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Re: SB Lacrosse 2018 Season
« Reply #225 on: April 04, 2018, 07:40:45 pm »
highlights: https://www.lisportsnews.com/st-johns-at-stony-brook/

even though macie stole the show- just wanted to add that i thought dugan and matsuoka both had a huge game. GO SB
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Re: SB Lacrosse 2018 Season
« Reply #226 on: April 06, 2018, 09:01:55 am »
highlights: https://www.lisportsnews.com/st-johns-at-stony-brook/

even though macie stole the show- just wanted to add that i thought dugan and matsuoka both had a huge game. GO SB


Agreed. Defense played great. Looking forward to this weekends road win.  11- 8 Stony Brook, if the team brings their intensity and road warrior mentality I see a W. Go Wolves!!

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Re: SB Lacrosse 2018 Season
« Reply #227 on: April 06, 2018, 12:12:58 pm »
Courtney Murphy Breaks NCAA Career Goals Record, Leading No. 1 Seawolves over Hartford

http://stonybrookathletics.com/news/2018/4/5/womens-lacrosse-courtney-murphy-breaks-ncaa-career-goals-record-leading-no-1-seawolves-over-hartford.aspx

Congradulations to Courtney!!!!!!

Great job girls on #1 ranking. Great job Coach Spallina atrracking top talent to SB and building a national power house.

If only Nagel could do the same.

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Re: SB Lacrosse 2018 Season
« Reply #228 on: April 06, 2018, 01:07:08 pm »
Courtney Murphy Breaks NCAA Career Goals Record, Leading No. 1 Seawolves over Hartford

http://stonybrookathletics.com/news/2018/4/5/womens-lacrosse-courtney-murphy-breaks-ncaa-career-goals-record-leading-no-1-seawolves-over-hartford.aspx

Congradulations to Courtney!!!!!!

Great job girls on #1 ranking. Great job Coach Spallina atrracking top talent to SB and building a national power house.

If only Nagel could do the same.
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Re: SB Lacrosse 2018 Season
« Reply #229 on: April 06, 2018, 08:44:08 pm »
Told you...even Drago bleeds. UMBC takes down Albany.  Any given Sunday

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Re: SB Lacrosse 2018 Season
« Reply #230 on: April 07, 2018, 07:43:30 am »
Told you...even Drago bleeds. UMBC takes down Albany.  Any given Sunday

Unreal.. If SB had a real face off guy they could have beat UA also..

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Re: SB Lacrosse 2018 Season
« Reply #231 on: April 07, 2018, 04:01:50 pm »
Tough day down at Princeton.

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Re: SB Lacrosse 2018 Season
« Reply #233 on: April 09, 2018, 06:05:39 pm »
Princeton highlight video looked rough. They have some talented players. Great OOC game because it means nothing. Huge game Saturday, Vermont is #16 in the nation. Great day for a home game and conference victory. A win on Saturday will show how good this team is, need a great effort and some ground balls. Let's go seawolves

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Re: SB Lacrosse 2018 Season
« Reply #234 on: April 09, 2018, 08:04:49 pm »
Princeton highlight video looked rough. They have some talented players. Great OOC game because it means nothing. Huge game Saturday, Vermont is #16 in the nation. Great day for a home game and conference victory. A win on Saturday will show how good this team is, need a great effort and some ground balls. Let's go seawolves
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« Reply #235 on: April 09, 2018, 09:13:15 pm »
Princeton highlight video looked rough. They have some talented players. Great OOC game because it means nothing. Huge game Saturday, Vermont is #16 in the nation. Great day for a home game and conference victory. A win on Saturday will show how good this team is, need a great effort and some ground balls. Let's go seawolves
Vermont has one win over a team with a winning record. Their ranking means little.

ok then....I am not the one who votes but they are in the top 20. Either way, SB needs the confrence win and they only lost 1 game

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Re: SB Lacrosse 2018 Season
« Reply #236 on: April 10, 2018, 10:02:40 am »
a few thoughts from a non-coach...

topside.  i know we are missing a starter but our poles need to close the gate on the GLE.  basic 101.  the inside roll is a much lower angle shot and harder to feed.

princeton inverted often.  we zoned but we left mids open creating inside shots, backside feeds.  they're very shifty and picked off and created mismatches (o'leary on sowers).  we got inside rolled and sometimes slides came, sometimes not.

when we jumbo, we absolutely have to press the gloves (while our mid recovers to the crease).  if you dont, you've given them a free pass to an open backside mid. 

a few draws we won, we couldnt pick up the GB.  that's a FOGO's entire existence, so we need to fix this.  even one of the parents shouted "faceoffs win games" during a lull. 

there was even a moment (two in fact) where our mid didnt even chase an open GB, or get off the field quickly when time was of the essence.  so i question the desire.

trail checks.  have plagued this program for 15 years.  even happened to the 2010 team.  saturday wasnt even that bad! (maybe one or two)

our slap checks are getting dangerously close to slashing.  the refs let both teams play and called very little (3 total flags).  this was a physical game and we responded in kind, so intensity was good.

we had too many unforced errors (throwing the ball away) for this stage in the season.  princeton was much more efficient (i think only 5 TOs).

this team has 9-10 able bodies on offense.  and usually white doesnt get a touch until the second quarter.  to me it seems white is a threat on the wing dodge, and he scores it nearly half the time he gets a clean shot. 

on that note, if we are going to shoot into the goalie's stick, then let's at least bounce it, shoot off screen, get him off the pipe, etc.

which brings me to long poles on offense.  saturday there was one set where we had two out there.  and i dont think i've seen one take an outside shot (and score).  maybe i missed it.

i understand we like the outside shot, however, maybe we should pull our poles off and get on some of those mids, get them into a rhythm by the first quarter, not the third.  id rather see CVG, pickel, or white shoot than a pole.

anyone notice we seem to down 3-0 in nearly every game?  when you cant win draws, it's a recipe for disaster; there's no catching up.  and yet this team has pulled through and won 4 games.

weak hands.  if our shorts cannot use the off hand, we wheel the ball around for 90 seconds until we throw it away.  teams know this by now, with all the film out there.

getting hung on the crease.  it happens, but it happens a lot to us.  it's not really bad but it costs time.  lot's of it (in games where we fall behind).  i havent seen a slide off the crease or a goalie double.

urgency.  down 7 goals in the fourth, we didnt seem to have any urgency to dodge, isolate, pick, go to the cage, etc.  i've seen this a few times.  i suppose the UVa game we rallied.

man up defense.  down a few goals, we let them hold the ball for over a minute and didnt pursue the riskless double team.  in fact, princeton did the opposite- pressed us out to the perimeter, and that was even strength, not man up.

i dont know if the staff lost the players, or the players lost the staff, or both.  but we came out of the locker room at half lifeless and it showed.  no pep.

otherwise, EMO was good, clearing, SOG%, etc. GO SB
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Re: SB Lacrosse 2018 Season
« Reply #237 on: April 10, 2018, 05:26:52 pm »
http://www.sbstatesman.com/2018/04/08/mens-lacrosse-suffers-16-8-loss-to-princeton/


http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2018/04/mens-lax-dominates-stony-brook-now-seeks-first-road-win-against-siena

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Entering the game, the Tigers were 66th of 69 teams in Division I in clearing, but went 14 for 14 on Saturday. In addition, having struggled from the face-off X all season, senior midfielder Sam Bonafede turned it around and went 18 of 27 and had 13 ground balls, a game high for Princeton this season.


https://www.newsday.com/sports/college/stony-brook/stony-brook-men-s-lax-can-t-hang-in-there-with-princeton-1.17913359

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Princeton outshot Stony Brook 41-28 and controlled possession throughout the game, winning 18 of 27 faceoffs and picking up 32 ground balls to Stony Brook’s 23.
Michael Sowers had four goals and five assists and Chris Brown and Austin Sims each had four goals for the Tigers, who opened a 6-2 lead after the first quarter and extended that to 10-3 at halftime.
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Re: SB Lacrosse 2018 Season
« Reply #238 on: April 10, 2018, 07:11:25 pm »
http://www.sbstatesman.com/2018/04/08/mens-lacrosse-suffers-16-8-loss-to-princeton/


http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2018/04/mens-lax-dominates-stony-brook-now-seeks-first-road-win-against-siena

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Entering the game, the Tigers were 66th of 69 teams in Division I in clearing, but went 14 for 14 on Saturday. In addition, having struggled from the face-off X all season, senior midfielder Sam Bonafede turned it around and went 18 of 27 and had 13 ground balls, a game high for Princeton this season.


https://www.newsday.com/sports/college/stony-brook/stony-brook-men-s-lax-can-t-hang-in-there-with-princeton-1.17913359

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Princeton outshot Stony Brook 41-28 and controlled possession throughout the game, winning 18 of 27 faceoffs and picking up 32 ground balls to Stony Brook’s 23.
Michael Sowers had four goals and five assists and Chris Brown and Austin Sims each had four goals for the Tigers, who opened a 6-2 lead after the first quarter and extended that to 10-3 at halftime.
In other words, the team is mediocre despite excellent facilities, good school rep, and being situated in a lacrosse hotbed. Things will change when the coaches change.

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Re: SB Lacrosse 2018 Season
« Reply #239 on: April 11, 2018, 06:03:22 pm »
well since we clearly have faceoff woes (80/183 for .304%), we are #71 of 71 (dead last and it's not close), i thought to look to next year to stay positive.

we have five players coming in who have taken faceoffs before (deskewicz, walsh, harrell, mcmahon, miele), with two (deskewicz and harrell) being what one normally considers a specialist, maybe miele (dont know enough).

deskewicz video: http://www.ncsasports.org/mens-lacrosse-recruiting/new-york/ballston-spa/ballston-spa-high-school/austin-deskewicz

harrell video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=129&v=OV0Ees3xzxQ

so there's some promise there. 
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