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Maryland Gameday...

cusefan88 said:
I believe Tillman is playing in the title game for a 9th time?

Lots of bad stuff happened but can't forget Maryland pretty much does this to every team in the semifinals.
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And I fully expect Maryland to throttle Cornell just as they did us.
 
I would love to know what the game plan for cuse offense and defense was n what was prepared or practice during the week. We will never know but very curious. As even maryland who normally doesn’t ride seemed to set something up not a hard ride but enough to give cuse trouble as i’m sure tillman knew we have had trouble clearing n wanted to exploit that. Which is why he’s good coach. And also why love to know what our coaches planned vs maryland. But either way won’t n either way maryland is playing on monday again.
 
cuselaxss26 said:
I would love to know what the game plan for cuse offense and defense was n what was prepared or practice during the week. We will never know but very curious. As even maryland who normally doesn’t ride seemed to set something up not a hard ride but enough to give cuse trouble as i’m sure tillman knew we have had trouble clearing n wanted to exploit that. Which is why he’s good coach. And also why love to know what our coaches planned vs maryland. But either way won’t n either way maryland is playing on monday again.
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Failure to clear all year was pathetic
 
i'd put our our long pole close defenders dwan, caccamo and grace against anybody . maryland attacked us from out top step down high and hard. and mccool as good as he was early i believe got shell shocked second half. as to the above post about maryland being boring ? what game did you watch ? they put on a clinic of crisp offense , excellent D and goaltending. and despite predictions won the X. our team needs to watch this tape over and over til we can achieve this level of execution. we got the talent. we lack the discipline.
 
First final four in 12 years. If you think everything is wrong with the approach of the staff then I don’t know what to tell you. Beyond insulting to the players and staff who got us there for the first time in 12 years to suggest that they were just happy to be there and coasting. If that was really their attitude they would not be there in the first place!

Congrats to the boys and the staff for a great year. Frustrating way for it to end, but this team has always had flaws and MD has had our number as a bad matchup. I just hate that people look at the score and how it went down and say “oh they must have not given a sheeit” or “oh they must have not prepared”. That is such bs. Talking like trolls on twitter. Ridiculous. Nothing wrong with some salt after a loss but holy crap be a little proud of the team/staff that got us to the final four for the first time in 12 years.
 
ColdAnger said:
Agree completely with this assessment. The numbers suggest a very evenly contested matchup (both times) but everyone who watched can attest to the fact that MD generated better shots and better scoring chances. MD drew slides and Cuse did not. Athleticism of Cuse SSDMs and dodgers have been rightly questioned all year.
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It ended up being a test of the ssdms/middies dodging against them on both sides. Neither team was drawing slides dodging against longpoles. Their ssdms did enough to limit the slides, while ours were often getting beat cleanly and drawing rushed slides. But I also thought there were quite a few opportunities from us where by far the main reason we did not score was McNany in cage. English and Leo were getting quality looks sweeping across the middle but every shot on the run except one from Leo was eaten up. He also stuffed Thomson and a couple others on quality looks offball. He is the guy that takes their defense to a whole other level of efficient.
 
DoctahLexus said:
It ended up being a test of the ssdms/middies dodging against them on both sides. Neither team was drawing slides dodging against longpoles. Their ssdms did enough to limit the slides, while ours were often getting beat cleanly and drawing rushed slides. But I also thought there were quite a few opportunities from us where by far the main reason we did not score was McNany in cage. English and Leo were getting quality looks sweeping across the middle but every shot on the run except one from Leo was eaten up. He also stuffed Thomson and a couple others on quality looks offball. He is the guy that takes their defense to a whole other level of efficient.
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It would be so important and excellent if we could recruit a Goalie like McNany. For a great team you have to have - an excellent Goalie, excellent FOGO, Players who can score and bigger faster players
get out and recruit Gary Gait.
 
BillSU said:
It would be so important and excellent if we could recruit a Goalie like McNany. For a great team you have to have - an excellent Goalie, excellent FOGO, Players who can score and bigger faster players
get out and recruit Gary Gait.
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McCool made some great saves yesterday. A couple he had no business making that gave us a shot at staying in it. Some his defense clearly left him hanging with rushed or unorganized slides. But he also let in at least 3 or 4 that were from a poor enough angle where you expect your goalie to make a stop. Hard as hell to be a goalie who will both save every one that he should save and also steal a few. McNanys do not grow on trees unfortunately. Some disappointing moments from McCool in the playoffs, but he still had a great year and won some games that got us to this point.
 
DoctahLexus said:
McCool made some great saves yesterday. A couple he had no business making that gave us a shot at staying in it. Some his defense clearly left him hanging with rushed or unorganized slides. But he also let in at least 3 or 4 that were from a poor enough angle where you expect your goalie to make a stop. Hard as hell to be a goalie who will both save every one that he should save and also steal a few. McNanys do not grow on trees unfortunately. Some disappointing moments from McCool in the playoffs, but he still had a great year and won some games that got us to this point.
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Thing that hurts ab McNaney is he was a homegrown product and we failed to keep him here
 
DoctahLexus said:
McCool made some great saves yesterday. A couple he had no business making that gave us a shot at staying in it. Some his defense clearly left him hanging with rushed or unorganized slides. But he also let in at least 3 or 4 that were from a poor enough angle where you expect your goalie to make a stop. Hard as hell to be a goalie who will both save every one that he should save and also steal a few. McNanys do not grow on trees unfortunately. Some disappointing moments from McCool in the playoffs, but he still had a great year and won some games that got us to this point.
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Maryland fans seem to think otherwise lol. They'll learn eventually.
 
Besides just winning and losing i also wonder is gary gait and coaches helping these kids get better or molding them right. As looked at all recruits we got n there were bunch of 4 star kids who never even saw the field. I get it happens diff level then high school and all. But at same time coaching isn’t just winning and losing almost bout helping get these kids players to better their game n improve on their craft. I question coaches little bit if they’re doing it right or enough. But still great season got to final four.

Hope we have a great off-season and these kids work even harder to get better n come out next year ready to play with their hair on fire. Let’s not forget tillman (maryland) prob considered best coach in lax right now has made now 9 chips n only one 2. Just proves point even more very hard just making it to chip weekend but also to win it all. That even team as maryland who has been there loads of times only manage to win it twice.
 
MadNY3 said:
McCool was also 0% the reason we lost today.
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I never blame a goalie for a loss. If we give up 18 then we should've scored 19 imo. But goalies need to save the ones they should save and make a few they shouldn't. There were a few goals (4 maybe) my immediate reaction was he should've saved that. Couple five holes couple stick side waist high and up.

McNaney had four or five my immediate reaction was holy sht I can't believe he saved that.

Here's the rub for me. McNaney prevented us from getting back in the game while McCool didn't help us to stick around.
 
PhatOrange said:
I never blame a goalie for a loss. If we give up 18 then we should've scored 19 imo. But goalies need to save the ones they should save and make a few they shouldn't. There were a few goals (4 maybe) my immediate reaction was he should've saved that. Couple five holes couple stick side waist high and up.

McNaney had four or five my immediate reaction was holy sht I can't believe he saved that.

Here's the rub for me. McNaney prevented us from getting back in the game while McCool didn't help us to stick around.
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agree mcnaney made big saves and timely saves plus got it out n up fast which believe resulted in least two goals. But all year syracuse never had every position click at same time. Never offense , defense , goalie , face off - were humming at same time. Most at times 3 out of the 4 we’re going. most time would say 2 was the norm for us. But also sadly 2 of those spots affect the others. As winning faceoffs helps offense (defense bit also) n goalie helps the defense play with more confidence and also knowing if make mistake goalie has their back.

Have 3 out of 4 clicking was enough to get us to the dance but needed all 4 going to get us a slow dance. Each had bright spots in games and prob even won us games. But need all them playing at high level to hoist trophy and best a team like maryland also. We should have good chance to repeat next year as long as everyone comes back n the recruits coming in help make impact n hopefully even few transfer or even just 1-2 big transfer n stay healthy. But also think we need to build depth during early part of season. Play few more guys in valuable minutes help build experience and speed of game.

I also like bologino at dmid n hope they keep him there and train him all year for it. He has good speed looks be strong n for being thrown in cause of injury think he didn’t do to bad. Ochao struggled at end but think was more fact he was guarding a lot of speedier guys and he is just slow. He’s got nice size n strong but just totally out matched when comes to anyone with solid speed. Think also we need a much much better zone defense system then one we ran. Not sure what psu zone D is but it worked wonders at time n how they could collapse on middle guys.

Lots of stuff to improve on and work it. Begins now with training to get better so hopefully boys start working their tails off now.
 
PhatOrange said:
I never blame a goalie for a loss. If we give up 18 then we should've scored 19 imo. But goalies need to save the ones they should save and make a few they shouldn't. There were a few goals (4 maybe) my immediate reaction was he should've saved that. Couple five holes couple stick side waist high and up.

McNaney had four or five my immediate reaction was holy sht I can't believe he saved that.

Here's the rub for me. McNaney prevented us from getting back in the game while McCool didn't help us to stick around.
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Spot on. Syracuse has usually had spectacular goalie play in its NC runs. Looking at Q1 in detail, McCool was inconsistent. At times great, but at others not. He succumbed to the MD barrage. The blame is all over the field, from our O missing good looks, to our d mids not getting stick to glove, to lost face offs & turnovers, but McCool succumbed to the MD barrage.

At 12:45 of the 1st, McCool makes an incredible 1 on 1 save. At 10:48, he saves another, an open bouncer at his feet. At 9:42, another. 3 great saves in the first 5 mins, or 25% of his saves with about 90% of the game remaining.

At 7:30, there is a repeat of the 12:45 shot, but McCool guesses wrong and it goes right between his feet while he's still upright.

At 5:10, another incredible in close save after a chaotic scramble for the ball that MD wins.

At 3:47 spanos gets a super clean & close look but shoots wide. However, you can see McCool is starting to glitch, he's a step late in reading & reacting. Those close misses can be really hard on a goalie though bc of how you contort your body to reach the ball.

At 3:24 Stovall buries it clean, high & hard, from deep, over McCools right shoulder. No screen, no change of levels. This is the type of shot a great goalie must save. McCool doesn't even step to the ball. Knowing what's about to happen, he's lost in the moment.

At 2:49, the pole Larkin buries it high and hard from distance over McCools stick. McCool guesses waist & lowers his stick, the ball goes right where his stick was. This is 100% on McCool. He's guessing & strangely already she'll shocked. Need to save this.

At 1:33, he makes a good save at his left hip.

And an easy one w 6 seconds left and the shot clock running down. 6 saves, 15 minutes in, or 50% of his saves with 75% of the game remaining.

So, in the 1st qtr, McCool played well, but still gave up 2 that he should've saved, or at least read better. Inconsistent.

Q2
14:05, gets his stick on a low heater. Great save.
13:53, another great save, low off an in close question mark.
12:32, clean & hard shot from distance, low & to his weak side. Most difficult shot to save. He reads it, but reacts too late. 1-4 MD.
7:39, high and hard from distance, again right over his stick. Gotta save those. Our Dmids though are letting MD shoot clean.
At 7:10, mD gets their 6th, off a pipe & rebound to an inclose shot. Impossible to save. But, you do want your goalie to try to control those rebounds, via clean saves or getting a stick on the rebound. McCool oddly runs left as the ball bounces right. He's just not tracking the ball properly.
At 4:58, one of the worst, low angle shot over his near shoulder, I.e. he lets in the lowest angle shot, when you want to completely close that off and force the shot wide.
While not good, our D is just sucking at this point.
3:56, another clean, long & hard shot that goes right over McCools stick.
1-8. I will stop here bc less than halfway through and the game is over.
McCool made some great saves, especially early, but saved less than 20% of the shots you need to above 50% on.

MD must have known that he flinches or freezes on the hard shots right to his box.

Plenty of blame to go around & it is more elsewhere, but our goalie has to be better if we want to win.
 
nocohalo said:
It also works until it doesn't. They used to say similar things about Danowksi. Eventually it gets countered.
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What did they saw about Danowski? (I'm not trying to pick a fight, I honestly don't know what was said about him/his coaching/his system?)
 
36'sq. said:
What did they saw about Danowski? (I'm not trying to pick a fight, I honestly don't know what was said about him/his coaching/his system?)
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In the mid 2010s it was very similar to what they say about Tillman. Gets the most out of his players, team doesn't do anything wrong or make mistakes, always has one elite side of the ball. After they won 3 titles in 5 years or so you heard a lot about how Duke would own college lacrosse for a long time because of coaching.
 
danowski is 71 . maybe denver offers him that sweet $$$ rocky mountain gig now that tierney is gone.

edit ( bill's now coaching the philly waterdogs )
 
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CuseBlood44 said:
Failure to clear all year was pathetic
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What's interesting and a bit concerning is that last year and this year about halfway through the season (maybe a tad more) SU was one of the top clearing teams in the country and even handled the 10 man from Colgate this year really well). Then for some reason a switch flips and they struggle immensely to clear. There is no real rhyme or reason behind it either. YOu can't even blame going on the road for it either. It's extremely puzzling.
 
This might be the most important fall ball season this program has had in well over a decade. It is critical that the frosh SSDMs and ones that were on the bench this season get development. Even mediocre SSDM play shaves off 2 or 3 goals in this tournament run. I don't know if they actually bring in any impact SSDM transfer, it's a premium position and we seem to be on the outside looking in when it comes to the portal given the inherit nature of lax player profiles academically. More development for Anderson could also really elevate this team and get them over the hump. Has to be a perfect summer and fall for this team.
 
Well, as much as they didn't have their best game, it was the final 4/championship weekend after the ACC title. So, i was a good season! Frustrating - absolutely, as this squad had to be the most inconsistent team of the top 10 college lacrosse. Just never knew who was going to show up and for how long. Something to certainly improve on for next year. Also, our top guys have to show up in the big games, Great to see Cornell take it to MD and CJ showed up big time. Hands down this year's Tewaaraton winner - nobody even close, the other guys are just going for dinner
 
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