Sentences with phrase «winning basketball games»

Diana Taurasi keeps doing astounding things, and Connecticut keeps winning basketball games, and everywhere the junior guard goes she hears the same thing.

But for winning basketball games, it's not just about how many numbers a player can get.

«We all came together at the right time, we all made a decision that winning basketball games were more important than anything else,» coach Mike Davis said.

They have a few guys who can win a basketball Game for you including Captain Alex who we have seen perform Playoff heroics before.

So if you win a basketball game that is worth 15 points toward the Playoffs.

Their chemistry was real and it went way deeper than just trying to win basketball games.

We're starting to play good basketball and we're starting to win basketball games when we don't play good basketball, and that may be more important.»

It's like something out of Mad Max, but if Mad Max was about winning a basketball game and not eluding a killer post-apocalyptic motorcycle gang.

It almost seems cruel to decimate a roster that has already been decimated, but if there's anything the Sixers» Sunday night win over the Pistons teaches us, it's that on a long enough timeline, a team led by Thaddeus Young and Michael Carter - Williams is capable of winning a basketball game.

To win a basketball game, you have to get the ball occasionally.

During his introductory press conference, Cousins told reporters he was frustrated in Sacramento, praying for some help to win basketball games.

«We're just trying to win a basketball game against a really great team.»

You don't win basketball games by getting rid of your efficient players for worse players on expiring contracts.

The biggest thing we need to do is win basketball games if we are going to convince people we want to sign here in Free Agency.

Who wouldn't love getting their championship ring, winning a basketball game and...

I believe rebounding is the key to winning a basketball game.

Not exact matches

Those companies had thrived and won acclaim from the business press by providing so many perks — free food, basketball courts, video - game rooms, laundry services — that employees never had to leave the confines of the office park.

The U.S. Men's Basketball team is the most successful team in international competition, winning medals in all 18 of the Olympic games it's competed in.

Out of Context: This verse has nothing to do with dunking a basketball, hitting a game - winning homerun, bench - pressing a bus, winning the lottery or closing a business deal.

The regular season of basketball is done now, and we have our first district game on Wednesday and then Friday if we win.

This in spite of having won five NBA titles, dumped 81 points on an opponent in a single game, and ensured his place as one of the greatest basketball players of all time.

The Bonnies had won 99 basketball games in a row on their court in Olean, N.Y., but they ran into trouble with Niagara, the last team to beat them at home 13 years ago

PRO BASKETBALL — Ifthe Knicks were becoming guardedly optimistic about their chances of winningtheir first Eastern Conference title in 16 years, you could hardly blame them: In a 3 - 0 week, during which New York ran its home win streak to 13 games, itdefeated the Pistons, the conference champions, for the third straight time.100 - 93.

In the five days from Jan. 31 to Feb. 4, Kansas sophomore point guard Jacque Vaughn helped win two basketball games for the now No. 2 - ranked Jayhawks.

TIM FALLS Dublin — Basketball — Senior The explosive Montana - bound wing could affect a game in so many ways for the 29 - win Gaels team.

We have also proved that NBA teams are undervalued in early season back - to - back games, neutral site college basketball games have been very low - scoring and NFL teams have underperformed in «must - win» games.

Team Apuli has done something that is very rare in All Sports Series, winning two games in one night... Especially 2 Playoff basketball games.

In an otherwise dreadful basketball game, it was Garnett who sealed the win like he had so many times in that building by reading a passing lane and making a key defensive stop.

BASKETBALL — NBA: BOSTON (46 - 23) boosted its lead in the East to 1 1/2 games over the 76ers with four straight wins before a loss to the Bullets.

After enduring an absolutely awful stretch of basketball during which they lost 14 of 15 games, Atlanta has now won four straight and is battling with the Charlotte Bobcats for the seventh seed.

Keep in mind the Pac - 12 also won just one bowl game in football, it had an international incident with UCLA in China, it has Arizona continuing to deal with a bevy of negative headlines pertaining to both football and basketball, and now it just went 0 - 3 in the Big Dance.

The year - in / year - out (read: primary) goal of college coaches and college basketball programs is to win college basketball games (and championships).

After praising Baylor for becoming the first college basketball team to win 40 games in a season, President Obama turned his attention to the tallest member of the Bears» traveling party at the White House on July 18.

First, he was that obsessed tech guy in Malcolm Gladwell's story, the one who reverse - engineered girls basketball and deduced that his seventh - grade daughter's team could win if they applied full court pressure all game long (it worked).

At halftime of a recent Bellarmine University basketball game, Casey Saulman was given the opportunity to win a $ 2500 Caribbean Cruise...

PRO BASKETBALL — Boston won four times and increased its Atlantic Division lead over Philadelphia to nine games.

Yours is probably picking apart every bad play until you luck upon that Holy Grail of basketball games where the Sixers shoot 80/60/99 and win 169 - 69 against the reigning NBA champs.

BASKETBALL — ABA: In a week of sparse action all around the league first - place PITTSBURGH (44 - 21) increased its Eastern Division lead to three games with four straight wins.

«Dawg, we won zero ACC games last year in football or basketball.

Because there are so many games each college basketball season, focusing on more heavily bet games (by adding Bet Labs» Number of Bets filter to the research above) increases win percentage even more.

There was a moment when the captain of the Cuban girls» basketball team, angered at fouling out of the game, refused to shake hands with the U.S. captain as she stalked off the court (the U.S. was winning).

# 12 Dick Motta SANDY Cut from Jordan High basketball team as senior in 1948; rebounded to win 935 games as NBA coach, including»78 championship with Bullets.

# 45 Ernest Blood PASSAIC From 1915 to» 24, coached Passaic High basketball team to 200 - 1 record and 159 - game winning streak; won seven state titles.

Yet many around the league still wonder whether the Suns, who had won 61 games through Sunday after going 29 — 53 last season, are too much the arrivistes, with their full - throttle offense — «blitzkrieg basketball,» Minnesota Timberwolves general manager and coach Kevin McHale calls it — destined to fizzle in the playoffs.

PRO BASKETBALL — As play resumed after the All - Star break, the once - hapless New York Knicks stretched their surge to 11 wins in their last 15 games with victories over Cleveland (108 - 92) and Denver (124 - 115) before losing to Atlantic Division - leading Philadelphia 104 - 89 (page 14).

BASKETBALL — In the Eastern final of the NBA playoffs, BOSTON and Philadelphia swapped victories (each team won on its home court) and, after five games, the Celtics led three games to two.

When Westbrook came to the press room after his speech, he talked about dreaming of winning MVP when he was a child playing basketball video games.

The class of the teams that won assured a spectacular finale at Kansas City, and the regional tournaments demonstrated that while things may be wrong with some of the people in basketball, nothing is wrong with the game itself.

You might not expect to hear groans, gasps and cackles from a girls basketball team that just won its state championship game in lopsided fashion.

In basketball, we can look at the best players and know they are the best because even if they aren't scoring 20 + points a game because they are doing other things to help the team win, whether it be defense, rebounding, or just pure effort.