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Message: [QUOTE="JeremyCuse, post: 5408700, member: 43"] The McAdory matchup is enormous for Saturday. He's been playing both mid and attack as Duke has struggled to get consistency out of their 1st line attack and teams have been double polling the midfield at times. I hope whether he plays attack or mid SU picks someone and goes with it. With his speed the answer is probably Figueiras but that forces you to put Dwan on Malever. If McAdory does play middie SU will almost assuredly double pole with Sloat and Johnston both on the 1st mid line. My assumption is SU would pole Sloat and McAdorey and short whoever the third attackmen is be it the frosh Kershis or the grad transfer Cusolito. Not sure how Danowski is going to play it but slowing down McAdory and Malever will be absolutely crucial. Personally I'd put Fig on McAdorey and Dwan on Malever. Malever doesn't have the quickness of Kirst so Dwan should match up better then he did last week. Duke has been very inconsistent on offense and struggled at times mightily to score, hopefully that continues on Sat. Duke runs a two headed tanded at FOGO so I suspect we will see both guys. Both are over 50% with Engelke the starter at 56%. Defensively Duke is pretty good when dialed in, good short sticks and a very solid LSM group. Probably not as good as last year with the loss of Brower Carpenter and others but I suspect they will give SU trouble as again the SSDM group is pretty solid and they held UNC to 8 goals last week. They have struggled to stop some of the "known" guys in their losses. ND's Taylor and Manning from Denver torched Duke in their losses. Jameison the goalie is just over 50%. He's been OK but not great even though his GAA is under 10. If this were at home I'd feel pretty confident but on the road against a desperate Duke team will be a difficult matchup. Penalties and turnovers are gonna be enormous, SU cannot give Duke easy goals and 4+ man ups. Unfortunately the penalty situation has not improved as the year has gone on and remains a major issue. This is a game SU really need to get and I hope plays well but I worry this may turn into a repeat of UVA where SU's trailing most of the game and needs to make some big plays late to get a lead. [/QUOTE]

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