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Message: [QUOTE="SUlax88-09, post: 5765155, member: 9879"] So true, but the trajectory of SU lax forever changed when the Thompson twins picked Albany over Syracuse, when Syracuse couldn’t get Austin Staats to transfer in from OCC, and when Lars Tiffany wasn’t hired as the SU coach (I realize that Lars is not Native American, but he grew up with the Onondaga people). Those were the notable most recent Native American misses that SU had. Another deflating game (although really just the 2nd half), but fortunately the season is not over, we’ll be in the playoffs, and there is no dominant team this year, so any team who gets hot can win it all (including us!) The bad news: -Our SSDMs, other than Kittelberg (who is awesome!, a future all-American and also one of the best SSDMs that SU has ever had) were atrocious. J Spallina, Bowen, and McCarthy all got killed today -Our pick defense was horrible. The ND entire offense was just attacking our SSDMs and doing pick plays -Beck got exposed today, in terms of being too slow to stay with a player 1v1 and also losing his man -Rhoa was awful. 8 outside shots, only 3 were on cage, and 0 goals -Mullen was again under 50%. I’ve literally never seen a college lacrosse player get worse during their career. To go from 63% face off win percentage last year to 53% this year is just weird. I’ve seen a lot of things, but not that… -Figueiras even got beat multiple times. If our best 1v1 long pole is getting, then we’re in big trouble -Our 2nd line Middies contributed nothing today, literally nothing -We didn’t lose the game cuz of the refs, but they were Horrible today! -We slip a lot on grass fields (not as much today as against UNC), but our coaches and equipment managers better figure things out if we make it to Final Four (which will be played on a grass field at UVA) The good news: -Anderson and Hottle are both studs, and they’re the only 2 players we have who can win a 1v1 matchup and score or draw a slide (if teams put poles on them, then we’re in Big trouble) -McCool was really good (18 saves!) -Kuczynski played well -Leo looked good Let’s just stay healthy in the ACC tournament. I don’t really care if we win the tournament like last year or lose in the 1st round, and let’s just get ready for this playoff run!! Go SU lax!! [/QUOTE]

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