Word: lay-up
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...glory days of a franchise that still ranks among the best. Indeed, all basketball fans will probably like Red's story even if he is always right. To a younger generation of fans who know Auerbach as the guy who smokes cigars while showing you how to shoot a lay-up between halves of nationally televised NBA games, a whole new world will be opened. So buy this book for your father or your kid brother for his birthday. Like all sports books, they'll read it once, most likely enjoy it, and then put it on the shelf...
...Jocks on the scoreboard with the contest's first points, a pair of swish foul-shots. A Gorski lay-up boosted the pad to 4-0 before freshman sensation Caryn Curry's jumper from the key broke the ice for the Division II Massachusetts Women's champions...
...slickest play of the game for the varsity cagers involved the player-coach tandem. After Hildy Meyers, who led the women with ten points, passed off to Kleinfelder, the coach flipped a scintillating behind-the-back toss to Frizell who took the pass down the lane for a driving lay...
Meanwhile, Bok & Co. were opening up a 38-23 halftime edge. Bok recovered from a Meyers "in-the-face" driving lay-up with a nifty two-hand set shot from downtown en route to an eight-point first half. Bok saw the roundball on severla occasions, thanks to the generous passing of subordinate Wyatt, who, like any aspiring Veep, shoveled it to his boss continually...
...quintessential. Alabama's Kent Looney, a 5-ft. 9-in., 141-lb. guard, went over a 7-ft. opponent to stuff a rebound. The country's top dunker is Rutgers Center James Bailey, who has slammed down an incredible 85 jams this year. For Bailey, a lay-up is a lapse of imagination. Aside from individual practitioners of the dunking art, there are teams who make the stuff a group effort. The University of Louisville's official nickname is the Cardinals, but they prefer the designation "Doctors of Dunk." The pyrotechnics are crowd-rousing, as increased decibel...