Sentences with phrase «ball against a defense»

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To give them a fighting chance against more talented teams, they emphasized fundamentals — tough defense, team play, ball control, hustle.

I thought we sat back like it was defense against attack, didn't press the ball or try to stop them playing and generally ball watched.

Now he snaps — and he has to read the defense while he's figuring where to go with the ball against guys trying to make sure he has no idea what they're playing.»

CLOVIS WEST KEYS TO VICTORY: Against top teams the Golden Eagles have been near or above their 74.1 points per game scoring average, and if they can score at least 70 points and play solid team ball with the kind of defense they have shown — except in the second game against Centennial - Las Vegas when they lost 70 - 46 at the MLK in Stockton — coach Craig Campbell and his girls should win again just like they did in a 70 - 67 overtime victory over Poly at the NiAgainst top teams the Golden Eagles have been near or above their 74.1 points per game scoring average, and if they can score at least 70 points and play solid team ball with the kind of defense they have shown — except in the second game against Centennial - Las Vegas when they lost 70 - 46 at the MLK in Stockton — coach Craig Campbell and his girls should win again just like they did in a 70 - 67 overtime victory over Poly at the Niagainst Centennial - Las Vegas when they lost 70 - 46 at the MLK in Stockton — coach Craig Campbell and his girls should win again just like they did in a 70 - 67 overtime victory over Poly at the Nike TOC.

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.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Edinson Cavani were finding plenty of space against Manchester City's defense, but PSG's midfield struggled mightily to actually get the ball to them.

Olden and Bane are too small to play small forward for long stretches and not good enough ball handlers to run point against pressure defense.

The hedge defense on the ball handler doesn't make sense against the Jazz.

Early in the year, without a decent DM, there was a lot of space between the defense and midfield and teams could drop a ball in there, and when Kos failed to stop it it would be 1 or 2 players against just Per.

Durant and Westbrook trying to play hero ball against the stingy Grizzlies defense is often a recipe for disaster.

If Notre Dame can run the ball well, the Irish defense could have enough success against an Arizona State offense that is often forced to bail itself out on passing downs (and just as often succeeds at it).

Against team who park the bus you can't always be dilly dallying pretty passes to probe their defense, you need some one like him to float the ball to a target man like giroud.

Against tight defense, and when Madrid on the attack CR7 usuall stays in the front, and benz dropping back to collect the ball from the central mid or wings... This allows the wingers (Asesnio / isco or Bale / vazquez) and LBs to run forward on the wings..

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.

Teams can control the ball for four or five yards per try against them (and that is just what Miami, with a driving, control type of offense, might do on September 17), but seldom does the defense permit long touchdown runs or passes.

The Badgers swarmed to the ball against the run and only struggled in pass defense a couple of times.

The reason why We struggle against teams that presses is because mertesacker cant do a Pique, koscieny sometimes do got caught out because of the risk in doing that, he is good at bringing the ball out from defense and lauching attacks from his position, having Gabriel beside him will neutralise the threat coming from teams that presses because Gabriel too is comfortable on the ball unlike the immobile Rhino per.

Thousands of horns set up a frightful din, especially when Pitt had the ball, footballs flew through the air like missiles, fists thudded against bodies and the last thing anyone bothered to do was play defense.

The Vikings are likely going to struggle running the ball against a terrific Eagles run defense.

Houston's defense is a switching one, and Towns is fantastic when he gets the ball against a mismatch.

The 49ers offense is already facing an uphill battle against the Jaguars» league - best defense in DVOA, and they'll have to move the ball without the services of RT Trenton Brown (shoulder, IR).

It's hard to imagine a worse way to open a game against a «pound the ball, control clock, and play elite defense» squad like the Badgers.

Philadelphia will have to take care of the ball against a stout Ravens defense in order to have any chance at success moving the ball and prevailing.

A DM will not make a difference as long as we play the way we play, Sanchez still has that Barcelona «press as a pack mentality», the way he was pressing and kept asking his team mates to join him in hunting for that ball was amazing, but non of our players had the same attitude, I don't know why but our play changed since 2010, we don't dominate games any more, we look so slow to close down, it always feels like we are just waiting for the opposition to misplace the ball and then we he ago, it is so easy to play against as their is no intensity and the other team has all the time to run at us and play defense splitting passes..

I'm starting to believe there are some people here who have a crush on Xhaka want to brain wash others with his display regardless good or bad and today he was clearly terrible and made two fatal mistakes and if compared to Elneny the later made the 1st goal assist and almost not one touch wrong on the ball despite the few back and side passes which were necessary against a team playing zone defense intimidating any Arsenal player on the ball

«We had a chance going into the second half, but we were stagnant against a really good defense, and then we couldn't get a stop, so we were always taking the ball out of the net.»

Both College of Charleston, which took care of the ball better than anyone in the Colonial, and potential second - round opponent Clemson, which plays relentless interior defense despite not having a player over 6» 9», could stop the shorthanded Tigers short of a measuring - stick Sweet 16 game against top - seeded Kansas.

Coming off an emotionally draining loss in Pittsburgh, this is a tough spot for the Ravens, who will have trouble running the ball against a Browns defense that leads the NFL in yards per carry.

Running the ball in tough elements requires the offense be able to flank the defense and find angles, which was obviously going to be next to impossible against this Michigan State defense.

If the Celtics don't turn the ball over, the Bucks can't get out on the break and are stuck trying to score against the Celtics» half - court defense, something they will not do very well.

Clemson turned the ideal Alabama box score inside out, made Alabama play a game it's not supposed to be comfortable playing, and only turned the ball over once against the nation's best defense.

were against besiktas, which isn't known to have a very physical defense line, yet Sanchez still suffers to win the ball and have a good touch at it.

Relatively speaking, the pass defense was further along than the run defense, though really, only three teams ran the ball well, and two (Ohio State and Navy, which combined to gain 658 yards at 5.9 per carry) ran well against most.

Three days later, Mitty's mettle, defense and ball skills would be put to the ultimate test against St. Mary's, ranked as high as No. 8 nationally.

We can't just do one thing — we have to be able to throw long balls behind defense if we have a bus against us.

The ball was then snapped directly to Ouellette, who easily picked up the 1st against a surprised Huskies defense.

I think what may be most shocking to Arkansas fans, those anticipating the LSU defense that ate traditional rushing attacks alive, is that you'll likely run the ball very successfully against us.

On Iowa's second possession the Hawkeyes» offense began moving the ball down field against Stanford's bend but don't break defense.

With Philippe Coutinho, Lionel Messi and Ousmane Dembélé wreaking havoc in the Girona defense with their pace, skill and passing, the Blaugrana created chance after chance against a desperate defense that kept scrambling to block shots and stop the ball from hitting the back of the net.

Everytime Jack had the ball, Sunderland's defense was in danger of falling apart and in the 36th minute, once again Wilshere drove through the obstacles against all odds to pass the ball to Theo Walcott who easily laid it off for Santi Cazorla who smashed it in the net with his left foot.

that's when thierry henry picked the ball up around midfield and walked the dog through the entire liverpool defense and scored the goal that allowed arsenal to make history against the odds.

Against the run of play United got a corner and Madrid defense perhaps slept for some period as Danny Welbeck broke away from his marker and headed the ball in the net much to the delight of travelling supporters.

A number of witnesses were to testify in favor of a marriage equality plank in the platform: Marc Solomon, national campaign director for Freedom to Marry; Allison Herwitt, legislative director for the Human Rights Campaign; Army Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan, a lesbian New Hampshire guardsman with stage - four incurable breast cancer and a plaintiff in Servicemembers Legal Defense Network's lawsuit against the Defense of Marriage Act; Michael Macleod - Ball, the American Civil Liberties Union's chief of staff for the Washington Legislative Office; and Aaron Zellhoefer, a gay delegate to the Democratic National Convention representing the National Stonewall Democrats.

A football or soccer team, for example, needs to be able to capitalize on scoring opportunities when it has possession of the ball, but it is just as important that it fields a good defense in order to protect against attacks by the opposing team.

Each hero also comes with a few special skills that aren't governed by gems, such as Shevatas» Untouchable skill which grants him extra defense dice against ranged attacks or Conan's ability to use movement points to smash through wooden walls, possibly while singing about coming in like a wrecking ball.

Richard Littlemore has the Calgary Herald's statement of defense against Tim Ball suing them because they called him Tim Ball.

However, reputable salary calculators are your best defense against getting low - balled or offered a miniscule salary.