The Devils' play deteriorated further on Saturday night, when they absorbed their first defeat in regulation in a 5-1 loss at Pittsburgh, the Atlantic Division rival Penguins' first victory at home.
The 6-2 Coleman does fit the mold, but his play deteriorated last season, and he irked the Jets by occasionally being late to meetings.
As their play deteriorated towards raggedness, Celtic encouraged Hearts to take the initiative and the visitors, breaking quickly and with conviction, should have been level before the interval.
As the standard of play deteriorated Exeter coach Neil McNab, best remembered for his days at Manchester City in the 1980s, turned to Irish Under-20 international Reinier Moor whose introduction added some impetus to Exeter's largely impotent attack.
With fatigue and nerves setting in during extra time, the standard of play deteriorated, giving the goalkeepers a well-earned rest before the shoot-out.
An inspired play within a play deteriorates into a charade, a mock trial into a mockery.
Kidd's personal shooting coach since 2005, Bob Thate has been watching from afar — because he became the Los Angeles Clippers' shooting coach this season — and watched his play deteriorate.
According to the critic W J Turner the LSO's problem was not that its playing had deteriorated, but that it had failed to keep up with the considerable improvements in playing achieved over the past two decades by the best European and American orchestras.
Kheli's habit of bursting out with these weird cultural outliers reminded me of listening to him play his deteriorating Yamaha: the stretches of gorgeous melody, punctuated by thudding lacunas.
Once again, the tit-for-tat raids in the region escalated toward full-bore intertribal war, with the difference now that the Bashir government had any number of internal and regional enemies that might play the deteriorating situation to their advantage.
