Word: man-to-man
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Harvard's failure this season can be attributed in the main to incompetence in basketball's three Ds--defense, discipline and determination. The 1973 Crimson cagers simply didn't play the kind of defense that makes champions. The man-to-man under Harrison's guidance was shoddy at best, and the Crimson coach seemed unwilling or incapable of installing effective zone coverage. As for discipline, Crimson fans saw very little of that, as Harvard's helter-skelter fast-break offense ran wild week after week, producing a phenomenal number of turnovers (as many as 38 in a single...
Five Fingers is a kind of chop-suey western exploiting Kung Fu, one of the Chinese martial arts of man-to-man combat. Instead of six-shooters, the actors use their hands, feet and heads to show who is the fastest draw in the East. Besides kicking, jumping and batting their heads together, they like to yell and grunt...
...reason the Hoosiers are playing UCLA this Saturday is that they have one of the finest man-to-man defenses in the country. Coach Knight spends 80 per cent of his practices working on defensive fundamentals, and from all indications his players have learned well. Indiana's strong defense allows them to stay with teams with far superior material, even if the Hoosiers shooting is off range on a particular evening...
...hire a defensively oriented coach. Knight could never fit in here. His boisterous, cantankerous, flamboyant style would clash with sedate, apathetic Harvard. However, his coaching philosophy is desperately needed. There is tremendous individual talent on the Crimson basketball team, but it needs to be blended together. The Harvard cagers' man-to-man defense has been pitifully weak for most of the last three seasons, causing the Crimson to lose a number of games they should have won. The danger with the run-and-gun philosophy employed by former head coach Bob Harrison is that on any given night...
...Since man-to-man defense is all work and effort, the only way it can fail is if the ballplayers aren't hustling. There is no such thing as a cold night on defense...