Sentences with phrase «of tanking teams»

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While the Brooklyn Nets don't own their own pick this year, that's still eight teams likely prepared to attempt an all - out tank during the homestretch of the NBA season.

While tanking has been a not - so - secret aspect of late - season game - planning for the worst teams in the league for some time, this year's tank looks to be the most blatant in NBA history.

Jeffries left the company last year amid tanking sales, and in the earnings call this week, the current executive team didn't have much of a strategy to revive the flagging brand.

Overseeing Trump's transition team for the agency is Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a libertarian think - tank funded by corporate interests.

Many of the teachers came up with creative names for their teams and even made tank tops!

The beachhead groups were part of a larger constellation of advisers, including Oklahoma oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm (once considered for energy secretary), billionaire investor Carl Icahn (last seen shadily pushing for policy that would benefit his oil refineries), GOP energy lobbyist Mike McKenna (in charge of the DOE transition team), longtime climate skeptic (and hopeless dope) Myron Ebell, North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer (the oil devotee who supposedly wrote Trump's big energy speech last May), and Thomas J. Pyle, the director of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a pro-fossil fuel «think tank» which, as we shall see, has provided several Trump staffers.

Pierre Bessard is president and executive trustee of the Liberal Institute, Switzerland's independent research and educational think tank founded in 1979, which he joined in 2007 and has helped expand with a new team since then.

Amazon's general counsel, David Zapolsky, had a lot on his mind last month when he and four members of his legal team visited the offices of New America, a liberal - leaning think tank in Washington.

With funding from the Scherman Foundation, Jean - Marie and his team will be designing and building a series of tanks and ponds that will treat the acidic, organic - material - rich water that is a by - product of coffee wet - processing.

They were without some of their big guns on Sunday Night but still had enough in the tank to win against Team Elrod.

For all the talk about tanking, there aren't a lot of teams who are doing it perfectly at the moment.

There just no excuse why in a whirlwind of teams outrightly tanking we continue to lose lottery odds by winning meaningless games.

We'll see if any of the three teams tank in the last game of the season to avoid LeBron James.

Apparently, Manfred isn't a big fan of people using «tanking» to describe what's happening with multiple teams in the league, resorting to that old favorite of excuses — that this is «a cyclical sport.»

«None of us on the team think that we're going to tank,» running back Matt Forte, one of the few players over 30, told the Associated Press.

If you want to stop tanking in baseball — we're talking in the NBA sense, where teams intentionally set themselves up to lose, allowing them better odds at a top draft pick — the solution is simple: Make it so that the MLB Draft is an enigmatic mess, where thousands and thousands of working hours from scouts and executives lead to incorrect decisions to draft players who provide absolutely no value to their new franchise.

It's a travesty and a disgrace that some of these teams have tanked.

Perhaps it was a benefit of Atlético's hard - running style, maybe it was the result of Diego Simeone's training regimen that he enforces on the team, but whatever it was, as time in regulation wore down and went into extra time, it was clear that Atlético had much more left in the tank than Real Madrid did.

What is being called «tanking» in MLB is really just teams looking at the reality of their situation, both on the field and on their books, and realizing that dropping an extra $ 30MM on payroll for a FA or two will probably only add a couple of wins and it won't be enough to compete with the big market, big spending clubs.

You have 30 teams with the same goal of staying under the luxury tax, sharing the data provided by MLBAM's Statcast to help inform their decisions, in a post-Moneyball world where efficiency is king and tanking is viewed as the right thing to do if there is a chance the postseason is out of reach — this isn't a bunch of old rich guys smoking cigars in a dimly lit meeting room while Ueberroth yells at them about fiscal responsibility.

Sadsamjones 1 day ago The NBA needs to change some rules: «A team which has traded it's # 1 pick MUST tank, to compete with the other Tankers, thus supporting the value of the NBA lottery system.»

It's a shame the Blazers never had a tank year after Aldridge left, they just don't have the talent some of these other teams have despite making mostly sound moves since Aldridge bounced.

Those net ratings are even more unimpressive when one considers that of the 27 games the Pistons have played since February 1st, 14 were against teams that were exhausted, tanking, or both.

Outside of Tim Duncan going to the Spurs I bet you can't name another team that went out and tanked and won a title because of it.

Fans of all 30 teams have figured this out, and once the Yankees and Dodgers realized their bases were on board, the Adam Jones Industrial Average tanked.

We know that all of these 9 teams that tanked won't be getting a franchise player.

Although the NBA's new drafting system makes tanking a little more difficult, the worst teams still get the highest odds of a higher draft pick.

Instead of tanking, why not try the model that has worked for the actual contenders and build a solid team that can become great by adding the right piece or two.

The goal of lottery reform is to even out the odds of landing the top pick for the worst teams in the league and to discourage tanking league wide.

Right now, there is more evidence that Chambers will have another NIT team next year based on past performance (Lunardi still has faith though, putting them at 11 even after Carr left) than there is of tanking.

While the new Marlins ownership group hasn't exactly instilled confidence in locals, longtime fans, or their own players, continuing to keep players on the roster who have repeatedly expressed frustration about being part of a team that looks to tank in 2018 and struggle to be successful for a few seasons after that would be escalating an already tense situation.

In a grit and grind kind of game that had to be decided in overtime, Team Hanessian just didn't have enough in the tank to pull off the victory.

Team Wellek as they have during most of the Season was able to start fast here and the exhausted Team Mordini who had basically played 16 innings straight of 1 - run softball just didn't have enough in the tank to catch up..

Those 5 had just enough in their tank to hold off Team Rubin and win another one of the close games on Sunday.

And that's exactly the way Matta wanted, emptying his tank of energy for his team and staff while filling his rental tank for the school.

When the Boston Celtics traded away star players Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce to the Nets for a trio of draft picks, immediately fans believed this was the first step in tanking — i.e. building a team that is meant to lose in an attempt to acquire a high draft pick.

These 2 things need to happen for sure 1) Park the tank (be as compact as much you can) it's compulsary if you want any chance of winning the game during the opening period We have been trying that attacking game for years against big teams in Pl and CL and have found little success

«[Against] a tanking Philadelphia team on the road at Cleveland last season or a tanking Brooklyn team on the road this season LeBron is likely only worth 1.5 to 3.5 points as they don't need him anyway and he likely wasn't going to play a full compliment of minutes anyway,» Holt continued.

While I understand it will annoy the fans who have paid to see the current team, in almost every sport the system is set up to vastly favor a team that tanks in terms of getting back to respectability (or at least to acquire the assets that can get a team there, whether or not they're capable enough to use them is another question).

Boston is a lock to go over with three of the team's final six games coming against the Bulls, Hawks and Nets — three tanking squads.

We've shown that fading tanking teams has been profitable in the past and April is the best time to take advantage of these teams.

After a multi-month slog replete with a bunch of resting players and tanking teams, the NBA Playoffs are here and we finally have what should be some good competitive games.

But while Koeman's men pitched up at Stamford Bridge with little in the tank, the refreshed home team were full of gas.

Because San Antonio and Oklahoma City both play teams that are in the tank race, it would be irresponsible to predict that either team loses one of those games.

Prior to joining On Purpose, Mark was Fellow in Innovative Government at the Berlin think tank stiftung neue verantwortung where he lead inter-sectoral teams of high - level decision - makers from government, business, and civil society.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - While the Syracuse Police Department's SWAT team awaited the arrival of its own 9 - ton BearCat armored vehicle, an even bigger and better crime - fighting tank came along.

A new front in the EU referendum battle opens today as the Leave team release names of European criminals committing offences in Britain — and in doing so park their tanks firmly on the Remain Campaign's lawn.

Since the Foreign and Interior Ministers of Ghana were not part of the negotiating team that agreed to allow these terrorists in Ghana and we don't know who else was in the room when Mahama signed the agreement to allow the two to settle in Ghana, maybe he can tell Ghanaians where he is going to repatriate the two terrorists to in two years assuming he will still be around as the President in two years when our compassion tank runs dry.

I'm amazed at the number of key think tank leaders, MPs and journalists who have next to no contact with the key members of the Cameron team.

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