This iteration of IGTV Playmakers — it was Year One — we worked with 5 "playmakers" who were all white men.
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Playmakers of Mr Bacon's stamp will surely make a comeback.
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Back then, as with many playmakers, Payet's pitfall was his inconsistency.
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"The two playmakers didn't get much of a chance really," Cheika said.
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Just across the promenade from Dog House is Playmakers, the ship's sports bar.
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"They've got playmakers, they've got shot-takers — they're just playoff-built," Brown said.
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An application for this season's Playmakers asked for body measurements including bust size.
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"We need to be playmakers aggressively going for the ball, competing," Del Rio said.
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Miami lacks the Cardinals' vertical passing game; North Carolina can't match its defensive playmakers.
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Without him, the Chiefs, despite their bounty of playmakers, are not nearly as intimidating.
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He was the offense for a team that lacked playmakers once Irving went down.
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We've got to make them pay and put the ball in our playmakers' hands.
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Yet all the flaws Belichick's coaching has covered up were on display against Houston: A severe lack of talented playmakers, an aging Brady who no longer thrives in the cold, a defense relying more on scheme, effort, and execution than disruptive playmakers.
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Black players are discriminated against as playmakers but discriminated in favour of on the wings.
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We&aposve got good playmakers in space and that&aposs something defenses have to account for.
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The team's lack of "productive" passing is more likely due to a dearth of perimeter playmakers.
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Eriksen, vastly experienced at just 25, and finally being recognized as one of Europe's finest playmakers.
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"The one thing he will harp on is getting the ball to his playmakers," Jennings said.
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Eriksen, vastly experienced at just 26, and finally being recognized as one of Europe's finest playmakers.
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On the offensive end, the team lacks elite secondary playmakers but has plenty of above-average rebounders.
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"We have so many playmakers," Barkley said, pointing to quarterback Trace McSorley and tight end Mike Gesicki.
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The Rams need playmakers for an offense that finished last in the N.F.L. the past two seasons.
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But his alter egos, summoned by playmakers angered and bewildered by his election, have been myriad lately.
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With playmakers at all five positions, the Warriors would create defensive breakdowns that led to wide-open shots.
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He's got a ton of playmakers on this offense to get the ball to and spread it around.
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It left Parisse, a forward rather than one of the midfield playmakers who take most kicks, open to ridicule.
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The Ravens have a team of women called Playmakers, who don't serve as cheerleaders or dancers in any form.
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That will not be a consolation to the next batch of black playmakers to come through the academies, however.
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After high school, he was accepted by Carolina Playmakers, the resident theater company at the University of North Carolina.
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It just so happens that our team plays best to his strengths because we have so many different playmakers.
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They're the NFC North leaders and eying a playoff spot, and they need all the playmakers they can find.
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Whatever happened to the playmakers, the socks-rolled-down mavericks whose individualism could alter the course of a match?
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I thought Jared managed the game extremely well, distributed it to his playmakers, gave guys a chance down the field.
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Both teams play high-tempo, attacking rugby using creative midfield playmakers: Henry Slade for Exeter and Elliot Daly at Wasps.
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In every other way, though, it's normal: the greatest Providence playmakers of their respective eras do this all the time.
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When extended 15 feet from the rim, Drummond can't do much besides set screens to free up playmakers and shooters.
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"I think that with our personnel, we have very few guys that are playmakers," Nets coach Lionel Hollins told reporters.
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We selected 5 "playmakers" and tasked them with creating episodic content that highlighted their school's football culture throughout the season.
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Disney is not one of UEFA's commercial partners and has joined up with the organisation specifically for the Playmakers project.
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Butler held up his end of the bargain as one of the most efficient scorers and able playmakers at his position.
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"You just try to give the puck to playmakers and open up and try to get your shot through," Hayes said.
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But losing their two best scorers and their two best playmakers at the same time is likely too much to overcome.
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Osweiler, who signed to a $72 million contract from Denver in the offseason, was helped by an offense filled with playmakers.
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Playmakers, a sports bar, has awesome nachos, wings, and bar food, but the standout to me was the the Campfire Cookie.
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There are also playmakers at all three levels of the defense, although Byron Jones appears likely to leave in free agency.
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Cincinnati's new and intriguing side pairs a stout defense with midfielder Nicolas Lodeiro, one of the league's most explosive and creative playmakers.
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With Clarkson and Marcelo Huertas serving as playmakers, Russell slid into a scoring role and repeatedly hurt the Nets from the perimeter.
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Daniel Jones and the Giants fought admirably last week against the Patriots despite being down three of their most explosive offensive playmakers.
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Since being drafted in 2016 in the fifth round by the Chiefs, Hill has become one of the league's most explosive playmakers.
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The Rockets have other scorers and playmakers who can pick up the slack for their star guard in ways that the Thunder can't.
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Rodgers said the Packers were "terrible" because of a game plan that didn't focus on the team's top playmakers in the passing game.
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Harris and Gallo play the same position, but both are interchangeable pick-and-roll playmakers who can work as screeners or ball-handlers.
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The Cornhuskers also played the entire second half without wide receiver J.D. Spielman, one of their top playmakers, who also injured his knee.
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Of course, the Bills are still waiting for two of their biggest playmakers on offense, LeSean McCoy and Sammy Watkins, to get healthy.
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They give up yards in chunks, content to know that their playmakers will often force a turnover when their backs are against the wall.
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"We've got good playmakers, and we put a lot of pressure on the defense with the guys that we have out there," Flacco said.
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Unlike the 2014 Spurs and the current Warriors, most teams do not have capable scorers, passers, ball-handlers, and playmakers at all five positions.
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"We have a lot of playmakers all over the field, so I don't think it really changes anyone's job, necessarily," Jones said on Wednesday.
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"Ghost Light" is a spectral tour of the hoary legends, superstitions and rituals that remain sacrosanct in the hearts of even the most jaded playmakers.
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The Ravens don't hide the existence of a team of women — called the Playmakers — who might look and dress like cheerleaders but are actually marketers.
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Enforcers and on-ice bodyguards have since been squeezed out of the game, and some of the league's most notorious provocateurs have transformed into playmakers.
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Thomas and Smart are already crafty pick-and-roll playmakers, but they would each be deadly with a lob target like Davis rumbling through the paint.
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Speaking of Leicester and Tottenham, the PFA awards were announced over the weekend, with gongs going to both teams' playmakers: Riyad Mahrez and Dele Alli, respectively.
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After all, star defender Mats Hummels and pivotal playmakers Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Ilkay Gundogan have all left – to Bayern Munich, Manchester United and Manchester City, respectively.
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Oklahoma State's top playmakers were active on the 88-yard drive, as Wallace hauled in a 23-yard catch and Hubbard added a 423-yard rush.
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They will have to attack Modric earlier than they managed to do against Spain's playmakers and will probably play a far more expansive game than last Sunday.
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"It's never easy for a European going to the NBA, especially for playmakers and point guards, but that's the position I wanted to be in," he said.
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He remains one of the better playmakers at his position, but a non-existent three-point shot has stagnated what is, at times, an explosive Blazers' offense.
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NBA fans will be able to produce basketball-related content and share it across the NBA Playmakers network, spanning YouTube, NBA websites and possibly other online destinations.
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Just a few years ago, a list that included Anquan Boldin, Reggie Bush, Wes Welker, Andre Johnson and Roddy White would have highlighted the league's best playmakers.
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Chytil has most recently skated on a line with the veteran playmakers Rick Nash and Zuccarello, a sure sign that coaches have developed confidence in his abilities.
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Questionable play calling, veterans missing practice, inability to get the ball to playmakers, inability to have guys coming off injury and know the playbook, poor clock management?
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But they will return several playmakers, including wide receiver Quadree Henderson, who is also an all-American returner, and the 6-foot-3 wide receiver Jester Weah.
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I think we have enoughoffense and playmakers that if we put ourselves in close games, there areenough guys who can make plays to put us over the top.
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Both quarterbacks have playmakers spread across the field, which is why Oklahoma averages 586.1 yards per game to lead the nation, two spots ahead of Oklahoma State&aposs 569.3.
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Green has not necessarily been at his best in these finals, but he is Golden State's most important player on defense and one of their key playmakers on offense.
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But the Rams' own defensive backfield, led by corner Trumaine Johnson (who had a pick today), is proving to be as full of playmakers as their feared front seven.
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NOTES: Before Tuesday's game against Toronto, Mavs coach Rick Carlisle talked about the challenges rookie point guard Dennis Smith Jr. has endured while facing some of the league's best playmakers.
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The Ravens competed without several playmakers on offense, including starting quarterback Joe Flacco; receivers Jeremy Maclin, Mike Wallace and Breshad Perriman; running back Danny Woodhead and tight end Ben Watson.
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The new video network — titled NBA Playmakers — is a partnership between the NBA and BroadbandTV (BBTV) — the largest online video network worldwide with around 15.1 billion video impressions per month.
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He's already one of the craftiest and effective downhill playmakers in basketball, but for Butler to truly max out his potential in the coming seasons, that jumper needs to stabilize.
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Both are excellent playmakers, and as they learn the N.B.A. game together they can work on developing an offense that lets them share that burden while developing their scoring ability.
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The NBA and BroadbandTV have hand-picked the first group of creators making and sharing content, but they've also opened up the Playmakers Network to the public through an application process.
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Missouri's defense has not been as effective as a year ago, but the Tigers have a number of playmakers on that side of the ball, including star defensive end Charles Harris.
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The Campfire Cookie at Playmakers — a chocolate chip cookie topped with marshmallows and Nutella — takes a few laps around the ship's running track to burn off, but is so worth it.
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Kaidi was named as an Entrepreneur of a Year in 2018 by the Playmakers Technology Award and as a Person of a Year in 2016 by the Estonian IT and Telecommunication Association.
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Kevin Durant is one of the league's premier scorers and a brilliant isolation player, but the Thunder's dearth of playmakers means that he's often tasked with creating points out of nothing. NBA.
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ABOUT THE EAGLES (5-5): It's hardly a surprise that Wentz has been unable to sustain his hot start, given the dearth of playmakers at wide receiver and a spotty running game.
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In this day, in this system, and with two of the smartest pick-and-roll playmakers in the league on his side, Tucker's ability to knock down this exact shot is paramount.
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The Cavaliers sent Kyrie Irving, one of the most dynamic playmakers in the league, to the Celtics in exchange for a hefty package headlined by Isaiah Thomas, a two-time All-Star.
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Featuring 25 performers, including percussion group The SkidRoPlayaz, and funk/soul band The LA Playmakers, as well as other participants in the LAPD's annual Festival for All Skid Row Artists, I Fly!
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One of the N.F.L.'s top playmakers, the 27-year-old Beckham caught 27 passes and scored 103 touchdowns last season and recently said he wants to be the league's highest-paid player.
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There are four back-breaking three-point shooters—two of whom double as first-ballot Hall of Famers and all-galaxy playmakers—surrounding a rim-rolling paint protector who gets notably better every year.
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Junior running back Jalen Hurd, who rushed for 106 yards in Tennessee's 45-213 comeback win over Virginia Tech, and junior wide receiver Josh Malone (21.8 yards per catch) are the other offensive playmakers.
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Buoyed by perhaps the most electric trio of offensive playmakers in the Big 12, the 11th-ranked Cowboys begin their quest for a third consecutive 10-win season on Thursday when they host Tulsa.
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After an 11-5 season in 2016, fueled by young playmakers and a stalwart defense, the Giants swaggered into training camp as the prohibitive favorite to overtake Dallas for the N.F.C. East division crown.
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They have a talented group of three big men, waves of rangy 6'5''-plus athletes on the wings, and one of the best playmakers in the country handling the ball for most of the game.
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With Turner now on the Portland Trail Blazers, Horford may not only be Boston's first or second offensive option, pending the match-up, but he likely also slides in as one of its primary playmakers.
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The Nuggets had decent playmakers on the floor in second year wings Malik Beasley and Juancho Hernangomez, and also had point guard Monte Morris, the NCAA's leader in assist-to-turnover ratio for four straight seasons.
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Doncic doesn't need the ball in his hands to positively impact a game, but like so many great playmakers before him, it makes sense to let him influence a majority of his team's on-court decisions.
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The NBA is putting the talents of its fanbase to good use with the NBA Playmakers Network, a new program that supplies creators with special footage, assets, and other exclusive material for use in their videos.
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Thanks to most of their primary scorers and playmakers being out of the lineup, Brad Stevens has put the ball in his youngest player's hands in meaningful situations, out of time-outs and in crunch time.
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Herrick Productions is suing the toy giant claiming Mattel strung them along with meetings about a show called, "Playmakers," but ultimately kicked them to the curb to produce "The Toy Box" ... which is now on ABC.
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If point guards are the ones responsible for controlling the ball and making sure it gets passed to the right players in a game of basketball, project managers are the playmakers and change agents in an organization.
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NBA Playmakers will kick off during The 2016 Finals with a handful of YouTube creators creating digital versions of the league's playoffs campaign "Every Second Counts," which is part of the ongoing "This Is Why We Play" platform.
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Another knee injury, though not as serious as the one he sustained in high school, limited Simon in his final year, but he had established himself as one of the top playmakers in the country at his position.
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There's the one we saw all regular-season long: A diminished Tom Brady, a busted Rob Gronkowski and a handful of defensive playmakers auto-piloting to as "meh" of an 03-5 season as an NFL team can have.
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To that end, it's launched a new fan-focused video creation initiative called The NBA Playmakers Network, which will include a YouTube channel, access to various NBA content assets and other platforms the league will be including over time.
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The options for the Bulls this offseason regarding Butler would be to either put the ball in Butler's hands and surround him with secondary playmakers who space the floor, alongside mobile bigs who dive, execute myriad pick-and-roll schemes, and rebound.
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Worlds of Homelessness will conclude with the 10th annual Festival for All Skid Row Artists, a two-day celebration of art and music highlighting the vibrant and diverse artistic community of Skid Row, capped off by a closing performance from the LA Playmakers.
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Instead, Oladipo and Evans will complement each another on both ends, toggling back and forth as capable playmakers who can finish at the rim, knock down a pull-up three, and run an effective pick-and-roll with either Sabonis or Turner.
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But while "put the ball in Winslow's hands then surround him with competent shooters/playmakers/lob targets and see what happens" is a fun idea, an even more significant development to keep an eye on over the long-term is his outside shot.
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England's speed of recycling, a result of Tom Curry, Sam Underhill, Maro Itoje and Co sprinting into rucks, meant New Zealand's defense always seemed to be scrambling by the time twin playmakers George Ford and Owen Farrell were fizzing passes left and right.
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Blanc conceded that he was surprised by City's rugged defense and admitted he would rue his decision to use several different formations, some of them unfamiliar, in an attempt to make up for the absences of playmakers such as the injured Marco Verratti.
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As James plays some of the best basketball of his career at 33, he faces one of the youngest teams in the league: the Boston Celtics, who have outpaced expectations thanks to big contributions from fledgling playmakers like Jayson Tatum and Terry Rozier.
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YEA: The Chiefs' biggest strength the past couple of years has been their offense, led by reigning league MVP Mahomes and with a group of high-powered playmakers including TE Travis Kelce, WRs Tyreek Hill and Sammy Watkins and RB Damien Williams.
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The show had its world premiere at Detroit Public Theater last year, directed by Vivienne Benesch, producing artistic director of PlayMakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill, N.C. The show, and director, now move to Broadway in a Roundabout production starring Debra Messing.
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We have the playmakers to where if we get man to man, we're going to let them separate, do it on their own, and when we're (against) zone, they've got to see that just like I'm seeing it and find the open area.
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The most likely answer is in terms of the details of his style: his devotion to the ball-playing goalkeeper, his willingness to play with a raft of playmakers and, most important, his conviction that there is no such thing as too much possession.
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"We don't have a ton of playmakers, so we have to do it kind of the old-fashioned way, through ball screens, through patience, through ball movement, through spacing, those kind of things, and I think it was just a natural progression," Graves said.
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Chris Brown of the Bills' official site made a lengthy to-do list for Lynn to succeed where Roman failed: Let playmakers make plays, maximize quarterback Tyrod Taylor, achieve balance on an offense that currently ranks last in pass attempts, and run the offense at different tempos.
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That results in at least 10 of Manning's contemporaries potentially being positioned ahead of him for a spot in Canton even before one accounts for a younger group of playmakers (Patrick Mahomes, Deshaun Watson, Jared Goff, Lamar Jackson) who eventually could play their way into the conversation.
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O/U: None ABOUT THE BILLS (220-2): Although Ryan said a reason for firing Roman was his inability to get the team's top playmakers more involved, the absence of star wideout Sammy Watkins forced Buffalo to rely on a ground game that produced 208 yards rushing versus Arizona.
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The rapidly metastasizing Mike Vick comparisons are still a tad much, but 610 yards – the most ever by one player in an ACC game – is a jarring sign that, just two games into his sophomore season, Jackson is ascending into the ranks of the game's most feared playmakers.
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He has blossomed since then, and Kansas City's offense has evolved, but so have the Chargers (225-227.0), whose combination of pass-rushers and playmakers in the secondary has helped them seize fifth place in the A.F.C., which will be the top wild-card spot if they hold on.
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Finally, supports are divvied up into "main healers," who enable the rest of the team and define a team composition's playstyle (Brigitte, Lucio, Mercy), and "flex healers," who are more inclined to be playmakers of the two supports through either utility, raw healing output or damage (Ana, Baptiste, Zenyatta).
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The first extended face-to-face conversation of their lives, shortly after the free agency period began, led to a partnership less than 24 hours later, pitching together two supersized playmakers — one former and one current — who likewise share big off-court dreams and no shortage of social awareness.
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The program began last night at the Skid Row Museum & Archive with a panel discussion framing the issues, followed by a performance from the LA Playmakers — professional musicians who came together five years ago as members of the Praise and Worship Team at Skid Row's Central City Church of the Nazarene.
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After Pep Guardiola, the City coach, had named a lineup of naked attacking intent — three defenders and a half-dozen playmakers, a statement that if City was going out of the competition it was going out blazing — and watched his team score in the second minute, the stage seemed set.
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And since Fox and M.L.B. have such a close relationship, producers will have to sidestep the drama that accompanied ESPN's 2003 football drama "Playmakers," which infuriated the National Football League, a broadcasting partner, with its warts-and-all depiction of the professional football world and was then canceled despite strong ratings.
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But against the Celtics, a team without their top two playmakers that ranks 23rd in turnover rate since the All-Star break, Bledsoe's gambling could pay off in a way that turns the series in Milwaukee's favor (when he's on the floor with Antetokounmpo the Bucks have a top-10 defense this season).
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The Lakers countered the skepticism by insisting that playmakers and playoff-tested veterans, rather than shooting specialists who could open up space on the floor, would ease LeBron's burden and potentially even match up well with the mighty Warriors — only to see their signees do little to hush the told-you-so crowd.
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It sounds like everyone benefits, so that's nice It's easy to see the appeal of the Playmakers Network from the NBA's perspective: they can tap into the creativity of the league's fans and enable the creation of superior organic promotional material, all at a fraction of the cost an in-house ad campaign would require.
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Blackman must hang tough against the Miami front seven and get the ball to his playmakers, but the offense could be in trouble if the blocking up front is as suspect as it was against the Demon Deacons, who amassed five sacks and 17 tackles for loss, numbers that play right into Miami's strength. 1.
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In doing so, the series represents a significant step forward for subject matter that has been presented mostly in either a saccharine or hyper-masculinized form, seen in the short-lived drama Playmakers, large portions of the yearly installments of Hard Knocks, and now in HBO's Entourage-like Ballers, a Dwayne Johnson–led fantasia of professional football in Miami.
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Read more: New York City has lured Amazon with more than $1.5 billion in incentives — here's what else they agreed to Meanwhile, playmakers in the tech industry have used social media to slam Bezos for the large amounts of money the cities offered in exchange for HQ2 and for a lack of transparency in the decision-making process.
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They might revive their careers there; they might go out with a gaudy championship ring and an oversized t-shirt that smells like champagne even after a dozen washings, and that will be nice for them, and for those of us that care about them as old friends or recurring characters, or just have soft spots for bearded Iberian playmakers.
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During the past Premier League season, England's starters from the match against Iceland played a combined 1,429 minutes as their clubs' primary playmakers—who typically receive the ball centrally in the attacking third of the field and seek to disrupt the defence by either delivering it immediately to forward player,d using runners on the wings, or taking it closer to goal themselves.
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