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Message: [QUOTE="JeremyCuse, post: 5428700, member: 43"] Gait was in a tough spot there to be honest. Teams are rarely on the man up in those spots so that added a wrinkle you don't usually see. The main issue was that with amount of time left there was no obvious answer on what to do. SU could run out the clock or if they turned it over late make it almost impossible for Harvard to score. On the other hand if they score there the game is probably over with Mullen. Your point about not attacking the man up is a good one but again it comes down to time. If there was say just under 2 min left, I think you clearly attack like a normal man up. With just over a min left or whatever it was and only a 30 sec man up you had to attack early if your gonna play it straight, as such, if you don't score and Harvard gets the ball there gonna be able to get it back on their end with plenty of time left. If we had two TO's left I think the better gameplan would have been to run off about 20 secs of the man up and then see if you want to attack that last 10 seconds on the re-start because Princeton can't double. I don't mind English being the guy to run around but he had struggled all day with turnovers and history has shown in those scenarios teams are rarely successful in running the clock out and usually end up turning it over at some point. Much like last week vs Duke with the amount of time left I think you get your fastest players out there and Tell English once the double comes just throw a highly looping slow pass toward the left corner (the ones you see at the end of shot clock violations) and let a scrum ensue preferably with whoever the goalie is covering. Even if it goes OOB your taking at minimum 5+ seconds off the clock from when he passes it and your gonna be able to set up defensively and force Harvard to clear from pretty much as far back as possible. [/QUOTE]

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