“Employing a face guard displays lack of confidence in your defense or incompetence as a coach, especially if your team traditionally plays a zone defense. When used against a strong player and a well coached offensive team the face guard will not be effective. Lacrosse is a team sport and good coaches utilize their entire team in all aspects of the game (one women teams do not win). When a face guard does work it usually because the player being face guarded is not a very strong player or the coaches of the player being guarded do not know what to do. This is not High School, the face guard is simply not effective vs a well coached balanced team or against a legit player.”
This long winded post did not age well. It’s got to be the same braggart who makes up his own stats about ball hog shooting percentages .
Where was it effective, all four teams scored pretty much as many goals as they averaged all season. All four of these teams traditionally play a man to man defense, the post states "especially if your team traditionally plays a zone defense". None of the teams were able to hold their opponent well below their season average, defense is not what got it done in these games.
Ridiculous, you called the most successful coaches in Women’s lacrosse incompetent and then come up with the weak I said “especially “ which does not exclude teams that play man .Your long winded posts are just brutal and calling the players that get face guarded not very strong players or saying the coaches don’t know what to do shows you think way too much of yourself
I guess you can argue whether the face guard is a good tactic but not sure how anyone can argue with the shooting stats. Tend to agree that a coach (any coach) who uses the face guard is not confident that her regular team D can stop a particular player.
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