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[QUOTE="PhatOrange, post: 655151, member: 229"]
we ended up having to put a long stick on the black dude which really caused us problems. I thought that kid was terrible to and we made him look great. Pratt and Jenkins are just really not that good at playing D (although today was one of Pratts better days I thought). Nonetheless, the best move we did was zoning Duke's second line and it worked. Then we tried zoning their first line and left a mid wide open for a 10 yard shot and goal. So we abandoned the zone. I thought we should have zoned that second line exclusively. Oh well.
 
What really killed our defensive effort was being over aggressive on doubling. We doubled a bunch when we didn't need to and then were slow to react with slides and leaving some guys wide open.
 
Then we couldn't get the ball. Our defense became exhausted and mistakes ensued and Lamo didn't help as his second half was abysmal. There were shots he should have saved.
 
Our ground ball effort all year by the short sticks was pretty piss poor. Duke nearly doubled us up on ground balls today. Our face off wing support was as and is as much a problem as the guy doing the draws. Countless times this year its been a groundball situation at X and we've simply not come up with the ball. As Swish said, groundballs is about effort but I'd add its also about toughness.
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