ins the old no dunking Rule. Then for the tide Davis scored 16 Points and ripped Down 11 re Bounds As Baum older clamped the if necessary game 93-71. Jimmy Davis was no Ball of laughs. Not even on his own team. He battled with his coach. Perry Graves All season. Said Graves after winning the title Mast of the Lime he listened to me. But he could be counted on in the said Davis i saw the game As a freewheeling fast game. No . Whereas he was a fundamental coach. We had a confrontation there Sowe had friction on the court bul we were friends off it after four years away from army basketball in Europe Jimmy Davis is Back. He started his comeback season slowly. Then he found his kick Larler karate kicking his Way toward a Layup at Darmstadt last month. When that fight marred game was in Liam Holder s bag the bad bears were growling again. A month before thai Baum older switched coaches. Fred Clark stepped Down. His assistant Cooper took Over. Can Cooper harness j Immy Davis and ride h in to the Usa eur tide yes. Cooper is smart enough to describe the volatile Davis iwo ways 1. He s mellowed out a 2, " Fis style of play has t changed which is bad news for 1 Wiesbaden the defending Usa eur Champion which will fall in two straight to Baum older and 2 Hanau. Which Wilt find that Bales baiting can t Juke Jam min Jimmy Davis. The hornets can t match the other big bears. Namely Tony or. Money Bannerman William or. Three Pointer Boldin Malcolm run Sunj hero March and Clyde or. High jumper Harp. Those nicknames conic from their coach. Kins Cooper. Thai s Hii Leal a Iii. King Cooper. An army major from us ugh Carolina. Head coach for the first Lime. Now All King Cooper needs Isa Crown. Hell gel that. Even if Lanau does t like it. Us still ind so Lii Jimmy Davis is kicking up a storm in Buum Hulder. Celtics winning big again As playoffs approach Boston nyt1 playoff Lime is on the horizon and Here came the celtics battered old and winning. Wednesday s 104-80 rout Oft i Washington bullets v its it Cut l whih Victory in their last nine Garn their record stands at 47-20, giving them an outside shot at another of Victory season. To Lough Boston is locked in a close race with Delroi for the Eastern Confer ence title and Home court advantage in Nusl month s Plano Ali there arc More believers around now than at the beginning of the season. Last fall a num Ber of experts predicted this year s Cam would not Only fail to beat the lakers but also would not have the Opportunity to Challenge them in the National Basket Ball association finals. The celtics problems Stern obvious. Their Only starter under 30 is Danny Ainge 29. Robert Parish will be 35 in August and has been playing recently with a bad Back Dennis Johnson play ing with pain in an ankle and deeper More or Manint pain in a shoulder. Ill be 34 in inc fall Kevin Mel Laic coming off major foot surgery a year Aco an doing his full court Boris Karloff imitation with strained ligaments in his Ltd Knet will be 31. Then there s Larry Bird. He s aching everywhere. His face has been rear ranged into something resembling a cubist mural of broken Bones and Multics lored bruises. He s a year older than i Hale and talk about railing when his contract is up. For All that the obvious is never obvious not when in is springtime and the playoffs arc near no so Long As re Dauerbach the architect of 16 championship teams in the last 30 Yean is on the scene Aurbach 70, has Cut Back his duties As president of the club leaving More to general manager Jan Volk but he is Stilt very much a presence on Cau seway Street. I be been to 2j out of 29 Home games Aurbach said recently and i m on the phone every his Impact on the team and in shaping its future is. According to Volk unchanged. Nothing gets done without cd Volk said. Red Aurbach was and is inc greatest judge of basketball Talent in the history of the two years ago. When inc celtics last son the Aba championship i hair Bench led by Bill Walton the league s lop Sinh Manas a key Factor. Last season with Walton and Scott i do about All year the Bench splintered. What s probably overlooked said Walton who has recently resumed work outs with the team is that Scoll. Jerry Sichting and i were a unit. Each one ofus complemented what the other did. It in t a question of replacing players bul a the celtics have been trying. No re serve from the i486 championship squad is with the team Only one Reserve player from a year ago Fred Roberts remains. Three rookies were added in the full the most the team has carried in13 Yean. Dirk Minniefield. A Point guard and Artis Gilmore the aging in it were picked up i mid season. And Ihen. In a move typical of Ait reach uncanny Way with these things the team worked out a Lale Stasun Irac Tia brought Jim Paison 3d, a two time All Star guard from Portland in Exchange for Sich Lilg. Tor All thai the reserves have yet to show they can provide inc Lorl of backup required for a championship. The team i aging starters have As last year amassed More playing time than any other Start ing unit in inc league. Nothing has been so cheering As the recent sight of Walton rumbling up and Down the court in prac Tice without pain in his feet. Bird said that is the key to our win Ning a Walton along with Paxson is essential to the celtics ability to build an effective Reserve unit
