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Synonyms for lay-up

a basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard)

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Griffin Andricks broke the scoring silence at the 4:57 mark, as he hit a lay-up, 17-10 Timberwolves.The only other score the Raiders would see was a last minute lay-up at the buzzer by Heaton, to score a moral victory at the break, with A&M trailing 25-12.
Shrewsbury cut it to 26-15 on back-to-back lay-ups by Abby Joseph and Rachael Montigny respectively midway through the third period.
So far they have been altering capacity via service suspensions, slow steaming, service deviations and lay-ups but no action on a collective front.
Considering that at least some of the abovementioned resources costs would be reduced in an eventual CFRA1 mass production, the price of this material is given below, for different lay-ups, in Euros per mass unit and per area unit.
The prediction of damage type and its onset is difficult due to the possible variations in component lay-ups and manufacturing processes.
"Heretofore, you could find such intricate shapes only in custom hand lay-ups," says Miller.
Make your players get used to moving the defense first and looking for the lay-up. You will either get the lay-up or the defense will sag and you will get an excellent scoring opportunity.
With no Gumaru to spot up from the outside, no Nichols, in one particular play, Salado drove and tried another of those zany twisting reverse lay-ups of his.
Two Fletcher lay-ups made it 12 without reply inside three minutes of the third quarter.
Analysts also see vessel lay-ups as well as high levels of scrapping in 2016, if the situation continues.
Hassan then squandered a golden opportunity to narrow the gap further with a pair of missed charities, and after teammate Ali Abbas scored on a jumper to make it 57-66, Hashim replied with an uncontested lay-up off a Qurban outlet that caught the Muharraq defence napping in their own half.
Maddie Ingermarsson followed up with a lay-up, but a series of missed chances by the Paisley side kept the young West Lothian team in the game.
The home side started strongly when last season's MVP Rahmon Fletcher converted a lay-up just seconds into the match - prompting a flurry of Eagles baskets.
"A chip in from the fringe on 13, a few missed opportunities, and then the worst lay-up in the history of lay-ups on the last followed by a thinned gap wedge which ricocheted off the grandstand to six feet and just a regulation birdie.