off-the-bench

Make sure your hips and butt come up off the bench as you raise your knees up to touch your elbows and.

Nevertheless, McGrady's desire to win should make him a good citizen off the bench and is a likely improvement over Luke Walton.

The former Udinese forward was called up to the Italy squad for Tuesday's game with Brazil but failed to get off the bench.

Does it make it easier for you to impress when you start games - rather than coming off the bench like we saw a lot last season?

HOUSTON, Feb. 24 (AP) -- Bobby Jackson was lauded for his ability to be a spark off the bench when he was traded to Houston last week.

He worked hard, showed a great attitude and it was great to see him come off the bench and score twice.

He took the record from Danny Murphy when coming off the bench against West Ham last month.

Didier Drogba was also given a run-out, with his appearance off the bench suggesting his recovery from injury is going to plan.

Some of Odom's closest associates said he was unhappy about coming off the bench, despite Sunday's declaration he was fine with it.

Removing the dirty cap from his head, he got off the bench and knelt down beside me.

After initially bristling at the idea of coming off the bench in a contract year, Lamar Odom seems to have warmed to the role.

So with that it would appear that Josh Powell is actually the Lakers' biggest three-point threat off the bench.

Suarez made a dream start to his Liverpool career when he came off the bench to net a debut goal in Wednesday's 2-0 success over Stoke City.

Lampard has been rotated on and off the bench this season but he is still the club's top goal-scorer with seven goals to his name.

As it was, it was the first time he came off the bench in a game in five years, and it looked like it.

Brown has not gotten off the bench the last four games and barely played five minutes the two games before that.

The manager will be watching me closely both in training and when I come off the bench and he will know when I am ready to start.

Eli lifted Punchinello off the bench and set him on the ground .

Andrew Bynum returned to the starting lineup after coming off the bench in the last two games against Utah.

I still believe in Odom and Blake as a great secondary. However, I can't argue that Alston, Miller, and Jones can provide off the bench.

Shannon Brown is not a starter yet, but has proven his worth as a solid, ferocious sixth man coming off the bench.

The best big man the Jazz have is Paul Millsap, and he comes off the bench and will lose the quickness battle with Lamar Odom.

I mean, she did. I actually gasped. I'm off the bench, man.

He was also embroiled in controversy when he bristled at coming off the bench for Detroit.

He started in only a handful of games during his rookie season, coming off the bench in support of Nick Van Exel and Eddie Jones.

A. is an entertainment kind of town, and watching Morrison's facial hair grow quicker than he would come off the bench is entertainment.

Shannon Brown will be the first guard off the bench and has been a defensive upgrade over Farmar.

Bellamy has been generally used as a substitute so far this season, and has been coming off the bench to play in wide positions.

This season, Jay Spearing, Martin Kelly and Daniel Pacheco have been limited to occasional forays off the bench.

Yao gets off the bench to hand his teammates towels to wipe the sweat out of their eyes.

J. Mbenga, who hadn't seen much action in the past two weeks, came off the bench in the first and was a cornerstone in the Lakers defense.

I bent over to put my shoe on the other day and fell off the bench.

Meanwhile, the Nuggets lack of playoff experience -- especially coming off the bench -- was exposed once again.

And Luke Walton(notes), who rebounds and can run the offense off the bench, is not a replacement.

The Rockets also re-signed undersized forward Chuck Hayes, a supreme hustler who'll be much more suited to coming off the bench.

But Scola at least appears to be an upgrade over last year's starter, Chuck Hayes, who will likely now come off the bench.

He was viewed as selfish, unwilling to come off the bench, a bad influence on young teams.

Aaron Brooks is new to his role as key sixth man and first weapon off the bench.

The best approach would have been to call additional players off the bench to do what resourceful reporters do: hunt for facts.

When Bynum returns, will he come off the bench or, less likely, jump back into the starting lineup?

Bonzi will be the main shooting guard coming off the bench for Tmac and Head will get the scraps of what is left.

Julian Wright(notes) is expected to play a more prominent role and Peja Stojakovic(notes) could come off the bench.

One day, all of a sudden, he proposed that each one in turn should jump off the bench in our schoolroom.

Barnes is another player with experience off the bench that extends the Lakers' depth chart.

My suggestion is to go after Udonis Haslem. He is a big guy who can come off the bench and provide a spark to get them going.

He came off the bench against Newcastle to complete a 5-1 romp over Kevin Keegan's men with his fifth goal of the season.

We need to have consistency there coming off the bench game in, game out.

That moment will come when Sasha Vujacic comes off the bench and hits a shot to win a playoff game.

Lamar coming off the bench with 15 rebounds was just incredible.

He came off the bench and banged in two for Palace. The first took the game into extra-time and the second then put Palace ahead.

His dad Ian Wright came off the bench to net twice for Crystal Palace against Manchester United in the 1990 FA Cup final.

He provides toughness off the bench and leadership of the second unit.

Jermain Defoe came off the bench and took a great goal. At that stage, I could only see us winning.

Phil Jackson then says Odom may end up coming off the bench this season.

Maggette scored 10 points off the bench in the first half, helping the Clippers close to within 51-48 at the break.

Torres came off the bench to score a priceless stoppage time winner as Liverpool came from behind twice to beat Portsmouth 3-2.

United coach Paul McGuinness fielded another debutant in the second half, when Jack Rudge came off the bench to replace Charni Ekangamene.

Plus, if Iverson buys into coming off the bench he can lead the reserve unit by doing what he does best: anything he wants.

Jason Terry is surprisingly averaging a personal second in points this season coming off the bench at 19. 6 PPG.

AI: everybody makes a big deal of the coming off the bench thing.

He could come off the bench to play small forward or play the two position (shooting guard) or power forward.

Brown, Luke Walton, Jordan Farmar and Josh Powell scored 22 points combined off the bench in the quarter.

Danny Wilson has looked excellent in training and Jonjo Shelvey has come on off the bench and done well .

And Yi did a great job off the bench, after missing 24 games.

So no complaints if you end up coming off the bench?

Luke Walton added 15 points off the bench for Los Angeles, and Pau Gasol and Derek Fisher each scored 14.

Yao has been gone so long we should start by bringing him off the bench.

So does he prefer to start or come off the bench?

Yao will replace most of Juwan's touches and perhaps Juwan should come off the bench when Yao comes back.

John O'Shea played 90 minutes and Darron Gibson came off the bench for the final half-hour as the Irish beat Andorra 3-1 in Dublin.

Manchester United won the league because they had that spark coming off the bench, that little bit more strength in depth.

got off the bench very nervous.

Bring Bynum off the bench.

Because whether I come off the bench or I start, you have two centers who can start.

The Celtics were interested because they needed another shooter off the bench.

Glen off the bench - Davis had 16 points.

If I can show my support by coming off the bench I'll do a job.

There's a lot of players I wouldn't mind coming off the bench behind.

They had (Gordan) Giricek, (Matt) Harpring and (Paul) Milsap coming off the bench in our series that were so effective.

[On Saturday] I just wanted to come off the bench and do well. Now I want to get a start.

He's been coming off the bench and putting up 4. 4 points a game.

Of course, I have a way to make sure reintroducing Bynum doesn't backfire on the Lakers: bring him off the bench.