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...weekend’s match-up will answer a lot of questions about how prepared the Crimson is to make a run at the league title. First-year players will play a big part in answering those questions. With twelve freshmen on Harvard’s twenty-one-player roster, the team will have to grow up quickly if it wants to turn its early challenges into league success. “We’ve played these great teams and their athleticism made us step up,” said freshman forward Christina Hagner, who has started...
...most recent offseason for Harvard football has been ripe with roster changes: within the senior class, at captain, in the receiving core, and maybe most importantly, at quarterback. Things were finally ready to come together in Saturday’s 31-14 season-opener against Holy Cross, after five weeks of rallying around the Crimson’s new signal-caller, junior Chris Pizzotti. That all ended on one play. With the Crimson trailing 7-0 and driving early in the second quarter against the Crusaders, the depth chart suffered its most recent setback. Only this time—when...
...drawing amped-up U.S. defenders out high, and slipping their big men - like 6-10, 280-pound baby-Shaq center Sofoklis Schortsanitis - down low, where they were open for easy buckets (Schortsanitis finished with 14 points on 6 of 7 shooting). Without a single NBA player on their roster, the Greeks executed the most basic NBA-type play - the pick and roll - to near-perfection. So here's another one of those questions: Would a pro head coach - who sees the pick and roll in his sleep - have designed a better defense, or adjusted sooner...
...fair, Krzyzewski deserves a smaller portion of the blame for the U.S. roster, which was primarily constructed by ex-Phoenix Suns owner Jerry Colangelo. But from the beginning the pair preached that they were partners, so if Krzyzewski didn't have final say over the players, he should have shouted louder: more shooters, please! During the Team USA meltdown in Athens, every weekend warrior with a backyard jump shot said, " Put me on the team! " And these guys had a point; more than anything, the U.S. needed a stand-still shooter, a guy whose sole role was to linger...
...This roster, for some head-scratching reason, had the same shooting deficiency as the more recent disappointing U.S. squads, which is amazing considering all we heard after Athens about constructing a team with the right NBA players - not necessarily just the best. You can't win while shooting 32% from three-point range, which the U.S. did against Greece. Where was Detroit's Richard Hamilton, who shot 46% from three-point range this year, tops in the NBA? What about Kyle Korver of Philadelphia? He doesn't do anything else, really, but shoot threes, but that's OK. We could...