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...Dressler likes what he does and doesn't seem to mind not having an arching 20-foot jump shot. "In our kind of basketball, the backcourt men set the pace," he said yesterday. "The forwards depend on our getting the ball to them fast, before the other team starts working them close. Every team we'll face this season will be taller, so we have to move fast and keep shuffling. George Neville or Bob Beller and I are counted on to keep that up--that's our part...
...Dressler admits the rest of the Ivy League has more talent, but he expects Harvard to get along on esprit. "We don't depend on one person to score," he says. "Reporters have predicted we'll fall apart if Williams ever fouls out, but that wouldn't dishearten us. Charley McMonagle could go for Barry, and Scott's been rebounding really well...
...Dressler says the Crimson's one-two-two defense has worked well so far, but expects the team will run into trouble when it meets some sure ball-handlers...
Harvard completely stifled Holy Cross shooting from the outside, and though the team was out-rebounded by the Crusaders, Holy Cross wasn't even scoring on easy lay-ups and tip-ins. "That's because the defense works," Dressler says...
...talked Dressler diagrammed the one-two-two defense, showing the several moves possible when an opponent approaches him. He just talked like a class marshal...