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Message: [QUOTE="DoctahLexus, post: 3076495, member: 6798"] The attack will almost definitely be forced to play with a slightly different style next year. Even though Scanlan is highly skilled in off ball/set shooting situations like Voigt was, I highly doubt he will be relegated to strictly finishing as he clearly has some strong dodging ability as well. Unless Donnelly, Owen Hill, or some other unknown, turns out to be an offball god fully prepared for elite D1 competition, we will most likely have an attack line with all 3 guys dodging and making things happen. Thought about it a little and you need to go back a good ways to find a cuse attack line that functioned similarly. I would say next year's attack could play a lot like the attack of 2016 with Evans, Donahue, and Tim Barber. Donahue (successfully) converted to a more QB style attack after Rice and Staats graduated and Barber and Evans were both attack who liked dodging as well. Overall it seemed to work well and we had a solid offense that year. Then Bomberry came in next year and we once again used a strictly off ball attack. The tougher thought exercise is to think of another team that does that currently! Not an easy task. Yale has Gaudet as a strictly off ball guy, UVA has Laviano, Penn St has O'Keefe, ND has Willets, Hopkins had Marr, Rutgers has Charalambides, Cornell had Petterson, and the list goes on a good amount. It is certainly a trend in the sport today (often with top level teams) to use a strictly off ball attack, and we have been one of those teams for the past three years. Voigt leaving changes things quite a bit, especially without someone on the roster like him when he backed up Brendan Bomberry. [/QUOTE]

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