houndace1 wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2019 7:46 pm
this offense needs to wake TF up after that atrocious performance... How do you have 5 goals in the shotclock era? How do you have 3 times more turnovers THAN GOALS....
How do you simply not catch a pass.. OR HECK why do you jam it inside for a quick stick when its clearly filled with defenders.
This entire damn team needs to get reamed out, and then woken back the hell up for the tournament (if we even get picked now) because they just cost themselves a home game
I've seen this now too many times this year, where if on the first couple of offensive sets against good defenses, if the Hounds don't score immediately, the rest of the game is decided there and then; we may as well not even play the rest of the game.
For some reason, this team suffers a contagion of bad passing if they go down in a game against a solid defense (think: Duke, BU, Towson, Army). One other note: when we go up against a good defense (and we go down a few), has anyone else noticed that Spencer throttles way back on his energy? On a few settled offensive sets in the second half, he just exhibits zero desire to actually dodge, rather he only wants to pass. That's all well and good if you're simultaneously creating space between you and your defender, necessitating a slide, but he just did the back and forth
walk with Surdick, causing zero slides, and therefore no open man. Just a waste of time, which is not how Loyola wins games...either the tempo is up, or we lose.
Our passing last night was junior varsity at best...who tries to thread a pass to a crease where (counted them) five long poles are all outstretched, plus Barretto's as he cheated on crease passes all night long. Dreadful.
BTW, have we actually ever climbed out of a deep deficit this year? I was trying to figure that one out and can't recall a game this year where we actually dug ourselves out of a deep hole. If so, if we haven't made it back from a deficit, that might suggest that we are not, to be perfectly blunt, that good. Stover alone has kept us in at least 6 games by my count, some we won and some we lost (last night another example - if not for Stover, we are blown out of this one). But had Stover not been himself, we'd have lost all six, meaning our record would not be what it is, meaning we simply aren't that good a team.
Again props to Bailey Savio who seems to be the one kid outside Stover who brings his A game to the 'big boy games'. Toomey seemed really dejected after the game, mentioning that this team has failed to deliver in most of the 'big boy games all season'. He knows.
I was looking at the tie-breaking rules and possible seeding scenarios, and the last one below makes no sense to me. If Loyola loses to Lafayette and Lehigh and BU both win, so all three teams are tied at 6-2, how in the world does Loyola, with the worst PL loss of the bunch, end up winning the tiebreaker for the top seed?
