Sentence examples for playoffs tip from inspiring English sources
The playoffs tip off this week, and nothing would make Mitchell happier than helping the Liberty claim its first title.
Before the two-month playoffs' tip-off, it is a good time to identify the leading and the least likely contenders for postseason awards.
There must be some sort of metaphor for this mixed-up NBA season in the fact that the second round of the Playoffs tipped-off before the first round had even ended.
While Curry drilled 286 triples in his 2014-2015 campainn, in just 20 games thus far this year he's already hit 102 -- meaning that, if he keeps shooting at this clip, he'll have tallied roughly 410 made threes on the year before the playoffs even tip off. .
Then Hedo Turkoglu, who has played in 71 playoff games, tipped the scale in favor of the Orlando Magic.
(In the summer of 2005, his final season there, Wagner said the Phillies had "no chance" to make the playoffs. Sound familiar?) The tipping point, however, came in September 2005 when Wagner lost two games against his former team, the Astros, who were challenging the Phillies for the wild card.
Winners of five of their previous six contests, they had inched their way back to respectability, two and a half games out of the Eastern Conference's final playoff spot at tip-off.
Then he was nowhere to be found when Charles Smith went up four times against Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen for that rebound and tip in the 1993 playoffs, and he missed that finger roll against Indiana in 1995.
But the real tipping point came in last year's playoffs, when the Lightning scored an overtime winner against Montreal that appeared to be offside.
One tip for all players in the playoffs: do not copy Pittsburgh's Chris Conner's technique for a penalty shot and forget the puck.
