Smits also knows that the Knicks are a much less predictable team when Ewing is cheering from the bench in street clothes.
If he can do that against the Giants, the Eagles will become a much more resourceful and less predictable team, able to hold onto the ball and a lead.
"Germany complaining that James Morrison ducking in front of Manuel Neuer impeded the keeper, but was the Scotland man in an offside position?" "Well I'm not sure anyone foresaw Scotland scoring twice against Germany, having failed to break down Georgia, but then again, since when did Scotland start being a predictable football team?
Syracuse would appear to be the Big East's most predictable team.
Naturally, the combination of Stewart and Haas has led to this predictable team nickname in the ever-snarky Nascar garage: Smoke and the Bandit.
There can be no less predictable team in the league than the Eagles, who seemed to have revealed their true colours in back-to-back blowout defeats to Tampa Bay and Detroit – only to confound everybody by beating the Patriots at Foxboro.
The battle for the Southwest Face continued in a predictable pattern: large teams, supported by Sherpas acting as high-altitude porters, established a succession of camps in the broad, snow-covered couloir leading to the foot of the intractable Rock Band.
After operating with two conferences for four years, the league has divided its 12 teams into three divisions, a development that should inject some excitement into what had become a predictable regular season, with teams like D.C. United and Chicago regularly qualifying for the playoffs.
A predictable championship where the same team always wins would lose its main attractiveness and reduce, at least on a temporary basis, spectator interest, which is a major source of economic value for sports entertainment.
As a result, teams with a predictable rhythm of meetings outperform those who choose to meet "as needed" — even if they have less FTF interaction overall.
