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"weak side" Definitions
  1. the side of a football formation having the smaller number of players
  2. the side of a court or field (as in basketball or soccer) away from the ball

162 Sentences With "weak side"

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On the weak side of the market, bank stocks languished.
Porzingis is on the weak-side elbow as the ball reverses.
Trey Lyles and Jeff Withey jog into position on the weak side.
They hit us in some lolls where our weak side just wasn't in.
Nordea Markets also said the main numbers were on the weak side of expectations.
Here's Prince whipping a pass to rookie Damion Lee in the weak-side corner.
"Overall the report is a bit on the weak side," Swedbank analyst Bengt Kirkoen said.
And if the weak-side decides to help, we have a great group of shooters.
The problems occur when he hovers on the weak side, angling to force a turnover.
It has kept the crown on the weak side of 27 to the euro since.
When you are blocking the weak side, we need him to do that every night.
Under the weak-side Convertibility Undertaking, the HKMA undertakes to sell U.S. dollars at 7.85.
"I wasn't willing to show what I saw as my weak side before," she said.
"(Patterson) did an excellent job of finding the openings, finding the weak side," Casey told reporters.
They brought their whole weak side in to help the guy that switched on to him.
He slipped in from the left point for a deft weak-side conversion on his backhand.
He's in on the weak side when he's supposed to, so that's all been very positive.
Given this background and poor corporate profitability,I'm not surprised business investment is on the weak side.
Williams is one of the candidates to replace Telvin Smith as a starter on the weak side.
However, the crown looked to be stuck just on the weak side of the psychological 211.71 level.
"I'd rather have you come down on the strong side, instead of the weak side," Trump said.
Here's the best-case scenario: Malcolm Brogdon deciding Fultz is a threat in the weak-side corner.
"You tend to see some short-term biasness to the weak side, but not too much," Hickey said.
The Czech crown was a touch stronger, hanging on the weak side of the pyschological 25 per euro level.
Pros: Well-built, classic look, lots of eco-friendly materialsCons: The lume is a little on the weak side
Most defenders (and just about every guard) would drift toward the weak-side corner and cover their own man.
It's that mentality," Trump said, adding that ISIS "must think we are a little bit on the weak side.
They have Kyle Korver and Kevin Love spotted up on the weak side as Thompson rumbles through the paint.
The bank left in place its policy of keeping the crown on the weak side of 27 per euro.
Westbrook's defensive assignment is Jamal Murray, who for most of the possession is wide open on the weak side.
The Hungarian forint was down 1.6913% at 1.6903 and the Czech crown fell 212.17% to the weak side of 212.17.
He has the handle to split traps and the vision to find an open man in the weak-side corner.
He's been a Grizzly bear flashing over from the weak side against a team that loves to attack the basket.
The Blazers made the choice to help on James, which left Love open for numerous 3-pointers on the weak side.
"We expect the share price may be on the weak side before further details are disclosed during the day," they said.
The bank has kept the crown on the weak side of 27 per euro since November 2013 to help revive inflation.
In the clip below, he gets a switch off of a weak-side pick-and-roll within the framework of the triangle.
In the third clip, Embiid successfully dribbles out of the double-team but doesn't pull the weak-side defender out of position.
On the weak side, data suggested growth in mining slowed to just 0.1 percent compared with 2.7 percent in the previous quarter.
Sharper from his weak side than Miller was from his strong side, Holloway flowed beautifully that night even if it wasn't all textbook.
However, FCF remains on the weak side for the ratings, especially considering the lack of dividends and declining capex ratio in past years.
A few years ago such a growth rate would have been viewed as normal, even perhaps as a bit on the weak side.
He drives the lane and draws help from the weak side corner, so he kicks the ball out to a waiting Klay Thompson.
As a spot-up weapon, he's enough of a threat on the weak side to eventually deter defenses from doubling Giannis in the post.
First Schenn stepped in from the right circle to convert a weak-side rebound at 7:31 after Jaden Schwartz failed to beat Mrazek.
The central bank has kept the crown on the weak side of 27 per euro for three years to help revive inflation and growth.
Harrell doesn't give up on possessions or dawdle through sequences that call for him to soar from the weak side to block somebody's shot.
DeMar DeRozan was guarding J.R. Smith on the weak side, so he couldn't afford to slide all the way over and plug it up.
The ball did indeed touch the rim to avoid a shot-clock violation, and Bell came over Travis from the weak side flailing away.
The Cardinals lost their second- and third-string weak-side linebackers during the game as Kareem Martin and Tristan Okpalaugo left with knee injuries.
"I'd rather have you come down on the strong side, instead of the weak side," Trump told the lawmakers as he wrapped the meeting.
Young then pivoted middle and, using his left arm, fired a blind cannon at Omari Spellman who was standing in the weak-side corner.
The Saints sent Alvin Kamara wide left to join Michael Thomas on the weak side of an empty formation, and ran Kamara and Thomas vertical.
There are plenty of examples where Embiid has anticipated where the defense will rotate from before he zips a pass to the weak-side corner.
"We started to see her go from this small newborn that was a little on the weak side to actually showing signs of vitality," Cassidy says.
With Curry off-ball, Green functions as an extra point guard on the court, hitting cutters and weak-side shooters with passes from above the arc.
ROSS: WELL, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'S GOING DOWN AS A RESULT OF. YOU MENTIONED THE HOME SALES WERE A LITTLE BIT ON THE WEAK SIDE.
On the weak side, discount clothing chain Shimamura Co tumbled 8.2 percent after the company revised lower its earnings forecast for the year ending February 2019.
In addition to Mr. Jackson, survivors include a player in the post, one in the corner, one on the wing, and two on the weak side.
You can't be petrified," Trump said, before telling his flabbergasted guests: "I'd rather have you come down on the strong side instead of the weak side.
Opponents almost shoot 60 percent at the rim when he's near it, and so much of that number is thanks to late rotations from the weak side.
Hjalmarsson faked a slap shot and passed to the weak side, where Martinook went to his knees and lifted the puck over diving Flyers goalie Brian Elliott.
No, the goal was to catch the ball on the roll, far enough away from Paul George that the weak-side defender would have to fully commit.
Yuan over the eight Many FX analysts expect the Chinese yuan to continue falling, but few see it breaking on the weak side of 8.00 per dollar.
How do we play off the ball to make sure we have a low man, but the other weak-side defender is playing two off the ball?
And even if you squeeze the ball out of his hands, there's a good chance your weak-side defense will somehow get punished by an open three.
Second, it reverses the ball from one side of the court to the other, forcing all five defenders to adjust from strong-side to weak-side responsibilities.
"Even if the exchange rate weakens to the 7.85 level, it won't necessarily trigger the HKMA's weak-side convertibility undertaking," she said in an email response to Reuters.
But that technique either gives up a layup or forces Rondo to help from the weak side, which would then create a wide-open three for Nick Young.
"In the end those who revealed their weak side got cheered on more than the girls who were perfectly cute," said Airi Tsukioka, a producer on the show.
On the Thunder's first possession, Adams grabbed an offensive rebound, backed into the lane against Andrew Bogut and was hacked by Green, helping out from the weak side.
The crown was near its strongest levels in four months but stuck to the weak side of the psychological 210.19 per euro barrier, with analysts expecting stable rates.
While recent home sales and retail spending data have been on the weak side, the overall economic picture has brightened after growth accelerated to 2.3 percent last year.
Rather than blitzing the punter, safety Chris Banjo, number 38 in the above photo, immediately broke to the right to help out on the Cardinals&apos weak side.
And here, one step ahead of his opponent as a weak-side defender, James perfectly times his rotation to disrupt Darren Collison's entry pass and steal the ball.
And if the defense brings a weak side defender to help out, Giannis sees over the top of everyone and finds the open man for the kick-out.
After the play began with Rondo and Moore switching on the weak side, the Pelicans had to do whatever they could to keep the Warriors in front of them.
He isn't soaring from the weak side to swat a shot into the third row, but there's value in always being in the right place at the right time.
"If consumers don't step up their spending ... then the growth outlook this year may disappoint on the weak side," said Chris Rupkey chief economist at MUFG in New York.
Running a shooter off of two screens on the weak side has the same effect as double screens on ball—it almost always forces a hedge or a switch.
In part, they did it by using LeBron James in in the post, allowing him to slowly attack the defense as his teammates spotted up on the weak side.
"There's a real risk it could come in on the weak side because of all these factors, not just the shutdown but it's the revision to the mean," she said.
Instead, he can dump off to the rolling Greg Monroe, try and score over Ian Mahinmi, or kick out to one of three shooters spotted up on the weak-side.
Picture Harden as the screener for Griffin, a catch-and-shoot option on the weak side, or a cutter who occupies the defense's attention while Griffin operates in the post.
Edmonton tied the game at 4:40 when McDavid tapped in his 30th goal on a weak-side rebound to cap a long Oilers cycle against a tired San Jose unit.
Most of these foul are committed by undersized bigs attempting to fight around him for rebounds, and weak-side defenders trying to get in his way on rolls to the rim.
The Sharks' third line came through when Joonas Donskoi crashed the net from the weak side to tap Tim Heed's pass over the goal line before he tumbled into the net.
Robert Hagg fired a shot on goal from the left point and Binnington allowed a long weak-side rebound — right to Raffl for an uncontested shot into a half-empty net.
The bank's foreign assets growth has served as a rough guide to its purchases of foreign currency on the market to keep the crown on the weak side of 27 per euro.
"It would appear that Mr Trump would like to keep the U.S. dollar a little on the weak side in order to remain competitive," said CMC Markets chief markets analyst David Madden.
In the clip below, watch how the Warriors' two best rim protectors, Durant and Green, are placed on the weak side where they must keep an eye on Love in the corner.
"It would appear that Mr. Trump would like to keep the U.S. dollar a little on the weak side in order to remain competitive," said CMC Markets chief markets analyst David Madden.
"It would appear that Mr Trump would like to keep the U.S. dollar a little on the weak side in order to remain competitive," said CMC Markets chief markets analyst David Madden.
"It would appear that Mr. Trump would like to keep the U.S. dollar a little on the weak side in order to remain competitive," said CMC Markets chief market analyst David Madden.
Gibson tries to read Lillard's intentions and retreats back to the perimeter, praying Bjelica will cover Nurkic and force a skip pass all the way to Moe Harkless in the weak-side corner.
We also know the economic data has been a little on the weak side, but we think this is just a lull in the economic data and we think it can get stronger.
Winger Tomas Hertl walked out of the corner, threw a puck toward the net that Thornton fished out in the crease and spotted Pavelski unmarked on the weak side for his 37th goal.
Pressure on the Hong Kong dollar has abated after the currency traded near the weak side of the convertibility band in early 2016, due to market concerns over mainland China's new currency basket.
Expect more work to be done with his back to the basket, especially in small units when Durant is guarding him, so as to eliminate those long arms roaming on the weak side.
Isaac excels ther: his 6.2 block rate finished in the top 100 of all qualified college basketball players, and he showed well on lane-to-lane weak side rotation as a help defender.
The bank's foreign assets growth has served as a rough guide to the bank's purchases of foreign currency on the market to keep the crown on the weak side of 27 per euro.
They struck just 20 seconds into the contest when Arvidsson fired a shot from a sharp angle on the right wing, and Forsberg converted the long weak-side rebound from the left side.
He could also be well insulated playing in lineups off the bench with Jerami Grant, an athletic freak who can take tough defensive assignments as well as protect the weak side of the rim.
He recognized that my guy was kind of falling asleep on the weak side, so he just told me, 'I'm going to screen for you, you just run off and shoot the corner three.
Labor and environmental standards The labor and environmental standards in NAFTA were not included in the main text of the agreement, but were rather incorporated as weak side agreements that had no enforcement mechanism.
The defense has been nicked for an average of 2827 points per game but features a couple good players in senior cornerback Torry McTyer (three interceptions) and senior weak-side linebacker Tau Lotulelei (21 tackles).
It manifests in soaring dunks, or blocked shots from the weak side that defy logic, or wraparound passes to an open shooter, or crossover dribbles that leave defenders reeling in his impossibly long-limbed wake.
The Czech National Bank (CNB) has said an exit from its intervention regime - in place since 2013 to keep the crown on the weak side of 27 to the euro - may come in mid-2017.
Jackson creates transition opportunities for his team by getting into passing lanes for steals, contests and blocks shots at the rim as a help defender, and shows good timing on his rotations from the weak side.
Nurkic still rushes shots and uses some awkward footwork that might make him susceptible to weak-side blocks and even charge calls, but he puts a lot of pressure on the defense to get there first.
Analysts have estimated speculative market positions could total anywhere from 25 billion to 13 billion euros — which some traders and investors said may even lead to swings back to the weak side of the old cap.
Most of those aforementioned scram switches actually occurred whenever Rozier switched onto Love, who's never the ball-handler, which affords Boston more time to swap in a big and let Rozier scurry to the weak side.
Attacking aggressively from the weak side, dumping off to teammates in the paint, or making the correct next pass, Powell's offense really helped Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan navigate the aggressive, trapping defense of the Bucks.
But in the past month, when many Asian currencies have surged versus the U.S. dollar, the Hong Kong dollar has hovered near the band's weak side and is expected to stay there in the short-term.
"With NOK clearly on the weak side and inflation on the high side, there are good reasons to expect not only a hike in September, but also a revision up of the rate path," he added.
In Utah's pass-happy system, Hayward could loom on the weak side, either spacing the court, sprinting up to attack off a DHO, coming off a screen, or diving toward the paint to catch a lob.
Help defenders in the weak-side corner can't rotate off and ignore Hayward like they did Jae Crowder or Brown a couple months ago, for fear he'll run off a pin-down or humiliate them backdoor.
Whenever the ball goes in the post, for example, he wants his other four players to click into motion by setting a pair of screens: one on the strong side and one on the weak side.
Here, Schröder forces weak-side help on a drive into the paint, but instead of flipping a pass to Grant in the corner, he tries to float in a difficult layup over a collapsing Warriors defense.
Chychrun widened the lead to 210-0 at 4:46 of the first period when he pinched in from the point on the weak side and one-timed a cross-ice feed from Ryan White past Bernier.
A LaVine-Dunn backcourt has plenty of question marks, but Chicago would be wise to try and answer a few in this Summer League environment—because both certainly won't be standing on the weak-side next year.
Both are smart players with great feel for the game, and they pick their spots for when to duck in for a post-up and when to stay clear of the paint or set weak-side screens.
This was the first time since the current trading band was introduced in 2005 that the weak-side convertibility undertaking (CU) at 7.85 to keep the Hong Kong dollar closely pegged to the U.S. currency had been triggered.
"We definitely feel this opens the door for a little bit more downside risk in the euro with economic data continuing to be more on the weak side," said Charles Tomes, associate portfolio manager at Manulife Asset Management.
There's a reason Noel was so highly sought-after in the 7503 NBA draft: his ability to defend on the perimeter like a wing while protecting the rim from the weak side like a center is incredibly rare.
Draghi is also expected to argue that inflation, the bank's primary policy focus, is broadly following the path seen earlier, with headline prices possibly stronger on higher oil prices and core inflation on the weak side of expectations.
"The HK dollar is expected to hover around the weak side of the band in the short to medium run, but breaching through the 7.85 level is unlikely," said Alan Yip, FX market analyst at Bank of East Asia.
Henson tries to make himself useful by setting a back pick on Kyle Lowry, but Ibaka could not care less about Antetokounmpo's vision (he's not Ben Simmons, LeBron James, or Harden), or Henson floating to the weak-side corner.
The Czech crown was steady ahead of a central bank meeting which investors are eyeing for any guidance on the bank's commitment to keep the crown on the weak side of 27 per euro, with interest rates near zero.
" Cox says Trump and Vice President Pence "don't want gun control," but at the meeting on Wednesday Trump told lawmakers forming bipartisan gun legislation: "I'd rather have you come down on the strong side instead of the weak side.
The believers thought he just needed some help: a release valve in the pick-and-roll, more accurate outside shooting, and maybe even another ball-handler to take away some pressure and free Thomas up on the weak side.
Rose, who had 18 points and 9 assists, had an open lane after the Hawks' defense broke down defending the pick-and-roll, but Paul Millsap came from the weak side to block Rose's shot with 5.9 seconds left.
Opposing defenses can't allow Gobert to be left open on the roll—and since the pick-and-roll begins with a ball screen, his defender is often out of position to prevent him from rolling without weak side help.
The ability to skip a pass 25 feet across the court, on the run, with a flick of the wrist makes it nearly impossible for weak side defenders to venture too far off of their man and help in the paint.
When zoned up on the weak side and responsible for two players at the same time, he'll somehow take both out of the play by cutting off the obvious passing lane and bothering the shooter all in one fluid motion.
Instead of getting sucked in to thwart Goran Dragic's drive, Gobert quickly identifies the play and fights through Dwyane Wade's back pick before sprinting over to the weak-side corner where his man, Chris Bosh, is open for a three.
The Czech Republic has kept a lid on the crown since 2013 and intervened with increased regularity over the last year to hold the exchange rate on the weak side of 27 per euro as the country's economy has thrived.
Defenseman Jay Bouwmeester missed the net with a drive from the right circle, but the hard carom off the end boards went to an unmarked Zach Sanford, who banged home his third goal from the weak side at 5:213.
By the time Porzingis shoots, he has given up about 15 feet of space: While Porzingis will receive some early post entry passes in the Knicks' triangle offense, most of his post opportunities will come out of weak-side pick-and-rolls.
"If the Fed is reading the tea leaves the economic brew of data are distinctly on the weak side today, and will keep Fed policy cemented in place at next week's meeting," said Chris Rupkey, chief economist at MUFG in New York.
Biyombo will live above the rim as a rolling big, the perpetual threat to throw down lob after lob until defenders pinch a step too far in and leave Orlando's shooters (like Evan Fournier and Mario Hezonja) alone on the weak side.
"The Danish crown has been to the weak side against the euro for a long time ... The last days' financial turmoil has intensified the pressure and the central bank now acts with a rate hike," said Danske Bank's chief economist Las Olsen.
There was the 6-foot-8 Tatum receiving a pass just behind the 3-point line, spinning gracefully around a defender, splitting that defender and another, and then laying the ball in just as a third defender arrived from the weak side.
The Hurricanes went back up by three when San Jose defensemen Paul Martin and Burns found themselves on the weak side, allowing Justin Williams to walk in from the left circle and assist Jeff Skinner on his 11th goal in front at 603:44.
One of L.A.'s pet end-of-quarter plays over the past few years has seen Jordan fake like he's coming up to set a high screen for Paul, only to slip away to the weak side and set a flare screen for Redick.
In the play seen below, what initially looks like a Svi Mykhailiuk-JaVale McGee pick-and-roll quickly transforms into LeBron on the right wing, with McGee's roll sucking in help defenders from the weak side and Nikola Jokic essentially guarding Mykhailiuk for no reason.
He sprints into the frontcourt, screens, re-screens, then uses two dribble handoffs in opposite directions to slice through Milwaukee's defense (*inhales*) before he forces the weak-side to drop down towards the baseline and set up an open three at the top of the key.
The bank has kept the crown on the weak side of 27 to the euro since 2013 and last week shifted the earliest possible end to the policy until the second quarter of next year while reiterating it expected to refloat the crown in mid-2017.
DeRozan has shown all year that he's much better reading that pressure, and his improvements throwing skip passes to a zoned-up weak-side has helped Toronto's shooters (Raptors shot 41.7 percent on threes following a DeRozan pass last series, and he led the first round in secondary assists).
He said investors did not expect much of a policy change at the NBH's meeting later on Tuesday, adding the situation was a unclear because while inflation was a factor and the forint was on the weak side, the bank continued pumping liquidity into the economy using its FX swap tenders.
"Even if the exchange rate touches the weak-side convertibility undertaking rate and funds flow out of the Hong Kong dollar, this is an inevitable process for the normalisation of the Hong Kong dollar interest rates," Howard Lee, an executive director at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority said in an article.
The sophomore, who had been listed atop USC's preseason depth chart as the No. 1 weak-side linebacker, stands charged with rape and two counts of forcible sodomy, stemming from a July incident in the Salt Lake City suburb of Cottonwood Heights, said Salt Lake County Chief Deputy District Attorney Blake Nakamura.
You may be able to count on Lance Stephenson or C.J. Miles or DeMarre Carroll or Cory Joseph or Marcus Smart or Jae Crowder bricking the occasional open trey when you leave them open on the weak side because you had to send a double at Paul George or DeMar DeRozan or Thomas.
Despite everyone in the arena knowing Houston's going to spread the floor with a high screen, James still manages to find Clint Capela for alley-oops, Ryan Anderson for wide-open threes on the pick-and-pop, and Trevor Ariza alone in the corner on skip passs when the weak side man rotates over.
And as in professional sports, this affects both behavior and speech: While basketball might bring talk of "defensive rotations" and "weak side cuts," on "The Bachelorette" we have "two-on-ones" (typically a single-elimination date where one of two suitors goes home) and "hometowns" (essentially the start of the playoffs, when we meet contestants' families).
It's increasingly pedantic to worry about "who gets the last shot?" but it's also fair to wonder how Butler will react to spending the rest of his prime as a third banana, either spacing up in the weak-side corner or colliding with help defenders who aren't shy about having one foot in the paint whenever he takes off for the basket.
Here he is in a four-on-three situation after the Atlanta Hawks slap two defenders on the ball off a high pick-and-roll: Gordon catches Payton's pass with options: he can kick it out to a wide-open Evan Fournier in the weak-side corner, flick it to Vucevic down low, or attempt an uncontested push shot in the paint.
Six players missed in a wide variety of ways during the first five rounds, including Thomas Müller's weak side-footed attempt for Germany, Graziano Pelle's yanked shot past the post for Italy, Mesut Ozil's bank off the upright for Germany and, most bizarrely, Simone Zaza's endless stutter-step run up that seemed to take hours before he blasted the ball miles over the net.
But instead of lingering around the paint (something Wizards center Ian Mahinmi clearly expects him to do), Towns backpedals to the weak-side corner—doesn't even look down to make sure his size 20 Nikes are securely inbounds/behind the three-point line—pump fakes Mahinmi in the air, then calmly strokes home a three, on the road, to give him his 37th point in his 41st minute.
That's weird—outside of Golden State, there probably isn't a more reputable trio of shooters on any roster in the league—but a small sample does them no favors, and nothing crystallizes their aesthetic and functional appeal more than this play from Tuesday night's loss against the Oklahoma City Thunder, when Portland's signature flare screens synced perfectly with action on the weak-side that could not be ignored.
Thomas is far too quick to be contained on a switch, and even though his size leaves him vulnerable against a well-executed trap—he's constantly harassed coming off ball screens, and even when he does skitter free, a third defender has already rotated from the weak side to clog up his driving lane—IT can shovel the ball to his release valve (whoever sets the screen) before the defense rotates back into position.
He doesn't call out the weak-side exchange, either, and by the time Williams notices, Oubre is sprinting past him for the rebound: In the clip below, watch Irving mosey back into the play, only to assume his job is to stand at the free-throw line and watch as his four teammates scramble to defend five guys: James is a much better defender overall, but he is equally inconsistent in his effort.

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