Sentences with phrase «plays strong defense»

After the most crippling possible start, the Cougars kept playing strong defense and, after three three - and - outs to follow the turnover streak, figured out some offense.

«They played strong defense.

They can struggle offensively, but they make up for it by playing strong defense and being a good rebounding team.

Not exact matches

They correctly assessed that they had the stick - handlers to utilize a consistent power play and their Defense was strong enough to keep the ball away from their Goal..

I think with Chamberlain injured, we can still play these formations and be strong in defense while also maintaining our passing and fluid football.

Liverpool — Henderson — Gerrard Real — Modric — Kroos Don't get me wrong, we absolutely need a pure DM for tough matches — but spending 25M + + for extra depth in that position is really luxury Vidal is a versatile all around central midfielder — If we play 4 -2-3-1, let him pair with either Ramsey / Carzola and we have a very strong midfield base in both attack and defense.

Any good manager would have a strong midfield in defense and attack allowing players to play in their positions.

Playing strong team defense and surging at the right time offensively, Wales — now at +800 on the odds to win Euro 2016 — have shocked the football world with their deep Euro 16 run thus far.

Outside linebackers Eric Striker and Geneo Grissom have combined for seven tackles for loss and five passes defensed in four games, strong safety Quentin Hayes has three sacks, and linemen Chuka Ndulue and Jordan Phillips are giving the OU line a play - making presence it hasn't had.

If Gausman and Bundy can be reliable pitchers, if Cashner doesn't regress, if Cobb can pitch a sub - 4.00 ERA with half his games in hitter - friendly Camden Yards, if Tillman can have a huge comeback year, if the bullpen continues to be strong, if Brach can be a solid closer until Britton's return, if Davis and Trumbo can find their batting stroke again, if Mancini and Schoop replicate last season, if Manny continues to be Manny at short and with his improved swing, if Adam is still Adam, if Beckham can learn to play defense at 3rd and be August - Beckham instead of September - Beckham at the plate, if the catchers can somehow do their part, and if the O's figure out their right field situation (and all of that put together is one big IF).....

It's a defense - first team with shooting and strong point guard play.

The formation was strong to Harrison's side, so this time they were trying to run away from him (to the defense's left), but it didn't make a damn bit of difference because he was still going to make a play.

all ramseys contribution came from middle, and if you look strenghts of our teams, like OG, his main attribute is header, how can you use his best when there is no one to cross and stretch opponent defense, i am sure we will beat Hull, but what will happened when we play strong defensive team, who will break their defense?

WIth play - action from zone or power - read, which you expect Dr. Bo will run several times, Ole Miss can suck in two - thirds of the Frog safety trio and get Engram or Vince Sanders isolated deep, where TCU hasn't been as strong on defense.

Hahahaha now someone is calling Petr Cech a double agent.I thought peeps were like Szczesny is shit he is this and that yes i would admit Szczesny costs us a lot but i was shocked no one felt sorry for a 19 year old keeper being thrown into such a shaky defense even petr cech must be saying in his mind that he is shocked.Let me tell you some go for Buffon or any other legendary keeper and put him in this current arsenal defense and he will still concede mad goals.But Szczesny and Cech both tied at highest clean sheets some seasons ago.Despite Cech having a defense which was light years ahead of this one and to me that speaks volumes about his potential.I love you very much Szczesny i refuse to be ignorant and call you shit what if you were 19 years at Chelsea and started playing i will bet you would have been catching for them.I love you come back stronger for me ok the pitiful thing is that you will meet the same defense again.By the way Cech will come good and stop comparing Ospina to him.

The roster lacks the projected NBA draft picks Florida State has had in recent years, but this is still a group of big, strong athletes that plays fast, gets you into foul trouble and makes momentum - changing plays on defense.

Peyton Manning shredded the Patriots pass defense, and while there was some strong individual play, you can't help but wonder what Manning could have done had the Patriots not controlled the ball so well on offense.

While playing the run strong, Seattle's defense looked gassed much of the game and committed a few stupid, costly penalties that kept Charger drives alive and the ball in their hands.

His head coaching career consists of: — 4 years CFB head coaching at Oregon with a Heisman caliber QB similar to Johnny Manziel in a conference that wasn't really that strong (playing in the easier division)... pretty sure they also had a god awful defense most of that time.

The reason for the Chargers» success has been the strong play of their defense and an explosive offense with Philip Rivers and Keenan Allen leading the way.

Wittman has proven himself as a coach on the biggest stage, making strong in - game adjustments, calling well - executed after - timeout plays, devising an offensive system that's lit up the vaunted Bulls defense for 108 points per 100 possessions and managing his rotation with few complaints.

Minnesota, on the other hand, continues to play to their identity as a strong defense with a solid run game, and faces a tough matchup next week with Seattle that should have some big playoff seeding implications.

He is strong in the tackle, he can attack, he can play as a box to box or even sit in front of the defense — and like Sanchez has that will to not give up.

2nd strongest in the sence that, they are not regularly played these days to be tested as the purported 1st strongest defense line are being played, test and have passed the exams with almost distinctions in 9 games.

The linebacking corps will be a strong anchor for the run defense, but a poor pass rush, iffy safety play, and extreme youth at cornerback will probably lead to lots of passing yards.

They played scrappy defense and held strong at the net.

Theo isn't a pass master like Ozil, he isn't a tricky dribbler like Alexis, he isn't tall and strong like Giroud... He has to play to his strengths and that is his pace which puts fear into oppositions defense.

Jameis Winston ($ 5500) is also underpriced against an atrocious Saints defense, but his high ownership rate means that he is a stronger play in cash games than tournaments.

When that team plays an opponent with strong three - point shooters, though, the zone isn't the ideal defense — but it's a long season, and a loss here or there isn't a killer.

I believe we don't have the striking power to break Chelsea, RM, BM, Barca, PSG, and even Utd (after improving their side)... Giroud is too handy against big experienced CB's and Walcott can not find his spot against deep and dense defense, Welback (I have hope in this guy) needs to step up his first touch, finishing, and hold up play... we need a wc striker much more than we need DM, because when Coq is fit (doubt that the case all over the season) we are fine in that department but ST even with all fit and inform we would find difficulties to break strong defenses (not Sunderland, WB, AstonVilla.

The Eagles had analyzed the Giants, put in one special play and revised others to take advantage of the minuscule weaknesses in the strong, wise and veteran Giant defense.

Because France play with quick tempo, sometimes they need players that could score with their heads and strong in the air, to break the opponent's defense.

I started googling way back in may who could we be buying gonzalo higuian, julio cesar and wayne rooney but realize going by history wenger just as no interest in buying world class players, he wants 2 buy d grade players and turn them up to koscienly nd nasri that will take years while da arsenal faithful pay handsome figures for dismal performances, fans allowed wenger 2 get away when he gets away with these lucky matches of fenerbache been strong on paper but a waste of tym on the pitch, also it happen at bayern but they put a slighty weak team but wenger runt his mouth around of how good da team was after that 2 - 0 win, not forgetting it was bould that got the team defense looking solid while wenger moan about referee decisions and no blame on team, I just feel we (arsenal) have allowed wenger and co to misuse us, so now our main target aim is benzema yet giroud plays more often than him for france, can any1 see how wenger is lowing our standards and expectations at arsenal, I wil be over da moon if wenger does not sign an extension wit us, after the gilberto days and disaterous results and teams we play, his approach to the game defensely which is pathetic and his annoying behaviour.So what if manu and chelski haven't really bought they are already strong it was seen last week now we should be worried about our selves since that villa defeat, jst imagine what the man's and london money maniac's are goin 2 do to us, I can see it already coming from wenger, if we find the right player we will buy him, after sept2, we didn't find da right player but the squad can challenge for the title, its so sick having 2 hear that crap, just take him psg, I just wish the fans would say we had enough of this bullshit transfer policies its time we stood up against these pigs of directors by protesting!

Not to forget, he will be eligible to play in the Champions League for the Merseysiders, who badly need a strong defense if they are to have any chance of winning the competition.

@ Annoyed, I also must admit that I slightly underestimated Boro, evn thou I was the one who used to mention to not do that here, I also agree with you about the suggestion of bringing the young guys up to get experienced for the next season.But franckly my friend, please watch the reply of the game again, The boro defense were so opened for an usual full attack Arsenal way of play.In the 1st half they were evn panicking evrytime we attacked of which we shoud have taken advtges but did nt happen.The more attack you launch on pressure to your opponent, the more chance you have for scoring a goal.And we did have the opportunity from the fact that Boro's defense were desorganised during the 1st half and the 1st 20mn of the 2nd half, counter attack launch opportunity were a lot but we just did nt take them, which means that Its us who did nt take our chance at best but not Boro is the good team.Hull city!!? i totaly agree that they are much stronger and physical team, as well as newcastl or westham or portsmouth or Avilla.But that game yestday was not so tight as the same we played agst those team tht I mentioned above, we could have clearly won that game if we played a bit stronger, did nt even need lots of our skill capacity but just a bit of acceleration, then we could have had more chance to score, watch the reply and u will see yourself.

However, you can also say that Giorgio Chiellini was the most critical center back for the team: although his presence only improved the defense by 3 percent, he played against a lot stronger opponent (59.9 points vs. 41.1 points).

Though largely fictionalized, this is a moving report of the defense of the Pacific Island base, with strong emphasis on the heroic gallantry of three Manrines, played by Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy, and William Bendix.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

Again, a strong balance of offense and defense is important here, but the action plays out more like that of the single - player mode than the multiplayer.