Sentences with phrase «than the regular season»

It's an impressive run that has the 26 - year - old scoring at a clip significantly higher than his regular season rate, even though it's nearly a half - season worth of games.

The speed and intensity will of course be a bit different than the Regular Season but they should adapt well.

Our data shows that since the 2005 - 06 season tipped off, playoff games have gone Under the total at a higher rate than regular season games.

«I probably watch 20 times more tape in the playoffs than the regular season,» he said.

Shot selection was better than the regular season as a whole but we still took too many midrange shots.

That is the way defense is played in the playoffs and the way the refs, for the most part, call the game differently than the regular season.

the game is faster than the regular season (even tho defenses lock down).

With these playoff games getting 3 - 4 times as many bets than a regular season game would, it's understandable that taking a contrarian approach does even better than it does in the regular season.

In fact, the 2013 GoDaddy.com Bowl between Arkansas State and Kent State received more bets than the regular season games between Alabama / Georgia, USC / Stanford and South Carolina / LSU.

I'm never in a position to buy them, but playoff tickets, and World Series / Finals tickets in particular, do cost significantly more than a regular season games.

Since bowl games attract between three - to - six times more bets than regular season games, there's typically more money from uninformed casual bettors entering the marketplace.

Of course, the postseason is a different animal than the regular season.

It's more offseason than regular season: it's a two - hour foreplay session with Kate Upton.

Not exact matches

«That gap between regular season LeBron and playoffs LeBron is bigger than any player in the league,» said one league source.

In the intervening years, I watched in disbelief as the Timberwolves struggled to win more than half of their regular season games.

Within two hours of Jeter's announcement that 2014 will be his last season, the average ticket price for the Yankees» last regular - season game — scheduled for Sept. 28 against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park — jumped more than 160 percent to $ 803.

According to TiqIQ, the average ticket price for Jeter's last regular - season home game has already reached more than 2 1/2 times the peak average price for the final home game of all - star pitcher Mariano Rivera, who debuted with the Yankees in 1995, the same year as Jeter, and retired last year after 19 seasons with the team.

His résumé is enough to justify it: two - time MVP, first unanimous MVP, scoring champion, NBA champion, best player on a team that won more regular season games than any team in NBA history.

«So far this year, we have converted more than 7,000 temporary employees in the U.S. into full - time, regular roles and we're looking forward to converting thousands more after this holiday season,» said Dave Clark, Amazon's vice president of worldwide operations and customer service, in a statement.

Especially during the Christmas season the prices can only go up — everyone wants to take advantage of the holiday craze I bet the Red, White and Green chocolate covered strawberries are even more expensive than regular ones.

I live in the Mid East - I grow my own fresh Zaatar leaves - then make the dried spice mixture later in the season - the actual zaatar leaves look like fuzzy thyme leaves - they grow closer to the ground, and are larger than regular thyme - delicious fresh in salads and roasted whole fish..

Not only does LoSalt have two thirds less sodium than regular salt but it can be used exactly in the same way to season and add flavour to food.

This is prime season for Meyer lemons, which are sweeter and more fragrant than regular lemons, but you can substitute standard lemon juice if you can not locate Meyers.

They led the world in DL time during the regular season, to the extent that manager Dave Roberts had to make more pitching changes than anyone else in baseball.

They'll have twice the amount of MVP candidates running their offense, a superior regular season record, and the comfort of playing in balmy Arlington rather than frigid Wisconsin.

Plus, in the case of this year, human voters and some computers determined that Alabama was a better, more deserving team than Oklahoma State, but Oklahoma State gets the nod simply because they didn't have to play LSU in the regular season and Alabama did.

Unfortunately for us fans, no league has locked its players out as often as this one over the last two decades — 1,698 regular - season games lost, more than major league baseball, the NBA and the NFL combined.

He's played 14 years in the NBA and has accrued more than 50,000 combined regular season and playoff minutes worth of mileage on the court.

Their game last Saturday was moved to Vanderbilt's 15,399 - seat arena, and though the NAIA doesn't keep regular - season attendance records, the capacity crowd (over 6,000 more fans than the NAIA tournament record) is believed to be the largest ever to see an NAIA game.

I would say get rid of Arteta at end of season and keep Flamini as a 3rd choice, he has the passion to wear the red and white and more than capable of coming on to sit alongside Coquelin to hold a lead if needs, he may not be a regular player for us but he can still fill an important role.

If Team Murphy can take care of business they, they have the Defense to make the Game with the Regular Season Champs more than interesting!

And last year: Cleveland finished the regular season with a defense even worse than this season's Cavs.

They'll face co-Division leaders Team Kozin and Team Goldin to close the 2014 - 15 Regular Season — they really have more say than just about anyone else in the League's final weeks.

There are other guys on the squad who are more than capable of putting the ball in the bucket and I think in the next few weeks they will get a bit more balanced which should help them as the regular season rolls on.

They were a Team during the Regular Season that let a couple of Ws they probably should have had slip through the cracks and because of that they come in seeded # 6 with a harder Opening Round Game than they'd like..

In fairness, Arsenal could do a lot worse than bring in the talented young Frenchman, who has not been a regular for Mourinho's side this season despite consistently impressing when brought on off the bench.

Yes, the Wizards showed they could dominate a team in the playoffs that swept them in the regular season, but those games they lost to Toronto were were more competitive than the ones they lost to Atlanta.

On paper this was supposed to be nothing more than a tune - up for the # 1 overall seeded Team AXO & Co. who ran through the Regular Season with huge Ws week after week..

While the percentage of regular season games that went Under this year (51 %) is a bit higher than the average since 2005 (49.8 %), betting every Under still would have lost just over 6 units.

Keep in mind this team lost on more than a couple occasions in the regular season.

For Team Schwartz, they exit earlier than hoped, but they finished the Regular Season in the top - half and played well in their Playoff Game.

The 2012 Runners - Up had a much more successful Regular Season in 2013 than they did in 2012.

On the bright side, these guys clearly have enough to play anyone in anything and better to a take a loss or two now and learn how to bounce back than coast through most of the regular season only to be derailed in November.

That's particularly interesting since the Celtics received less than 30 % of spread tickets just once during the regular season (November 25th against the Spurs).

They are going to improve as a Team more than most Teams in the back half of the Regular Season as again, they are just getting to know one another..

Team Hampton certainly deserved a better seed than the overall # 6 coming into the 2017 - 18 postseason, finishing the regular season with the fourth overall best record.

The Capitals» tortured playoff past — no Stanley Cups ever, no appearances beyond the second round in more than a decade with Alex Ovechkin despite great regular - season success — is not the story now.

Since 2005, favorites receiving no more than 40 % of spread bets have gone 547 - 503 ATS (52.1 %) during the regular season.

They hit a few more valleys than Team Lalez, but all in all their Regular Season ride was pretty great.

The SR crew have been more than impressive this Season and actually knocked off the # 1 Seed Team Sammy during the last night of the Regular Season.