Word: sloppyness
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Consistently sloppy play by Harvard--bad shooting, bad passing, travelling, etc.--foreclosed any further whittling down of Brown's lead, despite some miserable play by the host team. Only two whirling gyrations by freshman Dixon highlighted a desultory half that ended with the Bruins up, 31-26.
It's young and inexperienced; everyone knows that. Sometimes it comes out flat and sloppy and just a little bit dull. Jut as often, it displays an exciting, scrappy, hustling style that wears down opponents and evokes hope that this season won't end in the inevitable disappointment of recent...
Let's call those other games (five embarrassing losses and a single sloppy victory) a post-pre-season--a training period for this young, talented and now-confident squad.
The nervous hoopsters played sloppy ball but had moderate success with a new offensive play designed to move the point guard inside for closer shots. Freshman guards Frenesa Hall and Nancy Boutillier made the play work and moved the Crimson within two points of SMU at the half, 26-24...
Then you notice the rest of the set--boards with crudely drawn small black stick figures and gruesome masks. The remaining surface of each panel is painted light blue, except for the splotches where white boards shows through. You think to yourself that they are trying to give the impression...