Sentences with phrase «playoff run year»

I playoff run this year.

Make a deep playoff run year 3 and potentially a cup to show that your coaching developed the players and earned the wins.

Truth be told they've had tough matchups to start both Playoff runs each year and it's only a matter of time until they get a break in terms of seeding..

Not exact matches

Two years ago we came off a non-playoff year, made the playoffs, and ran into a Caps team that was significantly, dramatically better than we were, and we lost.

Arsenal took on Besiktas in the 2nd leg of their Champions League playoff tie against Besiktas last night, needing an outright win to progress through to the group stages of the competition for the 17th year running.

Adam Wainwright didn't have a deep playoff run last year.

The Knicks made the playoffs just once in his 4 1/2 - year run, which ended after the 2007 — 08 season; a fellow team executive sued Thomas for sexual harassment in 2007, costing the team's parent company $ 11.6 million in a settlement; and Thomas was hospitalized after overdosing on sleeping pills last October, a tabloid drama heightened when he told reporters it was his 17 - year - old daughter who was treated, not him.

AS: Finally, other than being fantastically hydrated w / GT all year long, what's going to set your Team up for a great Playoff run?

They've won Playoff Games in years past and were ready to go on a run..

The Jets had a nice playoff run last year, and Mark Sanchez has gained an additional year of NFL experience.

They are as talented as any Group in the League and this coming Playoff run is basically two years in the making after last year's was cut short..

Team Holzman is no stranger to that role though as they started with a lower seed last year and then went on to upset a few Teams during their Playoff run.

It was going to be their biggest win of the season and a nice taste of redemption after many Playoff run - ins a year ago..

They also showed off their volleyball prowess, which was on full display, a year ago during their Playoff run.

With 4 to play they are just 2 Games Back of getting to the much heralded 7th seed and would be in an extremely familiar position to the one they found themselves in at the start of last year's Playoff run that ended with them in the Championship Game..

I want to share a bit of a All Sports Series history before I say good bye to Team Graham for 2013 — There have been plenty of Teams throughout the Years that were near or at the bottom (some who did not even qualify for the Playoffs) who turned it around and made runs to the Final 4 the very next year.

Team Kaplan has been plagued by depth issues all year as injuries have crept up but they managed to get to full - strength just in time for their Playoff run..

The amount of upsets in this year's Playoffs have eclipsed just about any Playoff run we've ever seen in All Sports Series..

For Team Shamberg, this upcoming Playoff run is really two years in the making.

There are plenty of reasons why Kansas City is in the playoffs for the first time in four seasons: the maturation of second - year coach Todd Haley, who was the offensive coordinator for Arizona when it reached the Super Bowl; the addition of respected coordinators Romeo Crennel (defense) and Charlie Weis (offense), who won Super Bowls as assistants with New England; the NFL's best running game; a solid defense; and extensive contributions by a deep rookie class.

If you want to win and go to the playoffs every year, you must run the organization on a football model, not a business model.

Just something to ponder, but I don't feel that same Rip City passion I felt even two years ago during the Cinderalla 15 - 16 second round playoff run.

The fact that everyone on the bench saw this play, most everyone on the ice saw the play, or at least saw Staal crumpled to the ground is a testament to the lack of heart and gutlessness this team has displayed all year, and pretty much throughout the tenure of this playoff run.

After winning a second title in two years, how do the Miami Heat's three playoff runs compare?

The Chargers would have been in the playoffs this year with a decent kicker and need to fill just a few holes to be truly competitive for a championship run.

A run to say, the College Football Playoff, would be unlikely, but after struggling so badly last season, a year when it finished 4 - 8, winning most of those games would be a nice achievement.

I'm saying if you have multiple years of winning and multiple years of playoffs and a decent playoff run or two, that's much different than a team making the playoffs for the first time in years.

On one hand, the injuries have really killed any chance at playoff runs the past few years.

The Playoffs, which have become a resounding success after some uncertainty in their nascent years, primarily run concurrent with football season and obviously become overshadowed for TV and among even the most ardent golf fans.

Lilly was huge for the A's in last year's playoffs against Boston, throwing a memorable game at Fenway Park in Game 3 (seven innings, two hits, no earned runs, no decision) and adding two shutout innings in futile relief two nights later.

And you can forget about Ismail's playing for Toronto and L.A. in the same year (the CFL season runs from mid-July to early November, not including playoffs).

Running for almost as many yards as his quarterback Christian Ponder has passed for this season, Peterson has been the driving force for Minnesota's offense on route to an unlikely playoff birth, just a year removed from a 3 - 13 season.

The year after that we were bad and wouldn't have made the playoffs without the Hammond run (which led the team to, once again, declare they were ready to compete again!).

After a stellar regular season — he finished a close second to the Dodgers» Hideo Nomo for NL Rookie of the Year — Jones played even better in the playoffs, hitting.364 with three home runs and eight RBIs in 14 games.

The Indiana Pacers made a nice run in this year's NBA Playoffs and are expected to be a little more potent with a healthy Danny Granger in the lineup next year.

They are hoping that if they make the playoffs again or even a deep run they can get those long time fans back that were upset when they left all those years ago.

The Titans made a surprising run to the NorCal semifinals a year ago after losing in the section final, but hope to take things farther this year with some home games in the NorCal playoffs.

On the flip side, Nova pitched years beyond his experience giving up just two runs over 6 1/3 innings in his playoff debut.

And as the No. 48 team demonstrated last year, when it struggled for much of the regular season with Johnson going through a career - long 24 - race winless streak before embarking on a title run, there is still ample time to correct any issues before the playoffs begin.

We were decimated by injuries and had no recievers yet last year we still we were in the running for the playoffs until the end of the game at the end of the year.

I loved that he called up a rabbi in 2004 to see if he should play on Yom Kippur during the playoff run that would result in the team's first World Series win in a million years.

even after he turned in his best season in a very long time this year, he's really turned his game up in the playoffs and really also in the last couple of weeks of the season, it was just easy for the rest of the league to overlook those last couple of weeks because the run up to the playoffs were so intense this year

The three - year varsity junior was the only freshman on Sanders» 2015 varsity squad and made major contributions to last year's run deep into the state playoffs.

Or will Detroit's run of 24 straight years in the playoffs end?

If I was in their shoes and didn't need to save my family for poverty or w / e, I would go to a kickass team to be well - coached and make deep playoff runs, and in 3 years get paid a hell of a lot more.

Seattle moves to 6 - 5, above.500 for the first time this year, and have positioned themselves well for another run at the playoffs.

Yes, it's not going to be a team that can be walked over like Miami or Cinci, but I thought the stated idea was to get the young core a solid year under their belt, while looking towards a playoff run in 2019?

After a miraculous run to the finals in 1996, Florida missed the playoffs last year and, in keeping with an ugly trend in pro sports, put all its effort during the off - season into building an arena instead of a team.

Couple years of fun playoff runs and then we are protected when Pierce, Garnett and DWill suddenly gain weight and stop trying.

Westbrook didn't have a glorious playoff run in him a year ago after carrying the Thunder on his back in such an extreme way.