HARVARDDADGRAD
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Loc: New Jersey
Reg: 01-21-14
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03-05-17 10:10 PM - Post#225168
In response to H78
Hi H78, looking forward to catching up next weekend.
Strange weekend. Two tough losses. Harvard played much better Friday, but still played well enough on Saturday. Harvard shot much better on Friday as well. Still, both Princeton and Penn played tough and won the games.
Up until Brodeur's 3 point shot, Harvard had kept Brodeur from scoring and Penn's offense was very much limited to Howard and occasionally Betley. After that shot, Penn woke up the crowd and pushed the pace. Goodman made a couple of good plays against Siyani and Brodeur grabbed some rebounds and putbacks. The chess game between the coaches also shifted. Whereas Amaker wanted Zena guarding Brodeur, Donahue tried to react with Rothschild so that Brodeur could match up against Lewis. Eventually, Donahue played the two together but Amaker refused to play Zena and Chris at the same time.
Possibly the most meaningful circumstance was that Zena got in foul trouble. Sitting very near the court, I saw the calls as very much ticky tack, but it led him to be a bit less aggressive. Amaker also tried to rest Siyani and Bryce continued his struggles. The two of them only played together for about 20 minutes.
On the weekend, Harvard seemed very content to shoot from the outside. Unlike the game at Cambridge, Harvard either did not or could not run much at Penn. Harvard's transition game is its advantage. For the first time in a while though, Harvard did use Zena effectively, however, it had issues on the Boards. I'd like to see more aggressive rebounding, especially on the offensive boards. No reason Penn should outrebound the Crimson.
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