Sentences with phrase «of early ball»

Arkanoid is an update of the early ball and paddle video games — and specifically of Atari's 1978 classic, Super Breakout — in which the player takes control of a paddle at the bottom of the screen and must use it to deflect a ball into rows of bricks at the top of the screen, thus destroying them and, eventually, clearing the screen to progress to the next level.

Pierre - Emerick Aubameyang might have expected Mesut Ozil and Henrikh Mkhitaryan to be his main suppliers, but Wilshere is more alert to the possibilities of an early ball that can release Aubameyang.

Ireland started with more ambition than we've seen throughout the competition, with Ali Miller seeing a huge amount of early ball, and she had the best chance in the opening ten minutes when Nora Stapleton's cross field kick was allowed to bounce when a score seemed inevitable.

Not exact matches

In the course of the fascinating discussion, which ranges from Houston's early computer obsession to his ideas about building a successful startup culture, Houston boils down his advice for ambitious young people into an incredibly simple if slightly quirky three - part formula: a tennis ball, a circle, and the number 30,000.

I tend to be an optimist, and early on, before we figured out our hiring and cultural philosophy, we dealt with a lot of flaky people and who dropped the ball.

A startup by contrast doesn't have that stockpile of market experiences to help them accelerate the pace to the right answers, hence they need a much more comprehensive business plan outline to help them ask those early and important questions to get the ball rolling.

From his earliest appearances as a child on TV to being interviewed by Oprah Winfrey and a clip from a well - known golf ball juggle ad, the 60 - second spot shows a montage of his best moments.

At the CyberNet Expo in San Franciso earlier this summer, members of the adult industry gathered on the Friday night for a «Players Ball.»

Was this recent move in the crypto - arena just the result of many early investors just talking - up - their - book beginning with a pre-strike in the media to get - the - ball (or assumptions) rolling, as they say?

That's the kind of deep thinking unearthed in the latest Ideas to Invoices podcast featuring Mike Smerklo and Tom Ball, co-founders of Next Coast Ventures, an Austin - based Venture Capital Firm that invests in early stage companies.

The news of Romney's foreign accounts from even earlier in the week was a really relevant story with legs (to its credit, ABC kept its eye on the ball.)

Although pure mathematics and impure practice thus combine to suggest that living things, human selves and societies, should not be pictured on the model of Chepstow Castle — as though they were ping - pong balls, single shells that either insulate or shatter — our generalized common - sense notions of inside and outside by and large remain early Norman in their simplicity.

Earlier in her book she says that she had seen «a little thing, the quantity of a hazel nut, in the palm of [her] hand; and it was as round as a ball.»

From there, grab a small handful of the big sugar you set aside earlier and roll each ball between your palms to heavily coat the outside of each dough ball.

Ball I almost always make a double batch of the sauce and then it's super easy to make again, if you just start early enough.

The onetime face of the franchise has seen that surgically repaired joint diminish his performance at third base, leading to 15 throwing errors last year and a period early in the season when he struggled just to get the ball across the diamond.

In those days, the early»40s, stoop ball was as popular as stick ball or punch ball, but I suspect it is now dying out; there are fewer stoops — the old brownstones that bore them are being torn down — and more cars are crossing the field of play, impeding the game and endangering the players.

And, in a game with Washington, Lee Thomas let go of the ball so early in his windup that it fell two or three yards behind him while he looked, bewildered and in vain, after its nonexistent flight.

This lack of faith made me concentrate so hard on throwing accurately that I either forgot to let go of the ball or else I released it too early.

It will also mean a more direct style of play, the standard «out - ball» will be the threaded pass through the middle and this will come earlier than we are accustomed to in any passage of play.

Composed in front of goal and good with the ball at his feet this forward helped his youth team beat Man City's earlier in the year.

What amazed me is that after Özil goal our team collectively relaxed on the defensive end and was happy to sat so deep as if we were in the late stage of the game... we should have better mixed up our game plan sitting deep to defend in a more compact way is good but when you have the ball you must take good care of it and find teammates in good positions quickly... both Cazorla and Ramsey were poor and I do feel that they both should've been subbed of early for Rosicky and Walcott!

Rafa Marquez, in particular, looked a bit off the pace in the early going and gave the ball away in his own half on a couple of occasions.

1621 Massachusetts governor William Bradford bans the playing of «stoole - ball,» an early form of cricket, at the settlement of Plymouth on Christmas Day

The Spurs took care of the ball early on and only committed four turnovers in the first half.

After the Terps fell behind early and appeared to be caving in, Smith got the ball in front of the Hoya bench, took three dribbles and dunked over the startled Harrington, igniting a comeback that resulted in an 84 - 83 Maryland win in overtime.

In an early training - camp session Don Trull threw a ball 50 yards through the air into the hands of a receiver crossing the goal line, and Coach Bones Taylor smiled the way he used to when he was catching them from Sammy Baugh for the Washington Redskins.

What made Foy's disastrous decision even more hard to fathom was the fact that just ten minutes earlier the situation was reversed and Evra fairly won the ball from the German midfielder and was through on goal with support either side of him, when the referee decided to blow his whistle and get attention for Ballack who was in fact perfectly fine.

That was my biggest bitch about yesterday; a LOT of passes went to a Thorn who was standing still, and a lot of them had enough pace that the receiver couldn't immediately turn on the ball but had to take a touch to control it — that's what happened to Horan with the Nairn steal; she was stationary, facing downfield, and had to settle the ball just long enough to let Nairn (who had read the play WAY early, since Sonnett telegraphed her pass like she used a high - lighter on it...) step through Horan and take.

Tiger stuffed one to two feet at the 4th for his first birdie of the day, and it looked like the early damage from those wild tee balls would be mitigated through his front nine.

Even at 0 - 2 with the clock ticking and plan A not working in the slightest, you'd think we'd stick Mertesacker up front, and start pumping the ball long and hit a lot of early crosses, but no!

We were up 10 in the early 4rth and remember the defense giving the offense the ball back... That was the time in the game when you put your foot on their throats... You play with all the energy and passion in the world and you put the game out of reach with a touchdown or even a field goal... You don't play not to loose, you come out aggressive as hell... Come out 5 wides with grant in the slot or something crazy that theyve never seen the whole game and you shredd their asses... You don't keep it close at that point because Brady will make plays and refs to as well to beat you.

The Steelers had a bunch of injuries at outside linebacker early in the season, and were also in dire need of some leadership on that side of the ball.

We mentioned it earlier on Sunday, and many were calling it the shot of the 2010 Masters as soon as the ball bounced down on the green, but it's worth directing our attention to it once more: Phil Mickelson's shot on the 13th truly was remarkable, amazing, gutsy, and about a 17 other adjectives.

Early in the year, without a decent DM, there was a lot of space between the defense and midfield and teams could drop a ball in there, and when Kos failed to stop it it would be 1 or 2 players against just Per.

* His speed wasn't really much of a factor early in routes, but if he was able to catch the ball in stride and get his legs going he was able to house it against the 2nd - and 3rd - levels.

When we were three up mid way through the second half after allot of pressure on defense Arsenal players were shouting for ball so to break early.

Funny thing is the gentleman who i think is most suited played in the pre-season game, they call him the LITTLE MAGICIAN, SANTI CAZORLA, welcome back, in the earlier part of our game our passes were going astray losing the ball too frequently, then santi started drifting back closer to Xhaka and Coquelin and started to get the passes going, which then provided us with chances.

In the early stages of his career, he blossomed from a skinny bundle of potential into an attacking player who would hunt the ball out, anywhere on the pitch, then drive toward the opposition goal; now he is refining himself back down into a single - minded goal hanger.

Despite a bit of early nervousness, the Gunners did well to stay compact and deny the City players any time or space with the ball, but that also meant we were not doing much at the other end and were largely relying on a quick counter attack which Alexis nearly produced a couple of times in the first 15 minutes.

Mark Donnal will play his final year of college ball in the ACC for Clemson: Some early morning college hoops news: Mark...

But once Podolski has put Arsenal into an early lead in the first couple of minutes, latching on to a great ball from the excellent Chamberlain and smashing it into the top corner, the Gunners took complete control.

Rice was the head coach at Rutgers for three years before ESPN aired a videotape of him cursing out, hurling balls at, shoving and kicking players earlier this week.

Isn't that what a lot of us were screaming for early in the season — pleading for anyone to drive the ball into the paint?

Former Swansea City forward Ayew pocked the ball past Jordan Pickford and into the back of the net to hand his side an early advantage at the Stadium of Light.

Disappointment in the pre-season transfer window, followed by rationalizations of why we should give the team and Wenger a chance and not write them off before a ball is kicked in anger, followed by analyzing each set back as «too early to panic» followed by excuses about injuries and referees, followed by anger and disappointment after the inevitable reality sets in and Arsenal are effectively eliminated from the PL race before the year is even finished and the PL has reached its half way point.

Early last season, I was critical of Thorns playing too much negative possession football - where the ball goes sideways / backwards with no risk, but little reward.

This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style of play has become a shadow of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play of Monreal, but none of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that, of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack of mobility is an albatross around the necks of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits

Although I've found it very cathartic to speak, vent and end occasionally rant about all things Arsenal, we need to act carefully and intelligently right now or we're going to get played by this club even worse than at present... the pro-Wengerites and the suits, who represent a considerable proportion of the season ticket holders, don't want to believe that there is no plan and that Wenger has mailed it in for several years now or that things are going to get much worse before they get better... why would they... many have spent a considerable sum buying some of the highest priced tickets in the World... they want to have a front row seat to see something special and to be seen doing so, which simply provides ample justification for the expense and the time invested... to many of them, Wenger is the sun in their soccer universe... his awkward disposition, misplaced arrogance and his utter lack of balls makes him a rather unusual cult figure, but the cerebral narrative seemed to embolden those who already felt pretty highly of themselves... many might not even of really liked football that much before his arrival and rarely games they weren't attending... as such, they desperately believe that Wenger, and only Wenger, can supply them with their required fix... if he goes, they were wrong and that's a tough pill to swallow... they would have to admit that they were duped... they will definitely resent whoever made them feel this way, but of course it will be too late by then... so when we go overboard with ridiculous comments bordering of anarchy, it scares the shit out of them and they shift their blame towards us rather than at those who really perpetrated this act of treason... we aren't the enemy... we simply woke much earlier and the reason our comments have gotten more vile in recent years is out of utter frustration... in order for any real change to occur at this club we need to bring as many supporters as possible with us or the big money interests will fade and our ultimate objective will be lost... so it's time to focus on the head instead of the heart for now

Have the long shorts and headed balls proved to be the weakness of the Gunners» defending and Petr Cech's goalkeeping so far this early season?