Word: backcourts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arsenal of them. And he pulled out a few, as if to bait King into believing that he would make good his boast. But he didn't do it often enough, because King made sure he scrambled. With surprise retrieves, with drop shot touches at the net catching Riggs backcourt, with backspins zeroing off to the side pulling Riggs wide, with double placements sprawling Riggs off balance, with overheads from the baseline curving crosscourt and steady belting backhands -- she just didn...
Jarvis will run the freshman program and at the varsity level will coach the backcourt men. He will also work part-time scouting opposing teams and checking out high school talent for Harvard...
Before becoming a coach, Jarvis played for the Huskies. "I was never a star, by any means," he said. "I was there at a time when we had a lot of backcourt talent. I was a playmaking guard, and I only played eight to ten minutes a game. But I guess at Northeastern I was preparing to be a coach, because I spent a lot of time on the bench," he said...
...Both were edgy, hitting too soon. But Stockton was taking his misses more to heart than Connors. He let them wear down his pace, and he trudged ever heavier from side to side on game changes. He grew cautious when his anger should have triggered an offensive--hugging the backcourt when he should have attacked from the net, trying to outhit with loping topspins when he needed bullets. Connors wasn't beating him, he was eating himself out on the court. He played like the old Dickie grown tired too soon...
...fact, the 5 ft. 11 in. backcourt wizard, who was just named the top senior college basketball player in the country, was not even invited to participate. "I didn't hear anything about the Hall of Fame game," DiGregario said yesterday after leaving the Hall of Fame luncheon in Springfield where he received the Joe Lapchick trophy as the nation's top senior basketball player...