Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wrong way," Williams continued. "Most teams try to get the ball into the high post. I'm more of a pick for the guards." In a standard Harvard play, a guard will dribble in close to Williams, who stands at the foul line with his back to the basket. The guard will then either take a shot, using Williams as a screen, or out for the basket, using him as a pick to scrape the defender...
After Princeton had pulled in front 68 to 50, Harvard made one abortive last gasp. Sedlacek hit two long jump shots; then after a Princeton basket McClung bucketed one of his Over-the-Head Specials and Bill Fegley swished a 25-footer. With the score 70-60, Gene Dressier cannily stole the ball from Bradley, raced downcourt, took a jump shot from the foul circle--and blew it. That ended the rally...
Then, after a Penn basket, Williams hit a fallaway jumper from the key, followed it with a foul shot, and Sedlacek scored on a pair of free throws to put the Crimson in front...
Thirty seconds later Sedlacek hit a long bomb from the corner, and shortly thereafter McClung made a beautiful pass to Williams, whose basket put Harvard seven points ahead and out of reach. As the walls of the IAB pulsated, Crimson coach Floyd Wilson actually stood...
...Mullaney's brand of basketball. He developed the "combination," one of the most complicated defenses in modern basketball. Mullaney calls it "a man-to-man defense with zone principles." The Friars start out playing in a normal man-to-man fashion, but when rival players drive toward the basket, the shorter front men trade them off to the taller deep men-instead of following them in. The idea basically is to nullify a size disadvantage by forcing the other team to shoot from the outside, where height is relatively valueless. "We aren't a big team," says Mullaney...