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Message: [QUOTE="JDOrange, post: 5031178, member: 1807"] Agree with a lot of this. Trujillo has struggled. Levine has actually been playing quite well, but certainly doesn't have the foot speed for certain matchups. Seems like he didn't play much after the 1st Q. Hottle got burned pretty good early on where he overplayed the top side and the guy went right under him. Should've been an early slide there so not completely his fault. I chuckled a few times when he got caught guarding Dobson given the size difference. He also had that one possession against Pat Kav where he held his own impressively on an ISO. He's really been great. I thought the defense settled down in the second half and overall played pretty well. Pick communication wasn't good and led to a few goals. I suspect some of that was due to trying to maintain matchups. Multiple luck of the Irish type goals (Taylor hold, Mark rebound goal, etc.). We sometimes forget that Fig is still a freshman, guarding a 5th year AA. He got beat on a speed dodge early and then I think got caught up in a pick behind the cage, but otherwise played well. Offensively they were all over the map. I thought Hiltz had a brutal game overall. Ton of turnovers, really forced things with a shorty matchup. Joey kept up the trend of disappearing in big games and some of his decision making was suspect. Couldn't agree more on Leo, he is a star and needs to see the ball more. I would love to see them give him a run at attack with that group. There is plenty of talent left at midfield. Mule is a good distributor but is limited athletically and gets bottled up by stronger, quicker poles. I think they are going to have to play around with the personnel going forward as the defensive playbook has been established for slowing them down. Faceoffs were brutal. As others mentioned, not sure why Kohn was taking all of them if he was sick and already had the two violations. Wing play was a big factor as well. Almost all the 50/50 ground balls went to ND. That extended beyond the faceoff as well. Game seemed to be decided by 4 key events: The two early face-off violations that set the tone for the half, the brutal end of half where we had a great look at the cage and couldn't finish, then gave up two quick goals. The man up where they had two amazing looks and couldn't finish, and then late in the 4th on the break when Hiltz(?) dropped the pass. Think that would've gotten it down to 1 with ~ 2 mins left. Despite playing a C game (way too many turnovers, not finishing a lot of great opportunities), I was really impressed with the fight and making it a game in the 4th. Great experience against defending champs and seemingly the best team this year. Tough atmosphere. Another tough one on Tuesday. Wish I could be there. LGO. [/QUOTE]

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