Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clutched and grabbed by Barber as he attempted to skate out of the Boston zone with 3:30 left...
Coach Ron Mitchell's Terriers came back from a halftime, 42-41, deficit with a full-court zone press and blistering fast break whose tempo riddled Harvard's usual defensive composure...
...guys found that zone press irresistible when they had an open shot on the break and kept on running, which definitely is not our game," Sanders said afterward...
...Gamecocks broke open what had been a close game with Lafayette in the second half to win going away, 84-63 or something like that. What was impressive, though, was coach Frank McGuire's use of personnel to break a tough Lafayette pressing zone defense apart. McGuire called on sophomore guard Mike Dunleavey, Winters and sophomore Bob Mathias, operating from the high post, to shoot from the outside. It wasn't just shooting, though; it was bombing and I don't think if McGuire had called in B-52s he would have had a better long range bombing attack. Some...
Moreover, in a year when pro football languished on a bland, conservative diet of field goals and zone defenses, "the Juice" provided much needed excitement. O.J. would rip through the line, throw a lightning fake, and sprint for distance like a cheetah on the run. As Buffalo Offensive Tackle Bonnie Green tells it, "Blocking for the Juice-hey man, there's no telling where he'll be. He moves so catty, moving to the left and then back to the right. I never know where the Juice is, but when I hear the roar of the crowd...