Sentences with phrase «play small ball»

«I didn't run for governor to play small ball,» said Ducey.

Coach Jay Wright didn't necessarily play small ball, but he was comfortable fielding an athletic lineup without classic big men.

Why teams don't play small ball to get a W for the team rather than stat pad I'm not sure.

We know when the playoffs come we have to play small ball.

«Any golfer who has the chance,» he said, squinting around at a small lunchtime gathering who had come out to watch him play a practice round with Partner Sam Snead, «should play the small ball every time.

Now they play small ball — with Francis, Mobley and jump - shooting power forward Maurice Taylor as the primary options — yet still match their opponents on the boards, a remarkable feat in the West.

We don't have wing depth to play small ball for lot of minutes.

More wings that can defend multiple positions, play small ball 4 and don't need the ball as Lillard, McCollum and Nurkic are going to eat up all the shots.

Real leaders don't play small ball.

Branson doesn't play small ball; he swings for the fences.

It is also a function of the stage of much of our careers where we aren't interested in playing small ball with incrementalism on how to squeeze out an extra 5 % of margin by optimizing the Internet slightly better.

We do not nearly have the personnel for playing small ball as the Warriors do.

Molding his baseball teams in the image of his basketball squads, Herrera played small ball before it, too, had a name.

Or when he plays the small ball five next to Kuzma.

Villanova plays small ball and doesn't have a rotation player taller than 6» 8.

I know some investors in their 70's that played small ball when they could have sold an traded up.

Not exact matches

Pippen, on the other hand, was a late bloomer who played college ball at a small NAIA school via a work - study grant, not a full ride at a big time school.

I'd like to go on record as being skeptical that everyone is going to play a bunch of small ball.

When Arsenal plays against smaller teams, we somehow manage to win the ball back, but playing against biger teams we play like basketball, leting the enemy attack and hope that they do nt succeed in scoring, rather then us winning the ball back.

So the two options would be Bledsoe / Brogdon / Munford Bazemore / Belinelli Khris / Snell Giannis / Jabari (w / Khris playing some 4 in small ball) Dedmon / Henson

if you are going to cut it at barca, you better be excellent in pocession, ball skills in tight space... he did not cut it, problem is we need the same skill set in our style of play, alexis would fit most systems, we rely on ball handling, crisp passing, small spaces, now he is struggling....

The four - wall version is played by two men locked inside a 20 - by -40-foot room, off whose walls, ceiling and floor they slam a small, black rubber ball at speeds up to 100 mph.

I understand I'm playing with small samples here, but it does look as if, at least in the short term, Story has made adjustments and is putting the ball in play a lot more.

Olden and Bane are too small to play small forward for long stretches and not good enough ball handlers to run point against pressure defense.

JD pretty can only play power forward and maybe center in a small ball lineup.

Despite only playing 23 minutes a night with the Lakers (they wanted to go small ball with Randle at Center), he averaged 1.3 blocks per game which is good for 15th in the NBA.

We played like a small team with big balls against a big team.

He is able to pinpoint the start of his obsession because, for some odd reason, a picture in the 1924 Spalding's Base Ball Guide, which shows Herb Pennock being struck in the small of the back during a run - down play, throbs hauntingly in his mind.

Swansea keep plenty of the ball plus that is a stupid concept that playing at a smaller team makes you less clinical.

Only martial and smalling played better for Man U this season (whoscored) he is good on the ball and good in the tackle.

Rookie Lauri Markkanen will now be thrust into a starting role, and the Bulls will end up playing second - year wing Paul Zipser as a small - ball power forward more.

Do we play Ingles as a small - ball 4 and risk Melo raining 18 - footers all game and giving Adams tons of great ORB chances?

He can play vs small ball lineups IMO.

But when we play the small teams we can't have Xhaka and Coquelin keeping it safe and passing sideways balls to fullbacks.

Any kind of George / LeBron / Ingram or George / Leonard / Ingram trio is going to work, even if it's Randle that has to play the small - ball 5.

«People have told me I'm too small to play Division I ball,» he says.

I'd like to see him play a little small ball 4 in the PJ Tucker / Luc Richard Mbah a Moute role.

This week, I was inspired by The Ringer's Chris Ryan using a poker metaphor to tweet out Jonathan Tjarks» article about Markieff Morris playing the five in a small - ball lineup for the Wizards, a topic I've also written about in a previous Tip - Off.

There are other small DBs that overcome their size with feisty play and phenomenal ball skills at the point of catch, but Ward truly does get bullied by average - sized receivers let alone the bigger guys he'd see in the pros.

Xhaka, who I like, or at least I like the Xhaka who plays for the Swiss national squad, has shown to be in way over his head in the premiership... of course he showed late in the year that he can stretch the field with the long ball but our squad isn't really set - up for that style of play... most of his long passes are in the air not on the ground and our squad without Giroud, which should have been sold the minute the transfer window officially opened, is one of the smallest in England... we need someone who can pick out the runs of our forwards in the lanes and who is fast enough to come forward into space without conceding his defensive responsibilities... we rarely see him shoot or even be in a position on the field to do so, we rarely, if ever, see him used for set pieces and it appears that the only person at the club who has ever coached him up when it comes to tackling is Coq, which explains his atrocious disciplinary record... maybe it's me but didn't you see him coming in and contributing more from an offensive perspective, with his killer left foot, than a deep - lying midfielder... if that wasn't the case we are the stupidest team alive for taking him over Kante

Young is a small - ball power forward who plays 20 - plus feet from the basket and started his career at small forward.

Laca has proven that he is capable of being selfless playing smart balls even when there is an opportunity at goal (albeit a small one).

Similar to baseball, softball follows pretty much the same rules as its other American cousin but is played on smaller pitches and the ball is bowled under arm!

Arsenal's Player of the Year accepts that he and his team mates are smaller in general than City and Chelsea, but he also feels that the way we play means that agility and trickiness on the ball is just as important, as revealed in an ESPN report.

Without hold up play from OG we cant transfer ball and play our possesion game, cuz our smaller players cant hold ball against big CDM - s Walcott played as CF few minutes, and i ve noticed we did nt cross any ball we just circled arround, we neutralised ourselfs.

That's why Van Dijk looks so appealing to me, that and he's a ball playing CB which our teams look for, but this is one who's not small and he likes the physical test.

North Texas small forward Tony Mitchell (scouting report) could be a hybrid forward that is similar to Anthony but quite capable of being paired with the All - Star considering the Knicks» ability to play with a small - ball lineup.

«We'll have to be good at our small ball and just playing together as a team.

We played like a small team with big balls yesterday and we have been doing that for 14 years.

I'm especially surprised seeing Blind playing CB I never thought I'd see Mour go with a small ball playing CB who isn't even in his right position, seems more like something Arsene or Pep would do.