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...Still, in the second quarter, Argentina rallied with some spot-up shooting; it helped them that Bryant jacked a couple of brick threes early in the U.S. possession, a somewhat annoying habit that could bite the Yanks in the final (Bryant had another bad three-point shooting night, as he missed seven of his nine attempts, though that's clearly nit-picking when a team is blasting its opponents by an average of 30.3 points in the Olympic tournament...
...because a Lindsay Hallion should be a leading candidate for that kind of award,” she adds. Hallion, a co-captain and the team’s senior point guard, is a do-everything contributor for the Crimson, running the offense and shredding defenses with a silky spot-up jumper.She’s just one of a bevy of threats for the Harvard offense, which led the Ivies with 67.7 points per game a year ago.Hallion’s backcourt mate, junior Emily Tay, has the offensive firepower to turn heads this season...
...skilled frontcourt players or the quickest, most athletic guards, who invariably sign with major D-I teams. The result is a preponderence of “catch-and-shoot” players—those who hang on the perimeter waiting for a kick-out from inside for the spot-up three. The style of play in the league has adjusted to accommodate this evolution, producing offenses like the motion-oriented, three-pointer-generating machine of Princeton, or the fast, guard-driven, up-and-down attack of Penn. Ivy teams generally employ small, mobile lineups that utilize the three position...
...post with a lot of different ways. He can score when a defender plays behind him, which a lot of teams do in our league. He can pivot-face. He can shoot. He can shoot from the elbows. He can shoot from the baseline, be a spot-up player. He’s got very good hands, good passing instincts. He’s a player you can lob the ball to and he can catch it out of his space and he has a presence around...
While Andrew Toole set up several shots with effective dribble penetration, spot-up guard Tim Begley was a largely stationary target all night and still found himself virtually untouched. The Penn sophomore hit all five of his attempts from downtown...