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keno in reno wrote: ↑Sun Apr 23, 2023 10:08 pm As for the Terps, we saw how great and important Zappitello is when he went out for 1 play, and they immediately iso'd his replacement for an easy layup.

keno in reno wrote: ↑Mon Apr 24, 2023 8:12 am

jrn19 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 24, 2023 8:05 am Ohio State is 5-8 and loses by like 10 goals every week. Maryland’s never had a losing season ever. 4 losses in the regular season right now is the most losses Maryland has had in the regular season under Tillman since 2012. I think it’s fair to say you thought Maryland would regress further than others or you didn’t have them preseason #1, but I think some people are going a little too far with “this season has been above my expectations.”

Nobody thought Maryland would be a .500 team. Nobody seriously thought Maryland would be outside the Top 10. Yes I’m aware of everything they’ve lost. This is also Maryland under John Tillman. They’ve made the Final Four 9 out of 11 times under him and one of the 2 that didn’t involved one of the worst missed calls in the history of the sport directly leading to a tying goal with like 1 min left in the game. We don’t need to over exaggerate the drop off expected or what they’ve done this year.

They look like a Quarterfinal team and considering what they lost and then injuries, I think a Quarterfinal performance is perfectly reasonable. Don’t think a First Round loss would be an underperformance at all. Making the Final Four with this team would probably be a slight over performance by Tills but I don’t even think it would be his biggest magic trick Final Four by any means. The 2018 team making the Final Four despite losing the Schmeisser winning defender, all their best shorties, their best LSM, their entire starting attack unit, and having like 5 scoring threats all season and being the #1 seed in the tournament was more of an over performance than this one was. The 2019 team making the Final Four if they held on against UVA despite having no elite All-American close defender, Puglise being best shortie as a true frosh, lacking LSM depth, 50% faceoff play, and having almost no scorers outside Bernhardt/Wisnauskas/Bubba/DeMaio would have been a bigger magic trick than this team making one. This team’s defensive unit and Wierman on faceoffs + Ruppel is still a very high floor

That's fine, but you can state your thoughts without telling us how we should think. We know the facts (and Puglise wasn't a true freshman in 2019).

jrn19 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 24, 2023 8:05 am Ohio State is 5-8 and loses by like 10 goals every week. Maryland’s never had a losing season ever. 4 losses in the regular season right now is the most losses Maryland has had in the regular season under Tillman since 2012. I think it’s fair to say you thought Maryland would regress further than others or you didn’t have them preseason #1, but I think some people are going a little too far with “this season has been above my expectations.”

Nobody thought Maryland would be a .500 team. Nobody seriously thought Maryland would be outside the Top 10. Yes I’m aware of everything they’ve lost. This is also Maryland under John Tillman. They’ve made the Final Four 9 out of 11 times under him and one of the 2 that didn’t involved one of the worst missed calls in the history of the sport directly leading to a tying goal with like 1 min left in the game. We don’t need to over exaggerate the drop off expected or what they’ve done this year.

They look like a Quarterfinal team and considering what they lost and then injuries, I think a Quarterfinal performance is perfectly reasonable. Don’t think a First Round loss would be an underperformance at all. Making the Final Four with this team would probably be a slight over performance by Tills but I don’t even think it would be his biggest magic trick Final Four by any means. The 2018 team making the Final Four despite losing the Schmeisser winning defender, all their best shorties, their best LSM, their entire starting attack unit, and having like 5 scoring threats all season and being the #1 seed in the tournament was more of an over performance than this one was. The 2019 team making the Final Four if they held on against UVA despite having no elite All-American close defender, Puglise being best shortie as a true frosh, lacking LSM depth, 50% faceoff play, and having almost no scorers outside Bernhardt/Wisnauskas/Bubba/DeMaio would have been a bigger magic trick than this team making one. This team’s defensive unit and Wierman on faceoffs + Ruppel is still a very high floor

Wheels wrote: ↑Mon Apr 24, 2023 11:13 am

jrn19 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 24, 2023 8:05 am Ohio State is 5-8 and loses by like 10 goals every week. Maryland’s never had a losing season ever. 4 losses in the regular season right now is the most losses Maryland has had in the regular season under Tillman since 2012. I think it’s fair to say you thought Maryland would regress further than others or you didn’t have them preseason #1, but I think some people are going a little too far with “this season has been above my expectations.”

Nobody thought Maryland would be a .500 team. Nobody seriously thought Maryland would be outside the Top 10. Yes I’m aware of everything they’ve lost. This is also Maryland under John Tillman. They’ve made the Final Four 9 out of 11 times under him and one of the 2 that didn’t involved one of the worst missed calls in the history of the sport directly leading to a tying goal with like 1 min left in the game. We don’t need to over exaggerate the drop off expected or what they’ve done this year.

They look like a Quarterfinal team and considering what they lost and then injuries, I think a Quarterfinal performance is perfectly reasonable. Don’t think a First Round loss would be an underperformance at all. Making the Final Four with this team would probably be a slight over performance by Tills but I don’t even think it would be his biggest magic trick Final Four by any means. The 2018 team making the Final Four despite losing the Schmeisser winning defender, all their best shorties, their best LSM, their entire starting attack unit, and having like 5 scoring threats all season and being the #1 seed in the tournament was more of an over performance than this one was. The 2019 team making the Final Four if they held on against UVA despite having no elite All-American close defender, Puglise being best shortie as a true frosh, lacking LSM depth, 50% faceoff play, and having almost no scorers outside Bernhardt/Wisnauskas/Bubba/DeMaio would have been a bigger magic trick than this team making one. This team’s defensive unit and Wierman on faceoffs + Ruppel is still a very high floor

Take away the Michigan loss, and everyone thinks differently about the regular season. Yes, Michigan has played well this year, but that game - a relatively uncompetitive loss at home on senior day, no less - was the loss that made the regular season feel differently. Of course, it would have been great if Loyola hadn't essentially quit like OSU has, but their win against Hopkins kinda removes the stench of that loss.

keno in reno wrote: ↑Mon Apr 24, 2023 11:23 am

Wheels wrote: ↑Mon Apr 24, 2023 11:13 am

jrn19 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 24, 2023 8:05 am Ohio State is 5-8 and loses by like 10 goals every week. Maryland’s never had a losing season ever. 4 losses in the regular season right now is the most losses Maryland has had in the regular season under Tillman since 2012. I think it’s fair to say you thought Maryland would regress further than others or you didn’t have them preseason #1, but I think some people are going a little too far with “this season has been above my expectations.”

Nobody thought Maryland would be a .500 team. Nobody seriously thought Maryland would be outside the Top 10. Yes I’m aware of everything they’ve lost. This is also Maryland under John Tillman. They’ve made the Final Four 9 out of 11 times under him and one of the 2 that didn’t involved one of the worst missed calls in the history of the sport directly leading to a tying goal with like 1 min left in the game. We don’t need to over exaggerate the drop off expected or what they’ve done this year.

They look like a Quarterfinal team and considering what they lost and then injuries, I think a Quarterfinal performance is perfectly reasonable. Don’t think a First Round loss would be an underperformance at all. Making the Final Four with this team would probably be a slight over performance by Tills but I don’t even think it would be his biggest magic trick Final Four by any means. The 2018 team making the Final Four despite losing the Schmeisser winning defender, all their best shorties, their best LSM, their entire starting attack unit, and having like 5 scoring threats all season and being the #1 seed in the tournament was more of an over performance than this one was. The 2019 team making the Final Four if they held on against UVA despite having no elite All-American close defender, Puglise being best shortie as a true frosh, lacking LSM depth, 50% faceoff play, and having almost no scorers outside Bernhardt/Wisnauskas/Bubba/DeMaio would have been a bigger magic trick than this team making one. This team’s defensive unit and Wierman on faceoffs + Ruppel is still a very high floor

Take away the Michigan loss, and everyone thinks differently about the regular season. Yes, Michigan has played well this year, but that game - a relatively uncompetitive loss at home on senior day, no less - was the loss that made the regular season feel differently. Of course, it would have been great if Loyola hadn't essentially quit like OSU has, but their win against Hopkins kinda removes the stench of that loss.

Ok, but take away Ruppel's superhuman stop in C'ville and OT 5 goal comeback in OSU and the season is also viewed differently. Dixon seems to think PSU should have won that game. It goes both ways, at least this season. It was a great coaching job by the staff.

keno in reno wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2023 10:33 pm This team can win the national championship. They'd be stealing it, but UNC did it in '16, UVA did in '11 and you can argue UVA did it '19 as well (down 5 in the 4th in the quarters and down 2 with like a minute in the F4). And this is a good year for a lower team to steal the trophy. A few dudes gotta step up though, like the random French Canadian UNC guy who became the Hulk for a weekend.

Gotta believe that no matter what happens against Rutgers, whatever top seeds get the Terps on their side of the bracket are gonna be disappointed.