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Message: [QUOTE="DoctahLexus, post: 4704508, member: 6798"] You know I was thinking of you recently since you had an excellent breakdown of the defenses shortcomings after the UVA game. Let's take a look at what you had to say: "here are the first 6 goals: 1) [B]incredibly unnecessary aj slide[/B] [B]to shellenberger as he is dummy dodging[/B] and there is no 2 on the entire half of the field to cover. -2) [B]ditto to garno as he's bottled up going to his left except off dickson on the crease[/B] 3) garno speed dodges a short from x. u can maybe have a slide ready, but this is one where u live with garno making a play he almost never does from behind. 4) mcconvey bobbles a pass and somehow splits 2 guys in a phone booth. rosa u can excuse a bit as he was reaching probably for the gb at 1st. the pole not only whiffing the slide but allowing mcconvey to get top side to his strong hand is just crazy bad. 5) mid alley dodge [B]shouldnt draw anything but eyes[/B], but dickson loses himself in the backside wash and the 2 crease d guys don't feel like picking up w enough urgency. 6) [B]no words for simply leaving dickson backside[/B], not supporting anything. [B]we could go on[/B]." This is the type of crap we are hoping to leave in the past. Teams that move the ball well would just pick us apart due to our eagerness to slide. This was the beginning of the game so you cant excuse faceoff related fatigue or what have you. Could all the players involved just be totally horrible at basic aspects of team defense? Or are they trying to do the prescribed motion in a complicated system that is both flawed and hard to comprehend? I lean towards the latter. No amount of positives to him being on staff can make up for how the actual defense looked against any team with a pulse on offense. Take away the cupcakes and that defensive efficiency number is not pretty. Replace Will Mark with a non AA goalie and it is downright embarrassing. [/QUOTE]

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