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...Harvey says it was just a matter of different schemes...
...high school there weren’t a lot of set plays—it was mostly a motion offense,” Harvey says. “Here, I think it’s more of a pro-style set and there are a lot of plays involved, a lot of isolation. I get to take people off the dribble more, that kind of stuff...
...Harvard Coach Frank Sullivan sees a lot of a player he had while coaching at Bentley, Bill Holden. While several inches taller than Harvey, Holden rewrote the Falcons’ record book in the late 80s with a flourish similar to Harvey’s—similar set of skills, similar flourish on the dribble, similar defensive intensity. And since Holden works with Harvey and the other Crimson guards as a Harvard assistant coach, maybe the similarities aren’t coincidental...
...great perimeter defenders in Harvard hoops history, a well-rounded gamer who could threaten for a poor man’s quadruple-double (something like seven points, seven steals, seven rebounds and seven assists) every night. Aside from routinely confounding opposing Ivy League point guards, he and Harvey would go at it one-on-one in practice constantly, the type of individual cover that forces creativity and improvement...
...individual matchup that made sense for Harvey, since Gellert was almost as quiet and workmanlike about basketball and life as he was. The one-on-one basketball culture in Chicago can be more about ego than improvement, but for Harvey, a quiet competitor like Gellert was the perfect opponent. The two would go at it relentlessly in workouts—one-on-one, mano-a-man-of-few-words—in quiet, epic battles, each trying to keep the other scoreless...