Maryland 2019

[AreaLax]

Objectively, this team is a middling tournament team wearing Maryland jerseys. They will make the tournament not question. But of likely tournament teams, they are deficient in defense and face-off, average at goalie, deficient at offensive midfield and superior at attack. That's one winning unit which does not look good for the tournament expectations that Tillman has rightfully set.

I don't think the Terps are deficient at offensive midfield. Certainly, Fairman (36pts) and A.DeMaio (38 pts) in 14 games are having outstanding seasons. The 3rd man, Snyder or Long hasn't done so well. I sort of wonder about making the switch between Long and Snyder this late in the season - chemistry-wise. Snyder seemed to be picking up a bit as far as scoring, and Long seemed to be doing better as the main guy on the 2nd midfield. 2nd midfield scoring has been a little low, but that is often the case for the Terps.

In the 2nd half they did switch Long back to 2nd Midfield.

[keno in reno]

Objectively, this team is a middling tournament team wearing Maryland jerseys. They will make the tournament not question. But of likely tournament teams, they are deficient in defense and face-off, average at goalie, deficient at offensive midfield and superior at attack. That's one winning unit which does not look good for the tournament expectations that Tillman has rightfully set.

I don't think the Terps are deficient at offensive midfield. Certainly, Fairman (36pts) and A.DeMaio (38 pts) in 14 games are having outstanding seasons. The 3rd man, Snyder or Long hasn't done so well. I sort of wonder about making the switch between Long and Snyder this late in the season - chemistry-wise. Snyder seemed to be picking up a bit as far as scoring, and Long seemed to be doing better as the main guy on the 2nd midfield. 2nd midfield scoring has been a little low, but that is often the case for the Terps.

You're right, DeMaio has been really good all year and Bubba has really turned it on lately. I was thinking more of several guys whose only role seems to be to run the ball up into the offensive zone and then not really look at the goal. But the offense in total is strong and certainly good enough to win a national championship. Defense, face-offs and brainfarts seem to be below that standard.

[runrussellrun]

And what makes him good is that he knows things can be improved. He makes changes to HIS coaching ....

BUt, He needs a good mirror session to get back to knowing his Achilles heel has ALWAYS been passive defenses.

Last night wasn't about a passive defense. In fact, the Terps gave up several goals from being too aggressive. When Hop would get Williams switched onto a shorty, the Terps slid immediately to him. On 2 occasions, Puglise had Williams stoned on the dodge, yet Smith slid to him anyway. Ball gets moving, finds open shooter, goal. Hop's biggest deficiency on offense is drawing slides because they only have 1 player (Epstein) who can really beat a defender. So Maryland unnecessarily sliding to Williams and then Forry Smith when both were way out on the wings and not a threat to score led to goals. Then you get the 2 goals scored on the hang up defense. With a shot clock, why rush the goalie and defenseman behind the cage to flush the attackman out? One of the times this happened was with 20 seconds on the shot clock.

Just because the Terps aren't going for stick checks doesn't mean they're not aggressive. Last night, their aggressiveness killed them and let Hop do something they've struggled to all year: draw slides.

Double and recover without throwing one stick check is what you call aggressive? Of the 16 goals, how many Blue Jays players needed help off the carpet after scoring? 3 CTO's against Hopkins and zero penalties related to "aggressive" style of play........is aggressive?

[Typical Lax Dad]

And what makes him good is that he knows things can be improved. He makes changes to HIS coaching ....

BUt, He needs a good mirror session to get back to knowing his Achilles heel has ALWAYS been passive defenses.

Last night wasn't about a passive defense. In fact, the Terps gave up several goals from being too aggressive. When Hop would get Williams switched onto a shorty, the Terps slid immediately to him. On 2 occasions, Puglise had Williams stoned on the dodge, yet Smith slid to him anyway. Ball gets moving, finds open shooter, goal. Hop's biggest deficiency on offense is drawing slides because they only have 1 player (Epstein) who can really beat a defender. So Maryland unnecessarily sliding to Williams and then Forry Smith when both were way out on the wings and not a threat to score led to goals. Then you get the 2 goals scored on the hang up defense. With a shot clock, why rush the goalie and defenseman behind the cage to flush the attackman out? One of the times this happened was with 20 seconds on the shot clock.

Just because the Terps aren't going for stick checks doesn't mean they're not aggressive. Last night, their aggressiveness killed them and let Hop do something they've struggled to all year: draw slides.

Double and recover without throwing one stick check is what you call aggressive? Of the 16 goals, how many Blue Jays players needed help off the carpet after scoring? 3 CTO's against Hopkins and zero penalties related to "aggressive" style of play........is aggressive?

Man not causing enough turnovers is killing Maryland! In the losses, ND had 6 CTOs / UMd had 10.... PSU had 3 CTOs and UMd had 5....and in the fiasco on Saturday night JHU had 4!!! and UMd was killed as they only had 3!!! I can see why CTOs are so important to winning and losing.......Tillman needs to shape up.

[jhu72]

And what makes him good is that he knows things can be improved. He makes changes to HIS coaching ....

BUt, He needs a good mirror session to get back to knowing his Achilles heel has ALWAYS been passive defenses.

Last night wasn't about a passive defense. In fact, the Terps gave up several goals from being too aggressive. When Hop would get Williams switched onto a shorty, the Terps slid immediately to him. On 2 occasions, Puglise had Williams stoned on the dodge, yet Smith slid to him anyway. Ball gets moving, finds open shooter, goal. Hop's biggest deficiency on offense is drawing slides because they only have 1 player (Epstein) who can really beat a defender. So Maryland unnecessarily sliding to Williams and then Forry Smith when both were way out on the wings and not a threat to score led to goals. Then you get the 2 goals scored on the hang up defense. With a shot clock, why rush the goalie and defenseman behind the cage to flush the attackman out? One of the times this happened was with 20 seconds on the shot clock.

Just because the Terps aren't going for stick checks doesn't mean they're not aggressive. Last night, their aggressiveness killed them and let Hop do something they've struggled to all year: draw slides.

Double and recover without throwing one stick check is what you call aggressive? Of the 16 goals, how many Blue Jays players needed help off the carpet after scoring? 3 CTO's against Hopkins and zero penalties related to "aggressive" style of play........is aggressive?

Man not causing enough turnovers is killing Maryland! In the losses, ND had 6 CTOs / UMd had 10.... PSU had 3 CTOs and UMd had 5....and in the fiasco on Saturday night JHU had 4!!! and UMd was killed as they only had 3!!! I can see why CTOs are so important to winning and losing.......Tillman needs to shape up.

[Typical Lax Dad]

And what makes him good is that he knows things can be improved. He makes changes to HIS coaching ....

BUt, He needs a good mirror session to get back to knowing his Achilles heel has ALWAYS been passive defenses.

Last night wasn't about a passive defense. In fact, the Terps gave up several goals from being too aggressive. When Hop would get Williams switched onto a shorty, the Terps slid immediately to him. On 2 occasions, Puglise had Williams stoned on the dodge, yet Smith slid to him anyway. Ball gets moving, finds open shooter, goal. Hop's biggest deficiency on offense is drawing slides because they only have 1 player (Epstein) who can really beat a defender. So Maryland unnecessarily sliding to Williams and then Forry Smith when both were way out on the wings and not a threat to score led to goals. Then you get the 2 goals scored on the hang up defense. With a shot clock, why rush the goalie and defenseman behind the cage to flush the attackman out? One of the times this happened was with 20 seconds on the shot clock.

Just because the Terps aren't going for stick checks doesn't mean they're not aggressive. Last night, their aggressiveness killed them and let Hop do something they've struggled to all year: draw slides.

Double and recover without throwing one stick check is what you call aggressive? Of the 16 goals, how many Blue Jays players needed help off the carpet after scoring? 3 CTO's against Hopkins and zero penalties related to "aggressive" style of play........is aggressive?

Man not causing enough turnovers is killing Maryland! In the losses, ND had 6 CTOs / UMd had 10.... PSU had 3 CTOs and UMd had 5....and in the fiasco on Saturday night JHU had 4!!! and UMd was killed as they only had 3!!! I can see why CTOs are so important to winning and losing.......Tillman needs to shape up.

I have no idea how Maryland beat UNC...... UNC had 5 CTOs and UMd had 0!!! How did they manage to win that game?

[runrussellrun]

And what makes him good is that he knows things can be improved. He makes changes to HIS coaching ....

BUt, He needs a good mirror session to get back to knowing his Achilles heel has ALWAYS been passive defenses.

Last night wasn't about a passive defense. In fact, the Terps gave up several goals from being too aggressive. When Hop would get Williams switched onto a shorty, the Terps slid immediately to him. On 2 occasions, Puglise had Williams stoned on the dodge, yet Smith slid to him anyway. Ball gets moving, finds open shooter, goal. Hop's biggest deficiency on offense is drawing slides because they only have 1 player (Epstein) who can really beat a defender. So Maryland unnecessarily sliding to Williams and then Forry Smith when both were way out on the wings and not a threat to score led to goals. Then you get the 2 goals scored on the hang up defense. With a shot clock, why rush the goalie and defenseman behind the cage to flush the attackman out? One of the times this happened was with 20 seconds on the shot clock.

Just because the Terps aren't going for stick checks doesn't mean they're not aggressive. Last night, their aggressiveness killed them and let Hop do something they've struggled to all year: draw slides.

Double and recover without throwing one stick check is what you call aggressive? Of the 16 goals, how many Blue Jays players needed help off the carpet after scoring? 3 CTO's against Hopkins and zero penalties related to "aggressive" style of play........is aggressive?

Man not causing enough turnovers is killing Maryland! In the losses, ND had 6 CTOs / UMd had 10.... PSU had 3 CTOs and UMd had 5....and in the fiasco on Saturday night JHU had 4!!! and UMd was killed as they only had 3!!! I can see why CTOs are so important to winning and losing.......Tillman needs to shape up.

or why winning faceoffs matters......when it doesn't matter......

Just a part that can improve. A puzzle piece. You clearly think that having a philosophy to NOT evah attempt to take the ball away, is ok. You must also be the 'guy' that thinks playing ZONE defense, when that team is losing by 3, 4, 5......is ok.

This guy tracks attempts to dislodge the ball. Even tracks WHERE the attempts happen. (think pursuing attackman and the ratio of attempts vs actual dislodging/disrupting on a ride. )

Guess CTO's really do NOT matter. No wonder they were never tracked until ten or so years ago. Didn't matter in the "hey, you look like you can move, here's stick " days, shouldn't matter in today's game . Like faceoffs. If you win 80% of them, but get outscored 3-1.........huh?????

[Typical Lax Dad]

And what makes him good is that he knows things can be improved. He makes changes to HIS coaching ....

BUt, He needs a good mirror session to get back to knowing his Achilles heel has ALWAYS been passive defenses.

Last night wasn't about a passive defense. In fact, the Terps gave up several goals from being too aggressive. When Hop would get Williams switched onto a shorty, the Terps slid immediately to him. On 2 occasions, Puglise had Williams stoned on the dodge, yet Smith slid to him anyway. Ball gets moving, finds open shooter, goal. Hop's biggest deficiency on offense is drawing slides because they only have 1 player (Epstein) who can really beat a defender. So Maryland unnecessarily sliding to Williams and then Forry Smith when both were way out on the wings and not a threat to score led to goals. Then you get the 2 goals scored on the hang up defense. With a shot clock, why rush the goalie and defenseman behind the cage to flush the attackman out? One of the times this happened was with 20 seconds on the shot clock.

Just because the Terps aren't going for stick checks doesn't mean they're not aggressive. Last night, their aggressiveness killed them and let Hop do something they've struggled to all year: draw slides.

Double and recover without throwing one stick check is what you call aggressive? Of the 16 goals, how many Blue Jays players needed help off the carpet after scoring? 3 CTO's against Hopkins and zero penalties related to "aggressive" style of play........is aggressive?

Man not causing enough turnovers is killing Maryland! In the losses, ND had 6 CTOs / UMd had 10.... PSU had 3 CTOs and UMd had 5....and in the fiasco on Saturday night JHU had 4!!! and UMd was killed as they only had 3!!! I can see why CTOs are so important to winning and losing.......Tillman needs to shape up.

or why winning faceoffs matters......when it doesn't matter......

Just a part that can improve. A puzzle piece. You clearly think that having a philosophy to NOT evah attempt to take the ball away, is ok. You must also be the 'guy' that thinks playing ZONE defense, when that team is losing by 3, 4, 5......is ok.

This guy tracks attempts to dislodge the ball. Even tracks WHERE the attempts happen. (think pursuing attackman and the ratio of attempts vs actual dislodging/disrupting on a ride. )

Guess CTO's really do NOT matter. No wonder they were never tracked until ten or so years ago. Didn't matter in the "hey, you look like you can move, here's stick " days, shouldn't matter in today's game . Like faceoffs. If you win 80% of them, but get outscored 3-1.........huh?????

Where did you see that since its so clear..... just like everyone is against nuclear energy. This guy tracks GF and GA.....

[runrussellrun]

Hey, the world needs ditch diggers too. I awtoo know. Maybe you gave up your coaching whistle after that 3rd grade Pride summer jam multiple tourney champs, with a team of mostly 5th graders But, is moneyball JUST for boreball? I mean, why allow golf caddies to give advise.....if stats don't matter.

But, ok. Even Billy Bellicheat gives better replies about game stats than you

[Typical Lax Dad]

Hey, the world needs ditch diggers too. I awtoo know. Maybe you gave up your coaching whistle after that 3rd grade Pride summer jam multiple tourney champs, with a team of mostly 5th graders

But, ok. Even Billy Bellicheat gives better replies about game stats than you

More to the game than CTOs.....as for age, mine played up all the time....except for one summer when he played on age BTW, we had a saying..... being older doesn't make you better.....it just makes you older

[runrussellrun]

what's a synonym for "um, yeah!". .......obvious ?
Why I kept on referencing faceoffs......more to the game than just__________________geez, fill in the blank.

top teams (n$aa winner$) are tops in , IMHO, stats that matter. No, CTO's are not one of them, but assists and shooting percentage are. Terps had very good percentage on the low shot ratio, adding to their already nice% where Maryland is ranked 4th. Guess no one can re-evaluate why Maryland has averaged just over 8 assists per game (12th in n$aa), but got half that against Hopkins.

[Typical Lax Dad]

what's a synonym for "um, yeah!". .......obvious ?
Why I kept on referencing faceoffs......more to the game than just__________________geez, fill in the blank.

top teams (n$aa winner$) are tops in , IMHO, stats that matter. No, CTO's are not one of them, but assists and shooting percentage are. Terps had very good percentage on the low shot ratio, adding to their already nice% where Maryland is ranked 4th. Guess no one can re-evaluate why Maryland has averaged just over 8 assists per game (12th in n$aa), but got half that against Hopkins.

Yep

[runrussellrun]

what's a synonym for "um, yeah!". .......obvious ?
Why I kept on referencing faceoffs......more to the game than just__________________geez, fill in the blank.

top teams (n$aa winner$) are tops in , IMHO, stats that matter. No, CTO's are not one of them, but assists and shooting percentage are. Terps had very good percentage on the low shot ratio, adding to their already nice% where Maryland is ranked 4th. Guess no one can re-evaluate why Maryland has averaged just over 8 assists per game (12th in n$aa), but got half that against Hopkins.

Yep

By agreeing, you are doing what to your previous statements? (ga/gf, )

[Typical Lax Dad]

what's a synonym for "um, yeah!". .......obvious ?
Why I kept on referencing faceoffs......more to the game than just__________________geez, fill in the blank.

top teams (n$aa winner$) are tops in , IMHO, stats that matter. No, CTO's are not one of them, but assists and shooting percentage are. Terps had very good percentage on the low shot ratio, adding to their already nice% where Maryland is ranked 4th. Guess no one can re-evaluate why Maryland has averaged just over 8 assists per game (12th in n$aa), but got half that against Hopkins.

Yep

By agreeing, you are doing what to your previous statements? (ga/gf, )

Just agreeing that assists and shooting percentage are important.....I am agreeing with that aspect of your OPINION

[Peter Brown]

I watched the MD/HOP game. There's no chance HOP will shoot that well again, nor bring that kind of energy. I've never seen Cole Williams dodge from uptop and shoot a running lefty that goes in; when that happens, it just might be his night and not yours. HOP simply played with good energy, something they seemingly have done very little of this year.

Also, MD could put a few bodies on the ground, and not play so tentatively on defense, geez.

[reLAX]

I watched the MD/HOP game. There's no chance HOP will shoot that well again, nor bring that kind of energy. I've never seen Cole Williams dodge from uptop and shoot a running lefty that goes in; when that happens, it just might be his night and not yours. HOP simply played with good energy, something they seemingly have done very little of this year.

Also, MD could put a few bodies on the ground, and not play so tentatively on defense, geez.

100% agree! They have the strength!

[CU77]

I watched the MD/HOP game. There's no chance HOP will shoot that well again

On the other hand, they might make more than 2 saves ...

[Cooter]

I watched the MD/HOP game. There's no chance HOP will shoot that well again

On the other hand, they might make more than 2 saves ...

Hopefully, that would go along with the Terps having a lot more shots on goal.

[Peter Brown]

I watched the MD/HOP game. There's no chance HOP will shoot that well again

On the other hand, they might make more than 2 saves ...

LOL. I didn't even know that statistic until today. Whoa. I suppose you have a point.

[AreaLax]

Jared Bernhardt, Curtis Corley & Logan Wisnauskas have earned All-Big Ten honors!