Sentences with phrase «out of the playoffs»

The team falls out of playoff contention early in the season, never to recover.

The home games feature four teams out of the playoff chase.

How many points out of the playoffs can we make up in half a season?

That perception shifts every time a different league gets left out of the playoff.

Like them, we could theoretically end up out of the playoffs still I believe if we blew it in the last two games and the others in the hunt win out.

For the second straight week he finished only a shot out of a playoff.

A bad week is the difference between the No. 3 seed and being out of the playoffs entirely in this environment.

That might be why I've kind of checked out of these playoffs.

They are now facing their 14th year in a row out of the playoffs.

A team that is all but out of playoff contention will likely be losing focus and won't be fully prepared for their first game back.

Chicago made a salary dump trade and gave up a reasonable player in Mirotic to receive a pick that was projected at absolute best to be 12 (if NOP fell out of the playoff race post Cousins injury), that pick is now at 21.

After the Indiana Pacers were knocked out of the playoffs for the second consecutive year by the Miami Heat, 790 The Ticket's Dan LeBatard, as he has often done before, went off on Lance Stephenson, Larry Bird and the entire Pacers organization.

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.

After the Indiana Pacers were knocked out of the playoffs for the second consecutive year by the Miami Heat, 790 The...

In that span, all four teams have been knocked out of the playoffs in the first weekend four times and only once have they swept each game (2015 - 16).

Stanton hit 25 games in a 40 - game span just after the All - Star break, and Miami climbed to three games over.500 on Aug. 27, just 4 1/2 games out of a playoff spot.

Vancouver, which entered Monday 18 points out of a playoff spot, traded a couple of veterans before the deadline Monday afternoon.

It's unlikely Manziel will be put in next week but if the Browns keep dropping games and fall out of the playoff race we may see him starting sooner or later.

Fantasy Football NFL teams out of the playoff hunt still have players who can get your club to the postseason • Tyler Thigpen has revived the Chiefs» passing game • Ben Roethlisberger's end zone issues

The Seahawks dropped out of the playoff picture this week and the Falcons moved up to the No. 6 spot.

HenrikLundqvist He may be one of PEOPLE's beautiful 100, but New York's netminder gave up someugly goals as his Rangers got swept out of the playoffs by the Devils.

However, a blowout loss on the road to Louisville, paired with losses at home to both North Carolina and Clemson, knocked the Noles out of Playoff conversations.

The Heat, now with only Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh to lead them, finish with a 39 - 43 record, and are swept out of the playoffs in the first round.

As for CBJ, they're looking more and more like the Blues of the east, slowly sliding out of playoff contention.

Reading, Sheffield Wednesday, Huddersfield & Fulham can still mathematically drop out of the playoff positions - and where there's a possibility we have hope to drive us forward.

Absolutely not out of the Playoff race, despite being out of the AP poll only about a month ago.

The Timberwolves finished nine games out of the playoffs last season, but Jimmy Butler's value can't be overstated.

• The Big Ten is still shut out of the playoff field for now, a nod to the very real possibility that its top three contenders cannibalize each other's chances in the coming months.

The luxury of an Undefeated Season means that Team Robinson can sit back and relax this coming Sunday and wait while 4 Teams get knocked out of the Playoffs before they even need to take the court again..

If the Capitals had lost, bowed out of the playoffs early once again in front of their own fans, blame would rightly be laid at the feet of those four players.

The Soccer Bowl crowd was unforgiving toward Vancouver for knocking the Cosmos out of the playoffs, but the Caps were unyielding on the field, stopping Rodney Marsh and the Rowdies to win the NASL championship

While Chicago is out of the playoffs after losing in six games to the Cleveland Cavaliers, reports are surfacing that there is tension between Jimmy Butler and Derrick Rose according to sources to CBS Chicago's Dan Bernstein.

At the other end of the Eastern Division, Syracuse momentarily poked its head out of the cellar for the first time since the snow began to fly and may yet edge New York out of a playoff berth.

Alabama fell all the way behind USC and 11 - 1 Penn State in the exercise, leaving the Tide out of the playoff picture and causing the SEC communication director to question its real - world application.

ZILLER: The crazy thing is they weren't really out of the playoff chase until March last year despite the poor record.

Strangely, following that dismal run Villa then went on a run of seven wins in eight but it appears too little too late as Bruce's side now lie in the safety of mid table in thirteenth place, mathematically out of the playoffs and safe from relegation.

So once we're officially out of the playoffs we need to hope Glen Taylor and Thibs can come to the realization all other franchises with president / coaches have; which is those are two mutually exclusive jobs that need to be done by two different people.

Along with Elliott and Hamlin, Ryan Blaney and Jimmie Johnson were knocked out of the playoffs at Phoenix, the last of three races within the semifinal round.

Ravens technically first team out of playoffs on tiebreaker, but motivation is need to win remaining two games

The implied probability suggests there is an 82.1 % chance that Alabama doesn't get knocked out of the playoff early.

It would be on brand for WVU to go 11 - 1 and get shut out of the Playoff because a.) the Big 12's strength of schedule fell apart, b.) they won't play a conference title game, and c.) some random terrible thing happens to them along the way.

Should the Rangers care about kicking the Flyers out of the playoffs?

That'd mean Steve Spurrier would've knocked UGA out of the Playoff — not the first or last time he'd wreck a Dawgs season.

Despite their slow start, they are just a Win out of the Playoffs right now.

Yet, the vagaries of the West kept Golden State out of the playoffs despite 48 wins.

Game 4 is scheduled for 7 p.m. ET on Sunday, and the Spurs will have a chance to broom the Lakers out of the playoffs in it.

As usual, the Cardinals are already out of the playoff picture, but at least wideout Anquan Boldin had a very good game — following a very bad one.

A couple of weeks ago the Jazz were looming out of the playoff picture, they've home court advantage on the first round right now... I'd say just enjoy the moment and free yourself from worries.

Now, the Broncos have slipped out of the playoff standings all together, one game behind the Dolphins for the sixth seed, and two games behind the Chiefs.

In what was billed as a showdown between two of the best teams in the NFC, the Falcons looked every bit like the No. 1 seed, but the Giants looked every bit like a team stumbling its way out of the playoffs.