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...effort for most of this season has been leadership. Senior Co-captain Caryn Curry has the experience, credentials and brains to be the director of the production, but she refuses to keep her performers in line. The youngsters needed Curry during their opening tour--needed her to drive and shoot more from the outside when no one else seemed capable of holding the ball, let alone put it through the hoop...
What is not likely to change is that the games that succeed will work because they use their memory chips and lighted readouts to create melodrama. The best example now in production is a brilliant quarter-arcade game called Space Invaders. It is a reaction-time contest: shoot down the massed, marching aliens shown on the big TV screen before they shoot you. The refinements are satanic. The player has four blockhouses behind which to hide his man, but as the blockhouses catch fire under attack, they crumble. As the sound effects become more ominous, the aliens begin to shoot...
Before the game began, Kleinfelder said she had instructed the team to shoot more from the floor, and shoot they did--from the top of the key, from the corners, from anywhere outside of 20 feet. The longdistance offense yielded fewer turnovers but also led to a 35-per-cent field goal conversion rate, not a winning statistic...
Wendy Carle, the squad's other cocaptain, tried to keep the young team under control in Curry's absence, but set plays soon dissolved into the "shoot first, ask questions later" offense with which Crimson fans are getting all too familiar...
...first half, Harvard did what it knew it had to do. Shoot. And not miss. The Crimson sank an awesome 63 per cent from the floor, while Texas conected only 42 per cent of the time...