Word: adapt
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...large part of Harvard’s failure on offense was its inability to adapt to BU’s box-and-one scheme, which was supremely effective at stopping then-junior Patrick Harvey, holding the Crimson’s leading scorer to four second-half points. The Terriers matched up man-to-man against Harvey while dropping the other four defenders into a soft zone, daring the remaining Crimson players to make a shot...
...with age and experience, Takahashi's work is growing beyond simple expressions of rage and becoming more sophisticated and nuanced. His vision of fashion and his life has stretched beyond the limits of his Harajuku haunts and even beyond Tokyo itself. Extending his collection overseas has challenged him to adapt his designs for larger, more affluent audiences. "Now I am more of a designer than a DJ," says Takahashi. "I'm looking more to myself for inspiration...
That kind of talent will forgive a lot annoying silences, but once Harvey got to Cambridge and Division I hoops, he knew that he would have to adapt in a broader way than just knowing where the ball...
...things weren’t as easy away from Lavietes Pavilion. Harvey found out that he had to take a year off from school, missing the entire 1999-2000 season. And so the demands to adapt kept rolling in—first to adapt to life at Harvard, and now to a life without the sport he had given everything to and the teammates who had become close friends...
Either way, you’d expect Harvey to adapt somehow...