Word: backboards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus the two teams brought distinctive styles to the championship series; the Celtics swift and efficient, fast-break artists who could run Mercury off the court; the Rockets muscular and intimidating, backboard battlers who could shove Hercules out of the gym. They took turns imposing those styles on one another: Houston won the fourth game, manhandling Boston under the boards, and the Celtics replied by streaking to a 29-point fast-break blitz in the fifth game. In the end the Celtics carried the series with versatility, speed, Bird's brilliant rebounding and a tight defense that kept...
...Clean Gene did it somehow. He must have had that Glenn Marcus shooting free throws until midnight all summer, probably on some broken-down backboard nailed to a pole somewhere. Imagine a guy hitting 12 in a row from the line in the space of five minutes...
...tribute last night came down to the last second of the five-minute overtime period, when a Donald Fleming jumper hit the right side of the rim, skipped over the hoop, grazed the backboard, and skittered to the floor, preserving Princeton's twenty-first straight triumph over the Crimson...
...Mills was a human backboard out there," Felske said after Mills had captured the match by the surprising score...
...officials are fouling up great and exciting matches with incompetence. It is even all right, it seems to me, to get mad at an opponent; in other sports, this is called "psyching up" and encouraged, but in tennis it is called ungentlemanly. Those Americans who realize that a backboard is but three feet wide will never love the sport as long as it remains corseted in the tight Victorian discomfort of false politeness...