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Message: [QUOTE="DoctahLexus, post: 5030134, member: 6798"] Absolutely disgusting no call on Titus on the clear when it was 10-13. Clearly tripped by Kav. But the media hype over there ride means they dont call those. Its total crap. OMG they try sooooo hard. They foul! They do it all the time! That plus the Entenmann robbery of Stevens on the possession before ended it. Nightmarish similarities to last seasons game, although we had a lot more dignity in this loss. Disappointing day at the X. Was the main factor in the 1st half lead for ND and certainly did not help us down the stretch. Not the most horrendous first half from the offense. They really did not have the ball and I assume were overall efficient in the first half. Thought we should have gone to Mullen earlier and more often. Would be my one major gripe with the staff choices. Think he overall has the best chance to win off the clamp when it is a tough match up. You get down two penalties at the X early and that kills you too, no matter who you put out there. ND went long pole on all three attack, but they also dont mind switching. We always get looks just by dicing up defenses with ball movement, and a lot of that comes from our starting attack. The ball movement from attack plus slides drawn from the midfield tends to be the winning formula. We still got those today, but the complete inability to scare a long pole 1v1 out of the attack looked like more of a problem. Spallina made very little happen with the ball in his stick today. Hiltz even less, but I think Quint is overall too harsh on their dodging abilities. I am torn on if it is worth it to put a more traditional dodger like Leo at attack and break up the trio. In the end we were a couple looks away from another quality number of goals, and that is with a horrible day at the X. The ball movement still gets looks and goals and the middies were still able to draw slides. I am sure if you look at today from an efficiency standpoint it is not the worst. Some golden opportunities we somehow failed to capitalize. I am still overall hesitant to go to the drawing board with attack. Defense overall had another excellent day on a high volume of reps from ND. Odierna is still one heck of a hire. We showed a lot of toughness on defense down the stretch. The improvements at D are what give me the most hope of us taking things far in May. Work to do but a still a heck of a lot to like about this team!! [/QUOTE]

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