Sentences with phrase «best road teams»

The Pelicans are one of the NBA's best road teams.

Chelsea has been one of the best road teams in the English Premier League this season with a 7 -3-3 record and a +12 goal differential.

The Rockets are the best road team in the NBA.

Not exact matches

The first step on the road to more efficient sales management is deciding how to get the best people on your team to begin with.

Merger agreement in hand (and the money in escrow), Cline spent the next five months on the road trying to win over CEA's investors, who were looking for a growth company that was well - positioned to go public, preferably with a strong management team and a few years of audited financials.

We congratulate the new class of America's Road Team Captains and wish them the best of luck as they carry out their mission over the next two years.»

RT @jeskeets: Good news, @Raptors fans: Teams that win the first two games of a best - of - seven series on the road have gone on to win the se...

I had a great soccer game day today... my team Arsenal took me on whirlwind road for a while but it was all good in the end!

but I'll take 2 of 3 on the road from anyone, let alone in division and team with objectively better projection for 2018

WHILE THE BLAZERS» current road trip, which includes visits to Boston, Orlando and New Orleans, will reveal plenty about how good the team really is, the city of Portland has, after years of disillusionment, reembraced the franchise.

They took down UTSA when the Roadrunners were looking like the best team in the conference, handled Louisiana Tech on the road with a backup QB *, and needed bad breaks to miss out on a second win over Kentucky in as many years.

The third - ranked Sooners would likely have too much offense for the Cyclones, and giving a new quarterback (Kyle Kempt) his first start on the road against a top - five team doesn't usually work out particularly well.

Not only are the ticket counts on the road teams > 70 %, but the money percentages are as well.

They were all upset on the road, where even the best of teams falter

To filter this even further, we examined expected high - scoring games to see if road teams coming off a loss did any better when the total was over 200.

For starters, we believed that road teams would perform particularly well in games with high totals.

Washington's yet to play a really good team, and Washington State's yet to play a road game, so the Pac - 12's tough to include for now.

They play well against contenders at home but plays like a lottery team against actual lottery teams on the road.

The Spurs executed as usual on Monday night to defeat one of the NBA's best defensive teams on the road.

If everyone is ok with going 7 - 5, 8 - 4, or at best, 9 - 3 every year while almost always losing to top 20 teams, especially on the road, and getting creamed in a New Year's day six bowl game when they get an invitation then by all means, keep Kelly.

Florida only has three true road games, and none are against teams projected better than 36th.

Mike Conway, who will compete with Ed Carpenter Racing on road / street courses next season, tested the No. 20 Fuzzy's Vodka entry for the team, with team owner / driver Ed Carpenter in attendance as well.

Inexplicable how a team can be so good at home (31 - 8) and so bad on the road (14 - 26).

But the Tigers also face road trips to Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Alabama, and the East's best team (by the numbers), Georgia.

After sleep - walking through most of two dreadful performances versus bad FCS teams (Delaware State, Fordham) and really only looking good once all season (a romp over Pitt in the season opener), the Bearcats were bitten by a tricky road trip to Toledo on Saturday.

Road trips to Ohio State and Illinois could trip Wisky up, but the Huskers are far and away the best team left on the Wisconsin schedule — and may well end up dancing with the Badgers again in the Big Ten Championship Game.

On a side note, I couldn't help but think 2 predominant thoughts when watching the game against Bournemouth on the weekend: (1) Wenger is still willing to put his own personal agenda ahead of the team's best interests when it comes to team selection, which luckily for us didn't cost us the 3 points this time and (2) if Eddie Howe is earmarked to be the successor we are in deep trouble because he's simply a poor man's version of our present manager, as he's tactically inept and has an even worse road record.

With Alshon Jeffery and Brandon Marshall both unlikely to play, the team will have to be much more careful with the football and better on defense to pull out the road victory.

If they can keep that up against better teams, they have a shot to win some games coming down the road.

OU needs to (1) play better on the road, (2) play better defense, and (3) find someone to step up when Trae hits a cold streak / gets double - teamed.

• With their 31 - 14 win at Dallas on Sunday, the 49ers have a better record on the road (50 -14-1,.777) since 1981 than any NFL team except Denver (52 - 13,.800) has at home.

Seems like a good way to force teams to play grizzled veterans in September instead of trying out kids that might help one or two years down the road.

OK, so it doesn't look like a serious incident, but surely any road collision is far from ideal when preparing for a crunch match against the best team in England.

There are five unbeaten teams, and UGA's road win at Notre Dame and blowout of Mississippi State are easily the two best wins out of that entire group.

On the negative side, the Bears were even worse on the road than the Cardinals (2 - 9 vs. 4 - 7), but on the plus side, Baylor has two top 20 wins, including a marquee one over Kansas, something Louisville, whose five best wins all came over teams outside of the RPI top 50, can't claim.

There are no easy teams and the road to the champions league cup goes through the best teams whether it be Bayern or Barca, the two Madrids or Juventus.

It's the end of the road and you should rejoice now because once the inept dinosaur is gone we shall no longer be perennially handicapped underdogs waiting for our turn to exit competitions against better teams..

His play all game long — and yes, especially at the very end — helped the Steelers go on the road, in a hostile environment, and get a win over a very good Chiefs team and advance to the AFC Championship.

Though I don't think there are many Eagles doubters left any more, if they can pull off a win on the road against Seattle, I don't think anyone can deny that they are the best team in the NFC.

The late 1st period goal and the penalty by Wood and that's a big hole to a really good team on the road to dig out of.

According to our BetLabs software, road teams receiving less than 20 % of moneyline wagers have gone 100 - 136 on the year, which is good for +14.87 units and a 6.3 % return on investment (ROI).

However, the betting public seems to have a short memory, as 8 out of 10 spread bets are sticking with Atlanta to win by 7 or more against a 5 - 4 Titans team who has been plagued by inconsistency, yet looked good last week in a 30 - 3 upset victory on the road against the high - flying Panthers

The Rooney in jury should be a bigger help to one Arsenal man at least, the on loan midfield star Jack Wilshere who may well be in line for a return to the England first team in Rooney's absence and that is just what the injury hit star could do with as he travels down the road to full recovery and attempts to save his Arsenal career.

Anything less and he may dismantle the team, which has had the NBA's best road - winning percentage -LRB-.695) for the last two seasons.

1 W in Milwaukee would be great, but given our road game status, well... please destroy all the way and show this team why they should've hoped for a different 1st round match - up

If Clemson didn't have South Carolina on the schedule and a potential ACC title game against a decent team, I'd probably drop them to Barely Alive at best even though they were very competitive on the road against an excellent team.

All of the teams around us also seem to have easy games in midweek, so it is vital that we keep up the pressure with a good win at Loftus Road and also that we increase our goal difference.

«We want to see the Southern California teams as much as we can because we know we have to face the best from down there down the road if we want to be successful in the state tournament,» Swafford said.

It makes sense that those road teams would be the best to bet against, however, it's reasonable to assume that sportsbooks account for any potential edge when setting the line.

We then took it a step further and found that road playoff teams coming off a 1, 2, or 3 - game losing streak have gone 97 - 104 since the 2007 postseason, good for +26.45 units won and an ROI of +13.2 %.