How To Use Double-team In A Sentence
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When two teammates are capable of drawing double-teams, it makes the solo act all the more convincing.
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The company is double-teaming the more complicated jobs with both a group manager and a scientist.
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Playing next to first-round pick Kevin Williams, Hovan should face fewer double-teams and be even more effective.
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If playing online, one half of a double-team duo might try a steal, while the other keeps his hands up to block a potential shot.
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With the lack of a consistent second scorer to complement him, Rose is facing plenty of double-teams.
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Although they have been fairly solid (though unspectacular) in camp and in the preseason, neither will draw a double-team away from him.
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Whether he makes a lame attempt for a steal or a weak effort at a double-team hap, the result is usually an easy basket for an opponent.
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The best thing about Matthias is that he's a big body that can defend the middle and take on double-team blocks, plus, he has the ability to pressure the quarterback. ...
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Opponents haven't double-teamed him in the past, but they might have to start.
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In 2003, opponents double-teamed Glover and chipped Ellis with a running back or a tight end because he couldn't beat one blocker.
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If the ball can successfully escape the double-team, the attackers have a one-man advantage at the other end of the court when the ball is moved up-court quickly.
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More important, Hardaway can post up smaller guards in some matchups and force double-teams from the defense.
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Teams are double-teaming him, hoping he doesn't recognize what's coming.
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If Westbrook is effective early and demands a double-team, Lewis might find himself one-on-one against Brown, and McNabb will try to take advantage of that.
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For the first time in his seven-year career, he has gone six games without recording a sack, because everybody is double-teaming him.
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A No.2 receiver is needed to stretch defenses and make opponents pay for double-teaming him.
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Unlike the Lakers, who gave the Suns a scare, the Clippers have the inside-outside combo to make Phoenix pay for double-teaming the post.
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With file team's quarterback so unsteady, opposing defenses have been able to take him out of the game by double-teaming him.
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He's quick off the ball, is strong enough to fight through double-teams and played at a high level for most of last season.
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The second is to encourage the man with the ball to put it on the floor, since a double-team is more effective once the ball handler has used his dribble.
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His ability to quarterback the team has also allowed Payton to operate without as many double-teams.
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From there, he can shoot, be at the rim in one dribble, and if a double-team comes, either find a cutter to the basket or split the defenders himself.
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Smith encountered a lot of double-teams last season, yet still managed to catch 116 passes to lead the league.
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But if they double-team him, which is very likely, he’s in a better position to find the open man for an open three-pointer or find someone cutting to the basket for the easy layup.
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Sag: A defensive tactic in which a player drops off his man to help double-team a player in the pivot.
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The nose tackle spot requires heavy lifting - namely, taking on double-teams on almost every play.
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Problem was, Lewis wasn't hitting shots this season and teams no longer worried about leaving him to double-team Howard.
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Making those perimeter shots is the key at a time opponents are double-teaming McGrady on almost every possession and Yao on most possessions.
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But more importantly, he forced Los Angeles out of its double-team tactics on Kevin McHale.
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Then she accepted the offer from a fan to double-team a beer bong.
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But with no one in the low post who can draw a double-team and rebound effectively, this team is a candidate for a first-round playoff exit.
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He put the ball in Iverson's hands right after Sixers rebounds, and that prevented the Pacers from setting effective double-teams.
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The company is double-teaming the more complicated jobs with both a group manager and a scientist.
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If the ball goes to the middle of the high post area at the defensive end, attack it aggressively to force a pass back toward mid-court, a misplay, or a double-team situation.
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When opponents double-teamed him, no one else on the line could take advantage.
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Oden consistently makes opponents pay for double-teaming him in the post.
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Driver has to final a way to beat double-teams and gain yards after the catch.
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We double-teamed the flocks, an archer in the lead and the scattergun as backup when the birds took to wing, watching for hunting jaegers and glassing from windswept ridgelines.
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He has to get a drop step or a fallaway jumper or just a jump shot where he can take people to the middle and spin back to his right so you can't double-team him.
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Several opponents have had success double-teaming Williamson with big men.
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He can spin by defenders on the baseline, draw double-teams and hit midrange jumpers.
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He requires double-teams because of his scoring ability, and his nifty passing makes opponents pay for those double teams.
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The Pacers miss Smits' low-post scoring, which draws double-teams and creates chances for teammates, but they run the floor better and are better defensively without him.
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This variation against zones insures a quick outlet for #3 in the event he is double-teamed.
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In Game 3, the Nets did use a double-team against Shaq and employed an effective full-court press.
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In '99, he faced a lot of double-teams and wasn't as effective, especially in the red zone.
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Although somewhat quiet with just 13 shots, as the Nets used more double-teams, he again confounded them with his patient, intelligent play.
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With Michael and Munson double-teaming him before the rest of the players reached home plate, Fisk endured a scratch to his face and a bruise near his eye.
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Initially overplaying Jordan to keep the ball from him, sometimes they allowed guard Joe Dumars to play him straight up, or run a double-team at him the minute he touched the ball, forcing him to pass to an ineffective teammate.
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Oklahoma had an extra blocker ‘chip’ Wright and then move on to another defender more often than they double-teamed him outright.
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By doing so, he would draw double-teams and could pass out to his teammates for easy shot opportunities.
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Then when he does catch it, the Mavs are rotating defenders with quick double-teams.
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Despite frequent double-teaming, Shaw was still the Bears' most viable receiving option.
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Under double-team pressure, Worthy attempted a foolish cross-court pass.
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Instinctively, Magic Johnson rushed over to double-team him, and just as instinctively, Bird shoveled the ball back over to DJ.
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Smits, for all his disappearances, is still the one guy who makes it work because he's the only Pacer who commands a double-team to get his teammates all those open looks from the arc.
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Handling double-teams will be easier if his teammates, especially Mercer, can make enough shots to keep defenses honest.
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So they are double-teamed, usually by a couple of defensive backs who try to jam the ends at the line of scrimmage and cut off their paths to the punt returner.
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All so often, he had to be double-teamed by the Swedish defence to open up space for his partners.
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The one handed player is essentially double-teamed even when he has a single defender.
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Teams intent on double-teaming the Spurs' big men risk leaving someone else open on the perimeter.
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Positioned directly over the center, with two-gap responsibilities, he will be double-teamed on practically every play.
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There he can be be double-teamed if the opponent is daring enough to turn loose one or two of his teammates, as the Blazers did to good effect in last spring's Western Conference finals.
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Syracuse likes to get him the ball along the baseline, where he can score on drives or draw double-teams and pass to teammates.
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Getting into position hurriedly may prevent an effective double-team.
