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"offensively" Definitions
  1. in a rude way that causes somebody to feel upset or annoyed because it shows a lack of respect
  2. in a way that is connected with the act of attacking somebody/something
  3. (North American English, sport) in a way that involves trying to score points or goals
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They fought off a hard-nosed, offensively inept Pacers club and then a hard-nosed, offensively inept Heat club.
Ramos is off to a good start offensively, batting .
"His skill level is off the chart offensively," Brodeur said.
I thought that was the difference in the game offensively.
We try to argue defensively rather than offensively too often.
San Antonio could do nothing offensively in the third quarter.
Guys were blocking shots, a lot of great plays offensively.
Middleton struggled offensively and missed eight of his 2116 shots.
"The guys kept going offensively," Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said.
We feel like we can strike at any time offensively.
Many people in Hong Kong say the two behaved offensively.
Murray was the driving force for the Nuggets offensively, though.
" QUOTE TO NOTE: "Offensively we didn't have a good series.
"Oh my gosh, we've been on fire offensively," Duffy said.
Offensively, he was the key to this game for us.
G Zach LaVine had a rough time offensively this game.
"It worked offensively for us for sure," Doc Rivers said.
Pittsburgh was ice cold offensively for most of the game.
"We couldn't mount anything offensively," Giants Manager Bruce Bochy said.
And it usually does when you do not execute offensively.
He has been able to do anything he wants offensively.
He's doing it all now, Offensively, defensively, it's so impressive.
The Tigers found footing offensively and the Mountaineers got sloppy.
Part of that was because we were so efficient offensively.
Offensively, Cespedes is on track to repeat last year's numbers.
Cubs do it all offensively in victory CHICAGO — Anthony Rizzo's long ball provided key runs but the Chicago Cubs also mixed things up offensively in a 13-2 victory over the Miami Marlins on Tuesday.
Both teams sought to pick up the pace offensively this season.
We are not doing a very god job offensively that way.
"We're going to do a lot of things offensively," Bolton said.
He can drive possession and contribute offensively in a big way.
"Carlos is a better player than he's shown offensively," Scioscia said.
The way we responded offensively in the first inning was big.
So they're just scratching the surface right now with him offensively.
We let them do everything that they wanted to do offensively.
By Cousins' assessment, the Kings can "play with the best" offensively.
Offensively, is that end harder than you expected it to be?
I think me and him complement each other defensively and offensively.
He's certainly a threat offensively and he just continues to improve.
Despite that, though, Pillar is offensively challenged, and he knows it.
We did a lot of good things offensively, pitching and defense.
As far as confidence, as far as position, defensively and offensively.
It was much-needed after a couple of lean games offensively.
"It was a good showing for us offensively," Collison told reporters.
Offensively, another 30-plus assist night it was good for us.
Van Roosmalen's is as attractive offensively as it is unattractive defensively.
"The biggest improvement with him is offensively," manager Joe Girardi said.
"We just didn't mount much offensively," Baltimore manager Buck Showalter said.
Hopefully we start to click a little bit more offensively, though.
"Our guys executed offensively," Pacers head coach Nate McMillan told reporters.
"Everybody goes through a little slump, defensively or offensively," Sanchez said.
"Just wasn't our day offensively," Mississippi State Coach Vic Schaefer said.
Offensively, the Mets could do nothing to buoy their beleaguered starter.
It's easy to imagine how that idea could go offensively wrong.
We didn't do a very good job offensively; that was obvious.
Both teams are stacked top to bottom — defensively, offensively, pitching staff.
Offensively, slot receiver Danny Amendola sat out with a chest injury.
"We couldn't make any shots offensively," Utah coach Quin Snyder said.
"I thought our impatience offensively early on hurt us," Bennett said.
"In the second half, we completely fell apart offensively," Epstein said.
And then offensively, I mean, they have weapons everywhere, every position.
"Offensively the first half was embarrassing," Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson said.
Offensively, aside from the top-line, contributions have come from expected places.
Escobar has been one of the Angels' few bright spots offensively, hitting .
Because you&aposre helping the country offensively, because you reduce civilian casualties.
So we didn't do a ton offensively today but we did enough.
At some point, and hopefully soon, we can get it going offensively.
For sure, there are also tangible things we have to do offensively.
"I'm not worried about offensively, to tell you the truth," Rose said.
It's incredible how he moves offensively and then pursues his man defensively.
Trump is different on an extreme level because he does it offensively.
K-State's three seniors (Brown, Wade and Stokes) have struggled offensively recently.
"He kept attacking offensively," Kings coach Dave Joerger told reporters of Labissiere.
"We gotta get going offensively," White Sox center fielder Adam Eaton said.
We did a good job defensively, and offensively we had 36 assists.
"We've gone into a little funk offensively," Marlins manager Don Mattingly said.
The positive on this is that I thought we played great offensively.
We just have to be more consistent in what we're doing offensively.
Offensively, Harden scored nine consecutive points to get Houston back into contention.
We did a great job defensively, and we moved the ball offensively.
The Bulldogs picked things up offensively and defensively late in the half.
Offensively, the ball swung around and we made all the right decisions.
Nikita Kucherov has been carrying the team offensively with Steven Stamkos out.
The Panthers struggled offensively and missed five straight shots during one stretch.
Offensively, the Wildcats made 51.6 percent and dominated the rebounding 28-12.
"You can't control when you're struggling offensively," Tigers manager Brad Ausmus said.
"Offensively, this team puts up numbers every night," Manager John Farrell said.
Overall, the Blue Jays have struggled offensively, but Smoak sees that changing.
In the second half, the defense arrived while the Jazz struggled offensively.
"The guys executed the game plan, both offensively and defensively," Kidd said.
They use more kicks, they use more parts of their body offensively.
Just offensively as a team we're in a good spot right now.
"Offensively, against a really good defensive team, we were great," Clifford said.
Wing Charlie Coyle, a trade deadline acquisition, has further solidified Boston offensively.
That's what he does, and that's what I want from him offensively.
"Offensively speaking, I know our numbers appear to be good," Maddon said.
"Frankly, both offensively and defensively, we have more capacity," he told reporters.
Offensively, they rank 16th in total yards rushing with 105 per game.
It was not just Curry who failed to make a dent offensively.
And frankly we've got more capacity than anybody, both offensively and defensively.
A coaching change and personnel moves rejuvenated him, and his team, offensively.
Offensively, Chisenhall continued to produce from the plate, where he is hitting .
G Goran Dragic continues to carry the Heat offensively in the postseason.
UCLA was efficient offensively with 14 assists compared to only nine turnovers.
"We certainly didn't do anything offensively tonight," Milwaukee manager Craig Counsell said.
We've got to do a better job offensively of picking him up.
"We fell apart a little bit offensively," Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash said.
Would he do a great job with what Kliff's going to do offensively?
To have a starter throw like that, and couldn't get it going offensively.
He has rejected allegations that French-made weapons are used offensively in Yemen.
It comes down to guys needing to tighten up and make plays offensively.
The bottom of the lineup carried the load offensively for Milwaukee (23-5).
Tonight, we made some shots, but overall, I thought we were disjointed offensively.
A quarterback that's throwing it extremely well, we turned the ball over offensively.
"Why should fascists have all the fun?" an advertisement for BB9 offensively asks.
"Offensively, Mike got off, and that made it easier for us," Gasol said.
Curry scored 38 points, but Caldwell-Pope gave the Pistons a boost offensively.
Josh Reddick led the Astros offensively with two hits, including an RBI triple.
It was just one of those nights offensively where they shut us down.
D Mark Streit has struggled offensively since returning from injury in late December.
"Again, offensively, we struggled to put innings together," Seattle manager Scott Servais said.
The Hornets struggled offensively all night, finishing at 40.2 percent from the field.
This kid can do everything that I think he wants to do offensively.
"Offensively, we played pretty well for most of the night," Van Gundy said.
Rookie right fielder Brian Anderson led the Marlins offensively, going 3-for-5.
"We did a lot of good things offensively," Maryland coach Mark Turgeon said.
"Today, we were pretty much offensively challenged by the other guy," Ventura said.
Just taking the pressure off us offensively to get a little more movement.
Offensively, software businesses become valuable only once they have acquired lots of customers.
"Offensively, I think the power play is what makes us go," Moulson said.
"I would say we did a lot of great things offensively," Haas said.
"It showcases what we're capable of doing offensively," Reds manager Bryan Price said.
Offensively, we just have to trust the process and not chase the results.
I thought offensively we spaced the floor and attacked and shared the ball.
Offensively, Love's current role reduces him to a slower, less accurate Kyle Korver.
"Offensively and defensively this is the best we've played all year," James said.
"Offensively, we are not a good shooting team," Krzyzewski said after the game.
"Just a lot of good things offensively tonight," Miami manager Don Mattingly said.
"He's been really down about how he's played offensively," Mack said of Macura.
Both teams struggled offensively through the first 543 minutes of the first half.
"We've really struggled offensively for two days — but it's two days," Wright said.
Other than that, he's always been a big part of our team offensively.
The Kings led 43-41 at the half as both teams struggled offensively.
"We were playing with a lot more pace offensively," Kings coach Dave Joerger said.
"I thought there were stretches we were good offensively," Panthers defenseman Keith Yandle said.
Charlotte coach Steve Clifford said he loves the way his team is playing offensively.
While not as large as Scosche or Amazon's, it's still offensively large and plasticky.
Offensively, it can be used to line up punches as the opponent stands up.
Offensively, again, I think we can open up the court occasionally and go small.
That starting five looks offensively unstoppable on paper, but, like, so does Oklahoma City's.
New York was led offensively by second baseman Neil Walker, who had two RBIs.
Bucks: The team had trouble getting anything going offensively with Antetokounmpo in foul trouble.
"Both offensively and on defense, it's part of being a leader now," Bridges said.
Baylor didn&apost fare much better offensively early, punting on its first three possessions.
Offensively he was complete and defensively we did a good job of helping him.
"Last two games offensively we haven't been as good," Toronto coach Mike Babcock said.
I think it's easy obviously to sit here and say offensively we started slow.
Alice Through the Looking Glass isn't offensively bad, or some sort of glorious disaster.
San Antonio executed well offensively and our lack of offensive execution hurt our defense.
The White Sox never were able to get anything going offensively — especially against Gibson.
"It's always a concern when we aren't in a rhythm offensively," Zach Smith said.
They got more physical, both offensively and defensively, and we turned the ball over.
Not because they are exploding offensively, but because they are locking down on defense.
"The way we play offensively, we felt we'd be fine against it," Beachem said.
"Offensively, we felt we could get shots and score," Orange coach Jim Boeheim said.
And defenseman Devon Toews has become an emerging force offensively and on the blueline.
"Offensively I thought (the deficit) was a little misleading," Xavier coach Chris Mack said.
The 35-year-old Morneau was activated last Friday but struggled offensively until Wednesday.
The Phillies struggled offensively, managed only four hits and left seven runners on base.
Ask around, and you'd find that many preferred offensively gifted Washington guard Markelle Fultz.
And offensively, we're sharing the basketball, moving around and guys are just playing well.
"They didn't think offensively he was doing what he's capable of doing," Girardi said.
"I think I was just in a rhythm, defensively and offensively," Winslow told reporters.
Holiday led the way as New Orleans got off to a fast start offensively.
"They're very young, and it showed offensively, playing this many young kids," Parise said.
Offensively, it's hard to ask a backcourt to provide more than this duo does.
Offensively, they were aggressive attacking the rim, outscoring Boston 24-25 in the paint.
"We were out of it the entire night offensively," Raptors coach Dwane Casey said.
The Cardinals didn't let it happen, pushing the ball offensively while pressing Michigan defensively.
The Volunteers failed to find any sort of rhythm offensively in the first half.
"Ponds was really as good a guard offensively as we've played against," Krzyzewski said.
"Offensively it was hard to get anything started," Nurse said of the final period.
Gobert clamped down defensively after halftime to throw the Wizards out of rhythm offensively.
"I thought in a lot of ways we controlled the game offensively," Garrett said.
We need to sustain that last drive, offensively, and shut them down better defensively.
Houston excelled offensively without guard Russell Westbrook, who was a late scratch (left thumb).
Jokes about WWIII strike some over the age of 10 as decidedly—offensively—unfunny.
Once we get stops, the floor will open up and we can play offensively.
Offensively, we moved the ball better in Game 1 and had more uncontested shots.
LF Robbie Grossman is leading the Twins offensively since joining the team May 20.
The things we run offensively are geared towards him getting the 3-point shot.
The Mets seem incapable of doing much offensively, but they do take big swings.
"We weren't doing things the way we wanted to do them offensively," Marrone said.
We're trying to balance out the roster right now and how we're playing offensively.
Then we started getting stops and started scoring, and we got into a rhythm offensively.
We've shown so much more poise going down the stretch offensively than we did tonight.
The fact that its name literally means "panic or fear" feels offensively on-the-nose.
" The same rule prohibits a senator from referring "offensively to any State of the Union.
"I thought we played well enough offensively for sure to win the game," Nelson said.
Without their leading scorer, the Nets struggled most of the night offensively, shooting 272 percent.
Offensively, the Mavs kept the ball moving and got double-digit scoring from five players.
We were locked in, we were tied together, made some huge plays offensively, as well.
"Offensively, we've just got to get guys involved," star point guard James Harden told reporters.
Hedges, who had struggled offensively, had a breakthrough season at the plate in Triple-A.
Boise State led 10-7 at halftime but struggled offensively after its game-opening drive.
San Antonio wasn't exactly blistering offensively, but the Rockets' listlessness didn't punish their pedestrian showing.
But I think a bunch of guys are not really on it right now offensively.
UCLA trailed for almost 35 minutes of game time, sputtering offensively most of the night.
"I just liked his pace, and he wasn't hesitating offensively," Clippers coach Doc Rivers said.
But the offensively challenged Coyotes scored four unanswered first-period goals and never looked back.
Adduci had just started to get into a groove offensively, raising his season average to .
"New Orleans," she said with all the energy the offensively steamy Delta day would provide.
Beltran has been the one consistent bright spot offensively for the Yankees this season, batting .
We have to have the same approach defensively and continue to trust each other offensively.
There's no real evidence that Kim Jong-un wants to offensively attack the United States.
We have to make things happen a lot faster, in my opinion, defensively and offensively.
Offensively, when you have the puck, you're not even aware of the ability he has.
"We had no answer for anything they were doing offensively," Chattanooga Coach Matt McCall said.
Refsnyder also performed well offensively, with a hit and a walk in two plate appearances.
"We're a grind-it-out team that has to work defensively and offensively," Mitchell said.
Jackson: Jackson because I just think he plays as well defensively as he does offensively.
"He's just been really willing offensively to give himself up," coach Stan Van Gundy said.
"Offensively, we have to play better and score more points, plain and simple," Manning said.
But the Aztecs have more options offensively, with four players averaging double figures in scoring.
Pastrnak continued buzzing offensively and had several more chances, albeit unsuccessfully, midway through the period.
"That was probably the worst game of my career offensively," Turner said of Game 1.
The game got off to the start one would expect from two offensively challenged teams.
Offensively we could point to a lot of things, but on third downs, we stunk.
"He's a special talent at closing and winning games — and not just offensively," Brand said.
"We missed open shots, but we (also) didn't play well offensively," Clippers coach Doc Rivers said.
Offensively, you can argue that Love could have provided everything that Jefferson did in Game 3.
There are a few constants of CES: crazy booths, offensively loud music, giant TVs, and swag.
He was the focal point for the Texans offensively, carrying the load as they stumbled early.
"We will have a better game plan going into Game Two for sure offensively," James said.
Kansas State, which struggled offensively all season, shot 212 percent from the field for the game.
Yes, the Knicks will likely be better offensively and defensively this season if Porzingis plays center.
Indiana came alive offensively after its sluggish start, posting 62 combined points in the middle quarters.
Lopez, too, struggled offensively, air-balling hook shots and finishing 3 for 11 for 6 points.
"Shooting 203s is something offensively we want to do a lot more of," Steve Alford said.
And I think she's going to do more offensively than she's going to give up defensively.
Our pitching staff has been giving us good outings, so we gotta step it up offensively.
Other than Gordons touchdown run, the Chargers were mostly ineffective offensively in the opening 30 minutes.
Lue wants the Cavs to pick up the pace offensively, and they seem to be responding.
"We didn't do a whole lot offensively throughout the ballgame," White Sox manager Rick Renteria said.
"They've been a tremendous help, especially offensively," Ausmus said of one-week wonders Adduci and HIcks.
That the president of the United States is acting outrageously, or worryingly, or offensively, is important.
Syndergaard also chipped in offensively, hitting his third home run of the year the fifth inning.
"There wasn't much going on offensively for us in the second," Hurricanes coach Bill Peters said.
CF Mikie Mahtook helped the Tigers offensively and defensively in a 5-3 win on Tuesday.
"Jeff got going early, and he was aggressive offensively and defensively," Grizzlies guard Mike Conley said.
The Friars gelled offensively despite missing starting guard Makai Ashton-Langford for much of the night.
That's the privilege of this offensively cute baby penguin, a newborn addition to the Cincinnati Zoo.
Offensively, he set franchise records for goals (27), assists (48) and points (75) by a defenseman.
"Whatever the coaches want me to do defensively, offensively, I'll work to do it," Embiid said.
I haven't really been doing my part offensively, what I feel like I'm capable of doing.
"We did a lot of great things offensively in the first half," center Ryan Kalil said.
It's been really fun watching these young guys contribute, whether it's offensively or the pitching staff.
Once he returns, he should fit in the two-hole offensively while also providing steady defense.
"Offensively, they were really tough to guard," Villanova head coach Jay Wright said of La Salle.
"Robby had a nice night offensively and that was nice to see," said manager Kevin Cash.
"In My Defense" has been described as "exhausted" (All Music), "unconvincing" (Clash), and "offensively mediocre" (HipHopDX).
I thought that last final stretch, we buckled down defensively and offensively, we just played basketball.
Offensively, Arrieta went 2-for-313 with a run scored and RBI, helping spark two rallies.
"We didn't do a whole lot offensively, but it was enough," said Indians manager Terry Francona.
Aside from Paul and Green, the Rockets scuffled offensively, with their defense carrying them to victory.
The Knicks have struggled both offensively and defensively in getting off to a 1-3 start.
"Offensively, when we're not scoring, we let that trickle over into our defense," Griffin said afterward.
He's always in the right position defensively or offensively, creates a lot of things for us.
Offensively, we've been good, but defensively we haven't been, and tonight we were good in both.
They can play with anyone offensively, and their bench depth is where it needs to be.
Offensively, we put up a bunch of runs, and we don't want to give it up.
And we're trying offensively to get her to go to more places to get her shots.
He was developing a reputation as an offensively-challenged, career minor leaguer — until late last season.
"They're a really good team, and offensively they've always been extremely dangerous," Manager Joe Girardi said.
This is a great result for Panama, who can't hope to compete, offensively, with the Belgians.
Cespedes had been heating up recently after a slow return offensively from his previous leg injury.
"I think everyone is squeezing it a little bit," Jordan Staal said of the pressure offensively.
"We've seen so much innovation and change offensively over the last five years," Toronto's Nurse said.
Almost any combination the Knicks put out there leaves them at a disadvantage offensively and defensively.
Both teams struggled offensively in the fourth, with Dallas holding a 51.3.4-240.5 edge in points.
Texas Tech struggled offensively out of the gate, making just one of its first seven shots.
He set good screens offensively, rolled hard to the basket and opened it up for guys.
"We're going to do a lot of things offensively," Bolton told reporters at the White House.
Both teams struggled offensively in the first half, with each hitting 40 percent of the shots.
So when you are in security, really there is no difference between thinking offensively and defensively.
"We have to lock down on defense and offensively take care of the ball," Simmons said.
They pushed us out offensively and we were catching balls beyond the 3-point line, denying us.
As gifted as the young Brazilian is offensively, he is a shambles defensively much of the time.
Bryant got Clemson off to a good start offensively, passing for two touchdowns in the first half.
Obviously, offensively I have an advantage at center, but I'm just more comfortable playing at the four.
Every day in courthouses around the country, federal prosecutors ask for grossly outrageous and offensively high sentences.
"We were down, 232-218, but offensively, we were only out there a few plays," Jones said.
Celebrities aside, every year new photos circulate on Twitter of white partygoers offensively dressed up in blackface.
The lead was short-lived, though, as Orlando regrouped offensively and created numerous second-chance scoring opportunities.
Offensively, I thought we were on the outside a lot and didn't get too many scoring chances.
But while it's typically used offensively, it could work as a term of endearment in this case.
Santa Clara (3-7) struggled to find a rhythm offensively, shooting just 31.7 percent from the floor.
"Offensively, it's kind of been boom or bust and that's a challenge," Orioles manager Buck Showalter said.
Offensively, the Titans melted all but 269 seconds on a drive that started with 3:57 left.
CF Keon Broxton continues to improve offensively, reaching base four times for the fourth time this year.
The Athletics have struggled offensively, scoring three runs or fewer in nine of their last 13 games.
The world is not only offensively half-baked, but outright dangerous during this particular moment in history.
There were some parts of the game that I thought he was very good defensively and offensively.
Sano has produced a pair of home runs before Thursday, but had struggled to produce offensively otherwise.
However, we hit a lull offensively, and there wasn't a whole lot of energy after the start.
Usually, in the offensively challenged SEC, Alabama can simply key in on one aspect of the offense.
And yet: neither the Sixers nor Rockets are as offensively productive as numbers suggest they should be.
On our end, offensively, it was not bad, but it wasn't good enough to close the game.
Despite the struggles offensively, Towns' lay-in with 23:238.4 remaining pulled Minnesota to within three points.
Add in the fact that he can help you offensively as either an outfielder or designated hitter?
DeMar DeRozan is an All-Star, too, but everything the Raptors do offensively flows from Lowry's abilities.
Offensively, his game complements other stars, though, and he impacts winning without the ball in his hands.
Offensively, Stastny has 9 points in his last nine games, including 3 in the clincher in Dallas.
"It was good to see us bounce back offensively after (just one hit on Friday)," Weiss said.
"You have to credit New York — they played with a flow and a confidence offensively," Spoelstra said.
Detroit woke up offensively, starting by nailing three 3-pointers in 57 seconds in the third quarter.
Their texture was much better than that of Outback's broccoli, but they were just as offensively bland.
Offensively, Chicago hit into three double plays and went 0-for-4 with runners in scoring position.
And then offensively, I knew certain guys couldn't get to my shot no matter what they did.
The side kick can also be delivered offensively with the kicker stepping up to close the distance.
The list of bigs who can do it offensively and defensively fits on a post-it note.
But South Florida was also flagged for 2147 yards of penalties and endured another sluggish start offensively.
We were flying all over the place on the defensive end and, offensively, we ran the ball.
Seattle led by 16 at halftime, building the lead with minimal contributions from Stewart and Bird offensively.
Waldstein: The Astros have some work to do offensively after an uncharacteristically sloppy top of the first.
Credit Suisse is recommending clients think both offensively and defensively given the roller-coaster week for stocks.
In the Bay Area, she finds everything you might expect, including hubris, misogyny, and offensively priced condos.
"They're probably as disciplined a team as I've seen, offensively and defensively," Wilson said of Saint Mary's.
Democrats are offensively limited, too, with only two Senate seats held by Republicans considered to be vulnerable.
They Clippers had a much easier time offensively, shooting 23 percent from the field (220 of 234).
Both teams struggled offensively in the first half, after which Texas Tech held a 27-22 lead.
Is that heightened state of alert to be better prepared defensively or to be better prepared offensively?
The Aggies (6-6, 0-1), meanwhile, continued to struggle offensively under first-year coach Buzz Williams.
The attacks on the female Doctor range from relatively dumb boycott demands to offensively stupid twitter essays.
Florida never found its way offensively, especially on 256-point shots as Florida State rarely allowed open looks.
The travel-weary and depleted Golden State Warriors don't look much like their explosive best offensively of late.
"I thought Lamar was offensively one of the big differences in the game," Texans coach Bill O'Brien said.
Meanwhile, the 76ers couldn't find much rhythm offensively and hit just 4-for-17 from 3-point territory.
And yes, Porzingis himself will likely be more effective offensively and defensively if he plays center this season.
Montreal dominated offensively in this game, coming up with several scoring chances and outshooting New York, 42-31.
Paul George struggled offensively yet again for Oklahoma City, though he finished with 2121 points and 2115 rebounds.
Austin Peay (5-3) had some good moments offensively but couldn&apost match UCF&aposs speed and depth.
We had two-out clutch hits with guys in scoring position, so it was a great night offensively.
Although the Jayhawks confused the Sooners at times with different defensive looks, they could not get untracked offensively.
More concerning is that they struggled offensively during the Milwaukee series until the tail end of Game 4.
Up to this point in time, we haven't really had any production offensively from the second base spot.
While things slowed for Miami offensively there was no slowing Harden, whose blend of passing and scoring overwhelmed.
"I thought we did a good job offensively of finding the open guy," coach Alvin Gentry told reporters.
Paul George struggled offensively yet again for the Thunder, though he finished with 14 points and 11 rebounds.
We didn't counter what they were doing defensively or offensively and it just turned the game wide open.
"The first half obviously offensively I do not think we played to our standard and expectations," Jones said.
Last season was Beaulieu's best offensively, but his lack of ice time held back his raw totals significantly.
It is also hindered by a weak mandate that limits its activities and prevents it from acting offensively.
"Offensively, we just didn't get first downs; we just didn't get it done," Tigers Coach Gus Malzahn said.
That is, if it weren't being used to shroud the offensively untrue conviction that trans women are predators.
The Toronto Raptors were thriving offensively until one subpar performance sidetracked their season-best, six-game winning streak.
When it's time to pour it on offensively, we got guys with not a lot of juice left.
He showed flashes of promise in his return to the rotation but has slumped offensively in recent games.
Offensively, the Steelers (173-2) went back to their greatest hits by relying on Le'Veon Bell and Brown.
He is efficient offensively and can be suffocating defensively, giving the Timberwolves' young core a player to emulate.
The Cavaliers are humming offensively but they typically flourish in this building when the game is grind-y.
James was mostly quiet offensively, scoring 13 points, but had 12 rebounds and eight assists in 32 minutes.
Neither team was sharp offensively in the opening two quarters as they combined for 24 first-half turnovers.
Offensively, the team's loaded with talent … from Drew Brees to Michael Thomas, arguably the best WR in football.
"Offensively, his efficiency is up, and his assists are way up," Magic Coach Steve Clifford said of Gordon.
The Lions aim for a second consecutive victory when they host the offensively challenged Los Angeles Rams on Sunday.
ET, ESPNU ABOUT CENTRAL FLORIDA (4-219): Without injured starting point guard B.J. Taylor, the Knights have struggled offensively.
"Offensively, we've always been a really talented group," said guard Grayson Allen, who scored a team-high 413 points.
The only advice I followed was the kind that is offensively unhelpful until it actually works: Just be yourself!
The Golden Circle is similarly bemused about romance, which makes Eggsy and Tilde's interactions almost offensively bland and stereotypical.
Kiermaier reached on a walk, but has yet to get in synch offensively while hitting second in the lineup.
The Hoosiers struggled offensively and spent the first half trying to catch up, and they slowly closed the gap.
Davison is simply more skilled offensively and+/- one standard deviation from Gasser defensively depending on how he pans out.
But the rest of the game was marked by Los Angeles mistakes and inability to move the ball offensively.
"Charlie certainly adds to our club, especially offensively at the top of the order," Colorado manager Walt Weiss said.
"It was a really good night offensively, obviously," said Chicago manager Joe Maddon, whose team pounded out 22 hits.
He's had success in the major leagues both offensively and defensively, so we should feel good about this one.
Offensively, its been a roller-coaster ride for Michigan State, with the inconsistency causing Dantonio to juggle his quarterbacks.
SS Jhonny Peralta may be starting to come around offensively, as he recorded a second straight multi-hit game.
"We did a lot of good stuff on the whole game — pitching-wise, offensively," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said.
Butler knew he might have to be a little more aggressive offensively than normal, but nothing else would change.
They struggled offensively, finishing outside the league's top ten in points scored (15th) for the first time since 2007.
"Offensively and defensively (Oklahoma State) dominated up front, and when that happens, it's going to be tough," Holgorsen said.
"He made some great throws, and he was the player of the game offensively," Tennessee coach Mike Vrabel said.
"Frankly we've got more capacity than anybody, both offensively and defensively," Obama told reporters at the G-20 summit.
"Again, pleased offensively with how our guys are protecting the football, and doing things the right way," Lewis said.
Niko Goodrum was the lone bright spot offensively for Detroit, reaching base twice on a single and a walk.
Cal struggled offensively in the weeks since quarterback Chase Garbers was sidelined for the year with a shoulder injury.
I thought the guys showed character together as a team playing well offensively and defensively and getting that win.
Nebraska turned up its defensive intensity in the second half, and Northwestern looked out of sync offensively without McIntosh.
Getting off the field, keeping us in the game, it allows us to do a lot of things offensively.
"Offensively, we struggled a lot tonight, but we put together one really nice inning," Minnesota manager Paul Molitor said.
Cammalleri was disappointed the Penguins came back, and he partly blamed himself despite his third consecutive big game offensively.
They got some extra possessions offensively and got to the line and made some big shots down the stretch.
Every issue Golden State had offensively during last year's Finals is seemingly solved by KD's presence on the roster.
I thought they really started crashing the boards in the second quarter and offensively we got a little stagnant.
While we believe that Glenn has acted offensively, we have decided that he does not deserve to be fired.
Take Box Plus/Minus, which accumulates traditional box score stats to judge a player's overall contributions offensively and defensively.
More offensively, Clear Labs found pork DNA in one sample of beef patties and one sample of ground beef.
Adding the offensively inclined Bagley to a front line with a defensive specialist like Willie Cauley-Stein is ideal.
"They're such a good team, they're so dynamic offensively and they probably have the best pitching staff," Pham conceded.
Brandon Ingram has emerged as an All-Star contender by establishing himself as a legitimate No. 1 option offensively.
Miller and Morrison went a combined 3-for-8 on Tuesday after both struggled offensively to start the season.
We told them to move the ball offensively we told them we were going to switch the defense late.
Iguodala's absence denies the Warriors their best LeBron disrupter as well as their smartest player both offensively and defensively.
"We have to be more efficient (offensively) as we move along and keep working those at-bats," Maddon said.
"We've got to make sure we play great in all phases — offensively, defensively and special teams," USM's Hopson said.
We're just out there running around, causing havoc defensively, getting run-outs offensively, sharing the ball, playing together, talking.
"If I get going defensively, I know I can get myself going offensively," said Stone, who played 16 minutes.
UTEP got off to a strong start offensively, methodically driving down the field for a touchdown on its opening drive.
The Trail Blazers sizzled early offensively, racing out to a 230-point lead only to enter halftime up 22016-973.
"I think Walmart is the place to be both offensively and defensively, make the bet long into earnings," he said.
But the Pelicans never looked smooth offensively, shooting just 6 of 31 from 3-point range and committing 20 turnovers.
"Against a team like that we have to make more of our opportunities offensively," Columbus head coach John Tortorella said.
Instead, the shuttle beeps "offensively," when objects in its path like pedestrians or idling vehicles don't move after several seconds.
But then the Wizards quickly came along offensively, with Hachimura's jumper breaking the drought and putting Washington back in front.
The game began with Orlando scorching offensively, scoring 24 points in the first quarter against the NBA's best defensive team.
Winston and the Buccaneers will try to bounce back when they host the offensively challenged Los Angeles Rams on Sunday.
"They played with a flow and a confidence offensively; we couldn't get it to the next level defensively," Spoelstra said.
"Offensively we moved the ball exceptionally well," Wade told reporters after a 33-23 win over the Pacers on Saturday.
Offensively, his role will be very narrow, but he'll be relied upon to protect the paint and grab defensive rebounds.
Parker has been more assertive offensively, and that's why he has increased his scoring average from the 14.1 last season.
Green was given the task of guarding Davis and was able to succeed in shutting him down, while contributing offensively.
Gennett is getting regular playing time at second base with Jose Peraza struggling offensively for the most part this season.
In Rodriguez's absence, Beltran had thrived offensively as the D.H., a role that kept his 39-year-old legs fresh.
Moscow, for its part, argues that NATO's own missile defenses violate the I.N.F. treaty because they could be used offensively.
Both teams struggled offensively in the first half, with Los Angeles shooting 35.7 percent to 36.1 percent for the Jazz.
Loop explained why a competing bid for Jeff Mackey's Whole Foods would have merit both "defensively" and "offensively" for Kroger.
Malzahn said that Auburn was close to turning the corner, but there are plenty of problems to fix, especially offensively.
"Offensively, it was a little bit of a, it was a lot of a grind," Rays manager Kevin Cash said.
In recent seasons, the Giants struggled to force turnovers and were inept offensively once they neared an opponent's goal line.
Letting guys like McDavid or Sidney Crosby or Alexander Ovechkin get hacked and held limits what they can do offensively.
At the start of the fourth quarter, we were getting stop after stop and executing offensively, so that was big.
Oregon State (212-212, 250-212) has been struggling offensively, scoring a combined 493 points in its previous two games.
How to continue to create for others using my speed to help our team, and being aggressive defensively and offensively.
But other analysts warned that North Korea's determination to improve its nuclear capabilities — and act offensively — had long been underestimated.
"We are hoping this will reduce injuries as well as allow the players to be more effective offensively," Campbell said.
That freed her Bulldogs teammate Victoria Vivians to focus on lifting the team offensively; Vivians had 20 points by halftime.
"The thing I can do that translates immediately is to use my energy offensively and defensively," Collins told VICE Sports.
The other eight offensive coordinators hired under offensively-minded coaches this off-season will not be afforded play-calling privileges.
Dwyane Wade's criticism of the Cleveland Cavaliers' starting five was answered in a big way on Tuesday, at least offensively.
"We really did a good job offensively and made one of the best pitchers in baseball work hard," Francona said.
Michigan State has struggled offensively all season, and on Saturday against Rutgers, that struggle nearly led to a huge upset.
We did good things during the game and proved that this CSKA team can score regardless what we play offensively.
"Offensively, we were really good, had a lot of chances, but (Devils G Corey Schneider) played really well," McDavid said.
Vancouver had begun to get it going offensively before getting steamrolled by the New York Rangers 7-2 on Tuesday.
His lone collegiate season was lackluster offensively, and question marks surround his ability to create for himself and/or others.
We're not getting enough stops to be able run and offensively we have to work a little bit on our spacing.
And she had already apologized for some decade old posts on her blog that were very, very homophobic, really offensively homophobic.
Offensively, both the Mine and the Steel Trap work best as "oh sh*t" buttons to slow down an enemy push.
He said it&aposs common for campaigns to purchase permutations of candidate names defensively and to use offensively against political opponents.
Houston committed nine penalties in addition to the turnovers, and required a late, fruitless rally offensively to muster 213 total yards.
Trump has been similarly brash, but not so offensively brash, in his recent attacks on slow TSA security lines at airports.
"Offensively, we played well in the first quarter and then we were awful, and that's 100 percent on me," Holgorsen said.
Veteran outfielder Nick Markakis has been among the few bright spots for the Braves offensively, as he raised his average to .
According to Suhr's statement on the incident, Perez-Lopez withdrew a kitchen knife and "lunged" offensively, preempting the officers to shoot.
But we got some good rhythm, especially offensively there in the second half, and we kept attacking throughout the second half.
Kyrie Irving struggled with his shot in the second half, but Marcus Morris, Marcus Smart, Brown and Horford carried Boston offensively.
"We're just challenged offensively to have a guy who can just make that play for you," Cowboys coach Travis Ford said.
"We have quite a few players on our team that are struggling offensively, so they're getting frustrated in themselves," Enfield said.
Neither team got off to a fast start offensively, perhaps because of the unusual starting time of just past 9 p.m.
"We have to be very, very clean offensively so we don't turn it over and take bad shots," Martin told reporters.
The Cowboys rarely got going offensively as the Panthers defeated Dallas for only the third time in 12 regular-season meetings.
They basically scored everytime down the floor, and offensively we went into a North Carolina four-quarter stall it felt like.
"Offensively, that's about as much as our offense has been shut down for an extended period in any game," Servais said.
With Paul and DeAndre Jordan slow to chip in offensively, Redick, Mbah a Moute and Jamal Crawford led the way early.
Jabari Parker looks good offensively (24 points per game on 27-27-22 shooting) but still appears totally lost on defense.
Though the two teams traded buckets in the opening five minutes, both teams struggled offensively through much of the first half.
Intriguing lottery picks who are as young, explosive, and offensively compelling as Zach LaVine rarely switch teams before their second contract.
"We put Jordan in the middle of the zone offensively and just told him to attack," Nevada coach Eric Musselman said.
"I've been struggling offensively (early in the season), but the one thing I can always do is play defense," Green said.
It can really wear on a team, especially on a team of guys that are used to have some success offensively.
Offensively, Fernandez singled and drove in a run in the second inning and singled a scored a run in the fourth.
Predators D Ryan Ellis has chipped in offensively with five points (three goals, two assists) in his past four contests. 3.
Pennsylvania State University safety Jonathan Sutherland received a letter from a Penn State alumnus who was offensively critical of his appearance.
"It feels really good right now, especially offensively," said Mancini, who finished 26-for-4 and raised his average to .225.
Bumgarner, who contributed offensively with a walk and a single, worked 5 1/3 innings, allowing four runs and seven hits.
Florida was unable to overcome a sluggish start offensively, scoring just one basket in the first 11:203 of the game.
"I think we got behind the score very quickly and that forced us to do some other things (offensively)," Fleck said.
ABOUT THE KINGS (21-17-43): Several players are lifting their games offensively, including defensemen Drew Doughty, Alec Martinez and Muzzin.
"It was a really, really good game for him offensively tonight throughout the night," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said of McCutchen.
When that photo was taken, Franken was a comedian, and at the time comedians enjoyed wide cultural license to behave offensively.
Koshechkin stopped all 29 shots he faced for his first shutout of the tournament, and the Russians flexed their muscles offensively.
Arizona State struggled offensively but held Kansas scoreless over the final 3:42 to trail by only 39-31 at halftime.
It has been a rough game for Bellinger offensively, as the rookie first baseman has four strikeouts in four at-bats.
It's just the beginning of her ordeal — the poor character is, rather offensively, but a prop to trigger Rambo's killing rage.
Especially after the first pass to DT, after that pass I knew we were going to have a good game offensively.
Neither team did much offensively over the last eight minutes, which saw Villanova manage eight points while holding UConn to four.
Both teams struggled offensively in the first half, with the Kings shooting 39.6 percent compared with 33.3 percent for the Clippers.
But Posada far outranks Varitek offensively, and Posada's case rests mainly on the rarity of such thump from a longtime catcher.
They knew their intensity could be unsettling to some teams, that if they found a rhythm offensively, they could go far.
Offensively, Fernandez singled and drove in a run in the second inning and singled and scored a run in the fourth.
Meanwhile, Hawaii struggled offensively at 623 percent shooting from the field and had 18 turnovers which turned into 25 Seton Hall points.
Brito has been sharing time in center with the versatile Chris Owings, who has struggled both offensively and defensively early this season.
His fame is based on the idea that he has an opinion on everything and is always willing to phrase it offensively.
Leonard dominated offensively, shooting 50 percent (9 of 8623) from the field and 100 percent (10 of 10) from the foul line.
"We got our swagger back, offensively and defensively," Team USA guard Paul George, a three-time NBA All-Star, declared to reporters.
"A bakery would never try to market something called Fentanyl Cake, and the name Crack Pie feels offensively off-key," she wrote.
Other than that, we were efficient enough offensively to win, but you can't make 212 turnovers with those turning into transition baskets.
Offensively,Georgia State will need much more than the 27 rushing yards it mustered againstAir Force to stay close with the Badgers.
The Pirates (4-2) struggled offensively, shooting 36.7 percent from the field and a dismal 1-for-16 (6.7 percent) on 153s.
"We haven&apost played great offensively," said Lillard, who was a combined 10 of 35 from the field in the two games.
Described by scouts as advanced offensively, Bagley has a lean frame and said teams are looking for him to add muscle. 5.
Yet Cecile Richards remembers her mother's campaign for governor as an offensively lopsided race that has striking parallels to the election today.
"When you dive into this game, there were plenty of opportunities offensively that we did not take advantage of," Brees said afterward.
Playing with the puck quick, making the right decisions, and you can create some great looks offensively like I thought we did.
We got to off to a great start offensively, six runs in the first couple innings just what a starting pitcher wants.
Texas Tech, meanwhile, has struggled offensively in league play and hasn't scored more than 70 points during its three-game losing skid.
The Illini (215-2, 0-1) were rather one-dimensional offensively, rushing 37 times for 93 yards while attempting just 16 passes.
Regardless, Odor is a rare talent offensively: a player who is effective despite having little patience, and a relatively high strikeout rate.
Rams 37, Buccaneers 32: Turns out the offensively challenged Los Angeles Rams are capable of getting the ball in the end zone.
The Warriors (17-6) shot 62.5 percent (55 of 88) from the field and did as they pleased offensively throughout the game.
"I think it's just a matter of time, I think everybody in this clubhouse knows how good we are offensively," he said.
They slowed us down offensively, and they were able to speed up the game on their end because they were getting stops.
"Obviously, you miss a player like that, what he brings offensively to the game," the Devils' captain, Andy Greene, said of Hall.
SS Xander Bogaerts has had a tough couple of games offensively, going 0-for-03 with five strikeouts and a double play.
With Utah grasping at straws offensively, Butler only trailed once and sustained a double-digit lead for much of the second half.
They're ranked 24th offensively and 18th defensively, the latter a stunning number considering what Howard has done in half the team's games.
Aldridge is just too tall and offensively capable, and his midrange shot is too close to automatic once he gets in rhythm.
Offensively, he went 1-for-4 and drove in his first run of the season on a single in the seventh inning.
One of the things that should make the Saints a tough opponent for anyone going forward is that they are balanced offensively.
And for all the understandable uncertainty about how Westbrook, George and Anthony will mesh offensively, how could Oklahoma City resist the gamble?
Phoenix also had to play through a difficult night offensively for Diana Taurasi, who had eight points on 216-of-215 shooting.
Paul runs the show offensively with a healthy assist from Griffin, while Jordan spaces the floor vertically and Redick spaces it horizontally.
Defensively the team was not sharp and offensively it was inept, stranding runners at third base in the fifth and seventh innings.
The Knicks entered the game having won six of their last seven games, but they seemed out of sync offensively without Porzingis.
If the Broncos are to get back to the playoffs, they have to figure out a way to get things going offensively.
The Jaguars (233-2) lost starting quarterback Cole Garvin with a sprained ankle after their first possession, and they struggled offensively throughout.
He pulled down 271 rebounds but was mostly a non-factor offensively for the Seminoles before fouling out with 227:21971 remaining.
"We do have some capability offensively to raise the cost for those who would dare challenge the United States' elections," Pompeo said.
"'Bombshell' fails to be either smart satire or incisive political drama, which makes it just offensively banal," wrote Joel Mayward for Cinemayward.
In a continuation of their 97-59 destruction of Texas on Monday night, the Mountaineers stifled the Tigers offensively through 12 minutes.
The Scarlet Knights, playing their second game under interim coach Nunzio Campanile, could get little going offensively against a swarming Indiana defense.
The Tigers (23103-20, 22-20) struggled offensively, held to about half of their season average of 229.5 rushing yards per game.
The Kings, meanwhile, collapsed offensively, mustering 16 points on 6-of-21 shooting in the third to undermine a promising first half.
Both teams struggled offensively down the stretch, with Rudy Gay's layup with 46.3 seconds left, bringing San Antonio to within 113-106.
The different impact that he has offensively, defensively, base running — there's not a part of the game that hasn't been really good.
Curry and the rest of the Warriors eventually pulled out of it and are now firing on all cylinders, offensively and defensively.
Butler F Tyler Wideman has been efficient offensively, shooting 71.4 percent (10-of-14) from the field in the season's first three games.
Houston scored a season-high 296 points in the first half and kept rolling offensively, nailing 21 223-pointers while shooting 232 percent.
Speaking of Tkachuk (22 goals, 24 points), the 19-year-old scored in the first meeting with Philadelphia and has steadily contributed offensively.
It's almost offensively angular, it packs a mountain of RAM, and it sports an LCD display after even Apple has switched to AMOLED.
"At the end, Reggie made plays offensively and we had a lot of guys make plays defensively," Pistons coach Stan Van Gundy said.
"I think we were playing for the most part pretty well defensively, offensively we were too slow," Harden said of the first half.
"Offensively, we're down by three runs and you think you're going to be conservative, but you still have to score runs," he said.
I was still making the right plays offensively, making open shots — pretty much what I want to do on a nightly basis anyway.
In August of last year, old tweets were dug up by internet sleuths showing McBroom characterizing women — specifically black women — offensively and disparagingly.
Offensively, St. John's ran play after play in practice, creating teams that marched up and down the field for one decade after another.
But even as late as 1944, the U.S. Armed Forces were paying dearly for their lack of sniper knowledge, both offensively and defensively.
The Rockets, meanwhile, kept sputtering offensively, closing the second 4-for-12 from the floor with nine turnovers to further undermine their offense.
Blockstream, another startup, has signed a "patent pledge", vowing not to sue others—as long as they don't use their own patents offensively.
Houston then stalled offensively, scratching across a run in the fifth when Chirinos drove home Jose Altuve with his fly ball to center.
To see him thrive, playing at third base and making great plays and then offensively being a big spark plug, it's pretty cool.
They (Alabama) make you earn everything, especially offensively, there's no loose coverage, no easy throws — you have got to be on your game.
It's a combination of good play defensively and good play offensively, but it's starting to kind of work out in our favor here.
South Florida : The Bulls, who&aposve won five games by at least 20 points, weren&apost as sharp as usual, offensively or defensively.
"We had our starting point guard out the whole season and we played really well and with a good rhythm offensively," Vogel said.
What I cannot tolerate, however, is shelling out $9.99 each month to a company which does business with the offensively mediocre James Corden.
"We played with a lot of energy, and Skal got us going offensively and we got the stops on defense," Cauley-Stein said.
And then we just brought the energy on the defensive end, shots started to go in and we played the right way offensively.
"It was a great game for me offensively," said Beal, who hit five 3-pointers and 14 of 22 shots from the field.
Good offensively, good defensively, good starting pitching—the kind of team that, if the dice tumble right, can make some noise in October.
"It's just more of being aware of where he is because he's a very active player offensively," St. Louis defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk said.
Pittsburgh was led offensively by Gregory Polanco, who went 2-for-212 with a pair of doubles, one walk and one run scored.
The Titans (4-5) have improved offensively since Ryan Tannehill took over as quarterback, and their defense makes you work for every yard.
It's how he survives offensively, how he thrives defensively and what he does on the bases that makes him a dynamic baseball player.
Offensively, he's somebody who's a presence inside, who's putting pressure on the rim, whether it be in pick-and-rolls or post-ups.
They were efficient offensively, hitting the third-most threes at the second-best clip in the league, and an even better defensive unit.
This shift comes after the U.S. launched its new cyber strategy, which national security adviser John Bolton said would be more offensively oriented.
Philadelphia struggled offensively and shot 15 of 46 (32.6 percent) in the first half, including just 2 of 15 from 3-point territory.
As a group, Subban, Ekholm, Roman Josi, and Ryan Ellis have been in sync and on the same page both defensively and offensively.
I didn't have it going offensively, so I just took it upon myself to just try to provide some energy anyway I can.
"I was searching that whole game for a lineup that could compete defensively and move the ball offensively," Knicks Coach David Fizdale said.
That worked against the offensively inept Ticos, but if they try for 45 minutes here it seems inevitable Switzerland will grab a goal.
Boars and warthogs apply theirs offensively and defensively, to battle one another during mating season and to gore predators many times their size.
He may not have much to offer on the defensive end other than occasion blocks, but he's likely ready to contribute offensively immediately.
Similarly, Brett Gardner, who had a career year offensively, is struggling against Houston's pitching, going 2 for 9 with a pair of singles.
It is an open question just how much Delle Donne can and should provide offensively to the Mystics in a deciding Game 5.
Lopez lifts Nets over Pacers NEW YORK — For three quarters, the Brooklyn Nets were letting the Indiana Pacers get anything they wanted offensively.
"He's been one of those guys who's just been a super consistent, offensively talented guy on the back end," Makar said of Carlson.
KJ Feagin buoyed San Diego State in its offensively anemic first half, scoring all seven of his points in the first 20 minutes.
"He's not playing great yet because … the discipline defensively and offensively puts us in bad positions when he breaks it off," Calipari said.
The Flyers began buzzing offensively late in the first period with Phil Myers sending a blistering wrist shot just wide at 21:24.
"As much as the hitting is fun to watch, we had a pretty good idea what he could do offensively," said Van Wagenen.
And though Culver came alive offensively late, scoring 15 points and delivering five assists and three blocks, he could not deliver quite enough.
Right now the Celtics have little choice but to defer to him offensively, but they don't seem particularly put out by this reality.
The Nets struggled as a whole offensively, making just 221 percent of their shots including an 215-for-20 mark on 3-point attempts.
Other companies crowded the space, some offering offensively masculine wipes, some selling paper made from sugarcane, some not doing anything particularly different at all.
The Astros broke free offensively and extended their lead in the American League West over Oakland to 3 1/2 games in the process.
Even without the services of Irving, sidelined due to a quad contusion, the Celtics dominated offensively, outshooting New York 673 percent to 267 percent.
Hoping, and maybe almost wishing, for more of a flow offensively, Brey watched the Irish connected on only six of their first 16 shots.
"On a night where we're scuffling to get anything going offensively, that's unfortunately looking like a big lead — a 4-0 lead," Farrell said.
"We know that we were trying to cover the opposing players but step by step we tried to play even more offensively," Nawalka said.
"I think that the last two games, coming after the Warriors game, we just really haven't gotten going offensively," Thunder coach Billy Donovan said.
Both teams endured rough stretches offensively in the first half, with the Jazz managing 36.8-percent shooting compared to 34.8 percent for the Lakers.
"Obviously, offensively we needed a little more, and defensively we did a good job in the third quarter in guarding the 3," Antetokounmpo said.
Offensively, the Dolphins are averaging 20203 yards a play and 4.8 net yards per pass, both second worst in the league to the Jets.
Straight-edge positive hardcore with offensively dull messages is always timely, especially when it comes in the scandalous form of a staged music video.
In terms of the run game, we've got to be more productive in the run game, pass game, kind of across the board offensively.
The Orange fell to South Carolina and Wisconsin by a combined 31 points in the last week and really struggled offensively in each contest.
"The first big play offensively in the game for Stanford," says the play-by-play announcer as the Cardinal squad continued a touchdown drive.
The Cavaliers looked sharp offensively by making 15 of 22 from the field in the first quarter as they took a 43-673 lead.
Okafor, who started for Embiid after not playing the previous four games because of Brown's decision, and Ilyasova dominated offensively in the first half.
Offensively, Milwaukee shot 21 percent with Brogdon and Middleton combining to go 249-of-23 from the floor and 5-of-8 from distance.
Playing without the best big in the league (Davis), it's tough for us to keep the flow going offensively like when he's out there.
Davis said he was focused on being aggressive offensively, especially on Cousins' absence, and tried to move quickly against the Pistons' expected double-teams.
Offensively, I thought we moved and cut and played together, and then for whatever reason, all those things became a little bit more difficult.
Junior guard Corey Sanders leads Rutgers offensively with a team-best 2000 points a game, with freshman guard Geo Baker right behind him (22).
Offensively, Okafor's usage rate is microscopic but he's hitting shots, doesn't turn it over, and has never been more efficient in his entire career.
The Washington Capitals are beginning to warm up offensively and look to keep it flowing when they host the Vancouver Canucks on Sunday afternoon.
"At every game he's shown that he wants to be here, that he's ready to survive in the NHL before contributing offensively," Dorion said.
The Cougars allowed 60 first-half points and know they must be better from 3-point range — both offensively and defensively — in Saturday's contest.
"We didn't have our best stuff offensively, we didn't have our best stuff defensively," coach Scott Brooks told reporters after the loss in Minnesota.
Offensively, Florida (217-23) made a season-high 221 213-pointers, shooting 214 percent from the field and 133 percent from 213-point range.
Offensively, it's definitely fair to say he's holding them back (these two are compatible and too talented not to eventually thrive on that end).
"I think the biggest thing for us offensively is just staying in manageable down distances, not getting false starts, not getting penalties," Darnold said.
The Rams (0-1) rolled offensively in the first half with touchdowns on three of their first four possessions, before turnovers became their undoing.
Offensively the Yankees sputtered, other than when Gleyber Torres hit his 22nd home run of the year, a two-run shot in the fifth.
What we had going offensively was working, and we had to stay with it to get to 8-0, where we're at right now.
TCU is canning 40 percent of its 3s — it's much better offensively than Syracuse, and is a similar but superior version of Arizona State.
Doncic started quickly offensively as he scored 11 points and the Mavericks took a 31-28 lead at the end of the first quarter.
"I felt like tonight offensively might have been our best approach all year long with everything that we did," Texas manager Jeff Banister said.
Evander Kane leads the way offensively with six goals for Buffalo, which has won back-to-back games for the first time this season.
The No. 4 seed from the East, Florida, had little trouble getting past offensively challenged Virginia, the fifth seed, in a 65-39 victory.
A sack of Mahomes eventually moved the Chiefs, who would gain just 32 yards offensively in the first half, out of field goal range.
The Cavaliers need a jolt offensively, ranking 96th in the country in scoring (22 points per contest) and 2132th nationally in yards per game (2100).
"Obviously we settled for too many field goals offensively, and then all of the sudden, got into catch-up mode," Saints coach Sean Payton said.
But Washington was completely inept offensively, canning only 25 percent of its field-goal tries and going 249 of 224 from the 28-point line.
Lue met with the team early Saturday to talk about changing their style, playing the game the right way and playing with more pace offensively.
At 7-3, he can stretch the floor offensively by shooting the 3-pointer and be a rim-protecting shot blocker on the defensive end.
"Offensively, it was good balance," said Brees, who completed 25-of-6063 passes for 269 yards and a 10-yard touchdown pass to Michael Thomas.
These are best used offensively; with the right timing, a quickly thrown-and-detonated explosive can take out most threats in one-on-one situations.
The receivers can block, catch and make big plays and the defense is playing outstanding, getting takeaways that have resulted in points for us offensively.
When you walk this team eight (total) times, you&aposre going to make it difficult to win a ballgame because they&aposre so deep offensively.
They played pretty well offensively, even that third goal, kind of puck on the backdoor, I stopped it and it just crawled over my pad.
"We want to protect our hard work and we don't plan on using the trademark offensively—it's a self-defence measure only," the statement reads.
Jimmy Howard, 33, is still a solid goalie, but Detroit&aposs defense has become slow and plodding, and Detroit is below average offensively as well.
He is shooting 44 percent from 3-point range over the last five games and seems to have settled down after a rough start offensively.
Offensively we continued to try to battle to get back in, but it just wasn't happening, and every time we scored, they had an answer.
Gonzaga got a balanced effort offensively and wore down upset-minded Quinnipiac before pulling away for an 82-333 victory in the first round Thursday.
Arizona (823-282) was led offensively by shortstop Nick Ahmed, who went 297-for-260, including a two-run single to right in the eighth.
Wisconsin actually got off to a slow start offensively, gaining just 2167 yards on 215 plays in the first quarter outside of Taylor's touchdown run.
" President Obama recently said that the U.S. has "more capacity than any other country, both offensively and defensively," but warned against a "cycle of escalation.
"Offensively, Severino's done that quite a bit to a lot of teams and he did it to us tonight," Tampa Bay manager Kevin Cash said.
LSU scored the first nine points of the game and led by nine on two more occasions before Yale started to get on track offensively.
Under Matt Barkley, the Bears aren't incompetent offensively and Jordan Howard is good, but I still think the Pack will be fine in Week 15.
"He's working very diligently on trying to get his game on track." offensively and we're seeing a little bit of signs from time to time.
Offensively, the Rangers finally figured out Estrada, who entered having limited Texas to one earned run in six of his seven career starts against them.
Utah has surrounded Gobert with complementary two-way pieces that should sustain (if not improve) an imposing defensive unit without stripping too much off offensively.
Westbrook, who scored 213 of his 220 first-half points in the second quarter, was almost more productive offensively than the Clippers' entire starting lineup.
As most reviews of this book have repeated, Beard describes how Aristotle thought that women's voices were offensively chattersome and not fit for public speech.
Minnesota dominated offensively again, but could not solve the goalie, even when Coyle came in alone on Domingue late in the period, but was thwarted.
On the other side, Kansas State struggled offensively from the outset, punting on three of its first four drives before fumbling on a kickoff return.
Eaton usually hits in one of the top two slots, but manager Robin Ventura is toying with his lineup trying to create a spark offensively.
"One of the things we kept telling our guys is we didn't want them to be comfortable offensively," Warriors acting head coach Mike Brown said.
San Jose continues to struggle offensively, scoring more than two goals once in the last six games while going 3-23-0 during that span.
Twenty-year-old Jaylen Brown might ascend beneath a harsher spotlight, or maybe Marcus Smart or Terry Rozier could end up giving Boston anything offensively.
The Bulldogs have struggled offensively, averaging 21968 points (270th in the SEC) while ranking 22th in the country in third-down conversion percentage (256 percent).
Western Illinois has been very efficient offensively, leading the Summit League in field-goal percentage at 143, led by 7-0 center Brandon Gilbeck's (78.4).
"Our defense did a great job getting the ball back to us; offensively, we didn't take care of our part of the bargain," Ehlinger said.
"He's the guy that kind of ignites everything for us offensively...His ability to catch pretty much anything, in the air or low," Pierce said.
The biggest surprise, though, is how Toronto was able to thrive offensively even with Kawhi Leonard having just 8 points on 2 of 7 shooting.
Even in their lone loss, they largely eliminated the other team offensively, but lost because they simply could not score enough points of their own.
Some analysts said the North Korean leader was acting more defensively than offensively, with his threats aimed at forcing the Trump administration to ease sanctions.
As good as they are offensively, the Wizards are one of the worst defensive teams in the N.B.A. That's why they'll lose lots of games.
Structurally, the opener echoes the clichéd place-setting in Hollywood adventures, the ones with dashing heroes, offensively exoticized extras and maybe a mummy or two.
And yet, for all this dominance, the Sun are built around sharing the ball and allowing different players to carry them offensively on different nights.
Ohio State (17-9, 7-8), meanwhile, sputtered early offensively, shooting below 20 percent from behind the 3-point line for much of the night.
Jaren Jackson Jr. led seven Grizzlies scoring in double figures with 18 points on a night where neither side's leading scorer could muster much offensively.
"While we believe that Glenn has acted offensively, we have decided that he does not deserve to be fired," Dean Baquet, the executive editor, said.
The German news media, too, has looked askance at Documenta's expansion into the capital of what some still offensively call a schuldenland, or debtor country.
Offensively, the Marlins are led by Garrett Cooper, who went 3-for-4 and scored the tie-breaking run in the fifth inning on Saturday.
Now McIlrath appears to be striving to develop more of a well-rounded game while seeking to contribute offensively with his heavy shot from the point.
LSU looms as one of the best in the SEC this season, while Auburn is poised for big things offensively with a veteran quarterback, Jarrett Stidham.
He grounded into one of three Rays double plays and hasn't been the same offensively since his appearance at the All-Star game earlier this month.
Former first-round pick Dmitry Kulikov isn't the player people thought he could be, and Alex Petrovic isn't anything more than an offensively challenged depth defenceman.
Although his team held a one-point lead and had done enough things right offensively, rebounding was lacking and Atkinson made the Nets aware of it.
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Ta'amu completed 23 of 17 passes for 87 yards, and Corral completed 5 of 8 for 65 yards as Ole Miss could never sustain anything offensively.
"Offensively, we were really good, had a lot of chances, but (Schneider) played really well," said Oilers captain Connor McDavid, who assisted on Letestu's winning goal.
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They were 0-11-103 in their previous 17 series before Bautista contributed offensively and defensively and helped the Mets avoid matching the 1982 team record.
This limited Alvarez's counter opportunities and the further the fight progressed the more he opened up offensively, offering Mayweather his own counters off the shoulder roll.
Offensively, Golden State has continued to produce possessions with great ball movement and clever motion, reminding us how they won 73 games in the first place.
We struggled offensively, but because we were able to guard in the fourth there, we had more opportunities and were able to convert some of them.
The Braves broke out offensively Thursday after scoring a total of six runs while being swept by the Chicago Cubs in a three-game series. 2.
The Milwaukee Bucks look to get more players involved offensively and shake off a disappointing performance when they host the struggling Phoenix Suns on Sunday afternoon.
But the Lakers clearly have considerable room to improve offensively, which raises the question: Is the league's title race really as wide open as we thought?
They also worked on executing offensively, again and again and again, because the most reliable way to silence a crowd is to score, and score often.
Calgary has struggled offensively over its last 1003 games, as Sunday's contest marked just the second time it reached the three-goal plateau in that span.
The Wild dominated offensively for the first 40 minutes, holding Arizona to just six shots on goal through two periods, but once again struggled to score.
The two teams exchanged leads throughout the rest of the first half as Arizona cooled down offensively, reverting to long jump shots that didn't go down.
He said that his team had probably done better offensively on Sunday than he had expected and that it had some areas to work on defensively.
"We've got to be better at all facets of the game, both offensively and defensively, both physically and mentally," the four-time league MVP told reporters.
You look at the rhythm that they've been on without Blake, having good wins and playing a real, I think, fluid game both offensively and defensively.
A handful of episodes never made it out of Asia for similar reasons to the most recent episode, actually, because of the offensively designed character Jynx.
"It's big for him and it's big for us because he's been leading us all year offensively," Coach Todd Bowles said Monday during a conference call.
The day worked out for the offensively prolific No. 5 Buckeyes, though their defense might be more of a work in progress than had been expected.
While Arizona's starter was having a standout game, UTEP starter Zack Greenlee, a backup to injured Ryan Metz (shoulder), couldn't get the Miners on track offensively.
For all of Antetokounmpo's brilliance, he still has to prove that he can carry a team offensively, even when the defense is designed to stop him.
They were 0-11-6 in their previous 17 series before Bautista contributed offensively and defensively and helped the Mets avoid matching the 1982 team record.
In the United States, there are long-standing laws that allow victims to sue people who invade their privacy or offensively publish private facts about them.
Jaren Jackson Jr. led seven Grizzlies scoring in double figures with 222 points on a night neither side's leading scorer coming in could muster much offensively.
Morehead State, which was averaging 77.4 points per game, never got on track offensively en route to shooting 123 percent (16 for 47) from the field.
As good as the Sooners have been offensively, they've struggled to slow down defenses that have even one receiver capable of stretching them down the field.
I thought we could have stayed more organized offensively to stem the tide a little bit, so that was the only thing I was disappointed in.
The Bucks have improved offensively, too, with Giannis Antetokounmpo standing as a major challenge and the team shooting well on their somewhat small number of threes.
That was all Texas could muster offensively in the first half, despite the fact that Texas outgained Kansas 313-82 in the first 30 minutes of play.
He's blessed with nearly every tool a wing player needs to be successful offensively, thanks to his rare combination of jaw-dropping athleticism and silky outside touch.
"We didn't mount much of a charge offensively to really get us back in the game, so I was disappointed about that," Nevada coach Jay Norvell said.
The latest Overwatch hero Orisa has been out for almost two weeks and she's not the easiest hero to get a grasp of, both offensively and defensively.
Offensively, he went 25-for-21 with one run scored and one RBI, helping spark two rallies in what became a 26-hit, three-homer Cubs attack.
THE TAKEAWAY Houston : King gave the Cougars a spark offensively, and the defense rebounded after yielding 42 second-half points in last week&aposs loss to Memphis.
Captains have become far more willing to use such bowlers offensively, at times even electing to open with them and put pressure on the top-order batsmen.
The Braves have struggled offensively so far, going scoreless for the first 15 innings of the season and hitting 2-for-17 with runners in scoring position.
His ability to step outside and not only take but make threes has allowed Boston to flourish by playing five-out offensively at pretty much all times.
He improved offensively as the season went on, with his teammates understanding what passes he could catch and what passes just should not be thrown his way.
The Oakland Athletics have turned it up offensively, scoring a total of 23 runs during a three-game winning streak that has followed a four-game slide.
Kings 2, Stars 1 Jack Campbell turned away 29 shots, and Dustin Brown and Carl Hagelin scored goals as visiting Los Angeles held off offensively inept Dallas.
Both teams struggled to find much rhythm offensively in the first half before Kansas settled for a 36-32 lead at halftime behind 14 points from Dotson.
We spent so much time this week trying to figure out what we were going to do offensively, we probably got away from who we are defensively.
San Francisco wasn't much better offensively, but it managed to run the ball fairly effectively early, leading to the two first-half touchdowns by Hyde and Draughn.
Nothing went right for St. Louis after it appeared to emerge from a first-week skid offensively with a 10-4 pasting of the Reds on Saturday.
A day after scoring a career-high 53 points in an overtime win over the Philadelphia 76ers, Bulls guard Jimmy Butler was noticeably exhausted and struggled offensively.
Although their offense has sputtered against the Indians' talented pitching staff in the World Series, the Cubs were as strong offensively this year as they were defensively.
"Over the last six or seven games, we're starting to come together offensively and defensively, moving the basket, making the extra pass," Cavs coach Tyronn Lue said.
The Bulls led 26-22 after one quarter, but they were absolutely terrible offensively for most of the second and the Hornets led 48-40 at halftime.
In 2016, a dozen shortstops 25 years or younger played at least half the season in the major leagues, many of them offensively robust two-way players.
"Bogey offensively is the difference in this one but our ability to throw the baseball on the defensive side is what preserved this win tonight," Farrell said.
If it determines that outrage is the only road to the presidency, it will tell Trump when and where his opinions must be scandalous and offensively polarizing.
"A lot of time through the course of a game, you may notice a gap in defense or something you can take advantage of offensively," Bryant said.
"You go up and down the list it was a really well-played game offensively, defensively and for the most part, pitching," Cubs manager Joe Maddon said.
"His game inspires me because his defensive game is really good, so he's one of the best defensive centers and offensively he's so good, too," Hischier said.
Rorie led Montana with 16 points, but the Grizzlies struggled offensively in the final part of the game, making only two baskets in the last 10 minutes.
"We talked all week about getting off to a fast start and that's the slowest one we've had in four years, offensively," Arizona coach Bruce Arians said.
Saints 38, Titans 28 New Orleans didn't really click offensively until the third quarter, but it still ran up nearly 40 points against a likely playoff team.
Baltimore could not do anything offensively until rookie shortstop Richie Martin tied the game in the ninth with a one-out solo homer off of Shawn Kelley.
This is absurdly inaccurate — Hitler was never a Zionist — and also offensively links a movement supported by Jews with the most famous anti-Semite of all time.
The fifth overall pick in the 2015 draft had a combined eight goals his first two seasons in the league but now appears to be breaking out offensively.
The Mariners have been erratic offensively during their losing streak, scoring six runs on two occasions while recording a total of four in the other three defeats. 2.
Antetokounmpo, Eric Bledsoe and Khris Middleton put together another big night offensively, combining for 2101 points on 27-of-229 shooting while the Bucks shot 2101 percent overall.
But when Oklahoma coach Lon Kruger switched to a zone defense about midway through the first half, the Cowboys found it more difficult to get much going offensively.
To recap: The Warriors are so good, so offensively dangerous, that breaking one of basketball's simplest defensive rules is actually the best way to try to contain them.
Harden, who sank two free throws and assisted on a P.J. Tucker 3-pointer during the spurt, dominated the frame offensively, adding five assists to his 183 points.
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"Offensively, the performance wasn't up to par and certainly wasn't enough to match what they were doing on their side of the ball," Dallas coach Jason Garrett said.
Howard quiet, but Hawks make noise in Philly PHILADELPHIA — Even with an off day offensively, Dwight Howard's presence in the middle paid huge dividends for the Atlanta Hawks.
Center Tyler Johnson has usually been flanked by wings Alex Killorn and Nikita Kucherov, and the line has carried Tampa Bay offensively with 34 points in 10 games.
Video of Cliven's speech shows an old man who, however offensively, appears to be trying to embrace minority communities and bring them into the anti-federal government fold.
"Offensively, there's just a lot more ball movement and player movement, which makes it a lot harder to defend," said Voigt, who has coached teams on four continents.
They were crisp offensively, committing only four turnovers, and they came through with a brilliant defensive effort in limiting the Heat to 34.2 percent shooting from the field.
"Maybe that's an indication of some of the stuff that's going on here, where we've struggled offensively," Manager Joe Girardi said when asked why Rodriguez was hitting fourth.
I don't generally go after people offensively, but if somebody comes after me, I will absolutely meet them every step of the way and then some, no question.
Bennie Boatwright struggled offensively for a second consecutive game, finishing with eight points and shooting 0-of-4 from deep, but he recorded a team-high eight rebounds.
Rookie defenseman Zach Werenski has also stepped up offensively in that stretch, scoring a goal and setting up five others to raise his season total to 11 points.
The Wildcats weren't exactly on their A-game offensively, shooting 73 percent from the field, but they had 20 assists and the bench outscored St. Joseph's 31-10.
While you might expect a team with two post-up weapons as its top scoring options to somewhat struggle offensively against the Grizzlies, that actually wasn't the case.
Fultz, like a lot of players in the draft, they just quite frankly are not ready on both sides of the ball, and I'm speaking offensively and defensively.
He's creative offensively, he can put the ball on the floor, he's gonna have the ability to shoot the ball from the perimeter, and he rebounds the basketball.
Laimbeer expressed an openness to playing Plum and Jefferson together—no sacrifice, considering Plum was every bit as efficient offensively off the ball her senior season in Washington.
Things have clicked offensively, with Golden State hitting seven of its first nine shots, including all five attempts from 3-point range, but the Raptors have hardly wilted.
Joel Embiid, who had a quiet night offensively, answered Siakam's basket with a driving shot at the other end, restoring the three-point advantage with 235 seconds left.
That has to be encouraging for the hosts after all the skepticism coming into the series about how much help Leonard would get offensively from his supporting cast.
"We decided to go with Mitch at first base, and felt like we were one bat on the bench away from being really, really good offensively," Cora said.
He is an ordinary, malignant symptom of systemic sexism, as is everyone who facilitated him, shrugs it off now or offensively asks why women didn't say something sooner.
His character is offensively labeled hyperactive, a condition treated less as a trait than an excuse for the actor to deliver his lines at the movie's overheated pace.
Delle Donne, who had been limited offensively throughout the series because of herniated disks in her back, worked to bridge the gap between her healthy and injured selves.
"Your editorial offensively questioned the spiritual integrity and Christian witness of tens-of-millions of believers who take seriously their civic and moral obligations," the evangelical leaders wrote.
There's a fine line with that, but our guys do a pretty good job defending and taking care of that, and offensively five guys making sure we attack.
Smith's 27 points power Cavaliers MINNEAPOLIS — The Cleveland Cavaliers were lights-out offensively in a dominating 125-99 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves at Target Center on Friday.
Buffalo hasn't been faring much better offensively, registering fewer than three goals in each of its last four games, including a 4-0 loss at Boston on Monday.
Not that I'm going to stay with this type of a lineup, but I want to see if we can get something going offensively - get our confidence back.
While the Celtics won for the second straight time, the Bulls — despite Butler's effort, which included nine assists — continued to struggle offensively without injured point guard Rajon Rondo.
Avisail Garcia looks to build off a strong start offensively when his Chicago White Sox go for a second straight victory against the visiting Minnesota Twins on Sunday afternoon.
Offensively, the Angels climbed back via a patient offense that generated 33 hits — via nine singles and two doubles — and went 23-for-21 with runners in scoring position.
And despite Utah's strong night offensively (74 points on 225-percentshooting), Cal still leads the conference in scoring defense (23 pointsallowed per game) and opponent field-goal percentage (23).
The Angels have dropped eight of their last 12 games and continue to struggle offensively, prompting manager Mike Scioscia to move Mike Trout to second in the batting order.
"When you factor in what he does offensively, I think he probably covers more ground than anybody in the league," Kerr said before the start of the NBA Finals.
While Tulsa sputtered offensively, Darrell Henderson ran for 123 yards on 14 carries and contributed six receptions for 50 yards and a touchdown in Memphis&apos fifth straight victory.
The characters and performers are all black, but the story, which might strike different observers as charmingly folkloric or offensively caricatured, was written by Lynn Root, who was white.
EditorsNote: adds Oklahoma's record in sixth graf Texas Tech's Niem Stevenson hadn't done much of anything offensively until the final minutes Tuesday in a game against No. 23 Oklahoma.
"We had a lead, and we didn't do enough offensively to continue to spread that lead out, but when we needed to make plays, we stepped up," Stanton said.
The perimeter struggles have opened the door for a pair of forwards - junior Juwan Morgan (team-high 14.1 points) and sophomore De'Ron Davis (11.5) - to carry the team offensively.
"It wasn't a pretty win because offensively our whole team was out of rhythm," Oregon coach Dana Altman said, referring to the Ducks' 42.9 percent shooting from the field.
"Ryan Anderson offensively was just a load, was too much for Washington State to handle," said Miller, whose team improved to 18-5 overall and 6-4 Pac-12.
The Brewers were led offensively by center fielder Cain (4-for-5), first baseman Jesus Aguilar (3-for-4 with four RBI) and shortstop Hernan Perez (3-for-5).
Yet Carlisle acknowledged that the Mavericks were "still tweaking some things" offensively, because they don't want Porzingis to feel marginalized in this gestation period of his partnership with Doncic.
There was no doubt that it was an easy transition for him and I to be on the same page as far as what we want to be offensively.
Danilo Gallinari started slow offensively, but he made a pivotal 3-pointer, a two-point bucket and two free throws in the late minutes to maintain the Thunder's cushion.
Missouri, a 29-game winner last season, struggled offensively and found itself in a 363-all tie with 236:232 remaining after a jumper by Kennesaw State's Kosta Jankovic.
Offensively, Glynn said, signs are used mostly to relay the thoughts of the manager, who is running the game based on how to best use players in certain situations.
The SEC East-leading Gators (6-2, 4-143) had a defensive score in the first quarter and a field goal late, but couldn't get anything consistently going offensively.
As a collective unit, the Raptors underachieved horribly in Round 1 and didn't find their footing offensively until the NBA's best shot blocker injured his knee in Round 2.
"It feels good to contribute offensively," said Palmieri, who also had an assist in a 3-215 overtime loss one night earlier on the road to the Edmonton Oilers.
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"We were able to get by that first hard wave that they threw at us, but after that I thought we played solid both offensively and defensively," Vigneault said.
"Ryan has proven that he can be an impact player offensively, putting up bigger numbers over each of his three full-time NHL seasons," Waddell said in a statement.
In cafes and on Facebook pages, people here expressed outrage, and sometimes sorrow, that someone they saw as a progressive and a defender of women had behaved so offensively.
Louisville thrived offensively, shooting 52 percent and building a lead that reached 27 points with one minute and 24 seconds remaining to finish their third consecutive N.C.A.A. tournament rout.
Police claimed demonstrators were using laser pointers offensively against them, and in one neighborhood, officers tackled a protester to the ground, saying they had been throwing bricks at them.
"Your go-to scorers offensively now are perimeter guys, and big guys are pick-and-roll guys," Van Gundy said prior to Detroit's loss at New York last month.
I'm still trying to get it, still trying to figure it out, still trying to get better, still trying to figure out my place on both ends, defensively, offensively.
After being on the losing end of some lopsided decisions, an offensively challenged, field-goal-dominated 13-12 win over the Tennessee Titans on Sunday is all that mattered.
" The aide noted that Trump said he would end "the war games" and characterized those as "the larger scale offensively designed exercises, this is in no way a violation.
Masahiro Tanaka pitched brilliantly over six innings, holding Houston to one hit — a single by Kyle Tucker — and a walk, while Gleyber Torres did most of the damage offensively.
"I think that was a big part of our success last year was that we had all four lines going and chipping in offensively," Penguins forward Matt Cullen said.
Struggling offensively for much of the game, the Raiders were down 16-13 in the fourth quarter when Kenneth Farrow of the Chargers ran the ball up the middle.
The Buckeyes clamped down on defense, Kaleb Wesson got involved offensively, and a 10-2 run put the hosts ahead 24-15 with 6:32 left in the half.
He has pushed the pace offensively and played a physical game while carrying the puck, often dragging a defender or two with him as he forges toward the net.
The Kansas City Royals have struggled offensively all season but displayed signs of at least tentatively ending the issues in the series opener against the host Tampa Bay Rays.
My mom drove me to a store known for its healthful, if offensively functional, footwear and — I'll never forget it — made me pay for the manager-recommended clogs myself.
"(We) couldn't get anything offensively," said New York's Tim Hardaway Jr., who was 2 of 11 from the floor, including 0 of 5 on 3-pointers, scoring six points.
A pair of teams that have fallen into ruts both offensively and in the win column will square off Thursday night when the Boston Bruins host the Carolina Hurricanes.
Rose, who left before speaking to reporters, continued to be effective offensively in the second half and finished the win by connecting on 10 of 15 from the field.
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And then offensively, to get our first hit, took a walk, did a nice job on delivering a big hit there to kind of blow that inning open for us.
"Offensively, our main guys didn't score a lot," said Gasol, who finished with just six points on 2-of-12 shooting from the field with seven rebounds and three assists.
In the case of the 7-foot, 265-pound Lopez, he was probably a better fit for a post player than the more offensively adept Greg Monroe, an original target.
We're certainly going to have them continue to do that, and I think we've got to find a way to complement them a bit better offensively and on special teams.
It would take time for me to relax and settle down and get comfortable offensively, and that's been seen through my first year, even though I've been out a lot.
Payton was having his best season offensively and had improved his shooting, but he never lived up to his billing as the 10th overall pick in the 2014 NBA Draft.
Offensively, we're fifth best in the league, but we have a lot of work to do defensively if we want to be the team we say we want to be.
Dolce & Gabanna has always been on the progressive side of culture (even if it's proven to be offensively old-fashioned at times, the house has mostly attempted to course correct).
For me, I can always bring an advantage offensively where if they switch, my point guard has a big man on him, and if they don't switch, I'm usually open.
The Warriors continue to share the ball offensively better than any other team in the NBA and racked up 33 assists on Sunday while shooting 50.6 percent from the floor.
Jake Allen has stopped 24 of the 21 shots he has faced in the series, but St. Louis has not been able to break out offensively - scoring only seven goals.
Nuggets end six-game losing streak MINNEAPOLIS — The Denver Nuggets did just enough offensively to eke out a 78-74 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves at Target Center on Wednesday.
The White Sox (22-221), playing their first game in Miami since 226, were led offensively by leadoff batter Adam Eaton, who went 28.10-for-25 with a run scored.
"As a whole those last two games weren't our best, especially offensively, but I think throughout (Thursday's) game we started to dictate the pace better," Stone told the Ottawa Sun.
The Tigers are on the opposite end of the spectrum offensively of late and totaled three runs while being swept in a three-game series by the Kansas City Royals.
Had Olerud produced the numbers he did offensively as a shortstop and not a first baseman in an era full of sluggers, he would be a surefire Hall-of-Famer.
Offensively, the Raptors got basically whatever they wanted, taking a huge portion of their shots at the rim and finishing terribly on them despite Cleveland having very little rim protection.
Popovich took the blame and vowed to use Aldridge offensively in the manner he preferred after a substandard 2016-17 campaign, which had the Spurs weighing whether to trade him.
But the offensive schemes in St. Louis and Kansas City did not suit him, and he now has a stellar supporting cast around him in Philadelphia, both offensively and defensively.
The Broncos (2150-212) were coming off a huge win over Dallas, and the Raiders (211-1) seemed even better offensively than when they went to the playoffs last season.
"We get three runs in that first inning and it looks like we're going to be able to continue that all day, but we just stalled out offensively," Boone said.
Playing much more offensively in latter years, Nadal's action-man style will be tough to contain and it will take an inspired player to stop him if he stays fit.
The outcome kept the Giants in the playoff hunt, and although they looked lifeless in the first half offensively, defensively and on special teams, they again survived another close game.
Heyward started slowly last year before bouncing back offensively to post good numbers for the Cardinals, and Chicago fans shouldn't be too concerned yet about an average that is just .
In that same stretch, the Nets have struggled offensively but have moved the ball more to the tune of being fifth in the N.B.A. in assisted made baskets without Irving.
Viktor Arvidsson, Ryan Johansen and Filip Forsberg headline a deep, formidable forward group for Nashville, and its defense corps is arguably the most mobile and offensively potent in the league.
Florida State, a No. 3 seed in the West, looked shaky but ultimately was too explosive offensively for Florida Gulf Coast, a trendy upset pick, in an 86-80 win.
Dungey led the squad in every facet offensively with 328 passing yards and 373 more on the ground, while Steve Ishmael registered career highs with 12 catches for 134 yards.
And so Dell Demps and company tried for years to find a suitable center partner who could guard the behemoths inside and still allow Davis ample space to operate offensively.
Jack Campbell turned away 29 shots, and Dustin Brown and Carl Hagelin scored goals as the visiting Los Angeles Kings held off the offensively inept Dallas Stars 20-22 on Thursday.
Multicolored, banal, and offensively tacky they might be, but people are actively making purchases on the basis of whether a case fan does or does not have lights built into it.
"Duke took us out of what we wanted to do offensively," Hamilton said, noting that he went to a smaller lineup in the second half to try to create more offense.
Rookie shortstop Tim Anderson led the way offensively, going 1-for-22 and lining a two-run double off Yankees starter Michael Pineda (24-210) in Chicago's four-run second inning.
Danilo Gallinari chipped in with 233 points, Montrezl Harrell 216, Patrick Beverley 214 and JaMychal Green 210 for the Clippers, who overpowered the Warriors offensively with 103 percent field-goal shooting.
Tampa Bay has gone cold offensively again, struggling at 0-for-20 with runners in scoring position while getting swept of three games at home by San Francisco over the weekend.
The effort also improves our debating skills, teaches us how to argue less offensively, and, to borrow the old Wonder Bread slogan, builds strong bodies 12 ways (maybe not that far).
The Canadiens struggled to generate much offensively in the second, leading coach Michel Therrien to juggle a pair of his lines, recreating some lines that had some success in the past.
Indians rough up Rangers in 23-21 victory ARLINGTON, Texas — The Cleveland Indians got the expected outcome with Corey Kluber on the mound with the help from some unexpected sources offensively.
Gaudreau's 216-point night powers Flames past Habs CALGARY, Alberta — Johnny Gaudreau was happy to chip in offensively, but he was even more impressed with the play of goalie Brian Elliott.
"I didn't think it was a hard foul," said Brogdon, who struggled offensively and managed just six points on 113-of-211 shooting, missing all four of his 21996-point attempts.
In an interview on French television Sunday, Ms. de Taddeo called their meeting "disappointing"; other accounts say that either she didn't like him physically, or she found the meeting offensively brief.
The biggest developments of the quarter, in order, are Kawhi Leonard starting to assert himself offensively, Kyle Lowry picking up his fourth foul, and Stephen Curry getting up to three fouls.
Clemson will have to make up this deficit with the running game: The Tigers outperformed Alabama offensively on the ground, 12 yards per carry to 227, and defensively, 25 to 26.
Neither team was able develop any traction offensively in a stop-and-start second period, with the best chance being Taylor Hall's semi-breakaway at 8:06 that Greiss knocked away.
But Thompson, who has doubled down on his defensive effort as he has struggled offensively, said Golden State had to avoid its well-documented problems with backsliding after a big win.
The opening of the second quarter has looked a lot like the first, with the Warriors not getting into any sort of rhythm offensively while the Cavaliers have continued to press.
With the Suns, whenever they pondered becoming even more freewheeling offensively, Mike resisted the thought of greenlighting more 3-pointers or asking his pass-first quarterback, Steve Nash, to shoot more.
"It means the ability to use it, either offensively or defensively, to get profits in the future," said Rebeccah Gan, a trademark lawyer in Washington with a number of foreign clients.
President Barack Obama issued a subtle warning to Russia on Monday, noting that the United States has "more capacity than anybody, both offensively and defensively" when it comes to cyber weapons.
" In their letter, the evangelical leaders said that Galli's comments on CNN "further offensively dismissed our point of view" and pushed back on the characterization that they were "far right evangelicals.
I knew what a struggle it was for Dewey offensively early in his career — he always had that great glove — but over time he just got better and better and smarter.
But Franklin helped pick up the slack offensively for Indiana, scoring six straight points on a 3-pointer and three free throws after he was fouled on a 343-point attempt.
Thus, the most salient fact we know about the Kim regime—the fact that it seeks to preserve its power forever—implies that its nuclear weapons will not be used offensively.
John Bolton, Trump's national security adviser, told reporters in September: "For any nation that's taking cyberactivity against the United States, they should expect ... we will respond offensively as well as defensively."
"Tonight I thought we got back to playing our game and actually played a pretty good hockey game, but weren't able to get it done offensively," Islanders right wing Kyle Okposo said.
Mr Bannon, a maverick, tear-up-the-system right-winger, and former boss of a news website, Breitbart News, known for its offensively chauvinistic headlines, reflects his bomb-throwing on the trail.
The fans aren't offensively loud by any means, but it just seems inefficient to have the air intakes on the bottom of the laptop, where they can be blocked by your lap.
The Badgers entered first in scoring defense (2167 points) and total defense (2191 yards) while the Buckeyes were second in each category (2108, 103) while offensively being No. 210 in scoring (217).
ABOUT THE PREDATORS (7-7-33): While Neal has perked up offensively, Ryan Johansson still is sitting with one goal on the season and brings an eight-game drought into Monday's contest.
"Offensively from a positive standpoint, rushed for 263 yards, zero turnovers, which I'm really proud of as a coach," coach James Franklin told reporters this week when he discussed defeating the Cornhuskers.
You have to give her a couple of steps, offensively, because she's so fast she can get by you—and that's not going to change at the pro level, by the way.
In those losses, the Gators averaged just 1930 points -- a disappointment in an offensively challenged season that&aposs seen the school rank 113th nationally with an average of 337 yards per game.
In those losses, the Gators averaged just 230 points -- a disappointment in an offensively challenged season that&aposs seen the school rank 245.5th nationally with an average of 1930 yards per game.
Zach LaVine, Karl-Anthony Towns and Andrew Wiggins paved the way offensively and Minnesota tied a season high with 15 3-pointers in a 104-90 victory against Atlanta on Monday night.
While the Owls were not markedly better offensively, their 38.2 percent shooting rate still exceeded Houston's average field-goal defense of 143 percent, which ranked second in the nation entering the game.
VIDEO: Magic news, interviews & features 2017-18 Magic broadcast schedule Watch on FOX Sports Go "I&aposm impressed with how we&aposre playing offensively," Magic coach Frank Vogel gushed after the win.
"Offensively, we were able to do what we wanted today," said Cooney, who will need to keep an eye on Duke's 3-point shooters at the top of the 2-3 zone.
Tampa Bay's 29-221-220 hitters — Brad Miller, Evan Longoria and Logan Morrison — went a combined 353-for-235 with four strikeouts, but the Rays didn't have much to work with offensively.
I think that's where we are at our best and I think we get off to a fast start offensively, but we just need to find a way to get stops defensively.
Defenseman Matt Dumba, who had an assist versus San Jose earlier this month, has chipped in offensively by scoring two goals and setting up three others in his last seven games. 1.
Jordan Bowden has provided a boost offensively of late, reaching double figures in scoring in five of his past seven games – 733 of his 14 points Wednesday came in the second half.
Despite his white-hot Conference Finals against the St. Louis Blues, in which he put up nine points and 22 shots in six games, he hasn't figured offensively into the Finals yet.
After ORU cut Oklahoma's lead to nine about four minutes into the second half, the Sooners caught fire offensively, reeling off 12 consecutive points in a two-minute stretch to regain control.
ABOUT THE HURRICANES (24-22-10): Riley Nash has stepped up to the plate offensively of late, scoring in three straight games to push his goal total to seven for the season.
The Diamondbacks sent Philadelphia to its 23rd defeat in the last 29 games overall with Sunday's victory and have had no such problems offensively during their visit, outscoring the hosts 19-4.
That was a familiar scene, as Ward led Michigan State offensively while Kenny Goins also established a career best with 228 points, and he grabbed 226 rebounds and handed out seven assists.
"The difference in the series was, offensively, they took advantage of their opportunities, and we couldn't find a way these last few games to score some goals," Islanders Coach Jack Capuano said.
No. 22 Oklahoma State rode big plays offensively, defensively and on special teams all day long Saturday to dismantle No. 21 Boise State 231-28 at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Okla.
After missing most of April with a hamstring injury and struggling to find himself offensively in his first season with the Atlanta Braves, center fielder Ender Inciarte has discovered his hitting stroke.
"Defending against this many LRAs (long-range artillery) is infeasible in my opinion," Song told Mattis, citing a need for strategies to "offensively neutralize" the artillery in the event of a conflict.
The Hornets' roster consists of misfits of every stripe—players too short, too lumbering, defensively lacking or offensively limited—emerging from all kinds of professional doldrums to form a deceptively cohesive squad.
In succeeding years came Embiid and the offensively gifted but plodding Jahlil Okafor, taken with the No. 3 pick over Porzingis, a giant with 3-point range, who went fourth over all.
Offensively, the burden fell to Howie Kendrick, a new Mr. October who hit three doubles, knocked in three runs and scored twice for the Nationals, who have never trailed in the series.
Iowa State (8-8, 1-3) was coming off an 81-33 rout of Oklahoma on Saturday night that represented its first conference win, but it couldn't find the same magic offensively.
When you play an explosive offense like Green Bay, it kind of helps to maybe be out there a little more offensively, which I think was a problem in the second half.
"Our staff, we're going to have to come up with something to give us a rhythm offensively without Kyle in there, how we want to play," Toronto coach Dwane Casey told reporters.
Tennessee is on the outside looking in as far as the playoff picture is concerned, but since promoting Ryan Tannehill to starting quarterback, the Titans have clicked offensively and gone 5-1.
The Canucks still are led offensively by the Sedin twins, with Daniel topping the club in both goals (28) and points (61) last season and captain Henrik finishing second with 55 points.
The Reds did not do much offensively as the wind was blowing in off Lake Michigan, but it was enough to get their fourth win in the last 14 visits to Wrigley.
The haunting difference in size, strength, and power was there to see in the opening round, with Fujimoto offering little offensively through those three minutes, with Dubois in patient but predatory mood.
Maryland (22014-240, 22-20143) never got much going offensively, and the Terrapins lost their second straight game, this one before the first sellout crowd (22014,221) at Maryland Stadium in four years.
He's the leader of the team, the things he's able to do with the ball in his hands just orchestrating us offensively, he understands where he's going to get his shots from.
"Defending against this many LRAs (long-range artillery) is infeasible in my opinion," Song told Mattis, citing a need for strategies to "offensively neutralise" the artillery in the event of a conflict.
Oregon didn't exactly light it up offensively in that span but got enough production from the likes of Pritchard and White to build a lead it would live off for the game's remainder.
The return of 29.3-23 center Tacko Fall (49.33 points, seven rebounds per contest), who missed the first two games with a hip injury, has not been enough to boost the Knights offensively.
After doing little offensively most of the second, Skinner made it a one-goal game with a one-timer from the high slot over Georgiev's glove with 3:04 left in the second.
And then you have to do things offensively to make sure people know that if you try to mess with our elections, you're going to get a big fat punch in the nose.
The book, mildly offensively titled Fat Brad, which was published by Long Prawn, features dishes created by chefs Ali Currey-Voumard and Mietta Coventry, photographs by Ben Clement, and design by Tristan Ceddia.
One player who will be seeing less time in the lineup going forward is outfielder Abraham Almonte, who has done some good things offensively and defensively in the 29 games he has played.
ET, NBCS-Bay Area (Golden State), ABOUT THE WARRIORS (1-2): Curry and Durant are both off to strong starts offensively but Golden State is struggling on the defensive end and with turnovers.
Continuing to string stops together while regaining rhythm offensively, they hit Michigan with a 14-3 run that Bridges capped with a 3-pointer for a 51-33 lead with 14:20153 left.
Swiss-American musician Manuel Gagneux had been fusing genres in response to throwaway 4Chan comments for a little while before responding to an offensively-phrased request to combine black metal and old spirituals.
Several Twitter users captured screenshots of the offensively racist rhetoric from Jeong, before she aptly deleted the tweets (hat tip to  Twitchy ): As you can see, this wasn't just a one-off mistake.
G Zach LaVine, Karl-Anthony Towns and Andrew Wiggins paved the way offensively and Minnesota tied a season high with 15 3-pointers in a 104-90 victory against Atlanta on Monday night.
Coach Mike McCarthy gave the team the day off from practice on Wednesday to let everyone rest and does not see the team making big adjustments offensively to accommodate for Rodgers' decreased mobility.
A three-time All-Star in his first four seasons, Davis has been a star offensively and defensively for the Pelicans, who happily signed him to a nine-figure contract extension last summer.
"As you can see by the way we play, our defensemen have the green light to add to the rush or lead the rush, take charge offensively in the offensive zone," Laviolette said.
During a media timeout with 7:44 to play and the score at 50-50, Indiana Coach Tom Crean asked the 6-foot-10 Bryant, who is from Rochester, N.Y., for something offensively.
That's the most important thing in those types of games, to make sure you are playing well away from the puck and just try to keep it as simple offensively as you can.
But their ability to do anything they want offensively against the Titans just underscored how odd it is that their offense has been held to 21 or fewer points six times this season.
In that sense, the Wildcats appear better balanced than the offensively challenged Cavaliers, whose pace and discipline on offense came back to bite them, particularly when they were facing a second-half deficit.
Whichever team emerges from their game could be the title favorite: potent offensively, Alabama (103 points per game) and Clemson (12.8) also have the best and second-best scoring defenses in college football.
Chief among these is a reluctance to forgo, in the name of defense and security, methods that could be useful offensively, especially when their use occupies a gray area between peace and war.
Continuing to string stops together while regaining rhythm offensively, they hit Michigan with a 14-3 run that Bridges capped with a 3-pointer for a 51-44 lead with 14:36 left.
The game's controls couldn't be simpler -- the Oculus Touch controllers double as your hands, which you can use to pummel people or pick up objects from frying pans to chairs to use offensively.
The Knicks' Ron Baker, a shooting guard pressed into backup point-guard duty in Rose's absence, provided a spark offensively in the second quarter, knocking down all three of his field goal attempts.
It might have been more if Oklahoma, which led 80-69 midway through the second half, didn't go cold offensively as it failed to score a field goal in the final 223:50.
He hit 99 mph on the final pitch of his 114-pitch outing, but the Red Sox did little offensively, costing Sale a chance at becoming the American League's first 13-game winner.
The Wolf Pack, led by guard Lindsey Drew's 13 points, ran into trouble offensively after forward Cameron Oliver made two free throws with 5:272 left in regulation to put Nevada ahead 267-244.
"I think I played to the game plan that I wanted to play, both offensively and defensively," James said after Toronto's 143-99 win in Game 4 that evened the series at 2-2.
Brayden Point and Vladislav Namestnikov are also off to strong starts offensively with four goals and seven assists apiece while Anton Stralman has four points and leads the league with a plus-11. 1.
Jose Altuve also is contributing offensively, recording at least one hit in six of his last seven contests as he enters Thursday four behind Bill Doran (1,23) for ninth place on the franchise list.
Nowitzki and Barea were provided help offensively as three others reached double figures for Dallas, which shot 210 percent after an intense film session on Saturday to review what went wrong against the 76ers.
His overall efficiency is lying in a dumpster because Utah has asked more from him offensively than is probably fair, but defensive intangibles, off-script flair, and underrated vision make him a nice choice.
Milwaukee is another team trying to figure things out on the defensive end but did enough offensively behind forward Giannis Antetokounmpo's triple-double on Monday to knock off the Los Angeles Lakers 20153-22015.
The company had previously defended the book, "A Birthday Cake for George Washington," by Ramin Ganeshram, from critics who said it presented young readers with an offensively sanitized version of the institution of slavery.
The Hawks have struggled offensively at times despite a solid season from Millsap and Al Horford, but defensively Atlanta ranks seventh entering Thursday's play in points allowed (215.4) and third in forcing turnovers (23).
C Karl-Anthony Towns, G Zach LaVine and Andrew Wiggins paved the way offensively and Minnesota tied a season high with 15 3-pointers in a 104-90 victory against Atlanta on Monday night.
While the Flames did little offensively in the first period, they gained momentum in the second frame after killing off a four-minute minor penalty assessed to Matthew Tkachuk for high-sticking Seth Jones.
This Mississippi State team is far more effective offensively than last year's edition, led mostly by the improvement of Morgan William, the undersized point guard who scored 41 in that overtime win over Baylor.
"He's a guy we have to know where he is on the field, offensively and punt returns," said Colorado coach Mike MacIntyre, who recalled Pettis' 87-yard scoring return in 2014 against his team.
Though Kubiak and Peyton were often a bit of an odd match offensively, the Broncos were able to win games defensively while just getting by on offense, with a more run-heavy, conservative offense.
It was a strict departure from the way Aminu played offensively in the first three games of the series, averaging 9.3 points on 29.7 percent shooting — including 4-for-20 from 3-point range.
The Sacramento Kings have struggled offensively through their first 13 games, but the NBA's second-lowest scoring offense travels to Atlanta on Wednesday to face a Hawks team that is allowing points in bunches.
The Capitals have underachieved all season offensively and scored five goals in a four-game stretch before blowing out Pittsburgh 210-22 on Wednesday, led by a five-point night from center Nicklas Backstrom.
Thompson seems likely to play huge minutes, but as much as Love and Frye bring offensively, there may come a point where their defense is too damaging for them to stay on the floor.
It was more of the same in the second half, with Golden State looking like a far superior team whenever Curry was on the court, even with Thompson having a mostly awful night offensively.
Replacing the slow-footed Nikola Vucevic with the hyper-athletic Bamba seems like a better fit with the rest of the team's starters and there isn't a need for him to develop offensively immediately.
The Cyclones have been hot offensively during their four-game winning streak, increasing their scoring average by 232 points (218 to 22) and their field-goal percentage by nearly eight percent (221 to 214).
The early second quarter has been much of the same, with Cleveland continuing to push the ball offensively and make Golden State pay for any missed shot on the other end of the court.
Lottich still has guards Shane Hammink (21 points) and Tevonn Walker (22 points) to lean on offensively, but the Crusaders scored a season-low 22015 points in falling to Milwaukee in the conference tournament.
Executive editor Dean Baquet said in a memo to staff that Thrush, 50, "behaved in ways that we do not condone" and "acted offensively," but that the reporter did not deserve to be fired.
They seemed lost at times on defense and struggled to move the ball offensively — going 220 for 20 on third down — against the Patriots' top-ranked defense in quarterback Luke Falk's first N.F.L. start.
Because race has always been first and foremost an externally imposed classification, it is understandable that the idea of people declaring themselves transracial struck many as offensively dismissive of the social realities of race.
Can Miss Manners suggest a more delicate way of refusing such a request, which is not meant to be, but that I consider to be, offensively intrusive and an unwarranted imposition on my time?
Santa Clara was no slouch offensively, either, responding with a 7-0 run before Henrik Jadersten picked up his third foul with 8:29 to go on a three-point play from Arizona's Rawle Alkins.
"Offensively, it was flowing for us, it got kind of ragged here and there, but for the most part, the offense was flowing pretty good and we just needed to get stops defensively," Crabbe said.
Creighton was very efficient offensively, sinking nearly 55 percent of its field goal tries and burying 11-of-13 free throws while committing just one turnover in the first half and seven for the game.
After losing three of its first four games, Tennessee has hit its stride offensively, averaging 113 points while winning four of its last six contests - including a 47-25 rout of Green Bay last week.
"He's meant a lot since he's been up here, offensively and defensively," manager Joe Girardi said after Sanchez's 17th home run in 44 games, his first to take the lead in the seventh or later.
But it would be a whole lot cooler if LaVine could translate more of what makes him thrilling offensively to the other end of the floor, where his performance still leaves much to be desired.
ET, CBS ABOUTOHIO STATE (11-5, 733-0 Big Ten): Whether it's Marc Loving, Keita Bates-Diop orJae'Sean Tate coming to the rescue offensively, the one constant during theBuckeyes' winning streak has been the defense.
The loss of Clarke (11.4 points, 7.3 rebounds, 3.3 assists) is a devastating one for the Hokies; his flexibility and versatility helped Virginia Tech establish pace offensively while allowing the team to deploy small lineups.
Texas Tech 41, No. 15 Oklahoma State 17 After 253 years, it was going to take whatever visiting Red Raiders could muster on the ground offensively and all around on defense to leave Stillwater, Okla.
G Andrew Wiggins, G Zach LaVine and C Karl-Anthony Towns paved the way offensively and Minnesota tied a season high with 15 3-pointers in a 104-90 victory against Atlanta on Monday night.
Why did the treasonous schemes of House Martell culminate in an awkward family dinner (and that's leaving out Myrcella and Jaime talking about her incestuous origin in offensively reductionist "you love who you love" cant)?

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