Men’s Lacrosse Heads to No. 12 Army Saturday
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Yea exactly. Needed to be gone last year. No excuse. It’s not a talent issue it’s lack of scheme.
I’d say the offense last looked really good during out of conference play in 2023. Then Cameron got hurt before conference play. Since then, been down hill.
I'll ask again. Why are Kulas and Kelly on the field at the same time? Neither can carry the ball and both are just shooters.
Our attack barely even gets shots off. Our Dmids have more shots than our attack. It's insane.
We are playing the complete wrong guys at attack.
Our attack barely even gets shots off. Our Dmids have more shots than our attack. It's insane.
We are playing the complete wrong guys at attack.
Neither Kelly nor Kulas can carry. Army is just waiting either to get the ball and then shutting off, which we make easy because we have no off ball movement. Both have been stripped one on one or dodged into double teams and then stripped multiple times. If we are inverting to have midfielders inbound the ball, it might be time to rethink the attack rotation.
I feel bad for the defense. Because they are giving everything they’ve got and continuing to fight. Deserve better.
Given how football went, and don’t get me started on basketball, was really counting on lacrosse. Sigh.
Fogos, DMids and Close deserve better. They are all really good.
It's shocking off bad this offense is. They play with no confidence and no system. It's like watching a summer league. I know these guys practice. I just have no idea what they do in practice.
IF the BIG games goes as I think they will, its time for a change. RU never firescoaches, but since the FF we have gotten progressively worse.
I was about to ask about that – – is a statistic kept on how often a team earns a clock reset?
Man they did it again. I've never seen a team able to do this. We worked them to low single digits many times this game but somehow they are constantly able to hit it off Stoller or a pipe. It's definitely a strategy.
We need a new coach who understands lacrosse and hires a competent OC
3 goals, that’s an impressive offense.
Cali, it’s time to say why would any New Jersey or NY outstanding lax player want to play in this offense
Cali, it’s time to say why would any New Jersey or NY outstanding lax player want to play in this offense
Probably got 5-6 resets today with one second left? Just back breakers
80% FO
64% Save rate
Army scores 9, which will be one of the lowest they will have this year.
Kind of highlights the problem.
64% Save rate
Army scores 9, which will be one of the lowest they will have this year.
Kind of highlights the problem.
Obviously frustrating but has nothing to do with Coach Pike in charge of the offense
If you saw just those stats you'd think we destroyed them.
That won’t happen in season. Let’s see how the season plays out.
Is this true though? ‘22 was an anomaly. We had a near perfect attack with Scott coming into his own at X, Cameron at the lefty spot who had all around game as a dodger and finisher and Barolo as an absolute righty hammer. Excellent defense with Kirst dropping dimes on the outlets and one of the best DMid units in the nation. Offensive middie might have been a weakness but Jacoby turned out to be a monster portal acquisition and Knobloch took his game to the next level. Plus our Dmids were like 1b on offense as they could have started as offensive middies on most teams.
Prior to then we’ve always had talented offensive players but I recall that we struggled in 6 on 6 sets. But we were early innovators in committing to NASCAR offense (as well as plugging holes thru the portal) and that kept us competitive.
Now most teams run some version of NASCAR and are much better at defending it because they see it far more frequently. And everyone has caught up or surpassed us in portal recruiting. We have not adapted. We can no longer rely on transition goals and our settled offense is simply awful.
And I would argue that outside of 2022 it has been consistently bad but our transition offense was superior so it hid many flaws. We consistently have among the lowest shooting percentage in the country year in and year out. That speaks to the fact that we don’t run an offense that creates open looks. We simply rely on hero ball with 5 dudes standing around watching.
So far, it looks like last year.
I know you love BB, but perhaps it’s time to make that change.
When by then this will be another lost season how does Brecht not realize thiis
You can’t make changes like that in season. Our future OC if a change is made is coaching in season too.
We’ve had some good offense dating back to the Jules and Bieda days.
We were playing much different preseason. We put up 18 against a Villanova team that just held #9 Yale to 9. Preseason but still. We were moving the ball and cutting. Today we did no e of that
So says the retard. What happened to that high flying offense? Don't answer, there wasn't any.
Or the week before. We got a ton of goals in unsettled situations. We moved the ball well against Lehigh but didn't have the best shooting day.
We've been regressing since the first quarter of last game. They need to play with a young attack and live with the mistakes. They also need to give them confidence. Guys look scared to make mistakes instead of make plays which is what we've always had.
If I was advising Brian I'd say play the young guys, get back to more two man games and stop settling for outside shots and try to work the ball inside.
