Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Wrong. Madlax 2022 is the best in the area.


91MD
RR
Hawks
Fca
Crabs
DCE/Madlax(pick em)
API


This is about right although the first two teams are a pick em. Interesting comments on the forum regarding how other teams are now bigger and faster than others and how its showing up on the scoreboard.

When you watch the film, you can break the game into phases: transition defense, settled defense, goalie play, unsettled clearing, settled clearing, faceoffs including wing play, transition offense, settled offense and last EMO and MDD. Top club, high school and college staffs monitor all of these phases and adjust according to the personnel available.

You can have the best goalie in the world but a porous transition and settled D will undermine his ability to save the ball. The opposite is also true. You can create ten plus fast-break opportunities in a game which go for naught if the offense can't capitalize on them. If your team fouls a lot and your MDD or keeper are lacking, you will pay the price. Its all about percentages/wins and losses in all of the phases of the game that fill out the canvass and paint the picture. Do size and speed matter? Sure but they're not any more important than stickwork, spacing or communication,

Whoever made the comment about practice time being the end all be all has never coached a successful championship high school or college program. While practice time is important it pales in comparison to the contents of quality film study/practice plan. Is the staff breaking down the aforementioned phases of the game and preparing a "critical path" to improve their team's performance? Are they translating this improvement plan into film study and practice drills. The film and the metrics never lie. Does a team progress or regress over a season? Injuries aside, the team's record and the film paint a very clear picture.