Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
If you want to know if your daughters top 20 team will make it deep into playoffs... all you need to look at is the assist to goal ratio. 1 assist per 2 goals is about what the very top teams accomplish. 1 assist per every 4 goals is a team of good athletes with little lax IQ.


I do not know if that is accurate but I will take you at your word. It is a "Team" sport and the teams that play "as a team" will always do better than the team with "go to goal" players. BTW, not all players who score a lot of goals are "go to goal" players. Selfish play will always result in a negative for the team. Championship teams are build from the defensive end up through the midfield to the attack. They start with a strong goalie and defense. Their midfielders need to be strong defensively and their attack must redefend aggressively. Midfielders must be particularly good in transition defense (you can not get lost in transition or not hustle back and give up transition goals). By all means go to the goal aggressively when the situation dictates but if you play selfishly you will hurt your team. As the competition gets tougher (playoffs), selfish play becomes more of a detriment. Most good coaches have a game plan and they have offensive sets and a strategy. If a player scores 100 goals playing within the system so be it. The problems start when players stop playing within the system and start going to goal in order to "get theirs". Selfish play is ugly and it always hurts the team.


The above post sums up what SBU can expect this year. The system that the team was built on is currently failing.... Weak D has led to poor goalie play. Middies are struggling. The highly touted players are now worried about "getting theirs". JS has his work cut out for him!!!

Thanks for 3 complete garbage posts in a row. Post 1 is just a made up statistical breakdown and really depends on the defenses you play against, zone will see more ASSISTS while man less in general.
Post 2 is just complete garbage cliche. Selfish play does not always result in a negative for a team , just ask Michael Jordan."Build from the defense up" meaning what ? The teams that win have players that complement each other , ie if you have a the best offense in the country but your defense is very good just not great the draw becomes more important, if your goalie is good not great then a great defense in front of her helps etc.
Post 3 is just ridiculous , if you think the highly touted players last year did not worry about getting theirs you were not paying attention its just that they were better at it.


Michael Jordan? Really? Thanks for the input now go tell your daughter to go to goal.