Notre Dame just gave them so many problems throwing Gallagher AND Leonard at them. When they had 1 elite guy to deal with they did okay; like we saw against UVM, Duke, and battling against Lasalla because they could change it up with Shockey or Wiermanwgdsr wrote: ↑Sat Jun 05, 2021 12:57 pmthought they acquitted themselves very well in the tourney. though they did survive nd.jrn19 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 05, 2021 12:41 pmYeah with the 4 shorties back, Makar as a 1st Teamer, Rahill back as a multi-year starter, depth at LSM with Geppert and Sherrer, plus former blue chips in Zappitello and Burlace who showed flashes and a 5-star in Schirtzer and a near one in Younger Burlace ready to come in, there’s a lot of talent and depth on the defensive side imo. Don’t think there’s less talent there than on offense at all.Wheels wrote: ↑Sat Jun 05, 2021 11:19 amTills talked a lot this year about how he's transformed his thinking on offense where nothing is scripted at all. It makes the Terps too difficult to scout (something Fiefs and Danowski specifically mentioned in their post-game pressers). If you have Bubba, Logan, Kyle, Maltz, and Malever back (and Malever got runs at attack in the title game), you need one more guy in that top 6. If it's Donville at the MF, that's not exactly a bad top 6. Brennan and Jake Smith come back from injury, and you add Koras on a second MF line, and again, you have a pretty damn good 2nd line.Seahawk wrote: ↑Sat Jun 05, 2021 10:16 am Once Fairman and A DeMaio make their decision to stay or go, I think the underclass guys will make decisions on whether they are blocked for another year. I’m sure Brennan is looking to return healthy and ready for a larger role. Adding to that would be incoming transfers if they would be perceived to block an underclass guy for another year. Maryland has tons of talent on offense and less so on defense and FO. That’s where I would focus any incoming guys.
If Rahill comes back with all 4 shorties, you're looking a pretty phenomenal group on defense already. Ajax got a lot of time at LSM, and maybe be can down to close. I don't think Geppert does because he showed legit All-American play at LSM. Sherrer was also really good at LSM. Redd got some run in the Duke game, too. Shirtzer could come in and play right away at close, too. He has a rep as a takeaway defender. The Terps had their most caused TOs in a season since 2012.
Faceoffs are the question. I do think they need to find an adjustment there. If something materializes in the portal I would 1000% jump on it. If not, maybe a coaching move of some kind of hopefully this Keethler kid coming in is a diamond in the rough. It’s just unacceptable to be 48% on faceoffs tbh. There’s so many good ones out there and we’ve been deficient there amongst high level competition dating back to 2017.
still, under 50% at maryland can be improved.
But basically every team late in the tournament had an elite FOGO. Maryland was the outlier. Certainly they showed you don’t NEED one to be a F4, NC team but when other top teams are routinely able to churn out top FOGOs there’s no reason Maryland should be going on 5 years of 45-50% at best against conference or NCAA Tournament competition