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...freshman as he popped out behind the perimeter. Casey coolly sank the jumper, and with 39.6 remaining, Harvard was within two. The Crimson set up in its full-court press, but the Tigers inbounded the ball to Dan Mavraides. Lin attempted to poke the ball away from the guard but was whistled for the foul. Mavraides sank both free throws, extending his team’s lead to four with 38.9 ticks left...
With Harvard down by three with the final possession, everyone in the crowd knew whose hands the ball would be in. Lin received the ball a few feet beyond the arc with just a handful of ticks on the clock. The guard worked off a screen from Casey but ran into traffic and dished it to the rookie on the perimeter. Casey looked to the basket, but upon seeing the defender in his face, passed it back to Lin, who was now feet beyond the three-point line...
...injury to sophomore guard Max Kenyi, Webster’s minutes have risen as the season went on—having started all but four games this year—but his field goal percentage has headed in the opposite direction...
While the team is ranked fifth in the country in two-point field goal percentage and eighth at the free throw line, it suffers from the lack of a second legitimate scorer when Lin is double-teamed, or on the rare occasions when the star guard receives a breather on the sideline or is in foul trouble...
...Both sides need to guard against overstating the extent to which the landscape of the international order has changed and against treating China's rise as a more exotic development than it actually is. Keeping these four things in mind should help...