Sentence examples for playoff tilt from inspiring English sources
With a game-time temperature at Lambeau Field of 5 degrees with a wind chill of -10 on Sunday afternoon, this 2014 playoff tilt quite measure up -- or down.
There would be no more tilting at the playoff windmill for Coach Bruce Boudreau, who earned a measure of vindication by getting out of the second round for the first time in his long career.
If we continue to improve, then we'll be able to compete for a league title and the playoffs". But, while Friday's tilt at Muir may indeed be a preview of two teams who end up vying for the league title down the road, anyone who counts out Burroughs and Burbank on face value of their combined 1-5 nonleague record certainly does so at their own peril.
The league foes played to a tie in their first meeting earlier in the season and Friday's tilt had league standing and playoff ramifications.
Inevitably in the playoffs, games get tighter and despite the tilt of the league to passing, teams that have good defenses go further.
This playoff series between the Nets and the Bucks may be tilting on the Jason Kidd and Gary Payton axis -- the team of the point guard that out-dueled the other has won each game -- but Martin has made the Bucks rotate around him.
There was enough intensity, at the start and late when the Kings erased a 2-1 deficito to conjure up the past heavyweight divisional tilts between the teams, who have played five playoff series in the past eight years.
If last year's Stanley Cup tournament was dominated by the excellence of rugged and tireless Duncan Keith of the Chicago Blackhawks, the unanimous choice for the Conn Smythe trophy as the most valuable player in the playoffs, this spring's festivities have tilted toward the other end of the defenseman spectrum.
