Sentences with phrase «pointing blame game»

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Amid the toughest stretch of the Cavs» season in which the team has lost five of their last six games, blame has reportedly been passed around the locker room, with players pointing fingers at each other, the coaching staff, Cavs ownership, and most recently, Kevin Love.

On from his future, the midfielder added that he felt his side played well enough to get something out of the game, refusing to blame the referee for granting the penalty which denied his side any points from the match - up.

I have recently written a post about Arsene Wenger blaming the referees for all of our lost points and ignoring the poor form of our defenders and strikers, and as soon as I posted it I found another quote from Wenger after last night's Chelsea game where he actually thinks the team is fantastic!

Kentucky's players may not watch much tape, but SI undertook the project of charting all 815 minutes and 1,299 possessions from their first 20 games using the Defensive Scoresheet method from statistician Dean Oliver's 2003 book, Basketball on Paper — which assigns credit or blame (either full or fractional) for forced misses, points yielded, turnovers created, fouls and rebounds — in order to create individual defensive ratings.

Despite scoring less than 20 points in 10 of their games (only teams worse were the Bears and the Browns), the stupid fans and the media insisted on blaming the defense.

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But we haven't challenged for the PL title for many years, and these are the problems, that we seem to have constantly: 1) We are letting in too many goals 2) «Physical teams» often seem to be able to beat us 3) We always loose too many points in the internal games against top opponents 4) We always have too many injuries 5) We have many matches, where the team seem unmotivated for at least one half In a single match or even a few matches, you can blame individual players or even the whole team for problems like the above.

While I do blame him for certain things, like favoritism towards certain players, I also recognize when it's his fault we lose games, and when the fingers should be pointed towards other individuals.

It's to the point where we've turned the Blame Brooks game into a spot.

A lot of fingers of blame have been pointed at the big centre forward Olivier Giroud for missing a few chances in that game but as reported by the Evening Standard, the man who used to score the goals for Arsenal does not agree.

It was his first 3 point make of the game, so can you blame Stevens for letting his guys allow him that shot from a foot behind the line?

Following the 3 - 2 defeat to Stoke City at the Britannia stadium, the Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger once again blamed the defeat on the Gunners» defensive frailties, whilst also pointing out the several casualties that were unable to start the game.

My point is, the reason we are playing poorly is not because we do nt have a proper DM so stop blaming wenger for not buying a DM as if a DM will start winning us games!

As the dust of Arsenal's Champions league exit continues to settle and with our weekend game against Newcastle fast approaching, a lot of fingers are still being pointed in blame for our cup exit, and Wenger continues to take the customary hammering from the pundits and fans, in spite of our amazing win at Monaco and our superb League form.

Some fans think in football only their team has the ability and right to take the full points hence if doesn't go in their favor they start the blame game.

What I didn't like was Jack saying after the game that he takes the blame for dropped points because of that effort he skewed.

I'm a realist and I use facts when I'm making a point, I will not be blinded by beating a woeful Watford team while the likes of Man City, Chelsea and Man United have won their first 3 games, I call celebrating a win against Watford as if it were Barcelona delusion not euphoria, it's fan like you who are pleased with 4th place and not winning the league in 12 seasons who are also to blame for Wenger thinking he's doing a favour to Arsenal by still being at the club!

Blame it on arsene and the AKbs that watch the games at emirates, it was pathetic hearing them sing praises while we played newcastle at the emirates, this season we struggle to beat mediocre teams like burnley, c.palace and qpr and we FAIL to beat the big boys (as usual), even leicester and hull got a point from us, Arsenal is finished.

Its still the most blame on Malone, not playing Jokic as the focal point of the offense most of the season, the first part of the season, all those available games to win.

Even though I think that Arsene Wenger was right to lay a lot of the blame for Arsenal losing away to Man City before the international break on the referee and his assistants, the fact is that we have now faced three of last season's top six and have earned just one point from those games.

But prior evidence, particularly games against the fellow top six sides under Jose Mourinho, quite clearly points to systemic issues across United's attacking setup which undercuts the blame that is willingly shoved on the Armenian.

Along the way, Warnock points the finger of blame at: Gareth Southgate, Rafa Benàtez and Alex Ferguson, for all playing weakened teams in their respective clubs» matches against United's relegation rivals; the officials who allowed West Ham to win at Blackburn with a «goal» that didn't cross the line; Times journalist Pete Lansley, for upsetting goalkeeper Paddy Kenny by asking about his troubled personal life in an interview; the FA («rank amateurs»), for not punishing West Ham for fielding two ineligible players, Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano; and finally David Unsworth, for contriving a costly penalty miss for United against Blackburn midway through the season but then scoring from the spot at Bramall Lane for Wigan in the game that sent the Blades down at the Latics» expense.

It wouldn't be wrong to blame Corey Stoll's disastrously broad turn as Darren Cross or Peyton Reed's middling direction or the high - stakes - but - not - really storyline — Pym's technology is constantly revered as game - changing — but it's really all of these things, all pointing to the project's troubled past.

No longer will elected officials be able to play the blame game for the state of schools - pointing to one of the members of the School Board they did not appoint.

At one point, Sudhir critiques psychotherapy, suggesting that such «mollycoddling» is simply a blame game that keeps people from taking responsibility for their...

But who should take responsibility for that is at the heart of the latest round of finger - pointing in an ongoing blame game between some franchisees and their corporate parent.

Who should take responsibility for that is at the heart of the latest round of finger - pointing in an ongoing blame game between some franchisees and their corporate parent.

Edit: I would also like to point out that I can't believe anyone can honestly blame Sakamoto alone (who has been responsible for tons of great games over the course of his career including Rhythm Heaven) and meanwhile think Team Ninja bears no responsibility at all with how the game turned out.

Rather than talk about the root causes or psychological aspects of these events, Grossman instead took the opportunity to point blame at «the sick movies and sick TV shows and especially sick video games around the planet that are creating sick, sick kids.»

To point to the developers as if the lack of DLC or double XP events are to blame seems a little unfair when even games that do all that stuff have the same problem.

Years ago it was «kids rock music» thats what most of the aby boomers parents said, now that they are older & realised that was a bunch of BS they want something to blame & they are point at video games.

Tabata claims that the shift in the game's platform is largely to blame for the game's long development cycle, saying that the game is only around 55 % complete at this point.

It's hard to blame the judgment segments for this, as cooking successful meals is the point of the game after all, but either shorter pre-game segments or more challenges throughout the game could have alleviated this admittedly nitpicky issue.

In retrospect, it's easy to point the blame at SEGA for surprising its retail partners and third - party developers, but hey, the video game business is dog eat dog, and if you can't handle an audible and getting shit done early, you probably won't stay in business very long, just ask KB Toys.

I can't blame anyone for asking, because Nintendo's hybrid device is the hottest gaming ticket on the market right now, and even though I was never a fan of the original game, the idea of being able to use the motion controls and HD rumble to perform brush - stroke attacks, and solve puzzles could easily prove to be a huge selling point for the game on the Switch.

It's always easy to point the fingers when discussing their recent sagging sales figures in certain departments, but Ninty President Satoru Iwata continues to take the high road and lay the blame squarely on the need to make better games to entice more consumers.

To a certain degree we can't blame Ubisoft entirely, Ezio is probably one of the best game creations we've seen in the last 10 years becoming iconic to the point that he's as recognisable as Master Chief.

«Regardless of who is to blame here, this major misstep knocks at least 20 points off the game's overall score, though my initial knee - jerk reaction had me subtracting even more.

While that vague summary can be partially blamed on the fact that much of Lost Legacy's finer story points rest squarely in spoiler territory, it must be said that the game's overall narrative isn't quite as engaging as Uncharted 4's.

But, as Elizabeth Economy recently pointed out, a fervent blame game doesn't help.

Avoid playing the blame game - Things will go wrong at some point and the cause will be somebody else.

She describes three main argument patterns among couples: # 1: «Find the Bad Guy,» basically a fingers - pointing, blame - one - another game; # 2: «The Protest Polka,» the more one person approaches, the more the other one turns away, often through numbing out or detachment; and # 3: «Freeze and Flee,» which is when both partners run away from each other.

When we are caught in the blame game we are all the time busy pointing out what's wrong about our partner and how they need to change.