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...best on-the-ball defender in the NBA. The Celtics don't have a perimeter stopper quite as good as Bowen, so it's best that they throw different guys at him. Ray Allen, Paul Pierce, and James Posey will likely share the burden of stopping Kobe. "All players thrive off rhythm," says Anthony. "If Kobe spots one guy's weakness, he'll run with that all day. If you mix up your defenders a lot, it might make him think. And if he's not just relying on his instincts, he won't be as aggressive or explosive...
...going to be a challenge...We were in it for most of those games, too, it was just a matter of trying to get over the hump.” The toughest task for the newly-appointed Tillman was finding a way to get his offense and defense to thrive at the same time. With both sides of the ball consisting mostly of underclassmen, Harvard’s first new coach in almost 20 years brought in specialists to help his squad on ‘D’ and at the faceoff X. “I think...
...them were sure that they would thrive in what was at that point a minority membership,” Freehling said...
...overcome our blind spots and more intelligently hedge our bets. In laboratories and on shooting ranges, there are people who study what happens to bodies and minds under extreme duress. Military researchers conduct elaborate experiments to try to predict who will melt down in a crisis and who will thrive. Police, soldiers, race-car drivers and helicopter pilots train to anticipate the strange behaviors they will encounter at the worst of times. Regular people can learn from that knowledge, since, after all, we will be the first on the scene of any disaster...
...pouring rain with sideways wind,” Devine said. “But we’ve rowed in ice and snow this spring, so we took those conditions and instead of being defeated by them we said to ourselves we love this kind of weather. We thrive in this kind of weather...