Sentences with phrase «bad on defense»

but the Twolves have all season been bad on defense.

Also we were bad on defense against running QBs last year even after our defense got its shit together.

In his media day presser, he even made it a point to note that last year's team was pretty good on offense and bad on defense, thereby completely undercutting any Ricky trade rationale and no one bothered to push him on it.

Then everything calmed down, which means it's time to look up and mumble, «Wait... wasn't Kemp really, really, reallllllllly bad on defense last year?»

And I think even when he has fully settled there will be occasional times when we look really bad on defense.

The personnel losses are even worse on defense, where 10 starters either exhausted their eligibility or turned pro early.

When Marc Gasol was a rookie, for instance, the Grizzlies were 5.8 points per 100 possessions worse on defense when he was on the court.

The Saints are even worse on defense (40.0 %, 26th), compared to a Vikings offense that's been elite on third - down (43.5 %, third overall).

Not exact matches

Love has put together a fine offensive season but has been badly miscast as a rim protector on defense.

«It seems new national security advisor John Bolton could be starting his first day in the White House in the worst way possible: by having to plan a military strike on Assad's ability to deliver chemical weapons attacks in Syria,» Harry Kazianis, director of defense studies at the Center for the National Interest, told CNBC.

Boeing, the world's largest plane manufacturer, tumbled nearly 4 percent putting the defense giant well on the way to its worst day since April 6, when the company lost 3.06 percent.

Based on our analysis, the split between sectors that benefited from rising nominal yields and those that suffered was clear: Defense - oriented sectors — those that are income - driven but light on growth — fared worse as the opportunity cost for holding them grew.

I will leave a fuller defense of Edmund Burke to Yuval Levin, who is an expert on the subject, but Marr badly mischaracterizes Burke as a kind of Deweyan pragmatist and experimentalist, when in fact Burke believed in the authority of tradition and precedent, in a predisposition toward reverence for the past, in the notion of God - given rights, and in the necessity of transcendental beliefs and institutions as a grounding for political society.

Most Americans have a weak defense, which causes them to burn through their cash, or worse, take on debt because they live and spend beyond their means.

Spend some time on this, because as any home defense expert will tell you, you have to be sure you can pull the trigger on another person, otherwise, bad things could happen if you introduce a gun into the situation.

The defiance of the song was a defense, as many of his songs («Workin» Man Blues,» for instance) were — of those who were derided by the mainstream of society, like the «Okies» demonized in California, as, at best, a drag on the economy and, at worst, a threat to public safety.

Syria's defense minister and President Bashar al - Assad's brother - in - law were killed in a Damascus suicide bomb attack carried out by a bodyguard on Wednesday, the worst blow to Assad's high command in the country's 16 - month - old rebellion.

I can't figure out what is the worst thing to come out of this Washington Post article on the new book by former Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

D.J. has the 2nd worst rating on defense.

Sanchez also went on a lack of scoring at the same moment which hurt us but not as bad as our defense.

In my defense you seem to have written off Boone as absolutely the wrong choice and a bad manager which is IMO a tad on the doomy side, but hey, it's cool.

We had a very bad defense in the start of the season when Kos was injured, at that time Szczesny has to deal with all the sh $ t... When Ospina came on the show we had much better and stable defense add to that the emergence of the coq....

On defense, a pass rush that was supposed to be among the league's elite has badly underachieved with just nine sacks in six games.

However, looking at what Sutton is inviting the other team to do and extrapolating from that what his real fear is and what the real weakness of this defense is combined with the performance against Oakland shows that this is most likely not bad luck on 50/50 balls, but a true weakness that was desperately trying to be hidden by scheming.

The Tigers» defense kept pressure on the ball, forcing bad shots and 13 turnovers.

The offense is WORSE with him on the floor and the defense is BETTER when he's off.

The Canes are injured on defense and losing badly.

Somehow is singled out and derided for inconsistency on a team that's last in offense and defense, when he's had very good numbers in limited minutes as a 24 y / o big playing in a bad system with awful guards.

Despite scoring less than 20 points in 10 of their games (only teams worse were the Bears and the Browns), the stupid fans and the media insisted on blaming the defense.

They ran for 12 yards on first down mostly due to a defensive line stunt that put the whole defense in a bad spot.

Right now we have no All Stars on defense, no, but I don't think you realize just how badly some other teams are put together.

I can't imagine the beating they're going to be putting on Jimmy Clausen after they shut down Forte, and Chicago's defense is bad enough that the Lions offense can look like they did a couple years ago, at least for a week.

Barring the superstar trade of the century for a # 1 franchise defenseman I think it's not a bad idea to bring in a veteran presence on defense, with the experience of winning the Stanley Cup, to the roster.

That recent discussion on Good morning football where they observed» raiders defense one of the worst in the league EVEN WITH MACK.

There's been a narrative that's starting to be dispelled that the Panthers are the worst 13 - 0 team in the history of the NFL, which is a pretty hilarious thing to say, but the underlying point is that they have some very real and well - documented weaknesses that get covered up by Cam Newton on offense, and All - Pro linebacker play on defense.

Oh yes taking off your attacking threat and inviting the opposition on when you have a badly organized defense is a bad idea.

He consistently relies on his worst players to play defense.

He lost his first start: with all Carolina's best players on Offense, on a much better weather day at AZ, against a worse Defense, and he didn't get pulled for 2 series.

wow are we sterile up top, goals need to come from defense again, ozil & cech were great, mert once again taking the brunt of bad comments meanwhile a clean sheet and did nothing wrong, open goal that was saved was kos out of position and monreal caught up the pitch too high, giroud has great ball skills, issue is his position on the pitch, watched the match again focused on giroud, he tends to camp behind the defender from the ball, this only works when you have the quickness to break, he does nt, I have screen shots where ozil is 25 yrds farther up the pitch then giroud, thisis the problem, he is rendered useless unless ozil holds up, and thats not ozils strength, thus very few sog's from giroud on the run, when giroud gets lucky w space in front of the defender, he is lethal, but needs to get into that space,

However, because the Seahawks are so powerful on the ground and opportunistic on defense, the odds against UNDER are not as bad as one might think.

Nance has been out there for a lot of Calderon / Clarkson mins, I am not jumping on assuming his defense is bad yet.

Also you are saying that a defense that didn't seem to give up any points the second half of multiple games and were nowhere near as bad as a lot of people on here like to make out is zero help?

There's far more continuity on defense, for better or worse, but the switch from a 4 - 3 to a 3 - 4 can be awkward if the size balance isn't right.

Last year's Oregon preview was built on a flawed premise: that the Ducks» defense probably couldn't get any worse.

I just think the product he and Nolan continued to field on defense made no logical sense and got worse as time went on.

Flamini does nt have the ability to bring d ball out from defense to attack, he cant dictate the play nor launch attack from his position which is bad especially when you compare him to the way modern defensive midfielders plays this days... Things has evolved, good and modern coaches now prefers to have ball playing and technical defenders, we have that in koscieny and Gabriel, also our full backs are excellent with the ball, but Flamini is not, you can see all see how we kept on loosing possession against Liverpool.

The spacing would be poor, the defense would be even worse, I'll pass on this lineup.

And in Davis» defense he should have never been asked to One - on - One cover Gronk, that is bad coaching to the MAX.

Defense on the other hand... Makes you think, Bould in team and defense is having a bad rap everDefense on the other hand... Makes you think, Bould in team and defense is having a bad rap everdefense is having a bad rap every game.

By virtue of their loss to Sunderland, Chelsea can no longer finish any higher than ninth on the table — which would be the worst finish ever for a Premier League champion's title defense.