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Harvard Gameday…

With SU turning the ball over freely, missing shots, losing their cool early on, and failing the Crimson ride, SU should have lost. The D was better than expected, Harvard can score. McCool had a rough day until he didn't.

The Team never broke, though I thought they did for 40 minutes or so. Great come back. Sending the Boston Nerd Herd back with their hearts broken feels good.

Let's hope the team takes next week's game serious from the beginning to the end.
 
That game played out as if the players coach themselves haha - glad that the talent ultimately was enough for them to come out on top this time around. Kudos to Harvard and Byrne who must be kicking themselves just a bit.
 
GrowTheGame said:
That game played out as if the players coach themselves haha - glad that the talent ultimately was enough for them to come out on top this time around. Kudos to Harvard and Byrne who must be kicking themselves just a bit.
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I know we’re all frustrated with Gait but some of these kids just do stupid things over and over. besides benching them, not sure what else we can do. They’re just so inconsistent.
 
dasher said:
Watching that game, you were worried when we took the lead? I was worried when we were behind the whole game
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I agree but when you have an opportunity to expand the lead it can come back to haunt you. It did with six seconds left.
 
Caccamo & Kuczynski each scoring their 1st career goal.

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richmondcuse03 said:
I know we’re all frustrated with Gait but some of these kids just do stupid things over and over. besides benching them, not sure what else we can do. They’re just so inconsistent.
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I wouldn’t use the term bench, but give the next guy up a run or two for sure. Accountability doesn’t seem to exist on this team in regards to horrible passing.
 
GrowTheGame said:
I wouldn’t use the term bench, but give the next guy up a run or two for sure. Accountability doesn’t seem to exist on this team in regards to horrible passing.
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Obviously we're not gonna fix it this year but I hope the staff comes up with a new game plan to address it in fall ball and next season. So frustrating to watch it on a team so talented
 
As someone that doesn’t understand lacrosse like many of you, it was an exciting and uplifting win. Tough loss for Harvard but what a win for SU. Was the final play a set play for Hiltz?
 
what a comeback! credit the team and coaches for a dramatic turnaround, after a stinker for 2/3 of the game. can't let the team implode like that though to start. not sure what changed, but momentum shifted enormously in the 4Q.
 
What…a…game! Wow. What a horrible first half and what a great second half!

“Sometimes it’s better to be lucky then good”. I wouldn’t say that we were ‘lucky’, but without those penalties on Harvard, which led to our 4 man up goals (especially the non-releasable penalty in the 4th against Spallina in which we scored 3 man-up goals!) and without Mullen dominating at face-offs, then we lose this game. Harvard was actually the better team today, but whatever.

The bad:
-the 20 turnovers! Considering that we’re #3 in the country in fewest turnovers per game (interestingly, Princeton is #2) and even though English and Hiltz are #1 and #2 on our team in turnovers, even for them, today their turnovers were atrocious (6 for English and 5 for Hiltz)
-Harvard beat us badly in their 1v1 matchups, on both offense and defense. Teams have attacked and beaten our SSDMs all season, but today was the first time all season that all of our long poles got beaten badly (worst game of the year for our long poles on defense; obviously the 2 goals by our long poles on offense were huge though)
-our 1st half clearing was frustrating to watch
-McCool struggled (but he still had some great 2nd half saves)
-our 6v6 offense was really bad. We need more players that can win a 1v1 matchup

The good:
-Spallina’s passing is brilliant (he can’t dodge, he’s a subpar shooter, and his only move of posting up on the crease and doing the behind-the-back shot hasn’t worked in a long time, but if we can get him by himself, then his vision is elite)
-Rhoa’s outside shooting was amazing today. He’s been literally MIA for over a month now, but he picked a great time to finally show up again
-Mullen was a beast
-Our offense cannot dodge, but if you give us a man up, then our passing is brilliant. Our man up team/our box lacrosse team passes it beautifully, and it won this game for us today (in addition to Mullen). Coach Gait coaches our man up team, too, so congratulations to him!

Unfortunately, if our offense has this many turnovers and cannot score in 6v6, if our long poles get beaten in 1v1s this badly again, and if McCool struggles again, then our season ends next week. Princeton is a similar but better team then Harvard (a great offensive team, they actually have the #1 man up team in the country, and they have one of the best goalies in the country, but they’re also vulnerable at face-offs and their defense is just ok) so if we can limit our turnovers and missed clears, dominate the face offs, draw some penalties and score in man up, play better 1v1 D, and play better in goal, then we can make it a game! Go Cuse!
 
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