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Word: run-and-shoot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1962-1962
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...Didn't Work." With Robertson in the lineup, Cincinnati was a run-and-shoot team that delighted fans with its hipper-dipper attack-but never won a national championship. When Jucker took over, Cincinnati abruptly became deliberate and defense-minded. "I asked myself where I was going to make up all those points," he says. "I decided that maybe if we gave up only 40 points a game, we wouldn't need to score much. But I knew I was asking for trouble. If it didn't work, I was dead." It worked so well that Jucker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pressure & Percentages | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

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