Sentences with phrase «tanking teams in»

It certainly wasn't for the game: Sacramento versus Dallas, two tanking teams in a meaningless late - season matchup.

Not exact matches

The idea that Schefter is putting forth is that there was a team lower in the draft who found this information, and chose to time its release to tank Allen's draft stock at the last second to give that team a shot at snagging him.

While tanking has been a not - so - secret aspect of late - season game - planning for the worst teams in the league for some time, this year's tank looks to be the most blatant in NBA history.

Jeffries left the company last year amid tanking sales, and in the earnings call this week, the current executive team didn't have much of a strategy to revive the flagging brand.

In October, the Climate Leadership Team — an advisory group appointed by the government representing municipalities, First Nations, industry, academia, and think tanks — submitted its recommendations to the premier.

The beachhead groups were part of a larger constellation of advisers, including Oklahoma oil and gas mogul Harold Hamm (once considered for energy secretary), billionaire investor Carl Icahn (last seen shadily pushing for policy that would benefit his oil refineries), GOP energy lobbyist Mike McKenna (in charge of the DOE transition team), longtime climate skeptic (and hopeless dope) Myron Ebell, North Dakota Rep. Kevin Cramer (the oil devotee who supposedly wrote Trump's big energy speech last May), and Thomas J. Pyle, the director of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a pro-fossil fuel «think tank» which, as we shall see, has provided several Trump staffers.

On land or in water, our Field Services teams perform everything from sump and tank pump - outs, to tank cleaning requiring confined space entry and vacuum services, to building or site decontamination, large remediation projects and emergency response.

Pierre Bessard is president and executive trustee of the Liberal Institute, Switzerland's independent research and educational think tank founded in 1979, which he joined in 2007 and has helped expand with a new team since then.

Amazon's general counsel, David Zapolsky, had a lot on his mind last month when he and four members of his legal team visited the offices of New America, a liberal - leaning think tank in Washington.

But after Silver and the league changed the draft lottery format to inhibit tanking, the three - worst teams in the NBA will share 14 percent odds at the top pick.

They were without some of their big guns on Sunday Night but still had enough in the tank to win against Team Elrod.

How much gas would Team Purimetla have left in the tank?

Team Apuli had enough left in the tank!

As for Team Apuli the question is, how much do they have left in the tank after this slugfest?

The only teams worse in the NBA this season were six tanking clubs and the Clippers.

I will say 9 and 11 in the last 20 when teams are tanking and / or resting players for the playoffs (like the Rockets game) is less meaningful to me, so I don't buy into that as much.

There just no excuse why in a whirlwind of teams outrightly tanking we continue to lose lottery odds by winning meaningless games.

We'll see if any of the three teams tank in the last game of the season to avoid LeBron James.

Apparently, Manfred isn't a big fan of people using «tanking» to describe what's happening with multiple teams in the league, resorting to that old favorite of excuses — that this is «a cyclical sport.»

But with the way both seasons unfolded, you wonder how much either team has left in the tank.

If you expect us to field our top team in the coming 4 fixtures in a week and a half it is absolute delusion at it's finest if you think we'll have anything left in the tank at all against Spurs.

From his statements, we found out some new things, confirmed some things that were confusing, and saw just how deep in denial Manfred is when it comes to teams tanking (and the way media is covering such tanking.)

If you want to stop tanking in baseball — we're talking in the NBA sense, where teams intentionally set themselves up to lose, allowing them better odds at a top draft pick — the solution is simple: Make it so that the MLB Draft is an enigmatic mess, where thousands and thousands of working hours from scouts and executives lead to incorrect decisions to draft players who provide absolutely no value to their new franchise.

* also if the Preds and Jets meet in the second round, honestly how much will the winning team have left in the tank in the next round?

Perhaps it was a benefit of Atlético's hard - running style, maybe it was the result of Diego Simeone's training regimen that he enforces on the team, but whatever it was, as time in regulation wore down and went into extra time, it was clear that Atlético had much more left in the tank than Real Madrid did.

What is being called «tanking» in MLB is really just teams looking at the reality of their situation, both on the field and on their books, and realizing that dropping an extra $ 30MM on payroll for a FA or two will probably only add a couple of wins and it won't be enough to compete with the big market, big spending clubs.

That reform could lead teams in the Nos. 9 - 10 range in each conference to tank out in March and April, perhaps necessitating the play - in tournament!

You have 30 teams with the same goal of staying under the luxury tax, sharing the data provided by MLBAM's Statcast to help inform their decisions, in a post-Moneyball world where efficiency is king and tanking is viewed as the right thing to do if there is a chance the postseason is out of reach — this isn't a bunch of old rich guys smoking cigars in a dimly lit meeting room while Ueberroth yells at them about fiscal responsibility.

A younger team with no interesting in tanking — hello, Nets — should think about making a play.

This was never going to be a tank team if the Bulls were actually going to get a return on the investment they traded Jimmy for in the first place.

@John, at this point in the season we might as well have gamethreads for the 2 - 3 other teams trying to out tank us...

They were outfitted in the same cardinal - red tank suits they had worn on the old team, while the young swimmers wore a newer, flipper green and gold.

In a league where there are more teams tanking than actually trying to win, predicting the MLB postseason involves a lot less guesswork.

I expect them to be in the lottery, but I don't assume we'll see a tank race in the final weeks like we did this year among so many teams.

The goal of lottery reform is to even out the odds of landing the top pick for the worst teams in the league and to discourage tanking league wide.

While the new Marlins ownership group hasn't exactly instilled confidence in locals, longtime fans, or their own players, continuing to keep players on the roster who have repeatedly expressed frustration about being part of a team that looks to tank in 2018 and struggle to be successful for a few seasons after that would be escalating an already tense situation.

In a grit and grind kind of game that had to be decided in overtime, Team Hanessian just didn't have enough in the tank to pull off the victorIn a grit and grind kind of game that had to be decided in overtime, Team Hanessian just didn't have enough in the tank to pull off the victorin overtime, Team Hanessian just didn't have enough in the tank to pull off the victorin the tank to pull off the victory.

When it was all said and done Team Glass had just a little too much firepower in the tank as they won the game 47 - 33.

Team Watts just didn't have enough left in the tank.

They fought # 7 Team Shaffer tough but came up short and just had too little left in the tank for their 2nd Game # 4 Team Wells.

Samba still has plenty in the tank though, and would be a decent addition for any team battling relegation.

Team Wellek as they have during most of the Season was able to start fast here and the exhausted Team Mordini who had basically played 16 innings straight of 1 - run softball just didn't have enough in the tank to catch up..

Those 5 had just enough in their tank to hold off Team Rubin and win another one of the close games on Sunday.

Team Malvin just didn't have enough in the tank on Sunday night as the took a pounding from Team Hanessian, losing by 26 points, 96 - 70.

It slipped back to sixth in the constructors» in 2005, not helped by a race ban for an illegal fuel tank, and the team was completely taken over by Honda for 2006.

They will need to quell that momentum and then try to drain whatever their opponent has left in the tank as Kappa Sig 1 will surely be the fresher Team in this battle.

You aren't going to beat a squad like Team Lalez without going 100 % but at the same time, you need enough in the tank to win another Game..

Team Maione wasted little time in answering as Cody «keeps the play alive» Pantle hit Captain Frank «the tank» Maione over the middle for a score.

And ideally would get less than $ 15M per — but I am predicting a future that is authored by the idiots in the front office — so I expect his deal with look something like $ 19M — $ 18M — $ 17M — my hope is that they don't throw in the fourth season at $ 20M and / or they don't match some nonsense max contract from Brooklyn (or whoever)... as I note, I see Lavine is a net negative player who could put up impressive numbers on a bad team — good for the tank.

My sincere hope is 3 years, less than $ 60M so he can gone when its time for the team to contend — in the near term, he is a lowkey tank commander.