Word: shooters
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...screen play, in which a player gives a teammate the necessary split second to shoot by planting himself between the shooter and his assigned defensive...
...handed jump shot, which is almost impossible to stop without fouling the shooter...
Given this leeway, rival centers struggle for position in their own private wrestling matches under the basket. Boston's barrel-chested Jim Loscutoff is respected for his skill at disconcerting a jump shooter by jabbing him in the ribs with a massive forefinger. New Boy Robertson is already an expert at putting a hand on his man's hip and swinging himself around his rival. (Says Schayes: "Someone is going to grab that arm some day and throw Robertson into the third row.") St. Louis' hulking Clyde Lovellette daintily holds his man by the seam...
...heard his business views in an impromptu speech. By 1948 he had half a dozen offices throughout the country but was still an ordinary public relations man practicing "his brand" of public services. In September of 1948 a friend invited him to breakfast to discuss a job as trouble shooter for the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. When the friend's secretary called the next day to ask if Mr. Miller "had gotten his shots," he was understandably surprised. The breakfast was to be in Bangkok, Siam. Since then, he has worked with the FAO in Southeast...
However accurate his guess, Hall keeps his eyes focused on the puck, never tries the controversial trick of watching a shooter's eyes for the flicker that tips off the direction of the shot. To shove him self quickly around the cage, Hall pulls on the goal posts or the bar across the top of the net. When a shot actually comes, Hall has no time to think. He picks off the puck with anything handy-his padded chest, a skate, his flat, stubby stick or his huge left mitt. Says he: "Afterwards you have time to figure...