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[QUOTE="ohmilax34, post: 2967524, member: 6339"]
If Syracuse played a real free flowing style (with lots of fast breaks, lots of pressing out on defense, they would probably lose more games than they do now.  They still push transition, see the Kennedy goal vs. JHU, and plenty of other long pole or SSDM goals this season.  On offense there is a lot of movement and it's a fun offense to watch when it's clicking.  SU still tries to make plays in the "gray" area as John Danowski would call it.  Fernandez pushes out on the ball.  Solomon is creative.  Porter gets the ball out of his stick quickly when he makes a save.

SU won the national championship in 2004 with Mike Powell and they scored very few fast break goals in the  semifinal vs. JHU or the final vs. Navy.  Literally they may have scored one unsettled goal vs. JHU, and that was Powell's only goal of the game, yet SU won 15-9, because they played great 6v6 offense with a lot of movement by all the players on offense and the ball moved fast.  In the final vs. Navy they played pretty much the same way.  Again, Powell scored a fast break goal at the end, but mostly SU scored in 6v6 with great team offense.  The SU defense played zone in for most of these games, because they couldn't press out and take the ball away.
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