'has been making plays' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone who is physically creating performances or simply making strategic moves in any scenario. For example: "The coach has been making plays all season to get the team to the playoffs."
Here's his final pregame Twitter post: After the game, Smith said: "I've been playing football forever and I've been making plays forever.
Walker was 7 of 20 tonight for 16 points after going 5 for 20 in Game 5. Walker said: "It's very tough because we have been making plays in the fourth quarter all season long, and not to make them tonight, in an elimination game, hurts".
"We've been making play sets for more than 20 years," said Barrett Brown, president of CedarWorks, a company in Rockport, Me. "And we've always used northern white cedar because it's naturally rot-resistant and naturally splinter-free".
Particularly satisfying was finding KStarke Records in Chicago, which was full of cheap, original copies of classic Chicago house, music that had been made, played, and then discarded all within that city, an idea that eBay has pretty much destroyed.
"He's not in there because Tiki has been making outstanding plays.
More recently the Pantone brand has been making a play for the consumer market.
"For the past couple weeks, Saleh has been making a play to bolster his tribal alliances," Mr. Johnsen said.
On Thursday Guardiola associated Villa's injury with the "huge effort he has been making to play for a number of months with a stress fracture in the tibia".
TP Activity Toys has been making outdoor play equipment for more than half a century and are now producing and testing equipment for bigger, heavier children.
However, since bursting onto the scene in October of last year, Tinder has been making a play to become the next digital dating giant by focusing on an area where few (if any) of its predecessors have excelled: Your phone.
