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...early as two minutes into the game, all 11 bench players were on their feet, excitedly encroaching onto the court until they were asked to back up. Whenever the Harvard shot clock ran down past 10 seconds, bench players and coaches counted down in unison to make sure their teammates released a quick shot...
With just three seconds on the clock, the Crimson needed a big play to get possession for a chance to win. Harvey stepped up, stealing the inbounds pass from Big Green junior guard Flinder Boyd and immediately put the ball up. Boyd fouled Harvey on the way up, giving him two shots from the line...
...ball, which fortunately had enough momentum to carry it over the Big Green frontcourt players, was gathered in by Prasee-Freeman on the left wing. With the clock running below 10 seconds, Prasse-Freeman had the presence of mind to look for Clemente and threw a cross-court pass to the senior marksman...
Like Boston in the 1987 Eastern Finals, the Crimson was down by one with little time on the clock and with its opponents in possession of the ball. Like Detroit's Isaiah Thomas, Dartmouth's point guard Boyd handled the inbounds pass. And like Larry Bird, Pat Harvey came up with a steal for the ages...
...understand the novel's importance, such a justification has its limits. After reading its last insipid page, one is left with nothing so much as the sense that the fuss made over The Elementary Particles represents the biggest blunder in French taste since they bolted that millennium count-down clock to the Eiffel Tower...