Sentences with phrase «star caliber»

The writing seems to have a few uniquely interesting ideas to it, but is so ham handedly written and poorly developed as to make most viewers shake their heads at how someone of Kevin Costner's star caliber and talent could have seen anything here to make him take the role.

A council of elders determined that a player worth around 5 WAR over the course of a season can be considered an All - Star caliber talent.

The Thunder have three all - star caliber players while also surrounding them with pretty good role players.

Jokic is clearly better player, he has to do more for his team, tonight triple double, while Nurkic is playing with the two an all star caliber guards.

Even if Durant missed significant time, the Warriors would still have three All - Star caliber players in Curry, Draymond Green, and Klay Thompson.

EVERY Western Conference team in the playoffs has at least 2 star (e.g.. All Star caliber) players.

Okay a win is a win Nurk dominated the likes of Cody Zeller and The rookie from Texas who makes toasters into computers Not exactly all star caliber talent I'm glad he had a good game but this game should never have been this close

All 4 of those guys play at an All - Star caliber level.

There's some big glaring issues but he has the potential to be an all - star caliber player if he improves his weaknesses.

I feel like people are disappointed because Hamilton isn't an all - star caliber player.

He was definitely above average in the MLS, if not All - Star caliber.

Lowry was having an all - star caliber year before suffering an illness that caused him to lose his starting job to Goran Dragic.

Taking a prep bat scares the hell out of me, but the org is fairly well stocked with high ceiling arms and has nothing in terms of star caliber bats.

Both teams feature All - Star caliber net - minders, however, at 12:43 PM eastern we sent out the following injury alert:

It's not like he's ever going to be an all star caliber player.

With a healthy embiid the sixers would've had likely two mid lottery picks and the # 3 pick this past year and sacramento's pick next year in addition to this year's lakers pick, that's plenty of more chances to add another star caliber player — whether that be through the draft or via trade.

In exchange, the Timberwolves receive Oklahoma City's 2018 first - round pick, shedding cap space to set up a big splash for an All - Star caliber point guard when free agency starts after midnight Friday.

Although they were unable to acquire Howard, the newly re-located franchise was able to re-sign key free agents in Deron Williams, Brook Lopez, Kris Humphries and Gerald Wallace, while adding an all - star caliber guard in Joe Johnson.

Meanwhile, the average Stanford recruit in that span had an average 247Sports Composite rating of 0.8862, nearly four - star caliber.

He has experience developing players being a G league coach and will demand respect as a former All Star caliber player.

Currently Robert can be seen helping save Americas struggling restaurants on Restaurant: Impossible as well as on the new season of The Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs, as he joins an all - star caliber group of chefs, including Anne Burrell, Michael Chiarello, Elizabeth Falkner, Alex Guarnaschelli, Chuck Hughes, Beau MacMillan, Spike Mendelsohn, Marcus Samuelsson and Geoffrey Zakarian, as they battle it out for the title of The Next Iron Chef!

Code continued: «This is kind of one of those instances where we needed to step and help one of our flagship schools... secure a five - star caliber kid.

Not exact matches

Netflix's appeal to Brangelina - caliber stars is growing thanks to its huge subscriber base, but also because the company offers a simplified compensation structure that takes out some of the risk of moviemaking.

These maestros, all trained at Michelin star - caliber institutions, are reshaping modern French cuisine in America.

There's rightfielder Bobby Bonds Jr. and DH Ozzie Canseco, stars by virtue of their Hall of Fame caliber siblings.

I don't care that they have Lebron, the position of managing a star of that caliber's needs and balancing that against the health of the franchise is not an enviable position.

While that hasn't been sorted out just yet, Manfred has publicly stated that Rose will at least be allowed to participate in the 2015 All - Star Game festivities in Cincinnati, the city where Rose put together most of his Hall of Fame - caliber career.

It was a panic buy first time he has paid out 42mil He is not used to paying big money for big stars like the top 3 managers he just buys very good ones and hopes to make them into world class Arsenal will not do well any year with his stubborn attitude, new blood is the go done well but not 2015 caliber now CB

Back in 1989, when the Yankees» clubhouse was run by Don Mattingly, Dave Winfield and several other All - Star - caliber, no - nonsense veterans, Randy Velarde — a timid rookie infielder from Midland, Texas — would hide in his locker, afraid to say the wrong thing.

Whether Philadelphia opts to use its picks, package them to move up, or package them for an All - Star - caliber player, the Sixers are in the driver's seat of their own future.

So I'm struggling to see the logic in Dabo giving up a national championship (a second straight one at that), a title without Deshaun Watson (which would help mitigate the «oh, Clemson and Dabo only won because they had Watson» crap), 3 years of a 5 - star NC - winning - caliber QB in order to....

keep (yes, keep, not even woo over but to keep) a 5 - star, potentially NC - winning - caliber QB in TL.

He can scheme the perfect game plan and get an MVP - caliber game from his healthy star, and all it takes is a scoring burst from Golden State's third - best offensive player to render that effort irrelevant.

Kappelhof is an all star - caliber centerback, but is not nearly as effective at wingback.

They were, in short, star - caliber subjects.

An international star and a staple of contemporary Asian cinema for nearly twenty years, Gong has offered awards - caliber work with performances in Kaige Chen's Farewell My Concubine and former beau Zhang Yimou's Raise the Red Lantern and Shanghai Triad, -LSB-...]

I'd say the true star of the film is Josh Brolin, who has proved in the past few years that he can do many things, such as giving an Oscar - caliber performance in Milk (which also stars Gangster Squad's Sean Penn), do an uncanny Tommy Lee Jones impression in Men In Black III, and proves here that he can dish up a good dash of old - fashioned rough - and - tough heroism.

Macbeth director Justin Kurzel is reteaming with star Michael Fassbender for the big screen adaptation of Assassin's Creed, and the caliber of talent involved has many hoping this really will be the video game movie that actually works for gamers and movie lovers.

It's truly a feat on the part of our stars, considering the depressing caliber of the many, many somethings they are forced to contend with.

And despite the caliber of actors willing to work with him, Kate Winslet, Susan Sarandon, James Gandolfini, Christopher Walken and Steve Buscemi all starred in 2007's «Romance and Cigarettes,» the film couldn't muster more than $ 557K at the domestic box - office after waiting two years to be released (and was poorly reviewed to boot).

With a busload of kidnapped high school students, a flock of powerful parents and a smattering of high - caliber stars, NBC's «Crisis,» which premieres Sunday, seems prepared to do what CBS couldn't with «Hostages» — create a high - octane, character - driven...

The public funded, by - the - bootstraps programming of the»80s and»90s, produced a seemingly endless wonderland of high - caliber, star - studded productions that, oh - so - cleverly, had education, not mere entertainments, at its core.

Generally, movie stars of her caliber refused to play unlikeable roles.

Perhaps that should not have been too surprising, considering the unusually higher caliber of talent at the helm: scribe Mike White, who wrote (and starred in) the 2000 indie hit Chuck & Buck and director Jake Kasdan, who made his debut with 1998's underrated Zero Effect.

Several archival featurettes appear on this disc discussing the history of film noir at Fox and the production with stars of such high caliber.

That budget can buy you a star of the caliber of Liam Neeson, but it can't make him do good work.

Having emerged as one of the most promising talents of his generation, his upcoming films are from Academy Award - winning directors and writers where he stars alongside actors of that same caliber.

Not that much could have elevated the silly script by Richard D'Ovidio (Thir13en Ghosts, Exit Wounds) to great heights, but it certainly shouldn't have played as a straight - to - video release at the hands of a seasoned director and an Oscar - caliber star like Halle Berry, who seems hell - bent on eroding her star appeal in throwaway roles.

The stars with whom he worked were thespians of the first caliber: Charlton Heston of «Ben Hur,» Ernest Borgnine of «Marty,» Yul Brynner of «The King and I» and Frank Sinatra of «From Here to Eternity.»

Germain called it this year's Blue Valentine, and while it doesn't quite have the caliber of performances of that movie (although Germain believes that Felicity Jones gives a star making performance, which is hard to argue), it will suck you in (and possibly spit you out).