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Against B.U. Harvard hopes to improve its defense without slowing down its normal fast-breaking play. In order to do this, Harrison has instructed the team to force the opposition players' moves to the middle, away from the sidelines and baselines, where the Crimson's defense, playing man-to-man, can help out each other by collapsing and double-teaming in the center...
Johnson and Wales, which was four and five going into the game, capitalized on poor defense and jumped to an early four-point lead. Crimson coach Bob Hart quickly switched from a some to man-to-man defense and Harvard gained a lead midway through the first half which they never relinquished...
...open shots as they did Thursday night, we will beat almost any zone. Springfield had almost no strength under the boards and even when Harvard missed, the team still got three and four shots at the basket. The Crimson did not get a chance to run its man-to-man offense against the Chiefs and if last Saturday's performance against Indiana is any guide, our patterns still need a good deal of work...
Springfield will probably use a variety of defenses against the Crimson. Monday night they-tried half and full-course zone presses as well as a man-to-man. Harrison said he did not know that Springfield would do against Harvard's man-to-man defense because New Hampshire threw a zone defense against the Chiefs...
...third major problem with the Crimson is that it does not really play good man-to-man defense. As most coaches will say, you cannot teach a player how to play offense, but you certainly can teach defense. Indiana's coach Bobby Knight proved that assertion when he turned a run-and-gun Hoosier ball club into one of the best defensive teams in the nation. Except for center Steve Downing, none of the Indiana ballplayers were very outstanding on Saturday. However, they all played hard-nosed defense which they had been taught by Knight. Knight told Harrison...