Sentences with phrase «at foul line»

They must spend time at the foul line, urging their students to sink more shots, urging them to get higher and higher scores on tests that classify and rank them compared to other test - takers.

One year, he made only three out of every 10 shots, and last season, when he managed to sink two free throws in a row during post-season play - offs, he made headlines («Chris No Dud at Foul Line!»

He'll position pupils at the foul line, instructing the shooter to balance on one leg before hunkering into their motion.

Yes, Giannis went for 35, but he fouled out of the game and the guy he was defending went for over 20 and lived at the foul line.

Unlike some of the other dominant centers around the league, he's not a liability at the foul line late in games.

After a typical wing entry pass, the Spurs executed a little scissor cut off Tim Duncan at the foul line.

He averages 20.7 points a game and hits 91 % at the foul line.

The teams shot within three percentage points of each other (42 for UK, 39 for WSU) and were both 67 percent at the foul line.

Turgeon has never shown himself to be a genius on offense; total inability to design plays, execute them, and do anything more than run a pick and roll at the foul line or rebound.

Not exact matches

But my most vivid memory is from a baseball game in thelate 1960s at the University of Miami, when head coach Ron Fraser was knockedunconscious by a line - drive foul ball while in the third base coaching box (Hitin the Head, April 20).

Recent videos certainly suggest that the shot - put form on the jumper is going away — at least out to the foul - line extended.

Sixth man JerryStackhouse, a gentleman off the court, can turn thuggish between the lines; witness a game at Utah on Jan. 9 in which he collected a technical foul forengaging in a memorable verbal exchange with combative Jazz coach Jerry Sloanand a flagrant foul that resulted in an automatic ejection.»

Van Gundy will turn McGrady into a post-up scorer who gets to the foul line, but the biggest transformation for him has to happen at the defensive end.

On Wednesday, a young fan was hit with a foul ball at Yankee Stadium along the third base line.

He ran to the foul line, caught the inbounds pass and canned the game - winning 18 - footer at the buzzer from practically the same spot on the floor from which he famously eliminated Cleveland in the 1989 Eastern Conference first round.

No more nice guy b.s. if Harden wants to draw a foul and live at the line then give him an 80's foul that he'll remember.

Each time he slapped at the ball and made contact he howled in pain and then stopped, hands on hips, and smiled as the ball curved over first, hit the foul line midway down the right - field line, kicked up white dust and then skidded into the opposing team's bullpen.

And his new sidekick, Jones, made even more trips to the line, generating an estimated 10.7 foul shots per 40 as a sophomore at Northwest Florida State.

«There were 7 seconds left, so I tried to just draw a foul at the 3 - point line,» Waters said.

He's undersized at 6» 2 and is a below the rim athlete, but he can shoot from anywhere, he's a brilliant passer and he has a surprising knack for getting to the foul line.

If Durant closes out the series with similar shooting numbers, he'll become the first player in NBA Finals history to average at least 20 points and shoot 50 percent from the field, 50 percent from three, and at least 89 percent from the foul line.

He's top 10 in the country at drawing fouls, per KenPom, and he's an 80 percent shooter at the line when he gets there.

And it makes it easy for teams to foul us because 40 % of the time we won't recover at the line.

«They had circles on the walls down the foul lines at the Polo Grounds,» recalls Ashburn, who is now a broadcaster for the Phillies.

It curved left, then more left, before eventually striking the left field wall right at the yellow painted foul line on the padding of the fence.

Our player saves it and clears it off the line straight off the pitch — you will see at least 10 times in a weekend of football that a player shoots and is then connected with by the opposition — these are not fouls because the advantage is the shot and once it has been taken as long as the ball is out of playing distance of the fouled player then the foul is irrelevant.

Omaha's TD Ameritrade Park is oddly shaped, forming an oblong oval at its bottom which extends out to the foul lines, thus blocking the third base line dugout's sightline to the foul pole.

During the ensuing confusion — it appeared that Iowa's Roy Marble may have been fouled as well — Horton went to midcourt to hide behind teammate B.J. Armstrong while Marble asked the officials for the ball at the free throw line.

Now, when pitchers used to warm up down the lines in foul territory at Wrigley, I can imagine that the Cubs fans were imaginatively brutal.

(He also did fine at the plate, hitting a hard line foul in the third and laying down a perfect sacrifice bunt in the fourth.)

Fouled with 21 seconds left and the score 70 - 69, Burroughs calmly toed the line, winked at his dad in the stands and swished the two free throws that, minutes later, had students in Syracuse screaming obscenities out of their dorm - room windows.

He's shot at least 40 percent from the field in all but three games, and in two of those, he added at least seven points from the foul line, and in one, he had a season - high six rebounds.

He attracted the attention of the nation when he dunked from an inch inside the foul line in the first - ever Slam Dunk Contest at the 1976 ABA All - Star Game in Denver.

His game is effective, but he's a bit clumsy at times and doesn't get to the foul line all that often.

The conference leaders in free - throw accuracy at 79 percent made up for it by going 19 of 24 from the foul line.

In desperation, Harkness deliberately fouled Shingleton, who then stood at the free throw line in a one - and - one situation as calmly, he says, as if he were playing a game of H - O - R - S - E.

Auburn struggled to shoot the ball from just about everywhere on the floor — 32.7 percent from the field, 23.8 percent from deep and 65 percent from the foul line — and committed 13 turnovers, always a recipe for a tough day at the gym.

He just nailed Taylor at first after making a ridiculous scoop on the foul line.

I think its time to do something about this, over the 2 legs, ireland were clearly the better side, that notwithstanding this particular french team is the worst i've seen in decades, and they have no bussines going to the world cup.It is time for replays to be reviewed in some cases and goaline technology to be applied in other cases, i think we human being have come of age to realise that we humans are not perfect, no matter how hard we try, so for sepp blatter to keep resisting replays and goal line technology is quite baffling to me, i can't really understand why 3 socalled officials could make a decision, a decision in which the whole world saw to be a foul, and its allowed to stand, and a nation is left, heartbroken, cheated and bitter, i am an african, but as a fan of football, i felt terrible seeing this, and i beg the question, if someone other than the team is not benefiting from this, why can't the officials be allowed to take a look at the replays in order to officiate the game better?

this resulted in Lampard trying to kick Sagna in two at the side line that was not even called a foul by Dean.

At leaset AVB had the decency to give a fair review of the game — and most spurs fans admit we were lucky, funny there was absolutely no mention of the fact that spurs long ball was in part decided by the way the red hatchet men fouled any spurs player with the ball who had the termerity to cross the half way line — was it skrtel on Dempsy which was the closest thing to an assault in that game when he had clearly outpaced the scouse man and was brought down with absolutely no chance of getting the ball.

Even though the electronic system is proving efficient at collecting fines, it does have one advantage for the drivers who fall foul of London's yellow lines.

He thought it an a priori condition of painting, as he understood it; sort of like having foul lines on a field of play; without them you don't have a game at all.