Sentences with phrase «backcourt of»

The Hawks» starting backcourt of Jeff Teague and Kyrle Korver missed 20 of the 29 shots they took and combined to score just 25 points.

John Wall and Bradley Beal make up the NBA's backcourt of the future, a future that is increasingly blurring with the present.

Texas coach Tom Penders, who coached Byrd at Columbia, has in recent years seen his Longhorn backcourt of Lance Blanks, Travis Mays and Joey Wright picked by the NBA but still maintains that «unequivocally, Alton was the best point guard I ever had.

Brazil was led by its potent backcourt of Barbosa and Marcelinho Huertas, as each player scored 22 points.

Before the game, nearly all of the media attention had focused on the Warriors» dynamic backcourt of Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson, but Tony Parker reminded everyone of his presence.

The backcourt of Fox / Buddy have seemed to work nicely together.

Scoring won't be an issue for Penn State — the Nittany Lions have nine of their top 10 scorers back, including the high - octane backcourt of 5» 9» junior guard Maggie Lucas (19.5 ppg) and 5» 7» senior point guard Alex Bentley (14.1 ppg).

Villanova split with all of the above, and then barely survived lowly Connecticut in the Garden, winning 69 - 68 only after Wildcat Coach Rollie Massamino finally figured out how to handle the Huskies» three - midget backcourt of 6» 1» Earl Kelley, 5» 11» Vern Giscombe and 5» 8» Karl Hobbs.

Tech's strategy will be for its backcourt of Jim Thorne and John Hoggle to get the ball inside to Yunkus.

Perched atop a long plastic traffic barrier, Padilla and Travieso, the senior backcourt of the University of Massachusetts, playing here in Atlanta for their homeland of Puerto Rico, are sitting in on a unique multinational carnival that has popped up outside the Village.

Speaking of 3 - 0 deficits, the San Antonio Spurs went into Los Angeles Friday night and, in a stunner, overmatched the Lakers and their starting backcourt of Andrew Goudelock and Darius Morris.

Not exact matches

Eventually, injury and a run - in with the Hornets» front office prompted a trade to Golden State, where he would have four seasons of success in a backcourt with Jason Richardson.

The backcourt was unable to get the ball in to Hetzel and Snyder often enough to take advantage of numerous Mountaineer ball - handling errors, and the Wildcats left at half time trailing by four points, 32 - 36.

Leading the way for O'Dowd is arguably the most talented backcourt in all of NorCal with Pac - 12 commits, Elijah Hardy (Washington)(pictured above) at point guard and Naseem Gaskin (Utah) at shooting guard.

With ESPN top 100 recruit Isaiah Washington joining an experienced backcourt that includes a potential Big Ten Player of the Year candidate (Nate Mason), the Golden Gophers could once again surprise folks next season.

Despite losing Kemba Walker to the NBA, Connecticut returned a strong core including one of the top backcourts in the nation led by sophomores Jeremy Lamb (17.6 ppg) and Shabazz Napier (13.3, 4.0, 5.7).

Both teams will be playing without a member of their starting backcourt as Thabo Sefolosha will be sidelined with a foot injury while Jason Kidd is expected to miss another week with a right calf strain.

O'Dowd returns one of the best backcourts in all of NorCal, and perhaps the state, in Pac 12 - bound duo Elijah Hardy (Washington) and Naseem Gaskin (Utah).

In a Celtics tradition dating back to Tony Allen's pre-Grindfather days, Rozier was a backcourt chaos conductor of the highest order.

The backcourt duo of Maione and Timson combined for 57 points on the night.

Wilson will lean on his backcourt duo of McGee and Steven Richardson, who was the team's third - leading scorer last year at 14.5 points per game.

This season Dublin is buoyed by two returnees of a stellar backcourt, senior Conner Jackson and sophomore Robby Beasley.

Foster led the Bluejays with 20.3 points per game and is one - half of the country's most underrated backcourt with Khyri Thomas.

Perhaps the best aspect of the signing, however, is the fact that Livingston can play both backcourt positions and can guard 1 through 3 without issue.

But if someone can wake them up, it's rookie Robert Pack of USC, who has found his way into coach Rick Adelman's four - man backcourt rotation.

The pair has formed the kind of backcourt that has become all but extinct in college basketball, one in which the whole is superior to the parts.

The combination of youth and experience in the Pistons» backcourt means that Bynum may be on his way out sooner rather than later.

And the following words are, incredibly, true: Los Angeles wasted very good games from Darius Morris and Andrew Goudelock, reserves pressed into service by a spate of backcourt injuries, as the two guards combined for 44 points on 32 shots.

Divac had no interest in playing games - he had a need for a third guard, someone to come off the bench and create space behind a backcourt that already included Rajon Rondo and Darren Collison, talented, crafty players but, especially in the case of Rondo, not exceptional outside shooters.

With Johnson's playmaking ability now in the fold, coach Avery Johnson can finally use those elements of Williams» game to his advantage without having to trot out small backcourts.

And yet, here we are, entering Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals with a Nate Robinson - Marco Belinelli backcourt looming as a legitimate threat to Miami's title run.

Milwaukee (30 - 28) got a big lift from its star - studded backcourt as Monta Ellis led all scorers with 34 points on 15 - of - 21 shooting from the field and added four rebounds and three assists, while Brandon Jennings had an amazing stat line of 20 points and 17 assists in the Bucks» win.

In the backcourt the arrival of freshmen Ulis (an on - ball pest) and Booker (who takes few risks but makes few mistakes) has elevated the overall defense and put pressure on the sophomore Harrison twins to keep up.

Him and Booker give us a guaranteed elite shooting backcourt that creates tons of spacing.

Instead, we got a farce that saw the Friars» «Rainbow Coalition» backcourt brick on 24 of 33 shots, and Orange hero Coleman flail a roundhouse rabbit punch at an opponent which — like the teams» combined.403 shooting — missed everything.

Top - notch backcourts now seem essential to winning titles, and the conference remains one of mostly anonymous guards.

The whole idea of the play was for B.J. and myself to space the floor and get Michael in the backcourt with a running start.

I'm sorry but neither of these teams have the NBA's best backcourt.

PAXSON: Something that's rarely talked about is that Phil made the decision to take the ball in the backcourt, right in front of our bench, instead of the usual tactic of taking it at half - court.

If you're scared to make such a pick, Villanova is still strong, with a savvy backcourt that's proven in tight games, and Duke is truly showing what their blue - chip lineup is capable of.

Rosalyn Gold - Onwude went on to detail the hardship, inconvenience and general second - class citizenship suffered by Stanford's Littles (backcourt players, or «peasants,» as she also calls them) on a team built around Bigs (frontcourt players, a.k.a. «the czars, the emperors, the queens»): «The Littles endure harder drills and slow delivery of new gear only to tolerate yet another injustice: the plays aren't for us.»

They have a center who can run the offense and anchor the defense, a power forward who can guard point guards and centers and a backcourt that can drive, shoot threes better than any other and defend any of their peers.

Brooklyn received a poor effort from one half of its star backcourt in the team's Game 7 loss to Chicago Friday.

The backcourt duo of Kevin Pangos and Gary Bell Jr. did its part as well, combining for 26 points and seven assists.

In Kemba Walker, a 6» 1» blur, and Jerome Dyson they have one of the nation's top backcourts, and set to join the team in December is Ater Majok, a 6» 10» Sudanese center with a 7» 7» wingspan whose athleticism has already drawn attention from NBA scouts.

Senior Kyi Thomas is a versatile threat and junior guards Dakarai Allen and D'Erryl Williams form one of the best postseason backcourts.

The Mack brothers also comprise one of the best defensive backcourts in the section.

So there's a logjam of players between 22 and 29 who can play multiple backcourt positions: Lin, LeVert, Russell, Dinwiddie, Crabbe, maybe even Whitehead and Doyle.

Way too much of a talent drop off from backcourt to frontcourt.

The season preview continues with photos of the year's finest guards, a profile of the best backcourt man and scouting reports on the top 20 teams and the best of the rest by Barry McDermott, Larry Keith, Herman Weiskopf, Kent Han - non, Jim Kaplan and Don Delliquanti.