JMU recap


You can read my blog, for a more lighthearted recap. For mid February you guys looked good, and seemed to be in good shape. I feel like we are ahead of the curve in a number of aspects of our game. The error in execution, I believe, will get smoothed out the more we run the offense. We will work on the fast break, dump cuts, and endzone offense, and get better at those things. As long as we try to make the offense work, our execution will steadily improve.

My major concern is how you guys started games, which was flat. Only in the first game did you come out hard. Good teams set the tone of the game early on. They go for the throat early, and don't let go. So many time teams will go down early to a team they perceive is better than them and fold. I'm not a big rah rah sort of guy. If you're looking to me to say something to get hype to play, it's not going to happen. It is a skill to be able to motivate yourself to go out and give it your all on the first point. From now on it's "As hard on 0-0 as on 14-14". Nothing less is acceptable.

On Sunday, you were able to apply consistent defensive pressure to JMU by keeping you pulls in bounds, covering them, and marking aggressively. In order for this team to be successful, that has to happen all the time. We can still improve in all of those areas, and we'll need to. Part of the reason, the Mary Washington game was a blow out is that you did not pressure them on defense.

The offense will improve. We still need to get people cutting more frequently and harder. Areas of concern, less than 100% cuts, and crowding the strong side lane. Remember if you are not cutting move away from the disc to create space. "Reverse the polarity on that magnet."

Posted: Tue - February 22, 2005 at 12:31 PM          

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