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Message: [QUOTE="SUlax88-09, post: 5035569, member: 9879"] Great stuff! Good for you for venting. You usually aren’t so critical, so I can feel your frustration. I hear ya, too. It was actually a great college lacrosse game, but such a frustrating loss. I agree with all of your points, and I’ll add mine in a sec. Despite it all though, if Coach Gait just calls a timeout when there was a scrum at midfield and we had briefly the ball with 20 seconds left, then I think we win the game. We had the ball, and I was screaming at the TV “Call Time-out, Call Time-out”. No excuse for not calling it… In terms of game analysis: -English, Leo, Hiltz, and Spallina all played well (I’ve been critical of Spallina in big games, but I thought this was the best he‘s played against a good team) -Kohn obviously dominated face offs -Mark kept us in it with some big 4th quarter saves -I hate to be a broken record, but our non-Rice SSDMs struggled again (Rice is such a stud though!). Even Hottle had a rough game. Stevens played more SSDM today, which I like, but he’s being asked to do too much and he’s getting tired. I’d take him off of our Man Up team -There is a reason why Mule is drawing the SSDM, so why would we have him initiate our offense in crucial moments at the end of the game? -I like our D Coordinator, our D is really solid, but I’m not a fan of our gimmicky Man Down team strategy. I said that we should get rid of it earlier in the year, and I still feel that way. They got destroyed today -7 fourth quarter turnovers (the complete opposite of clutch) -Cornell’s attack is awesome! Kirst, Long, and Goldstein are all great attackmen! Impressive. -Again defending the darn pick play cost us. Not sure why Dwan left Kirst for the game winning goal (there was no need to switch, and certainly not if you’re guarding a Tewaarton Finalist!) -Cornell’s back-up goalie, Knust (once their starting goalie) had some incredible saves in the 4th and in overtimes. I wanted Leo to take it 1 on 1 at the end, but we still got good shots (Rhoa, Thomson, and English all had great looks). Their goalie just made clutch saves. He had a 75% save percentage! Impressive We’re probably not gonna beat Virginia, so UNC is like a playoff game. We will likely not be winning the Face Off battle against UNC, their freshman face off man is awesome!, so it’ll have to be a team effort. (Can’t we just get rid of Face-Offs altogether? I’m looking forward to watching the 6’s version of lacrosse in the Olympics mostly because there won‘t be Face Offs. The better ‘team’ should win) [/QUOTE]

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