OT: "looked anything like" as hyponegation

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/22/2012 10:01 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>On yesterday's local (WTNH) TV sports wrap-up, referring to Friday
>night's basketball game, in which the New York Knicks (all but
>guaranteed of a playoff spot) were crushed by the usually hapless
>Cleveland Cavaliers:  "Last night the Knicks looked anything LIKE a
>playoff team".

And today the Knicks looked nothing like a playoff team, as they beat
the Atlanta Hawks, who are striving (but not hard enough) to overtake
the Boston Celtics for the fourth seed in the Eastern division,
whereas the Knicks are struggling to hold on to the seventh seed.

Joel

(Of course, what I mean is "like nothing but a playoff team".)

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