In reply to: 15-10 final. Passing wasn't there today. posted by flanner96
Seems like UVA got a lot of layup goals from #1 and #10? Was surprised by that.
Is the talent gap that wide? FWIW, Virginia looked loaded at every position.
I'm no expert, but there were A LOT of defense lapses and just losing site of cutters. Virgina probably converted 5 or 6 wide open shots where we just lost an attacker or didn't rotate properly. Agree that we also needed to be more patient on offense and make the extra pass. It's tough to thread the needle against such a big defense. Learn and move on. Oh, and at least on TV the atmosphere was electric! Hats off to the students for their support.
years ago. They have 2 All-State Texas football players on D, one of whom set the state record for sacks. And then they have that middie line plus #10 (Dickson) who is now a 5th year senior and Peyton Cormier, the 6'3 230 5th year Canadian at Attack. They probably have 20 guys who will play in the PLL at some point.
Their weak spot is Goalie but Nunes was the #1 goalie recruit for his year.
Tiffany is a players' coach. Players love him.
But we have talent too. Fake. Dobson. McCahon. We can compete but we can't lose the GB and time of possession battle.
goals were layups from 5 feet away. In contrast, it seemed we had to work really hard for everything we got. UVA has terrific D as mentioned above. It’s great to get Taylor back and hopefully build more chemistry with other attacks
...came back to bite us. We had been talking a lot better in previous games, but breakdowns bit us.
Also worth considering that we didn't play particularly well on offense and still held them 4 goals under their average coming into the game.
All these are correctable things and we have the talent to play with anyone.