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Message: [QUOTE="DoctahLexus, post: 4652817, member: 6798"] If you're secret to success is your foot speed, there will always eventually be some long pole who is able to match pace with you. Only if you have other components to your game will you be able to put up numbers on a regular basis. There is a trend this year with very few guys being able to consistently beat a top long pole match up. I'm talking very few this year. In fact the only names I would for sure put in that category are Brennan Oneill and CJ Kirst. For most of the top players this year it is about much more than your ability to dominate a long pole off the dodge. Pat Kav it is his feeding/QB ability as well as his ability to exploit unsettled situations. Dickson and Mackesy a large part of it is their lethal shooting. The season Wisnauskas put together last year was a combination of those skills. He put up all those points with very little coming from destroying a long pole in a 1v1 situation. Meanwhile some speed dodging guys like Ross Scott and Kyle Long have had disappointing seasons, struggling with additional attention directed their way after others have graduated. How many times this season have we seen the number one long pole shut down the number one attack to nothing except points that don't involve beating their man cleanly? Sure feels like a lot more than last year. This year the only guy who has given us problems 1v1 is ONeill. All the other names, even if they put up big numbers, it was not due to them dusting their long pole match ups. Pretty much every name I mentioned is a better dodger than Spallina at present. But he has pretty much every one of those non-dodging attributes in spades. That's how he got the big numbers this year and I only anticipate them getting bigger as things like his outside shooting and general confidence improve. [/QUOTE]

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