Sentences with phrase «barely played this year»

Jackson has a ton of production and Alexander barely played this year.

How does it tighten the rotation by giving more minutes to a rookie coming off a broken foot who has barely played this year and will not be playing at all in the playoffs?

The Everton captain has barely played all year and is not getting any younger either.

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People killed the MCW trade... and then it turned out that we got a lottery pick for a guy who, two years later, was barely playing on an atrocious Chicago Bulls team and, this year, is averaging fewer than 5 points in 16 minutes a night for a bad Hornets team.

Rosicky barely got any play time last year yet he's been given another season, i hope i see him in 5 - 10 games this year.

The center barely played in his first two years with Oklahoma City, but has turned into a decent player in Charlotte, who had his second 20 - point, 10 - rebound outing in three games shortly after he had missed 19 with injury.

And chambers has barely played for us in like a year and a half.

During the past year Emerson had played spottily, losing to people he had barely heard of.

I've barely watched any of Barca this season but, from the little I did see of them, I got the impression they play slow as hell compared to the years gone by.

Theo barely played his first 3 months back last year.

He had a great G - League year, but barely played at the big level.

Stith barely played during his senior year in high school.

5 years ago Steph Curry was being pushed around by Derrick Rose and could barely play without twisting an ankle.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic is slated to make his MLS debut, but he has barely played in the last year as he bounces back from a major knee injury.

The 24 - year - old has barely featured for the Reds in recent times, making just one appearance this season and spending last year on loan at Burnley, where he only played six Premier League games.

It's hard to imagine any team giving Olivera that much money when he's barely played defense the last few years.

for 3 years the kid barely played a game.

we can't even get rid of players that have barely mannered to us for several years... which is incredibly annoying considering that our beloved owner would never risk his own financial resources whether he brought in some new blood or offloaded several failed Wenger projects for less than market value... he would simply make a little less and the burden would fall squarely on other sources of income, primarily us... I don't know about you but I would gladly use all the money they have been stockpiling to rid ourselves of those that don't meet acceptable standards and to replace them with a few higher priced gems... I know, I know, Wenger and his minions have been scouring the globe for years now to find anyone that was as good as our current lot to no avail, but I've just got to believe there must be two or three guys somewhere out there that can play this crazy game

Ajax do not want him on loan.He is bashed too much and i think he should leave to ajax.He may be error prone but has done his best in having to be behind some terrible defending over the years.I admire his bravery.He was 19 years when he played his first game and to me its just a matter of time before he becomes world class.The defence barely helped him in his first and second season here to be honest and he also did not help himself by making a lot of mistakes.But i believe that Szczesny will be a legendary keeper one day.He just has that kind of something i do nt know but something about him makes me feel he can be so good.He should just leave and rebuild his career at Ajax if possible.He should know that he has the potential and by getting his head in the game and focusing the sky will be the limit.

Last year wanyama barely played cause he's not that good, so schneiderlin has been there DM in the prem for 3 years now

Picture this, we don't come out of the gate firing on all cylinders, Wenger speaks of how there wasn't enough time for the first - teamers to build chemistry, several key players aren't even playing because of Wenger's utterly ridiculous policy regarding players who played in the Confed Cup or the under21s and the boo - birds have returned in full flight... if these things were to happen, which is quite possible considering the Groundhog Day mentality of this club, how long do you think it will take for Wenger to recant his earlier statements regarding Europa... I would suggest that it's these sorts of comments from Wenger which are often his undoing... why would any manager worth his weight in salt make such a definitive statement before the season has even started... why would any manager who fashions himself an educated man make such pronouncements before even knowing what his starting 11 will be come Friday, let alone on September 1st... why would any manager who has a tenuous relationship with a great many supporters offer up such a potentially contentious talking point considering how many times his own words have come back to bite him in the ass... I think he does this because he doesn't care what you or I think, in fact he's more than slightly infuriated by the very idea of having to answer to the likes of you and me... that might have been acceptable during his formative years in charge, when the fans were rewarded with an scintillating brand of football and success felt like a forgone conclusion, but this new Wenger led team barely resembles that team of ore... whereas in times past we relished a few words from our seemingly cerebral manager, in recent times those words have been replaced by a myriad of excuses, a plethora of infuriating stories about who he could have signed but didn't and what can only be construed as outright fabrications... it's kind of funny that when we want some answers, like during the whole contract debacle of last season, we can't get an intelligent word out of him, but when we just what him to show his managerial acumen through his actions, we can't seem to get him to shut - up... I beg you to prove me wrong Arsene

310 - pound sophomore D'Andre Dill is a potentially dynamic play - maker — he made just four solo tackles last year, but three of them were behind the line — but he still barely played.

Allen barely played for the majority of his freshman year.

The 37 - year - old Pirlo has never learned English and can barely understand it either, but since moving to the United States and playing a staring role for the upstart MLS side, it has probably become harder and harder for him to go without knowing it — not to mention the missed endorsement opportunities in the advertising capital of the world.

Leonard has obviously not had the year Popovich or anyone would have hoped: He's barely played since that declaration last May.

Wilshere had barely played for us for years until this season, and given his horrific injury record, one would have to be extremely naive to think he wouldn't suffer another long - term injury.

He did shoot 45 percent in his freshman year, but he barely played and only hoisted up one attempt per game.

Barely used in his first campaign in east London, the New Zealand captain nailed down his place in Sam Allardyce's team the following season as West Ham won promotion from the Championship via the play - offs and picked up the supporters» player of the year prize at the end of 2012/13 after helping the club finish 10th on their return to the top flight.

The 30 - year - old has barely played for the Catalan club since arriving from Arsenal in 2014, making just 11 La Liga appearances in two seasons.

He only made 13 appearances in his first season, even spending the second half of the campaign at Chelsea and barely played as Inter won the treble the following year.

Mbappe, who played in Monaco's 4 - 1 defeat in last year's final but then helped them win Ligue 1 ahead of PSG, was again the architect of the second goal with barely 20 minutes on the clock.

More than a third of the state's money is spent on Medicaid, making it a necessary and obvious target for cuts, and yet each year the same ritual plays out: The governor proposes cuts to health care; the state's hospital lobby and the union representing health - care workers spend millions of dollars in maudlin TV ads decrying the cuts — on top of the millions they contribute to elected officials; the governor's poll numbers decline, and he agrees to an expensive truce that barely makes a dent in rising Medicaid costs.

Five years from now, someone who has never played an instrument and can barely sing «Happy Birthday» will be recording songs that rival some pop tunes on the radio.

I've got a lot of experience with strength training but I suspect a very underdeveloped aerobic energy system for an otherwise healthy 26 year old male — I've barely done any aerobic work for the last six years until this past month and didn't really play any sport from the age of 16 onwards.

It's one of those days for me, where I can barely keep my eyes open because I decided to play it up like a 21 - year - old last night and went to bed so super late that now I'm regretting it.

Set in Indiana in 1817, this nature - adoring drama charts life of Abraham Lincoln as a young boy (played by newcomer Braydon Denney who barely utters a word), in a film that could alternately be called «Lincoln: Year One (A Malick Film).»

Playing like a boozy, floozy Antipodean mash - up of TV staple The Wonder Years and Paul Mazursky's middle class mores romp Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969), Elliott casts the terrific Atticus Robb as his adolescent alter - ego Jeff Marsh, a sensitive teenager whose obsessions know only two forms — movies and girl - next - door Melly (Darcey Wilson), an equally ill - at - ease tweenager barely coping with the madness that unfolds daily in their cul - de-sac existence.

As for the other characters, they are all so thinly drawn that the film feels somewhat like an ode to Neeson, with Julianne Moore's talents being largely restricted to looking concerned, and Lupita Nyong» o (who excelled as Patsy in «12 Years a Slave «-RRB- playing a role so half - baked we barely remember her name.

Asa Butterfield is a handsome young actor from London who was barely ten years old when he played the lead role in The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas.

That the cast is played by actual teenagers (centered on the dramatically challenged Justice) and some barely in their twenties instead of older actors who only pass as teens to those years removed from high school underscores the film's target and its limited appeal for adult audiences, who can easily enjoy films like Mean Girls and Superbad.

I'm 30, been gaming since 1984 when my legs could barely reach the floor when I sat in the computer chair at school at that time, I tend to play any genre and game as long as it's good fun and I've played so many games over the years that I lost count in the 90s.

And Mirror's Edge barely had the decency to show us any gameplay, instead cutting to a tedious jargon - fuelled nonsensical presentation about how FIFA plans to bring «emotional intelligence» to the same game we've been playing for years.

I barely played the original on Wii (lack of free time) and Monster Hunter 4 is coming out later this year.

When Wind Waker hit store shelves back in 2003, I was six years old and barely knew how to hold a game controller properly, let alone play a fully fleshed out RPG.

Even with the action games, we're trying to constantly make them easier to play, and put different difficulty levels in them so the barely - skilled 18 - year - old with very short nerve endings can play at the hardest level possible.

I spent ten years after the release of the original Disgaea: Hour of Darkness playing numerical sequels to Nippon Ichi's ridiculously over-the-top strategy role - playing game starring characters that had barely anything to do with the ones I originally fell in love with.