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Inside Lacrosse Analysis on What Hurt ND/What Helped Tigers by dillon77

Terry Foy broke it down. This board, game analysts have pretty much nailed it but he adds his two cents on one and stats on the other:
- Attacking the Zone
IL/Foy:
"What they (the Irish) didn’t seem to have on Monday was both a consensus of how — who, and from where — they wanted to initiate and when — i.e. what tempo they wanted to play at. It makes sense that, early after the switch when they were protecting a three-goal lead and had so much success, they’d be reluctant to lean into a different approach. But as the lead evaporated and Croddick started to look more like himself, ND needed a more cohesive approach to when they wanted to initiate, with whom and from where.

"Now that it’s a trend, I suspect the staff will spend a lot of time this offseason devising a firmer approach, then spend next fall and early spring implementing it."

- Groundballs (stats)
IL/Foy:
"On a box score that has a lot of wild numbers (Princeton was plus-14 in shots on goal?!), the wildest number is the Tigers’ 46 groundballs to ND’s 30. The numbers are wilder than that, though. For the game, non-face-off groundballs were 30 to 16, and for the first half, they were 20 to 3!"

For full write-up, check out the link. There's no firewall.

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