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Message: [QUOTE="PhatOrange, post: 4992557, member: 229"] A few comments on this game and overall Lots of knee jerk reactions. Army and Maryland are both teams predicted to be FF teams. Both legit top 5 teams. Syracuse loses two tough ones in OT, that should have or had opportunities to win both in OT. So here we are. One goal to win waived off and a fluky empty net miss after making a great defensive play on the ride; most people overlook that. This is a really good team who is finding itself defensively and trying to find itself offensively while still being a super young team. Mark has been inconsistent. He's let in some that he shouldn't and on the flip he's made some great saves. Nobody has mentioned him saving the win 3 or 4 times the last few minutes of this game (and even MD). He made some crazy game saving saves last night diving around. Gimme a break. The offense, the free wheeling is fun but youthfully undisciplined and makes too many unforced mistakes for my taste. I hate that. Too much one on one and hero ball at the end of this game. Guys were playing tight and trying to do to much solo in the 2nd half. The attack struggle with A list defenders. Spallina is overmatched right now against the top 1v1 guys. (side bar, I hate how much we stand behind cage waiting for cutters. I get it but it's not for me.) Defensively I think we slide to early. Would tone it down some but I really like Oderna. Sometimes I think he's the head coach. I'm still not crazy about March. In the time out huddle he didn't draw up a play. You could hear the feed and it was basically predicated on short stick matchups. I don't believe the players even followed what he was saying and drawing on the white board though. I forget but if the backhanded shot was against the pole then Spallina did his own thing because they were supposed to attack the short sticks. Going rogue seems to happen often. March - the man up sucks and has for a couple of years now. I think we're 9-25 right now like 36%. Does it look like there's a play or a plan because to me it's just throwing it around and if the crease doesn't open up it's a deep cranks. Disappointing. Offensively - when things aren't going well we press. The attack can't really beat anyone off the bounce and too many poor decisions and bad shots. If they valued the ball a little more and stopped taking so many risks it'd be a really tough bunch. We give the other team too many opportunities because of our high risk play. Getting a feel for the personnel, I'm demoting Thompson and Hiltz. I'd put Leo down on that lefty attack wing. Hiltz is likely drawing the worse pole and is still MIA because his game is finishing when his man slides, but no one on attack is good enough to make guys slide. He also comes off screens as a finisher but so what. The offense from the midfield is the pick and roll game and teams aren't forced to slide off Hiltz. Leo can finish and is a better dodger. In fact Leo imho is one of THE best players. Overall this team can still be a FF team and still has a lot of season to prove itself. Just clean things up and stay the course. [/QUOTE]

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