Sentences with phrase «good playoff position»

He's received Coach of the Year push for keeping the decimated Boston team in good playoff position, but that honestly had a lot to do with the Cavaliers» foibles and how big a cushion the C's had built up when (relatively) healthy.

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I feel like they are better than most of the teams on their schedule, which should help playoff position, if they are as good as I hope they are.

The W put them in a position to still grab one of the best seeds come Playoff time..

You have to start getting into «If Ohio State loses to Michigan but beats Wisconsin...» and «If Auburn beats Alabama but loses to a two - loss Georgia...» scenarios to build a Playoff case, but if things fall apart, the Trojans could be well - positioned.

Larson and Busch, the third seed, also are well positioned to go on deep playoff runs because of how they performed during the regular season.

Now take a look at the skill positions, other than running back, for the Seahawks and try to explain how Wilson will fare any better than Stafford this Sunday, home or not, in a game that could have major playoff implications for both teams.

Nonetheless, they've positioned themselves well for a playoff berth.

It can't be that teams in the playoffs are in difficult positions because of good management and our being in a good position is just luck.

It had been the Yankees» practice in the American League playoffs against Kansas City to place one of their functionaries in the stands with a walkie - talkie, the better to advise Manager Billy Martin on the positioning of his outfielders.

Unlike Keane, however, he has failed to produce against the league's best — scoring a paltry two against sides in the playoff positions.

In 2009, they elected to offer scholarships, which disqualified them from the Patriot League title but allowed them to better position for at - large playoff bids.

The Chiefs know that Alex Smith will play well enough to put them in playoff position at bare minimum.

Seattle moves to 6 - 5, above.500 for the first time this year, and have positioned themselves well for another run at the playoffs.

Not only did sharp money take a position on the College Football Playoff National Championship spread earlier in the week, but now professionals have targeted the total as well.

«It was a great win, short - handed and on the road against a good team fighting for playoff position,» Warriors coach Steve Kerr said.

While there are a host of Teams who hope to dethrone the Kings, their early season success means they are positioning themselves well for a great Playoff seed come November.

The team is currently holding down the final playoff position, not by much, but so much better position than last year.

Leaving aside the basic position's basic problems — the SEC won seven straight national titles purportedly because its teams were more tested, there's a long layoff between the regular season and the Playoff, the SEC schedules an SEC - SoCon Challenge every November — the argument applies at least as well to the Pac - 12 as it does the SEC.

During the stretch run last year, Jimenez started the final seven games of the regular season and the first three of the playoffs at left back over other, more natural players at the position and performed well.

Adding more pressure to this weekend is that Frankfurt play 7th place Hoffenheim who could vault them with a win and knock them out of the Europa League playoff position as well.

(4) Better winning percentage against teams eligible for playoffs in own conference (including teams that finished the regular season tied for a playoff position).

The performances have not been good enough and Leeds need to pick up 3 points this afternoon to have any chance of finishing in the playoff positions.

Basically, it's the combination of good things (i.e. wins) that have to happen to the team in playoff position and bad things (i.e. losses) that have to happen to the first team out of the playoff picture for the former to clinch a postseason berth.

Liverpool vs Crystal Palace Preview: Liverpool are coming into this game on the back of impressive 2 - 1 win over TSG Hoffenheim in the Champions League playoff which put them in a good position going into the second leg.

Gaetano Berardi said earlier in the week that Leeds need a better left back than him to compete for the playoffs, and while it's a decent sentiment from the right back played out of position this season, it's not necessarily what you'd like to see from one of your key players, even if it is pretty much accurate.

Olympiakos has now got themselves into a great position to make it to the European Cup playoffs after getting better of Partizan Belgrade yesterday with the score - line of 3 goals to 1.