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sports Battalion/Page 12 May 4, 1982 SA must swallow slowly to avoid choke SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio Spurs General Manager Bob Bass gets “work ed up” when his team is maligned for its past failures in NBA playoff series. The Spurs lead their series with the Seattle SuperSonics 3-1 going into the next game Wednesday in Seattle. The sixth game, if necessary, will be played in San Antonio Friday. “I get worked up about people call ing this team ‘chokers,’” said the eighth-year Spurs boss, who has seen his team go up 3-1 before and lose. “We don’t gel the call against Billy Paultz in the (1979) series against Washington and we beat the eventual world champions in the semis and play for the title,” Bass said. He did not mention in the same game — the seventh and deciding one — that the Spurs came up empty on five straight possessions in the final mi nutes to lose the game 107-105 and the series 4-3 after having a 3-1 lead. Only once in nine playoff series over the past eight years have the Spurs won. They beat Philadelphia 4-3 in 1979. Bass said constant local media critic ism of the Spurs’ dismal playoff record is unfair to current team members be cause most were not involved in losing the earlier series. Indeed, only two Spurs — George Gervin and Mark Olberding — partici pated in the 1979 fold. Gervin remem bers but defends the work ethic of pre vious teams. “Every year we played hard but we just didn’t win,” Gervin said. “The dif ference is that I think this year’s team is simply a little better. We have more weapons to hurt people with.” Six other Spurs scored in double fi gures in Sunday’s 115-113 victory over Seattle to offset Gervin’s sub-par 19- point performance. One of them, Mike Mitchell, said he doesn’t understand the commotion. “All I know is I heard they got in the playoffs every year and didn’t go any where,” he said. “I don’t know about that. What I do know about is this year, this team made up its mind to go.” Center Dave Corzine’s rebounding anti free throws proved the winning edge in Sunday’s game. Backup guard Mike Brat/, won Game 3, a 99-97 deci sion, with a jumper in the last second. Prescriptions f Glasses Repan 216 N. Main.... Mon.-Fri.8-5 Snij colleges™ 8008 Post Oak Mali.. Mon.-Sat.' Texas Si OP Ol^TICAll Since 1935, Rutherford says Indy rules will be tight WE BUY BOOKS EVERYDAY! United Press International GRAND PRAIRIE — Three time Indianapolis 500 winner Johnny Rutherford said Mon day that he expected rules con cerning the leaving of the pits at this year’s race to be “chiseled in stone,*’ to prevent a reoccurr ence of last year’s incident in volving Bobby Unser and Mario Andretti. “But whether things will actually be any different or not, I won’t know until we get there,” Rutherford said. Rutherford’s comments came during a visit to the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, into which he will be inducted in June. Rutherford will leave Wednesday for Indianapolis for the month-long preparation for this year’s race and he said his own chances were a bit uncer tain. “When we were weathered out of the race at Atlanta we opted not to go back and race there,” he said, “because we felt we needed time to prepare for Indy. We are in a bit of a gray area as to how we will do. “We’ve done a few things to the bottom of the car and found some new horsepower. Practice opens Saturday and we will start Finding out some things.” During last year’s race, Unser sped out ot the pits while the caution flag was in evidence. As he exited the pits, the pace car and the rest of (he Field was rounding the first turn and heading up the short chute to ward the second turn. Unser drove his car past sev eral of the slow-moving machines in order to move as close to the pace car as possible. After the race Unser was “fined” one lap, which made Andretti the winner. That decision was later re versed by racing officials, however, and Unser was even tually declared the champion. “Bobby Unser won that race,” said Rutherford. Then, with a grin, he said: will be chiseled in stone,” he said. “It will be like an 11 th com mandment. In the past they said you couldn’t pass more than one or two cars and that was very vague.” ... AND GIVE 20% MORE IN TRADE ONUS! BOOKS I TLOUPOT'SSFl BOOKSTORE “He couldn’t help it if his throttle stuck and he passed all those cars. Actually, he didn’t do anything that the rest of us ha ven’t done. It was a vague rule. 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