Sentences with phrase «backcourt plays»

The Washington Wizards» Bradley Beal announced during their media day that the NBA's best backcourt plays in the nation's capital.

Georgia: The Bulldogs continue to struggle with their backcourt play.

Not exact matches

A graduated backcourt isn't the only reason California may have to play walk - it - up.

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.

Oubre still had one boneheaded play in him, tossing the ball away in the backcourt after a nice stop.

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.

Devonaire Deas, G, 6» 5» Florida State; Oakdale, Conn. (St. Thomas More) Playing in the same backcourt as Cota, Deas averaged 18 points, seven rebounds, nine assists and three steals last season.

«Offensively, I've said I've got the greatest shooting backcourt that's ever played the game,» he told reporters after the game.

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.

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.

He's a 34 - year - old who doesn't mess up and can play on or off the ball, making him an ideal fit in the Denver backcourt.

The Knicks recently got back Iman Shumpert from injury and he will likely play a big part defensively as New York tries to slow down the Nets backcourt.

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.

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.»

Paired with Jeremy Lin in the backcourt, Harden and the Rockets prefer to play at breakneck speed.

But we know we have a starting backcourt that is really playing well right now, so we need to think about the depth for that line more than heirs apparent.

Jordan Poole, who could earn major playing time next year in Michigan's backcourt, showed off his shooting abilities in the video...

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.

Beal is averaging 14.4 points / game while playing in a loaded backcourt at Florida.

His intangibles and ability to play on and off the ball are appealing, and he'd give the Nets another piece to play with in the backcourt.

She's playing in a stacked backcourt that sees Moore and Augustus also handle the ball, so they can pick up the slack.

If these quotes are any indication, LeBron is not too happy about the play from his backcourt - Kyrie Irving and Dion Waiters.

Nadia (a junior) and Nia Johnson (a sophomore) have played together for nearly 10 years in organized basketball and currently comprise one of the section's best young backcourts.

And addition to a really good backcourt, they had on of the most impactful frontcourt players to ever play NBA Basketball.

That goes double for Elliott, as the smart move would be to add a grad transfer who would play in the backcourt.