Word: neff
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Carril's favorite offensive setup has guards Dave Orlandini and Tim Neff flipping the ball back and forth between themselves out by the half-court line, waiting for the 45-second clock to wind down to about five or six seconds. Then Orlandini or forward Bob Scrabis takes a three-point shot...
There aren't even any player changes or new faces to break the monotony. Carril leaves his players in games as long as the Kremlin leaves its troops in "friendly" territories. The starting five for the Tigers--Orlandini, Scrabis, Neff, center Kit Mueller, and point-forward John Thompson--all average more than 35 minutes an outing. In comparison, the only Harvard player on the court more than 35 minutes a game is point guard Mike Gielen...
Guard Dave Orlandini (15.8 points a game) leads the barrage, connecting on 44-of-75 three-pointers (58 percent). If Orlandini is off, and he rarely is, there's forward Bob Scrabis (15.6 p.p.g), who has hit 40-of-85 three-pointers, and guard Tim Neff (9.1 p.p.g), who has hit half of his three's, 37-of-74, to pick up the slack...
...downturn. Some funds that specialize in electric and telephone utilities dropped 12% or less. Other prescient managers had built up their cash reserves, which lowered their exposure to the market and allowed them to pay off any redemptions without being forced to sell stocks at a loss. Says John Neff, who manages the Windsor Fund: "We saw a correction coming, so we had plenty of gunpowder stashed away...
...savvy fund managers actually came out ahead. The Oppenheimer Ninety- Ten fund rose nearly 8% in the last two weeks of October, largely because it invested in put options, which appreciate when stock prices drop. When the market started to recover, many fund managers began to scoop up bargains. Neff's Windsor Fund, for example, bought $800 million worth of stocks. "When everyone is panicking and stock values are depressed, of such circumstances are opportunities born," he says. "We are buying aggressively, and we will continue...