Sentences with phrase «play defense as»

Juve play defense as a unit better than any other squad that I have seen in this tournament.

He can play defense as well with a 6» 10» wingspan.

Still, when you give up 50 points in the first half to a team that plays defense as well as the Mountaineers, it's hard to score enough points to keep up.

Not exact matches

«During the Trump Administration, we will shift from playing defense at the FCC to going on offense,» Ajit Pai said in December last year, a month before president - elect Donald Trump appointed him as the new chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Though his effort may wane on defense at times, and he preserves energy for a late postseason run — he's now played into June seven years in a row — part of it is that no player in the NBA carries as much responsibility as James.

The Department of Defense has only classified these figures once before — in 2015, when the Obama administration «was trying to portray the war in Afghanistan as all but over,» as the New York Times put it; today, the Afghan government appears to be playing defense, aDefense has only classified these figures once before — in 2015, when the Obama administration «was trying to portray the war in Afghanistan as all but over,» as the New York Times put it; today, the Afghan government appears to be playing defense, adefense, as well.

Seattle's defense played heroically as they helped the Seahawks win last week despite having more penalty yards than total yards on offense.

In football terms, we tended to play defense, as opposed to trying to score.»

The transformation afforded Mylan new protections under Dutch law, such as a takeover defense known as a stichting, which kicked in last week and likely played a role in pushing Teva away.

Traditional high - yielding stocks may not play proper defense in equity portfolios as interest rates rise.

But factors other than political ones were at play as well, including a big (5 percent) drop in shares of defense behemoth United Technologies after it announced plans to buy another company for what some analysts deemed an exorbitant price.

Interestingly, just as investors are rediscovering the value of playing defense, one of the classic ways to play that theme is starting to look more reasonable.

As Castelli later reported to Galileo, he «commenced to play the theologian,» and in defense of reconciliation of Scripture and the new science apparently acquitted himself well.

As it happened, the media, and especially the Globe, called the tunes, and the Cardinal and archdiocese were playing defense all the way.

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As everyone surely predicted, Texas A&M is a run - first team reliant on its backs, offensive line, and timely play from its defense.

Plus, though linebackers Tegray Scales and Marcus Oliver emerged as massive play - makers in 2016 — combined: 39 TFLs, 11 sacks, five passes defensed, six forced fumbles — Oliver is gone, leaving Scales to break in a new dance partner.

Right now we're looking set for 7th place, and despite the fact our defense is weak, we might sell a WC winner and play a LB as CB.

As regards our defense i won't blame the players too much for last night result, the manager is to be blamed for not fully prepared and playing players out of position, i think if the manager had called the players in a week earlier than he did, Mustafi at least would have been fit to play, but the result wasn't that bad as most fans make it seemsAs regards our defense i won't blame the players too much for last night result, the manager is to be blamed for not fully prepared and playing players out of position, i think if the manager had called the players in a week earlier than he did, Mustafi at least would have been fit to play, but the result wasn't that bad as most fans make it seemsas most fans make it seems..

The touchdown came on the next play, as Nicks made the Packers defense look silly.

It is the guy who feels Wilshere must be accommodated in each game as long as he is match fit, at roles that force other players out of their element — take a case study — Can you ask Welbeck to play in Defense?

I agree that at this point Mesut needs to go, but in his defense he hasn't played «central midfeild» as you say, all season.

@well they havent been as successful as under pep but did win treble season before this.hope the two madrids can stop them winning for nxt few season.but in reality, teams havent devised a formula to counter possession play other than defensing deep which risks teams like barca having chance to keep attacking.so until teams understand how to overcome posesion, they wil probably keep getting success...

trading away a non-PF that can't rebound and can't play defense but played as a PF (especially to close out games) ahead of Favors was the catalyst to Favors not feeling yo - yoed around.

The defense began to play more as individuals than a collective and got burned.

Playing as part of a defense that is more of a fit for his particular talents along with a starting role made Cornelius Washington an easy choice for the Lions» breakout player of 2017.

You could see Cech going out a few times and it kinda felt like he didn't trust the 3 players he had in front of him, who are not the regular 3 you'd see if everyone is fit for sure, but I thought for a makeshift defense we were alright, and thank god we didn't play Elneny as a CB.

The delay from chipping sometimes creates more space underneath when the defense is playing zone as the coverage continues to sink with the receivers who got into their routes right away.

Baltimore's offense played a bit sloppy, as usually sure - handed Ray Rice fumbled two balls during key moments of the game, but Lewis and the defense pressured the Colts» rookie quarterback Andrew Luck constantly and forced the highly - touted No. 1 pick into a slew of mistakes.

Davis was masterful on both ends as New Orleans played a harassing style of defense on stud Blazers guards Damian Lillard and C.J. McCollum.

Tomlinson may have been frustrated about the predictability of the offense — as fullback Lorenzo Neal says, «Guys on defense were calling out plays before we ran them, putting nine guys in the box» — and the lack of receiving threats.

The offense will have to step up again and the defense will have to play big in one of the most anticipated games coming up on Sunday afternoon as # 1 Team McNichols hosts # 2 Team Hanessian in a clash of titans that will ultimately determine once and for all who our clear # 1 should be!

As for DM, we could probably get anyone of these players, IF Wenger is interested and makes good offers: Krychowiak, Bender, Carvalho, Moutinho (CM but can play both attack and defense), Wanayama

As you see on this play, Alabama is playing man coverage on the three receivers and committing everyone else on the defense to the box to stop the run.

Against «Europe's stingiest defense» we could've out 5 past them, playing as awful as we did.

Laca, Auba, Ozil, and Mhki and maybe Ramsay too would in the mix, but I do not rate Wilshere as he is much too slow and unable to double back to play defense given his stature.

All that talk about how the Big 12 can't play defense and then they go in and have defensively the best performance as a group in America.

As if all those possibilities aren't enough to tax a defense, the quarterback can audible to virtually any offensive play out of nearly any formation by shifting the backs or receivers before the snap.

They proved that Joe Lee Dunn's blitz with almost everybody defense is still capable of many sacks and negative plays as well as giving up back breaking big plays.

As always a defense can not perfectly play all possible options the offense has, so it must give up something somewhere at all times, that is just the nature of the beast on defense.

One of the best plays there is for short yardage is to bring in your jumbo pack and go play action with the tight end blocking down and releasing as the entire defense converges to stop Gordon.

And while I'm more of the opinion that fancy stats in hockey are generally more indicative of a system vs assessment of individual players, and thus need to be taken with a grain of salt, (even in this case as you mentioned because you can assume the average save percentage is, to an extent, a function of the defense playing in front of a goalie) Lehner's GSAA is SUPER bad.

The words «transition defense» qualified as reasonable shorthand to describe the Cavaliers» play down the stretch of the regular season.

and Jimmy played as good defense as you can play on some of those shots, and LeBron still has the ability to make,» he said.

I like to see the other teams thought and opinions on the series going on, and I will always try to be as respectful as I can be, but this comment shows you don't know how the Blazers play defense... Kevin Durant dropped 50 on the blazers, and the warriors lost.

Arsenal Has NOT played well even in the games they won had they been playing a team with Good attackers they would have lost those games as well as the opposition had plenty of chances to score but failed to hit the target that is not down to good defense just the other teams was poor at finishing that Arsenal had a clean sheet.

The defense was as good as were capable of playing with the current limited roster.

Sometimes a group of 18 - 22 year olds, talented as they may be, runs into a team that plays really good zone defense and the players just sort of lose their damn minds.

As Miami's lone big when they play small, Bosh's speed in transition is a critical part of the Heat's defense.

I don't think he wanted to listen to coaches that were trying to convince him to play as part of an 11 - man defense instead of a 1 - man defense.