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Message: [QUOTE="DoctahLexus, post: 4182732, member: 6798"] Couldn't watch live but saw the replay. For positives I thought there was some nice looking motion to the offense. We looked like we put a concentrated effort into off ball movement and passing after looking at the tape of the MD game. Lots of assisted goals, quite a few looks that could have been buried with better shooting, good skip passes, good movement on man up as well (just gotta bury once again). Carter rice besides that one obvious mishap, had another solid showing as an ssdm. Rosa a solid game too. Lots of their goals were in transition, rebounds, or off of broken plays and errors clearing, especially in the early going when they got out in the lead. Three of those could have easily not happened and it is a shame we fell behind early as a result of that. Did cook finally break out of his 4 year finishing slump?? Lets hope so because we sure could use it. Some not only nice shots but nice use of deception and placement, which I really thought he didn't have in him. Berkman is a solid poised QB type attack from x. I love his skip feeds and passing in general and think he belongs out there starting at attack. Im glad we did not go to curry at attack and run seebold out of the box. This isn't exactly positive, but once again I thought the main negatives were impatient poor shooting decisions, and general sloppiness. Limiting the failed clears alone would have made a HUGE difference in the final score. Curry takes way to many bad shots and I know he is trying to get it going but you don't get it going by taking 15 yard on the run shots lefty with no angle. At that point it feels like a selfish ego driven choice and we have no room for that. Dordevic took some bad low percentage shots today too, despite us often getting good looks in the 6 on 6 when we were patient. Unfortunately the other big negative is some of the same offball D mistakes that plagued us last year. Murphy and Kennedy both had some noticeable lapses offball. Slides that are accompanied by a late two slide that leads to an easy goal was another familiar issue. You can blame fatigue at times but in the end it is the same guys who were making the same mistakes last year minus our best short stick and best close D. It was always going to take work and a rethinking of personnel, and today was a reminder of that. Not completely atrocious play in the 1 v 1, besides short sticks trying to guard Shutz. Couple discouraging 1 v 1 decisions from Fraterrigo who I am not at all sold on. Olexo a couple not so great moments as well, but some good moments too. Not throwing in the towel yet. That fight to get it back to 3 in the third was encouraging. Think we are a playoff team in the end. This was a top of the top tier opponent out for revenge. [/QUOTE]

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