Some Truths

1. That was a hell of a game. A horribly painful loss for the players involved.
2. That was a ward by Robertson to get the extra room just prior to the final shot.
3. No reason to put a short stick on him though.
4. I have no answer for why we didn’t put a long pole on Montgomery. He was a mismatch.
5. Garnsey is so special, if he had a full year to gel in games, this game would have turned out differently.
6. Ballsy move by Danowski to switch up the face-off personnel. Could have blown up in his face.
7. An unbelievable game or runs. The team and the coaching held together and kept fighting.
8. The biggest coaching miscue was when Schmidt was in trouble with the ball and Corrigan failed to call a time out and the pass went out of bounds. That was the only true coaching failure.
9. Many want to blame coaching overall, and my biggest complaint is with the defensive game plan, but Duke creates some interesting matchup choices. That is the beautiful thing about lacrosse. Offensive plays will always be made by finding and exploiting a mismatch if you have the right players. We did it over and over with the talent of Garmsey just creating, by Costabile being Costabile, and frequently finding Wilets when Duke was paying so much attention to our big hitters.
10 Lacrosse is a great game. This was a truly beautiful lacrosse game to watch. Losing sucks ass.