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Osborne is a slight but rangy runner, with deft hands, aerial ability, a kicking game and an understanding with the Leinster and Ireland team-mates who will make up a large touring contingent.

Schmidt expected that he might need to alter his sometimes complex, rangy melodies for these untrained singers, and he encouraged them all to find the right voice for their character.

“It was morning, so we wanted everything bright and breezy,” she says of her decision to display the blooms’ rangy naked stems at varying heights.

Had it not been for a fluky step two nights before in Boston, Jarred Vanderbilt would’ve been the Laker tasked with stopping Brunson, the team’s rangy long-armed forward usually drawing the toughest defensive assignments.

But that absence forced a concentrated listening, or at least forbade a distracted one, which proved useful during some of the night’s rangier moments.