iogyhufi
Masters Student
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Age: 27
Reg: 10-10-17
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02-04-20 05:49 PM - Post#298551
In response to james
Aiken is definitely an X-factor - but I can't help but remember the last time an All-Ivy 1st-Team guard came back from a protracted foot injury just in the nick of time for a road Harvard-Yale game.
Harvard's style of defense calls for overplaying the passing lanes in order to disrupt dribble handoffs and force steals. This of course leaves one vulnerable to back-door cuts, but Harvard makes up for that by having weak-side help rotate in to take charges and/or having Lewis or Baker rotate in to protect the rim. Steve Donahue and Mitch Henderson both took advantage of this in the early parts of their games against Harvard by playing 5-out, keeping the potential help defenders out of the play and beating Harvard for easy back-door layups over and over and over.
Yale, like Penn, has a very capable big man with the ability to shoot well enough to command respect on the perimeter alongside incredibly strong court vision. It wouldn't surprise me to see Coach Jones use Bruner in much the same way as Donahue used Brodeur in that game at the Palestra.
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