Sentences with phrase «than the box score»

At 16, girls meant more to me than box scores.

He's so much better than his box score stats indicate — he's behind only Damian Lillard on the team in on - court plus - minus.

Not exact matches

Suddenly, the freshness rating of a film became more important than audience interest in terms of success — even though data scientists have found that the score doesn't affect the box office.

Paramount's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot was one of August's surprise successes with $ 149.6 million in ticket sales, while The Walt Disney Company (DIS) scored the hit of the summer with Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, which broke the opening - weekend box - office record for August on its way to grossing $ 258 million in the U.S. and more than $ 500 million worldwide within less than a month of its release.

I think Cesc in the wing is also much better than ozil in the wings, can also play box to box or CAM can tackle put his body in the game, score goals from many angles and above all Cesc is an arsenal graduate we all remember how Cesc made our midfield so dominant in many games, we remember how he was during our barca game till he got injured lets not forget le capitan.

It is unfortunate that Bellerin appears too ofyen to take the wrong option to shoot from wide angle rather than squaring into the box to unmarked players; this has cost Arsenal a number of scoring opportunities in recent games.

I still remember how Overmars & Pires push the ball forward and finish it with a swift move... They often scored themselves before the box becomes crowded with opponents... rather than losing the ball inside a crowded box through an unsuccessful cross... Now every team in Europe knows how to hold Arsenal... Just defend with 9 players and leave ahead a fox in the box...

He looks his age, particularly when he dons a pair of glasses to study a box score, and perhaps more than ever his visage suggests a philosophy professor or perhaps a beat poet.

Of course, I'm not comparing Jack to Iniesta or even Rakitic, but box - to - box CMs score a lot more goals than playmakers.

Strikers score, defenders defend, midfield keep the ball and work hard Would rather have a striker who will gurantee goals than one who will run the whole pitch and be ineffective in the opposition box

A «last kick of the game» BS penalty call just made it seem more tense than it was if you are just looking at the box score.

You need a poacher in Bayern Munich, somebody who scores his goals in the box, rather than a Lewandowski who does everything.

This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style of play has become a shadow of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play of Monreal, but none of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that, of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack of mobility is an albatross around the necks of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits

My reasoning behind swapping those players around is because Cazorla I feel would be better at defending, he doesn't have 30 min quiet periods like Podolski and he has quick feet which would help him skip past a couple players to release Podolski... and Podolski is the best finnisher at the club according to it so we would want him around the box more often than not, he can score with his left peg if given space and the chance.

Sanchez is the better striker with a more all round game, scored with his head, scored from outside the box, scored tap - ins and made his own goals and that is only after less than half a season of playing the central striker position.

I am not in for this huge money benzema move but i'll be over joyous to see chicarito in arsenal shirt.he is still very hungry for success and very dangerous in the box, he will score more than 20goals in a season while ozil will have the highest assist.Real madrid took him on loan shows he is very good if not excellent yet.Meanwhile OG is just good not very good.

Our weak point in our team right now is our right wing (nothing agaisnt campell, just that recently we have created nothing there unless is bellerin doing runs) and our box to box, yesterday ramsey was no near to existence in the midfield, he was more concerned to score than to do what he should f * qin do that is connect the midfield with the attack, heck alexis did a better job doing that... Elneny did it alright vs burnley but I want to see him againsta PL side, and i reckon he can do a better job that ramsey has done in the last few matches

No matter how you slice it, you can't run an uptempo offence with Giroud on the pitch and that means sideways soccer and an over-reliance on crosses into the box, thereby negating many of the very reasons Lacazette was on your radar in the first place... we simply aren't clinical enough from wide positions to continue with that approach, which is why many fans have been clamoring for a viable alternative to Giroud for several years... once again this isn't an attack on Giroud, he clearly has some tangible skills, but his mere presence on the pitch greatly impacts your tactical options... Giroud's weaknesses are simply highlighted by the way in which our offence now moves in a more horizontal than vertical manner, which allows most teams ample time to regroup defensively before a scoring opportunity even arises... a player of Ibra's or Benzema's ilk would have been far more effective as they had size, speed and the first touch capabilities required to for intricate link - up play... once again square peg in a round hole

Stats don't give you all the details you need... For example: there was a time at that westham game that Ozil find himself in a better position to score right inside the box with no defender maulding him but he decided to pass the ball down to Ramsey who is outside the box... Sometimes Ozil find himself in a better position than the player he passes to... Stats will never bring that out... Ozil is just another Hleb with creating chances and no goals... I even prefer Hleb cuz he is a treat in every big games and a nightmare to defenders... Stop covering up Ozil and talk football the way it is.

if u go back to the Liverpool game, the positions Flamini placed himself was deep inside the box and he gives away too much space for a DM that was why we were so open, we need Ramsey scoring more than defending.

I am a ozil hater and think the team can do far better without oxil, I would like to add ozil and Ramsey must not play together, both have good attributes, Ramsey normally gets into the box from a far deeper role than ozil, but lack the defensive discipline needed In this high tempo game, ozil can provide opportunities to score, but hides from the work load in getting into, defensive cover when the midfield goes beyond him and pressing the opposition.

But score or not, the only other player who has a better engine than him, box 2 box, is Alexis.

Will we hit them with pace, or sleep for 60 minutes than kill them off in 10, or we will throw balls in the box and score headers.

We have no DM and we're missing the Ramsey of last season, who really made the transition from defense to attack work and his presence in the box allowed him to score more goals than he did before being stuck as a CM.

The Argentine looked a little imprecise at times early, and could probably have opened the scoring far earlier than he did had he made a run into the box rather than ball - watching when Federico Bernardeschi headed the ball across the box in the ninth minute.

It's not just about the box score with Luis - he hustles more than any player I've ever seen.

In a lively first half, some sharper play around the box should have resulted in more than the two goals they scored, and then... More Winning momentum continues as Arsenal scrape past Newcastle

In the last fifteen minutes, we sent in cross after cross to the box, and guess what, no Fellaini, who, by the way, scored our only goal, and on the day was slightly better than most of the team.

Arsenal scored just one fewer goal without him than with him, but they did so by increasing their finishing percentages in the 18 yard box, going from 4 % to 12 %.

Costa was more alert than anyone else in the box, turning it past Petr Cech to open the scoring.

We kept playing and then I made the changes to intensify the dynamic in attack and to bring [on] Marcus [Rashford] who is obviously a completely different player than [Juan] Mata and then we score and Marouane [Fellaini] to play instead of Micki [Henrikh Mkhitaryan] who had a yellow card to control the aerial space in front of our box.

Part of this problem could be considered to be that the most used central midfield pairing, Lucas Leiva and Charlie Adam, aren't particularly dynamic nor inclined to get on the end of crosses (of which Liverpool have had more, per game, than any other team in the league apart from Wolves — more of which, will be discussed later), so this only leaves a certain number of players who will be able to get into the box in the more rigid 4 -4-2 utilised for most of this season. Inspite of this, however, 58 % of Liverpool's goals have come from inside the 18 yard box, the highest in the league so far this season in terms of percentage of goals scored by each individual team, suggesting that this is the best avenue of attack for Liverpool, so the question has to be: why have Liverpool only managed to score 14 times, the 10th lowest amount of goals in the league?

So however divisive the online word - of - mouth may be (I still think the Rotten Tomatoes user score was a result of trolling, but plenty of smart folks liked the movie noticeably less than I), it hasn't yet affected the domestic box office.

Pushing a message as frothy as this one with points scored along political lines and with an almost complete lack of syrupy sentimentality to gum up the works, the film's inevitable box - office victory (penguins are more of a sure thing nowadays than Harry Potter) is cause for celebration, in no small part because Miller is one of the few directors who deserves the freedom to do whatever the hell he wants.

Both films were major hits, scoring more than $ 250 million at the worldwide box office each.

The Big Sick, this year's biggest Amazon - backed Oscar contender, scored only a Best Original Screenplay nomination, but it has also made more than $ 42 million at the box office to date.

Get Out is unequivocally one of the most celebrated films of the year — another massive box office success from Jason Blum's Blumhouse Productions, grossing more than 50 times its $ 4.5 million budget, and the owner of a 99 percent Rotten Tomatoes score.

In fact, the research (see the Teacher's Guide) outlines how project - based learning, the instructional model used in Projects From A Box, is likely to produce higher test ELA test scores than other approaches such as direct instruction when teachers implement the methods well.

When you look to the box score, the 2013 Honda Accord Sport racks up more points than the competition with a surprisingly luxurious cabin, a very smooth and controlled ride, and an incredibly refined powertrain.

Harry Potter film earned more than $ 974 Million in the worldwide box office and have been nominated for several awards including the Academy Awards for Best Costume Design, Best Original Score and Best Art Director.

Like most of our picks, Prosper's pre-approval process is also extremely simple, asking for name, address, credit score and income, rather than more obscure categories like «taxable income» that showed up in some of our finalists» sign - up boxes.

An update of the popular Burnout Paradise, the Ultimate Box managed to score an 89/100 on MetaCritic, with MEGamers claiming «it doesn't get any better than this».

Low crosses across the box are also terribly easy to score, making online a playground for those who want a cheap win rather than a fun game.

Finally, the smartphone runs Android 8.0 Oreo out of the box and seems to be capable of yielding around 270,680 points in the AnTuTu benchmarking tool, which is more than 100,000 points above the average score of the Razer Phone.

«Given that the composition of new homeowners is skewed to Hispanics and nonwhites, who have lower credit scores and have less income and less wealth than their non-Hispanic white counterparts, the tight credit box will inhibit homeownership even more going forward than it has in the past, unless we do something to correct it,» writes Goodman.