Word: backdoors
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...showcase their skills. You can't hold them back by running that 1960s hayseed Princeton junk. Plus, only the smart, 1500-SAT (read: white) kids can learn those sets. The slower (read: very white) players need to milk the clock, move without the ball and throw those tricky backdoor passes to compete. So goes the code...
...Leaguers win - Pete Carril, who devised the offense, won 13 Ivy titles during his 29-year tenure (including 1996, when I was on the team), and Thompson clinched three more as Princeton coach from 2000 to '04 - imagine if the most talented players in the country could augment backdoor passes with individual skills. A trip to the Final Four perhaps? Georgetown's offense has clicked, with Thompson expertly mixing finesse with freedom. For example, before Green's game winner against Vandy, Thompson gave the NBA-bound Big East MVP spare instructions: Quickly look for Patrick Ewing...
...countries. And there they were, in the second period, with the score knotted at 1, flashing across the ice, thrilling the assembled crowd, putting pucks in the net. First, Dartmouth, on the power play, Parsons, Weatherston, and Apps, in that order, bing-bang-boom. Three stars, two passes, one backdoor cut, and a 2-1 lead before most of the 1,211 or Harvard goalie Brittany Martin could react.Then, on a 5-on-3, the Crimson experts picking apart the undermanned defense. Chu to Cahow at the point, down to Katie Johnston in the slot, quick shot and in. Wait...
...like West Coast and Wishbone—sorry, not Wishbone, that book-loving dog, but a wishbone, in that it has an offense named after it. That’s how historic a program the Tigers have: 24 Ivy League titles and a system of ball control and backdoor cuts to their name...
...Comittee’s and student groups are bound to benefit from this boon. But so long as the long term funding of the social programming board remains unclear, the reliability of this additional funding should also remain an open question, so as not to surreptitiously amount to a backdoor termbill hike in the future.The creation of an independent social programming board and the College’s decision to generously fund it signify an enormous turning point for Harvard. We hope that the undergraduate community will likewise support the board in its future endeavors...