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With a three-guard lineup, Harvard’s four frontcourt players have been forced to adapt to a style of play that focuses on the backcourt. Ideally, the Crimson would like to play an up-tempo game, which forces the big men to run the floor and concentrate on transition defense...
...Huskies shot over 50 percent in the second half, but most of those came on transition scores in the up-tempo offense that brought the Huskies back from the early deficit...
...Harvard stepped up the offensive pressure, Rutgers started to get more chances of its own. The change of tempo meant that Mejias was forced to make four crucial saves in the second half just to keep the Crimson in the game...
...right flank, but the center and the left prove harder to crack. "Shoot at the ones straight ahead. I can't see the ones on the left," Hassan tells Bashir, his tank commander, over the radio. The T-55 fires again. Twenty minutes into the attack, the shelling tempo increases; there is an explosion every couple of seconds. At 3:55 the Alliance troops on the right flank say the Taliban is fleeing, and they get out of an armored personnel carrier that has driven them to within 100 yds. of the Taliban trenches and move up the hill. Their...
...strategy and puncture some of the Taliban's swelling resolve before winter sets in. While the Alliance's siege of Mazar may not have satisfied all those aims, it did give the U.S. campaign a welcome adrenaline jolt. And its significance ran deeper: in its quick betrayals and shifting tempo, primitive clashes and unanticipated results, the battle for Mazar-i-Sharif offers insights into the ways people fight in this forbidding land. Afghan forces on both sides often appear formless to visitors, but they can conceal tightly bound units with a fighting philosophy that places greater importance on energy conservation...