Word: ball-control
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Harvard made many mistakes-and bowed 51 to 41 to a rather unimpressive lord Jeff five Amherst, as expected, played a very slow, deliberate, ball-control games, and employed an effective full-court press throughout the contest. The shot into an early 6 to 0 lead, and the combination of this early deficit and the Jeffs' slow-moving offense forced the Crimson to hurry their own playing...
...Lord Jeffs were hit hard by graduation losses, but they will be no pushover nonetheless. Amherst plays a very slow, cautious, ball-control brand of basketball with lot of zone pressing. The Jeffs know this system well, and so the Crimson cannot afford to make as many mistakes as it could against a more free-wheeling attack...
With a lead of 13 points and only three minutes to go, Coach Bruce Munro re-inserted his first team for a ball-control drill, obviously geared for the more difficult games to come...
...Oklahoma City, the underdog Oakland (Calif.) Bittners toppled Bob ("Foothills") Kurland and his Olympic teammates of the Bartlesville (Okla.) Phillips Oilers, 55-51, ended the Oilers' unbroken championship reign after six straight years. In the Western finals of the N.C.A.A. at Kansas City, Oklahoma A. & M.'s ball-control specialists outplayed Oregon State, 55-30, got set for the national finals in Seattle late this week...
...degree, and of all shades of temperament. Every experience boiled down to a doublecross. Most interesting doublecrosser was Stalin himself, not the bland, genial Stalin of the photographs, but an unpredictable Georgian who could rave one minute and cajole the next, but who never took his eye off the ball-control of Poland...