Sentences with phrase «of a point guard»

The two giants among the Independents, Notre Dame and DePaul, made the Sweet 16 last spring, and each has a gem of a point guard returning.

She's got a couple inches on most of the point guards.

This year he'll be playing a lot of point guard, working hard to bring along a half - dozen sophomores, including his younger brother, Devon.

With the potential return of point guard Derrick Rose from his ACL recovery, however small that may be, the Heat could ill afford to lose another game on their home court.

He couldn't play all of his point guards enough.

It reveals an agile seven - footer whose turnaround jumper is accurate up to 20 feet; a heady player who discourages double - teaming with canny passes; an outstanding athlete who has somehow figured out the exotic fast - break passing strategies of point guards Mark Jackson and Rod Strickland, both of whom never make a simple move when 13 complicated ones will do; and a defensive intimidator whose 3.7 blocks per game at week's end were second only to Olajuwon's league - leading 4.2.

It will all come down to health — specifically his ankles — and whether or not he can keep up with the younger crop of point guards on the defensive end.

Still, a lot of those point guard skills Brown honed over the years continue to come in handy: he's a good passer and ball handler at 6» 7 and is knocking down 35 percent of his threes.

KACZMAREK: The knee injuries are a bit concerning, but Paul is a different kind of point guard than Westbrook and Rose.

While Morey is citing a dearth of point guards as a reason for re-doing the deal, he's also clearly taking advantage of the Knicks proclamations that they would match, including one comical report stating they would match «any offer up to $ 1 billion dollars.»

UConn's Kemba Walker versus Kentucky's John Wall will delight connoisseurs of point guard play.

In a draft devoid of point guards, it wouldn't be too surprising to see a team reach for the NBA - ready Taylor.

They need to play with the intensity of their point guard or else they will get nowhere.

That was a thin class of point guards.

He's been an All - Star once, but when he's healthy and he's playing consistently, he's a heck of a point guard.»

But he's a fierce defender, a high - character teammate, and the post-up god of point guards.

Sure, the lack of point guards in this draft has helped his stock.

However, if your overall feeling about the trade is positive, then your observation of the newly created problem of lack of point guard depth, is pointless and lacks any real value.

Casey said that the city should hope Lowry would come back and that the memory of the point guard «going through the meat - grinder» to get to the basket on that final possession would be fresh in his memory throughout the summer.

They've gotten next to nothing out of the point guard spot either as Patrick McCaw, Shaun Livingston, and Quinn Cook have combined to average 13.9 points and 4.7 assists during that stretch.

Michigan ranks No. 3 in the country in defensive efficiency, a unit led by the hounding ball pressure of point guard Zavier Simpson and the length and quickness of wings Charles Matthews and Muhammad - Ali Abdur - Rahkman.

The 6» 10» freshman is incredibly smooth with elite athleticism plus the court vision and passing ability of a point guard.

«He's a stud,» Hansen said of his point guard.

Jim Rome On Showtime, Season 4, Episode 4: Washington Wizards star John Wall thinks his season average double double speaks for itself when discussing the NBA's top tier group of point guards.

«A zero - carbon grid made only of renewables would be like a basketball team made only of point guards.

Not exact matches

Stephen Curry is a hero to Golden State Warriors fans, but the superstar point guard has some Bay Area heroes of his own: Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.

«Some villages and points on the western side of the town of Al - Areima have been handed over to the border guards of the Syrian regime,» Manbij Military Council spokesman Sherfan Darwish told AFP.

It might surprise you that Jeremy Lin, the National Basketball Association point guard known for causing «Linsanity» among New York Knick fans in 2012, has the biggest YouTube following of any American professional athlete.

The Guards rushed out screaming in a language my parents did not understand, waving and pointing their A.K.'s they forced them out of the vehicle.

Washington Wizards point guard John Wall has no plans of relaxing on his couch this summer.

In a move that caught everyone off - guard, Canada Post announced a five point â $ œaction planâ $ last week that included phasing - out home delivery of the mail over the next five years, making Canada the only G7 nation to do so.

Curry, point guard for the Golden State Warriors, debuted his fourth signature shoe on June 1 during Game 1 of the NBA Finals, on the way to the team's second NBA championship in three years.

This raised the question of whether the data would prove out our opinions, or prove the old guard actually had a point.

It's getting to the point now that, far from feeling like I am on the front lines battling dogma and superst.ition, I feel like I am mopping up the remaining pockets of resistance to logic and reason in a boring rear guard action.

This is particularly true in a community that sees itself uniquely commissioned to guard the deposit of faith, even to the point of infallibly proclaiming it.

Furthermore, during the procession of the yearly festival she is taken to the borders in every direction (North, South, East and West) and a sacrifice is performed for her in order to energize her powers to guard and protect the colony and its inhabitants at all the strategic points of the geographic boundaries.

It's almost impossible to claim devotion to the Jesus of the Scriptures, while refusing refugees, expelling immigrants, vilifying brown people, worshiping political power, guarding borders and neglecting the poor — which is exactly the point.

Here we must hasten to point out that among Christian thinkers over the centuries the conception of God has varied considerably more in expression than is often popularly supposed, and theologians have always wanted to guard themselves against the implications of such crude and concrete images of God as may have been prevalent in the popular imagination.

At that point Judas Iscariot arrives with the guards of the high priest and others forming a motley crew.

An infeed chute guard keeps operator hands clear of all danger points.

I spent my childhood cheering for the most entertaining point guard in the history of the NBA — yeah, Iverson — and my Grandmom still lives in the same South Philly row house my dad grew up in.

Considered a point guard for most of his prep career, Brown is a heady passer and productive defender thanks in large part to his 6 ’11 wingspan.

One of the great point guards in NBA history, Payton earned his «The Glove» moniker by displaying some of the most suffocating perimeter defense in the sport.

By now, you know the deal: Thomas was sent as part of a package to Cleveland that landed Boston its point guard for the future, Kyrie Irving.

He was impressive enough from an early age that I even wrote a trend piece on tall point guards focused on him and De'Aaron Fox back in July of 2015.

Chad, a junior guard at Valley Christian Academy, set a state high school boys» mark for points in a game when he scored 89 in a 130 - 48 defeat of New Cuyama Valley High.

One of the most - exciting point guards in the NBA during his time, Davis was a two - time NBA All - Star, and made the All - NBA Third Team in 2004, when he averaged 22.9 points and 7.5 assists for the New Orleans Hornets.

Duval is an explosive 6» 2 point guard who will remind a lot of people of Dennis Smith Jr..

The Huskies were trailing by just four points and were controlling the tempo of play with 5:55 remaining in the game when Guard Bruce Case let the ball slip away to UCLA's Henry Bibby.

Duane Washington Jr., a four - star point guard out of Grand Rapids, Michigan (he moved to California for his senior season), announced...