Word: benching
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Sanders and his Celtics teammates wooed Boston fans to the Garden for years with a run-and-shoot style of basketball, but the first-year mentor says a weak bench and "prohibitive lack of rebounding height" may force him to a more disciplined strategy...
Because so many of these players are discouraged from playing by this system, there is very little consistent transferral of skilled players to the varsity. With this continual decline in the roster of the whole program there develops a serious lack of bench strength...
...middle of this season, the problem of bench strength became acute. Felix Adedeji became injured, Bent Hinze and Dragan Vujovic returned to Europe last year, Jean-Pierre Gilbert of Luxembourg quit after the Penn game, and Crimson head coach Bruce Munro could find very few healthy and talented bodies to fill...
...course Stoeckel has a safety on his record this year too. But it was against Penn, not Yale, and besides Stoeckel was working on orders from the bench. What is more, a nickname like "Endzone Stoeckel" just doesn't make it. It doesn't have that assonance, that rhyme, that "Endzone Crone" that struck a responsive chord deep within every Harvard...
Jenkins said he thinks this year's squad lacks the overall talent of the previous one. "Physically, there is not comparable talent to last season's. There is a lack of overall size and we suffer from even less bench strength than last year...