Sentences with phrase «first round performance»

Durant, Curry, and James still have the best odds of being named Finals MVP, but Draymond Green has seen his odds improve from +1200 to +550 following his impressive (and well - rounded) first round performance.

Not exact matches

Plus, no one gives a flawless performance on their first on - camera go - round.

First Round based its performance evaluations on the difference in a company's valuation between the VC firm's initial investment and current fair market value for the company or value at the time of an exit.

He has had health issues and performance issues in this system, but he was a 1st rounder and paid like a first rounder.

Here are a few select tweets from fans lauding the former Roma ace for his performance in the first 45 minutes against Newport this evening, as the north London side look to progress into the fifth round of the FA Cup.

The jarring thing about Buffalo's performance was it never looked like the traditional first - round shocker.

The collapses should not obscure a stunning performance by Bowen, who shared the first - round lead and hung in tenaciously the rest of the week.

However, we saw numerous glimpses of how dominant he could be, with perhaps his most notable performance being a 29 - point effort in Game 4 of the first round to sweep away the defending champion Dallas Mavericks.

In 2008 - 09, it was Semyon Varlamov who beat Lundqvist's Rangers in the Conference Quarterfinals, and in 2009 - 10 it was a Michal Neuvirth's goaltending performance that helped dispatch the Rangers in five games in the first round.

Liverpool fans took to Twitter at half time today to slate their side's defensive performance in their first half against West Brom in the FA Cup 4th round today.

Payne's draft stock didn't drastically improve because of his performance, but he'll be a late first rounder at the very worst.

while toying with the guy and practicing striking??? If that's a weak performance but you having to come back against a gassed staph infected Kevin Lee who was beating you down in the first round.

It may be just a coincidence that Arsenal put on the best away performance in a really big game for years on the same day that our former striker, record goal scorer and all round legend Thierry Henry was in the TV studio for the first time to give his verdict.

The 76ers, who are in the midst of one of the most impressive tanking performances of all - time, selected two first round picks who are unlikely to play in a game this season.

Before the sack, Richardson's performance against Clowney is an offer any NFL GM would spend first - round money on: when applied on roughly one - third of called offensive plays in a single game, Tiny Richardson can nullify a premier pass - rushing defensive end with single coverage with a 95.4 percent success rate in clinical trials.

It was an all round very good team performance from Arsenal to win away to Everton, with notable inputs from a number of Gunners including Hector Bellerin, Laurent Koscielny, Francis Coquelin, Mohamed Elneny and all of the front four, but I have given the nod to Alex Iwobi mainly because it was his first start in the Premier League and that makes his performance even more impressive.

I don't know that it matters as to whether they choose to go or not, but I do think that it factors into them both not being first round guys, will certainly prevent them from having this late year rise up the boards having more to do with team performance than individual performance, and NBA scouts may help keep these guys on the team another year, rather than end up drawing them towards the NBA.

When Elneny joined he was full of confidence and that's how you assess a player when he's at his very best otherwise a guy like Ozil will be considered trash taking by his last performances yet everyone goes back to his memory books to assess Ozil and the same should happen with Elneny who won back to back player of the month when he first joined and scored that screamer against Barcelona yet his all round contribution that made the headlines then came Xhaka on board and that is exactly when Elneny's form started slightly dipping because simply his confidence was shaken by finding himself a regular bench warmer instead of a regular like he was before Xhaka joining and I don't think Wenger addressed this psychological issue with Elneny or even noticed it probably because he had enough issues of his own.

Whether that will turn into a more favourable draw for the first knockout round we will have to wait and see, but if Arsenal are to carry on the European upturn in performances and results and go at least one more step towards the trophy then it seems clear that our dynamic duo will be the driving forces behind it.

With so many people involved in NCAA office pools, we studied recent performance of various seeds «against the spread» (ATS) during the first round of the tournament.

He and Michael Floyd, another big guy who ran well (4.42), ran the best in this drill, but Hill might have just secured himself a selection in the first three rounds with this performance.

It was another great team performance from Arsenal, especially in the first half, as we tore Basel apart in the Champions League, with notable attacking contributions from Cazorla, Iwobi, Bellerin, Ozil and Alexis Sanchez along with another great defensive display from Mustafi and Koscielny but the Man of the Match has to go to Theo Walcott for his two goals as well as his scintillating all - round performance.

The Gunners produced arguably their best away performance of the entire season to land themselves a 2 - 0 win at the San Siro in the first leg of this round of sixteen tie.

A dominant all - round performance lifted the USA's Tamara Gorman her first ITU Junior Women's World Championship in tough conditions in London.

The Portuguese coach has come under a lot of stick this past week following his side's ultra-defensive performance in Wednesday's 0 - 0 draw at Sevilla in the first leg of their Champions League second round tie.

Zenit St Petersburg defender Branislav Ivanovic has admitted that he was «surprised» by the performance levels of Celtic during the first leg of the Europa League round of 32 tie.

Hearts of Oak duo, Thomas Abbey and Winful Cobbinah put up a scintillating performance in the first round of the league to keep their side ending the round with a seven matches unbeaten record while WAFA, sitting on top of the table have been inspired by the leadership and experience of midfield maestro Gideon Waja.

Sergio Aguero broke the deadlock himself with a smart first half finish, and Fernandinho finished off the scoring with a long range effort that his all round performance thoroughly merited.

Despite the poor performance, the Swiss are through to the second round and our first signing of the summer is the second Villa player still involved in the 2014 World Cup.

A goal against Newport County ensured Spurs progress in the FA Cup fourth - round replay tie, the impressive performance led to another surprise start in the Champions League against Juventus in the first leg of the Round of 16 in Tround replay tie, the impressive performance led to another surprise start in the Champions League against Juventus in the first leg of the Round of 16 in TRound of 16 in Turin.

Zinedine Zidane's defending Champions put in a superb performance to come back from a goal down to beat a tenacious Napoli side 3 - 1 in the first leg of the Champions League Round of 16.

Two games against below mid-table teams and we are really struggling.Is Fabs the answer?I don't think so.The first game against WBA would easily have been a draw but we were lucky though not this time round on Saturday.It was difficult and frustrating watching my team fail to create any clear cut chances in 94 minutes of football.There was such a corridor in our midfield that fulham utilized to the maximum.If we start dropping points against the likes of fulham at this stage in the competition then what will become of us in the 6 matches against the top three teams?I can see why I need to lower my expectations early enough to avoid disappointment later on.Very poor performance from Denilson.But why was Theo sub'd instead of bringing in Song for Denilson early enough?!

«The club have taken this decision as a result of the performance of the first team and with the clear desire to face the remaining rounds of the current season and the preparation of the 2018 - 19 season in the best conditions.»

A first - half goal from Ivan Rakitic confirmed Barcelona's place in the next round, as the Blaugrana turned in another dominant performance to send City packing.

Arsenal looked down and out in the first half, but great performances from Walcott, Arshavin, Giroud helped secure a miraculous victory, allowing Arsenal to progress to the next round.

Zenit St. Petersburg were in a similar situation exactly one year ago, when they lost the first leg of the Europa League round of 32 away to Anderlecht after a terrible performance.

Roma are also alive in the Champions League despite a 2 - 1 defeat on the road to Shakhtar Donetsk in the round of 16 first - leg, and Totti is hoping for a stronger performance at the San Siro in order to assure the club's progress into the quarter - finals of the tournament.

For the second year in a row, Arsenal have gone out of the Champions League in the round of 16 against Bayern Munich, and a spirited second leg performance wasn't enough to make up for the two - goal first leg defeat.

He had a couple standout performances, most notably when he came on against Bayern Munich in the first leg of the Champions League round of sixteen and added much needed energy and scored the equalising goal.

After having been slightly shaky in the first game, it was a more assured, much better, solid all - round performance.

McGregor produced another dominant performance knocking down Alvares three time in first 2 minutes and from than on it was only one result and he finally knocked out Alvarez in second round.

Boris was four points ahead of Ken in the first round of the mayoral vote, but Labour were nine points ahead of the Conservatives in the simultaeneous vote for the London Assembly — a gap of 13 points between their performance in the mayoral vote and the assembly vote.

«We actually Fosbury - flopped into the car to get some kind of points,» says Tedrake, referring to his team's performance in the first round of the challenge.

* In March, University of Minnesota officials reported to a committee of the Board of Regents the results of the first round of post-tenure faculty performance reviews.

Bellew recently secured a world title at cruiserweight in an entertaining battle with Ilunga Makabu which ended in a third round ko, following that was a flawless performance in his first successful defence against BJ Flores.

The fifth column in our new seasonal series — if you haven't got the drill by now, we're rounding up the most Oscar - worthy work from the oft - overlooked first half of the year — wraps up the performance categories with by far the most competitive race of all.

This engrossing, dialogue - driven piece of work features brilliant performances all round — and could just as easily have been titled «Lost In Translation», had Sofia Coppola not gotten there first.

The charter schools authorized in the first round of PSC have already produced a substantial improvement in their students» performance.

The charter schools authorized in the first round of PSC have already produced a significant improvement in their students» performance and the initiative is spurring reform at under - performing schools.

Minnesota gave up after the first round when teachers» unions blocked state legislation linking teacher pay to student performance.