Sentence examples for a marginal team from inspiring English sources

All it takes is one injury for a team to go from legitimate playoff threat to a marginal team.

Entitlement and Suspicion Sometimes it seemed that way on the field, too, according to Alexi Lalas, the first American to play in Serie A. In 1994-95, Lalasigneded with Padova, a marginal team that often served as a feeder for Juventus.

Team members also reported a marginal improvement in team performance.

The Nets' opener, now scheduled for Saturday night against Toronto, should draw a good crowd, but it is difficult to predict how they will do against marginal teams after that.

Without him, the Magic would be a marginal play-off team.

But a difference of opinion about a marginal tax rate?

In work communities, the apprentice must be seen as a legitimate rather than a marginal member of the work team.

In lieu of a second team in Vancouver, Seattle — a marginal hockey market but probably better than several United States cities that already have N.H.L. teams — would get a franchise in the hope that support might spill over into British Columbia and other parts of the Pacific Northwest.

The team will send a marginal player to the Angels in return.

Where would Telfair, a marginal player on his third N.B.A. team in four years, be had he gone to college to build up his body and work on his jumper?

Jordan, a second-round pick, is a marginal project who might not make the team.