No. 5 Men’s Lacrosse Nipped at No. 2 Duke

[mat1992 2,231]

https://towsontigers.com/news/2019/3/16/no-5-mens-lacrosse-nipped-at-no-2-duke.aspx

[tu_fan 110]

Thought they played well, minus the turnovers.  Game was nip and tuck, with Canto and Woodall dominating.  

Really wish Nadelan would use his timeouts to help save a possession (like most other coaches do).  Twice in the last 4 minutes we had a guy get triple teamed and Nadelan sat on his two timeouts.  We ended up turning the ball over both times only down 1, blowing our chance to tie it up.  Nads ended using both time outs in the final 25 seconds with us down by 2, not smart.  

We really need to tighten up our clearing and learn how to handle double/triple teams better, we try to run though them rather than finding an open man.  Still, we looked good and certainly belonged on the field with Duke for sure.  

[mat1992 2,231]

33 minutes ago, tu_fan said:

Thought they played well, minus the turnovers.  Game was nip and tuck, with Canto and Woodall dominating.  

Really wish Nadelan would use his timeouts to help save a possession (like most other coaches do).  Twice in the last 4 minutes we had a guy get triple teamed and Nadelan sat on his two timeouts.  We ended up turning the ball over both times only down 1, blowing our chance to tie it up.  Nads ended using both time outs in the final 25 seconds with us down by 2, not smart.  

We really need to tighten up our clearing and learn how to handle double/triple teams better, we try to run though them rather than finding an open man.  Still, we looked good and certainly belonged on the field with Duke for sure.  

Agree about the timeouts. He likes to save them in the second half until the last few minutes. It's almost like a Dean Smith philosophy that Terry Truax used to use. Save your timeouts until late. It did work in the Loyola game though but that's when you're ahead. Patterson and Bodden are solid defenders but they don't clear well and I think Canto is not much help. Why do other teams have no issues clearing it against us, but we have so many problems?