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Message: [QUOTE="DoctahLexus, post: 3739601, member: 6798"] I will say that after watching a good portion of the replay, my main concern is more with the defense than the offense. Looking back the main problems with our offense were sloppy turnovers, unnecessary low percentage shots early in the shot clock, and not making shots that we absolutely should make. We had a boat load of wide open looks, some in completely point blank scenarios right in front of the goal (Cook, Buttermore, and Scanlan x2 or 3). Along with the failure from point blank range we had shots from slightly outside that were also quite makable for our guys. Curry Trimboli and Dordevic all had looks barreling down the middle that didn't go. Quite a few of the misses were pipes, but I don't like getting too hung up on that. A miss is a miss. Those problems are vastly different than some of the ones we were pointing out in the early season Denver games, where it seemed like nobody could even beat their man to initiate the types of rotations that lead to a goal. I had similar thoughts watching Hopkins v Ohio state. While I agree with quite a bit of the critiques on the attack, given the dodging ability and ability to invert our starting mids (at least for Curry and Dordy), I like that we have two guys in Scanlan and Rehfuss who are good at making things happen after the defense has rotated around. They both have skill at finding skip passes in an over rotated defense and I think it works well with the strength of our middie dodgers. It's early but I saw similar skills from Hiltz as well. Scanlan was off when it came to capitalizing on his shots, but he has proven in the past that he can work a short stick and a weaker long pole in his own style, and anyone who has seen him play knows that he usually makes the most of open shots. Yesterday was a bad day at the office from him and that's not just an excuse, it's clear from his stats the last two years. He will be better. The O has too much talent to be denied and I still have faith in Pat March. [/QUOTE]

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