Sentences with phrase «up point guard»

Raymond Felton is solid as a back - up point guard, but Jerami Grant, Alex Abrines, and Josh Huestis aren't exactly shot creators.

In fact, Utah is actively trying to shore up the point guard position before Hayward makes his decision, per Wojnarowski, in hopes of keeping Hayward in the city that drafted him.

I don't think Patty's contract is that bad, keeping in mind that he's an excellent back up point guard; I bet he's trade - able if the Spurs wanted to.

AND a toxic contract (Gasol's $ 24.5 Million)-- for a low maintenance, efficient player that is one of the best 3 - point shooters in the League (Porter), a do - everything, tough, plug and play Power Forward on an incredibly team friendly contract (Morris), and an efficient, gritty, low turn over back - up Point Guard that shoots over 47 % from three and defends his ass off.

With the right coach and teammates, he could turn into a top - drawer back - up point guard.

On the flip side, Clippers back - up point guard Eric Bledsoe has been coveted by a number of teams who believe the former Kentucky Wildcat is a star - in - waiting.

This gets the Bulls the best second round pick, up five spots in the first round and the overpaid back - up point guard of the tank... Win / win or not so much.

The Michigan State student section came up with a clever way at getting to the head of Michigan's back - up point guard,...

The Grizzlies need help at back - up point guard and center, though power forward could also be a running concern as Darrell Arthur will become a restricted free agent on Sunday.

«Livingston is one of the better back - up point guards in the NBA.

But now, Maynor is back and ready to continue his rise as one of the league's best back - up point guards.

Not exact matches

Ball had seemed like the obvious choice for months — a flashy, pass - first point guard who grew up in Chino Hills, California, and starred at UCLA.

It's getting to the point now that, far from feeling like I am on the front lines battling dogma and superst.ition, I feel like I am mopping up the remaining pockets of resistance to logic and reason in a boring rear guard action.

Security forces would guard 200 water collection points where residents can pick up 25 litres (6.6 gallons) daily if the tap cut - off occurs, authorities said.

I spent my childhood cheering for the most entertaining point guard in the history of the NBA — yeah, Iverson — and my Grandmom still lives in the same South Philly row house my dad grew up in.

At 6» 6, Brown came up as a point guard.

Case in point: Soon after guard Jeff Buckey is picked up in the expansion draft, Palmer asks him why the Miami Dolphins had given up on him and exposed him to the draft.

The Rockets may seem weak at point guard, but it's the simplest position in Jeff Van Gundy's offense: Bring the ball up, pass to Tracy McGrady or Yao in the post, cut to the opposite side for a spot - up three - pointer.

Just because he's a point guard that put up 24 a game doesn't mean he wasn't a point guard.

The 6» 4 point guard has hit 44 percent of his threes the last two seasons and is putting up a career - high 5.4 assists this year.

Teams will yield pull - up mid-range attempts and floaters in this day and age even to the best shooters, but it's important for point guards to have that ability in bail - out situations.

Take George Hill, the veteran point guard who was acquired from Sacramento to shore up their defense and bring stability to their offense.

Hollins often went with double point guard line - ups behind T.A. to help soften the team's lack of shooting.

If you do the math, that's a 27 - 49 record (big ups to Bryan Crawford for the stat) against the five best point guards in the NBA right now.

Big point guards tend to hold up well over time, even ones that looked mortal while dealing with ankle pain.

Holiday's point guard at the time was Anderson, who will backup Darren Collison this season while Lee backs up Josh Shipp.

The Blazer point guard dropped the ball off to Batum, whose skip pass lined Williams up for the go - ahead three.

It reveals an agile seven - footer whose turnaround jumper is accurate up to 20 feet; a heady player who discourages double - teaming with canny passes; an outstanding athlete who has somehow figured out the exotic fast - break passing strategies of point guards Mark Jackson and Rod Strickland, both of whom never make a simple move when 13 complicated ones will do; and a defensive intimidator whose 3.7 blocks per game at week's end were second only to Olajuwon's league - leading 4.2.

The addition of head coach Ben Howland was likely the sealing factor in locking up Newman, a 6 - foot - 3 and 175 pound point guard.

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.

It seems so long ago that Boozer was a two - time All - Star with the Utah Jazz, set up with an elite point guard (Deron Williams) and an offensive system (Jerry Sloan's) that helped make him one of the best power forwards in the league.

Before long he's putting up video interviews with 6» 2» point guard Kyrie Irving of West Orange, N.J., and 6» 9» power forward Tristan Thompson of Brampton, Ont.

His role as point guard assures he's rarely bringing up the rear.

He was putting up his best performance of the postseason by scoring 26 points on 9 - for - 14 shooting and was also played a big role in limiting Knicks point guard Raymond Felton.

The perfect up - tempo point guard to bring the whole bouillabaisse together!

It will all come down to health — specifically his ankles — and whether or not he can keep up with the younger crop of point guards on the defensive end.

Not everyone on the Mavericks had a great game offensively, but Barea got a lot of help from Monta Ellis, who scored 31 points on 13 - of - 21 shooting, and Al - Farouq Aminu, who put up 16 points and 12 rebounds while often guarding James Harden.

In the final days leading up to last April's WNBA draft, Connecticut Sun coach Mike Thibault held a conference call with Lindsay Whalen, the University of Minnesota point guard whose iconic stature in the Gopher State had earned her the honor of being the first athlete in school history to have her own bobblehead doll.

So New Jersey put a clause in Cassell's contract, similar to one in Heat point guard Tim Hardaway's, to encourage Cassell to give up the ball.

With LeBron handling the point guard duties on top, Miami sets up a pindown screen involving its two biggest players in the corner.

At that point you would have a lot of money / resources tied up in guards who are 6» 4 or 6» 5 and kind of do the same thing.

Russell represents a conventional point guard, one who scores but maybe not efficiently enough, one who racks up assists but perhaps not enough to improve an offense by his mere presence.

... One key to the stellar play of Hornets center Vlade Divac (12.9 points, 9.2 rebounds and 2.2 blocks per game through Sunday): He gave up his habit of 10 to 15 cigarettes a day... After being traded twice in three days last month — from the Mavericks to the Nets to the Lakers — swingman George McCloud made only nine field goals in his first nine games with L.A. Twice this season with Dallas he made nine field goals in one game... «The pick - and - roll has been killing us,» says Kings guard Mitch Richmond.

The only bigs and point guards who can't be passed up are gone.

McCollum only had four points on 2 - 6 shooting, but a brilliant first half by sophomore Mackey McKnight more than made up for it, as the 6» 0 guard shot 6 - 9 from the floor, scoring 14 points.

The free agent point guard market is notoriously tough every year; Dell Demps, New Orleans» GM, has to understand this, and should respond accordingly by picking up one of the two top PGs expected to be available in this range.

On Monday night, the Rockets» small forward got in an altercation with Utah's John Lucas III, a backup point guard, and the two actually squared up before being broken up.

B.J. [Armstrong, Chicago's point guard], Pax and the rest of us really had to step up when Michael and Scottie were resting.

And to think, after the Titans used an unbalanced line with the right tackle lined up on the left side, a defensive linemen at fullback and had their right guard pull to the left for a kick - out block to get Jalston Fowler into the end zone on a 1 - yard run, all they had to do was dial up a decent two - point play and they would've had a good chance to make all that come true.

He spun his way through the paint like a point guard, yet reached up for hook shots like a center.