“Be nip and tuck” nghĩa là gì?

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Monsanto led all players with 13 points in the half as he was 5-of-7 from the field and knocked down three of his four attempts from beyond the arc. The opening six minutes were nip-and-tuck, but with the score knotted at 41, the Bucs rattled off six straight points as Patterson converted the old-fashioned three-point-play and Sloan hit Ty Brewer in the corner for a three, making it 47-41 with 12:29 remaining.

In all honesty, dropping that game to OSU didn’t really hurt the Hogs that much. It’ll be viewed as a “good loss” — a close one on the road — by the NCAA Selection Committee. However, the loss is troubling for the Razorbacks as they move forward. Even though it was a nip-and-tuck game, OSU dictated play to the Hogs down they stretch. The Cowboys got the shot they wanted from the player they wanted to put the game in their hands in the final seconds on their next to last offensive possession.

"There was a time earlier in my career that I would be entering a game like this that I knew was going to be nip and tuck and back and forth," he said. "And you knew for the next hour and a half it was going to be pins and needles. I went 15, 20 years of that, and it started to wear on me. I came close to losing the fun of it and walking away. But these ones aren't painful anymore. You know that nobody is running away from anybody.

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