Laxfan#1969 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 14, 2022 3:23 pmAmenhoundace1 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 14, 2022 2:51 pmFor my take, it doesn’t matter if Duke did not bring their A game or not. This has been a massive thorn in the side of the team for the past 6 years. Even when they had spencer and arguably better teams in 2017, 2018 and 2019 they lost.Loyolalax wrote: ↑Mon Mar 14, 2022 1:40 pmI agree, where has this team been? This team should be 5-1. Underperformed the first 4 games. Great win, but there are still some glaring problems that have been mentioned already.houndace1 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 14, 2022 8:49 am “Holy heck where was this team for the first four games?” Was my first thought after watching it live.
I think no one was expecting this result, but while this win was massive for the Program as they have not beaten Duke in 6 years, it is still important to play this way again next weekend for bucknell. One game at a time.
Either Duke doesn’t have very good poles/shorties or the ball movement was just that good yesterday after rewatching the game
Olmstead, for every good thing he does, he has a costly turnover, the same with Rezanka, does great things and then costly turnover.
Offensively, moved the ball with precision, which moved the D and allowed Lindley to cut and get open. Finally, changed the EMO, looked much improved.
Defensively, still looks some trouble communicating with slides, Sally is getting better but still has issues... Close D was great, and Rezanka is a cause turnover machine. Stay with Shafer, he will lead you to the promise land. I think we still have issues with SSDMs, Rezanka and Sally are good, the second line gave up some easy goals.
FOGO- I like the 1 2 punch of Savio and Pachecko, they did a much better job.
IMO, Duke did not bring their A game, it was cold and it looked like they wanted to be anywhere else but Ridley, A win is a win, now take this confidence and run the Patriot League
2020 they spotted them 8 goals before scoring the first one.
2021 they SHOULD have won the game if there wasn’t that costly turnover
2022 I don’t give a dang if Duke didn’t get off the bus, it’s still a quality win, and they are close to being ranked again in the top 20.
They have a couple more chances of getting wins against top 20 opponents in army, BU, Georgetown, and navy if they beat hopkins on Friday for starters.
Don’t care about Dukes problems. We were dealing with our own and it looks like we were ready to be the better team yesterday and we were...
Team needed a solid win and they got it. Great to see some smiles as they left the field and as you note, many of our recent teams that we put on a pedestal couldn’t pull it together to beat Duke...including last year
Great win!
Time to move on, hope they can build off the good things and fix some of the things that didn’t go so well (late game execution)
On to Bucknell!
Hounds catch a break this week. Bucknell has to play Penn State today, after a tough loss to BU this past weekend, giving them a shorter week to prepare for the Hounds Saturday at Ridley.
PSU is far better than their record. I’d expect the Nittany Lions to control the FO today, and they can score. If Bucknell wins, I’d count that as an upset, but clearly they can do it, I just don’t see it happening.
Presumably Charlie has a scout or three up at Bucknell today scoping out their plays.