“[There’s] not a lot of margin of error for us this year, and certainly on the road against a very good team,” Amaker said about the loss.
One area the coach said the team could improve against Vermont was turnovers. The Crimson coughed up the ball 18 times in the game. Chambers had five turnovers alone. Yet Amaker was not worried about the freshman’s progress.
“In the two games we have lost so far, the turnovers have been really harmful and something that has just wiped us out,” Amaker said. “With the amount of minutes [Chambers] is playing, he is not going to be able to have only zero or one turnovers most games.”
In the wins against MIT and Manhattan, Chambers was able to hold his turnovers down, committing only two in each.
If the rookie and the rest of the team can turn in a similarly strong performance on Tuesday, it will put the young Crimson in position to take down an experienced Vermont team and bode well for Harvard’s progress.
“We just need to come out aggressive and have no mental lapses,” sophomore Jonah Travis said.