They need James and Poitras to be better ball movers when they get short stick matchups. They dodge to score well enough but the difference when Higgins is poled all night is the ball movement slows down. I also agree sometimes those alley dodges need to be done with intent to score. That isn't really the intent, you're just trying to move the defense, but if they aren't scared you might turn the corner to score they aren't going to keep moving.houndace1 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 02, 2023 11:20 am I’m not exactly sure what’s going on but the offense looks like it’s regressed in terms of spacing and ball movement?
Ball dies in some sticks and it looks like they dodge to just… dodge? Instead of dodging to go to the cage, especially when they try to dodge from up top to go down the alley.
Also noticed that Toomey shortened the freshmen bench. I believe only Haberman, Minicus and Murphy played, but McCullough, and Cote didn’t get runs I think.
While I do see that offense is balanced and that multiple guys are scoring, the downside is that there’s no “GUY” that can takeover a game when things get super super tight. Usually that comes from X attack or from one big midfield guy but if these current players get locked up (which happened multiple times due to the stout Towson D), then people will just defer to eachother.
As the game went on, the 2nd midfield got reduced runs in exchange for poitras James and higgins getting asked to do more. They looked exhausted at the end.
Finally, we gotta really figure out what to do about the faceoff disparity. I think the unit is sub 50% as a whole which puts an immense strain on every other unit to overperform
Faceoffs will look a lot better if the clean wins end up in our stick. Ground ball play was very sloppy in general.