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Message: [QUOTE="Powellfan, post: 5704886, member: 4819"] Frustrating game to watch. Air Force deployed one of the most inexplicable defenses I've seen in a long time. Syracuse loves passes to the crease - every defense that plays SU well pretty much packs things in and dares them to shoot from the outside. Air Force decided to use a bizarre stretched out zone, that pretty much left the crease open the entire game. SU scored their first four goals on the door step. The last thing you want to do is give Spallina free reign behind the goal ... and yet Air Force seemed fine not putting any pressure on him, which of course led to him having a career high in assists. That said, Syracuse still managed to make things difficult for themselves. Poor shots from low angles or passes to nowhere had the Orange stalled out. Frankly it's too late in the season for the Orange to still be making these mistakes. It just seems like they are going out of their way to make things hard, and I don't know where that comes from. There is just something I don't completely trust yet with this team. On the stat sheet, I think they checked a lot of boxes - depth of scoring, Leo had a bounce back game, Angelo had probably his best game, Kellogg came off the bench and added some scoring pop. But it just feels overall that numbers don't tell the whole story. Still waiting for this team to click. Kellogg was encouraging - I know one of his goals was an open netter, but that shot of his is really something. With defenses that pack thing in, just feels like he could solve a lot of problems if he got actual playing time. Obviously you need to bring more to the table than just shooting, but it feels like he's got something no one else on the roster, outside of maybe Rhoa. Curious if he gets more playing time. [/QUOTE]

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