a fan wrote: ↑Sun Mar 05, 2023 9:14 pm
jhu06 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 05, 2023 8:54 pm
watching the cuse defense today was like seeing an ex girlfriend and remembering all the reasons you broke up with her.
So it escaped your attention that your fancy new D coordinator gave up the same exact number of goals this weekend?
Duke hit 12 pipes and Syracuse's goalie made an almost equally unfathomable 27 stops. I watched the game and Duke created good looks at will. Cuse is lucky they didn't give up 25.
Not sure what the "fancy new D coordinator" dig is all about given Hopkins' defense has improved in every metric imaginable under his fancy tutelage. There are all kinds of fancy stats like adjusted defensive efficiency that show how much the defense has improved since the fancy coordinator took over but here's a very simple one for you: Through 6 games in 2020 Hop gave up 13.2 goals per game. Through 6 games this year they're giving up 10.8.
Here's defensive efficiency for what it's worth (lower is better):
2020: 31.4% (50th in D1)
2021: 29.4% (33rd)
2022: 27.5% (18th)
2023: 24.6% (18th)
Notice anything?
I wish Petro well. I hope they turn it around up there, except when playing us of course. But it's indisputable our defense has improved since he left. Stats (of both the advanced and basic varieties), eye test, tape, whatever method of evaluation you want to use, it's going to show the same thing.